On Saturday, December 6, 2010, I received a call from a person named "Iassic Smith" from "Barrister Global Services". He said that they had multiple customers my area and that they needed a technition for that area to do electronics repairs.

I did a search on Barrister International through both Yahoo and Google. I should have known it was a scam when this website was within the top 5 links for both searches. I figured that since most of the posts were older posts, and they weren't asking for any money, it may be worth a shot.

Unfortunatly, I was wrong. Attached as proof photos are e-mail exchanges between myself and Iassic Smith; the person who initially contacted me.

As you can see in e-mail #1, he skated around the last question about how many hours would be involved. This is because Duke Energy is aparently the ONLY company they have in my area. They have a printer there that they need repaired and they are only willing to pay for 1 hour of on-site time.

In the 5th question, he also states that they pay $25 PER HOUR for repairs as well as $20/hr for training. The truth is that they refuse to pay you for more than 1 hour of on-site time per call. They also refuse to pay milage or expenses - making sure that YOU GET ONLY $25 PER CALL for HP Repairs ($45 per call for non-hp repairs). They also do NOT pay for training. This was an outright LIE - there is NO TRAINING.

After 6 days of wasting my time, I finally got an e-mail from them requesting money from me. It is labeled as "BARRISTER EMAIL #2". In it, he requests that I give them my credit card number so that they can charge me $50 to perform a "Background Check" on me. NOT ONCE did he EVER mention this charge for the background check. NOT ONCE IN MULTIPLE CALLS OVER 6 DAYS!!! ONLY in this e-mail did he EVER mention it. Since, I have gotten 3 more calls from him requesting that I complete it - saying that he has a deadline that this needs to be completed by and the "window" is closing. Hince, the "Sense of Urgency" that most con-artists try to give their victims.

In other wards, they want me to pay them $50 - so that they can pay me $25 to repair one of their printers. Since Duke Energy is the only customer they have in my area, I seriously doubt that I would EVER get another "service call" from them again.

Also, note that in his response to my first e-mail, he identifies himself as a recruiter. In his other e-mail to me, the bottom of it is signed as a "Core Return Specialist". Another indication of a scam is when con-artists start contradicting themselves over lengthy periods of time.

This company is a complete scam. If they ever ask you for money, get as far away as you can!!!

Warning to all self employed computer repair techs! Please avoid all of these companies such as Prism Point Technologies, Gurus2Go, Captovis Industries, Barrister Global Services Network and all other such companies. They are dispatching techs to complete work orders and not paying us. The business environment is already tough enough without having these no good companies working us for free and and stiffing us on our payments. It is just better to build up you own clients and customers than serving their customers and not getting paid. If you must work as a contractor, then I suggest using Onforce because when a buyer needs services from an independent contractor, he has to pay up front first before the work order is even routed to techs. That is the whole reason Onforce was created; so buyers could stop ripping off techs.