8/22/2009 9:00 AM (PST)

It is a very elaborate scam. Don't waste your time with Hong Kong Solutions, Inc.

9/9/2009 10:53 PM (PST)

Yes, it is - www.hongkongsolutions.com - a website and SEO company. I received a "business offer" from them too. I think they saw my resume on Monster or Careerbuilder. In a nutshell they say you'll make about 50K a year simply by starting an S-Corp and opening-up some kind of online store so they can run their US sales through it. 50K for basically doing nothing sounded fishy. I've got a lot more info in saved emails from "Harry" (if that's his real name) who is with Hong Kong Solutions. If anyone wants to see them let me know...

9/9/2009 11:13 PM (PST)

Here's one email from "Harry"

Our company is a multiple-discipline Internet company (please visit
www.hongkongsolutions.com). One of our direction is a creating
web-products (iPhone themes,PocketPC themes, Mobile themes, wallpapers,
games.), which are intended for many clients. Our company carries
on this business for 8 years. HK Solutions, Inc is one of the leaders
in our country of the companies which do these services.
In Present days Internet influences all the areas of human activity.
That's why our company develops rapidly every year. We aren't the
waiting for the fortune company. We do the success ourselves. Our
marketing department elaborated a plan, which will help us to get
international market and the USA first of all.
We need some managers who will produce our company in the USA. It is a
very profitable project not only for our company but for our
representatives too. Future trends of this business are unlimited. We
guarantee a stable growth of your income and professional skills. From
you we need only some efforts in the first stage to develop our
business. Later you will not spend much time to keep the project.
Attention: No skills and experience in programming and web design are
required from you. This is not a technical position.
If you've got a burning desire to succeed and are interested in
maximizing your personal and professional growth, please kindly get
back to us via our email address (harrywong@hongkongsolutions.com">harrywong@hongkongsolutions.com).
I will get back to you with every little detail of how our cooperation
will develop. I will forward you our Instructions.

Please reply to this email: harrywong@hongkongsolutions.com">harrywong@hongkongsolutions.com

9/9/2009 11:15 PM (PST)

Email #2 from "Harry":

In this email I will explain you about this job offer.

Also I forward you our Instructions, FAQ and Agreement. Use Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view the above files. If you do not have this
software on your computer, please go to
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html and download the
program for free.

Our company enters the american market now because almost all online
business are located in the USA. So we have to search managers in the
USA to create our subsidiaries.

Our Marketing Department has developed a perfect idea to boost sales.
The idea is to have more subsidiaries that would resell our items
(iPhone themes,PocketPC themes, Mobile themes, wallpapers, games etc).
The more subsidiaries we have the more things we sell and our profit
grows accordingly.

Your mission in the project is to create business tools (registering a
business, setting up business and merchant bank accounts) and it is
for these services that you will be paid.

Hong Kong Solutions, Inc creates a web-site (online store or
subsidiary another words) which will sell our products. The work of
this web site is impossible without a company and that's why your
first step will be the opening of company (the company may be
registered as a Corporation, LLC, Sole Proprietorship or other
business entity).

If you already have a company, it's great and will make the start up
yet faster. Next you open bank business and merchant account and
Gateway on Authorize.net.

Your commission will be 10 percent from all the sales (you'll earn
about 4000-5000$ a month). Also all bank and merchant fees will be
paid by our company. You will get your 10 percent in any case not
depending what fees we will have. Your income will increase as the
business progresses.

About the taxes:
The taxes in this kind of business we will need to pay only in
starting the 2nd year.
US taxes are not conventional; is one makes more than a certain amount
of $ in a year through a corporation, they need to pay taxes every
three months. This is called Estimated Quarterly Taxes.
In our situation, these aren't paid the first year, only starting the
2nd year. All taxes will be go through your company but you will take
the necessary funds from our part when it's time to pay for taxes. So
our company will pay all taxes not you.
Since what we sell isn't tangible (can't be touched), we don't file
Sales tax. Only thing we pay is income tax, to the federal
governement.

If you are interested please send me the signed agreement (I sent you
it. did you get it?) or via email or via fax (206)339-1058.

If you have any questions else please ask me.

Best regards,
Harry Wong,
Hong Kong Solutions, Inc
http://www.hongkongsolutions.com/

9/16/2009 10:19 PM (PST)

This is definitely A SCAM!!!! There are RED FLAGS everywhere with this organization and their so called business opportunity. You can't trust easy money like this. I got the same emails from a guy who called himself "Donald Chan". They prey on the desperate... meaning, people currently in the job market (monster, carreerbuilder.com). I hope no one falls for it and gives their banking info or merchant account API. They will deposit a bunch of fake checks in your account, and you will be responsible for money! These people are patient and have no ethics, so be careful out there everybody. If it is too good to be true... you know the rest... it is!!! Spread the word, HONG KONG SOLUTIONS INC. is a SCAM and a FRAUD!