Dear All,

I held back for several weeks on answering this message because my memories of being tinged by the abusive words of Gabriel Adkins still haunt me ... several years later ...

Now, let me tell who he is and who is not ... he is a small-town boy from the backwoods of the nowhere American state of Missouri ... yes, the hinterland of all hinterlands and the middle of all no-wheres. He went to a totally nondescript university in the northeast part of the state and could not find a job upon graduation. He is, what the Americans call, a hillbillie, a true redneck. So after university, and having worked as a UPS truck driver and deliveryman, part-time, and having worked at the local Pizza Hut, and after doing absolutely nothing with his life, he offed and went to China.

In China, he quickly discovered that he was a flop as a teacher ... he changed jobs about six times the first year or so ... and then he came across a better idea .. he would become a recruiter ..

But actually, dear friends of this board, he is NOT a recruiter. He is, in the parlance of the trade, a re-agent. And you make ask what that means ... In other words, he scours the Net for jobs in China that are put out by other agents, the difficult jobs in the middle of nowhere Chinese cities, villages, etc., where no one wants to go. He cuts a deal with the real recruiter, where if he finds a candidate, he shares the commission with the original recruiter. He cannot speak Chinese, at least my Chinese friends tell me that his Chinese is atrocious, and he cannot write it. He simply he is a reseller, so to speak.

It is true that he runs his business from his mobile telephone. Worse, he has no business license to operate his business in the city of Shanghai, as required by Chinese law and Shanghai regulations. I doubt if he has ever filed a Chinese income tax in all of his life.

And someone may ask about his LInkedlin profile and his Facebook profile. They are both fake, 100% fake. He created these fake sites to lend some air of responsibility and respectability to his purported but also fake business.

Eventually he will have to leave China, most likely in disgrace, and having been deported.

Indeed, he is rude, uncouth, overbearing, deceitful. On a slime-and-sleaze scale of 1-to-10, he is definitely a 10.

Finally, someone may ask about all of those overseas telephone numbers on his fake company website ... it is an easy answer ... they are just overseas numbers that are redirected to his Shanghai mobile .. simple as that. More deceipt and more fraud.

And as to his name, that is also a 100% fake, like everything else about him.

Avoid him at all costs, avoid his company, and avoid all of his pitches. And listen to none of his trashy advice.

Mrs. Jonathan Rikers