SUSPECTED SCAM!

Fraudulent website
appenusa.com support@appenusa.com

Date12/09/2025
Fraudulent emailsupport@appenusa.com
PseudonymCarla
Url / Websiteappenusa.com
Scamdoc Trust Score | Contact / Whois info
Scam contentsHas full job postings from Appen.com spoofed into appenusa.com and appentalentusa.com.
Comment / ReviewThis website (appenusa.com and its subdomains academy.appenusa.com + appenusatalent.com) is an active advance-fee job scam that is fraudulently impersonating Appen (the real company is https://www.appen.com, publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange ASX:APX).

Key evidence:

1. Trademark & content theft
• Identical logo, photos, and text copied from the legitimate Appen website
• Fake address “Kirkland, WA 98034” — Appen has no office there

2. Charges money for “training” and “certifications”
• academy.appenusa.com openly sells fake courses (e.g. “Data Entry Fundamentals” $39.99, “Health Coaching Certification” $40)
• Victims are told they must pay these fees + a “background check fee” before they can start the remote job
• Real Appen never charges applicants any fees — see official warning: https://www.appen.com/legal-policies/scam-awareness

3. Confirmed victim losses
• BBB Scam Tracker reports (multiple victims lost $39–$200):
https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/lookupscam/1060054
https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/lookupscam/1025201
• Reddit threads warning about the exact same domains and fake HR “Carla Gutierrez”

4. Technical proof of fraud
• Hosted on a cheap DigitalOcean droplet (IP 162.243.186.21) behind Cloudflare
• Uses pirated Botble CMS (VirusTotal header: activated-license: No)
• Email via Titan.email (SPF: include:spf.titan.email)
• Tawk.to chat widget ID 647b477c7957702c744b92b9 used to extract payments in real time

5. I am a current Appen employee and can confirm this is in no way affiliated with the real company.

This network has been reported to:
• DigitalOcean (droplet IP)
• Titan Email
• Namecheap (registrar)
• Hostinger (linked domain)
• Tawk.to
• Cloudflare Trust & Safety
• BBB Scam Tracker
• FTC (IC3 in progress)

Please mark appenusa.com and all subdomains as high-risk scam / phishing. New victims are still being targeted daily.