Globedex Financial Corp
Complaint 359011 Details

I believe this company is a scam, but I was initially fooled because they seemed to be professional, welcoming, and made themselves seem like they would be a great choice to work for - they made it seem like they specially picked you. They gave some job positions to choose from and I picked a job that had a work-from-home option. After I signed on and gave my personal information, including banking (this is critical), they said I could start immediately, but that I had to go through a 'probation period of 5 days' where I would be paid $50/day during the probation. Okay, fine.

On the actual starting day, I was given my task for the first time. I was expecting the work to be related to the job description, but it wasn't that at all. They said they would wire $2,000 to my personal bank account and, from there, I would withdraw about $1950 of that ($50 for the probationary pay) and deposit it into a Bitcoin machine for them at another location. I was a bit taken aback, but it was assured to me in the email this was what I needed to do to 'get started' at the company. I would then use this Bitcoin transaction to make online payments and so forth.

I was able to successfully accept the first transfer and withdraw the first partial amount, but the second time I tried to do it, my bank account was immediately suspended and it was flagged with a 'red alert signal' to the bank. I couldn't understand it. I called the bank and spoke to them at length. They said that it was suspicious that anyone would deposit such a large amount into my personal bank account and that I be asked to withdraw that amount afterward to pay towards Bitcoin at a different location. I explained it was for work. The bank said they would look into the issue. As of now, my bank account is still suspended and the security team at the bank is still investigating the issue and it cannot be unlocked by anyone else except for them. They told me I should have never accepted a large sum of money to my personal acount and take it elsewhere on behalf of someone I don't know - not even for work - because this is how scams happen to their banking customers.

Later that night, I asked a close family relative who has been an accountant for 25+ years. I showed him the email that the company sent about wiring the $2,000 to take out and deposit elsewhere and he immediately said it was HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS that anyone or a company would personally ask for a large amount of money to be deposited into my own personal bank account before being taken elsewhere. He said that corporate money laundering is quite common and that if a corporation wanted anything done, it should be done in THEIR NAME through THEIR CORPORATE ACCOUNT (that can be publicly audited by the government/external auditors) INSTEAD of hiding the money trail behind employees' personal bank accounts. He also mentioned Bitcoin is unregulated so no one knows where the money goes and that such scams often lead to people becoming victims of theft, fraud, and criminal activities. His professional opinion, like the bank's, was that this was a VERY serious matter.

Even though I had personally decided to do my own research before accepting the offer, I couldn't find anything about this company initially. There is virtually NO INFORMATION about GlobeDex Financial Corp. company except their address listing in online directories. They had told me they were 'new' and 'starting out'. I then checked other job ads not related to this company and realized this company had completely COPIED ONE JOB DESCRIPTION FROM ANOTHER REPUTABLE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION WORD-FOR-WORD.

I am still in the process of getting my bank account back and have let them know I believe I have been scammed by this company (even though they've already locked it down before it got too far), but I'm leaving a review here because I came across the first review here where someone else had already experienced THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM.