I believe there were a few more detrimental comments than the one quoted but I accept your remarks and, thanks for that. :)

I can also vouch for the Phoenix scheme. I work with the previous recipient (AL) on the NS.

You will also note from my previous posts on this thread that willicopter ignored my suggestions to contact Tim Price directly. I suspect that willicopter is/was either a troll or just looking to discredit Phoenix.

Hey guys, bit of a bump here but after randomly searching Senior Helicopters to see whats going on with them now I found this post and this one on facebook

I applied for the job, got through to the flight test and paid my £290 only to find out I was unsuccessful but now found out that this was all a massive scam. Has anything been done about this? Are we able to get out money back?

I suggest anyone searching for Senior and Austin in the helicopter world, go back to post #21 and look again at the names of the people who had given their reviews. Was I the only one to notice the lack of originality with the surnames used? Essex? Manchester? etc etc? Come on. :E
Well I thought it was funny anyway. ;)


I hope anyone involved in ripping off new pilots, gets exactly what they deserve.

Sorry to say lp....but consider your money invested into a lesson learned, about people asking for your money over the Internet....:(

Have spoken to PayPal about trying to possibly get my money back, they are unable to help in anyway due to the transaction being over 180 days old so I have now taken it to The Financial Ombudsman. They have contacted Paypal with a complaint so I am now waiting to hear back from paypal.

Jason Senior At It Again
 

Jason Senior is at again, although this time something completely different!

I'm embarrassed to say that I have fallen foul at this scam:

A job post recently on Indeed by a company called Hero Kits, www.herokits.co.uk, were seeking people to assemble a number of Iron Man helmets, over 1000, for an order they have from a client.

I sent my CV as I'm a little desperate for some work and duly received a reply giving me log in details to their website. When logging in you are presented with a 3.30 hour blurry 'training video' with no sound. This video shows a man, who doesn't show his face, putting together the Iron Man helmet from foam and hot glue (to be plastic coated on the next stage) - Turns out this video was created by someone else that has nothing to do with Hero Kits.

On the website it states that if you pay £75 they will send the tools and material needed to create the helmets. They will pay £200 for every 3 helmets you complete that pass QC. The £75 is a one off charge, every subsequent materials sent will be free of charge.

Everything seemed genuine enough, it is a good quality website with lots of information. So yes, I sent my £75. After a few days I did indeed receive the tools and material. The tools turned out to be a £5 glue gun, £2 pack of glue sticks and a £1.50 plastic knife.

The cheap tools roused my suspicions a little. On the off chance, I Google his Paypal name, Jason Senior. Bingo, I landed here (no pun intended).

HeroKits address is the same as Senior Helicopters.

His website claims that Hero Kits make high-end costumes for the movie industry. But a quick lookup on Nominet reveals that www.herokits.co.uk was registered on 30-12-14 (2 weeks ago). Hardly time to be an established company in this genre.

I put forward my findings to them via email and that I believe I have been scammed. He replied confirming that Senior Helicopters was his but was no scam and forwarded a link to a news paper article that details a young man who won a helicopter training course. Obviously; the best scams are carefully planned so one instance may well be genuine.

I won't be wasting my time making these helmets as obviously they will not pass any so called QC.

Has anyone reported these alleged frauds to their local Trading Standards for prosecution?

As a general rule, anything that requires you to send money to get money out is a scam.

Thanks for letting us know.

Phil