516-946-7747

I got a call from this guy Alex Roussis regarding my resume and he talked about a management opptunity; never mentioned sales or marketing roles, but the management role is suppose to be for hring and training agents. Though I have finance management experience and I am interested in business development, I knew from the beginning that this was the typical insurance sales scam which by the way has a proven record of 80% failing rate. So I waited for him to end his pitch and then told him that I'll like to meet him at his offices: see email from him (aol account...this is worst than I thought) and his suppose office manager, who I found in Linkend as a a New York State Actuary for over 25 years; no wonder why connection and corruption allow these types of scams. Here is the emial:
Dear OV,
Enclosed are the directions to Alex Roussis's  office for your appointment, Thurs., Aug. 26, at 2:00pm. We look forward to meeting  you.  
Sincerely
Linda Springer  (google her and you'll see)
Office Manager
631-312-4202
Alex Roussis (google him and you'll see his not so decent face)
77 Arkay Drive – Suite K
Hauppauge, NY  11788
631-361-6271

After doing my due diligence on the firm and this guy, I sent him an email with the links to those postings and complaints about him, his brother and his firm. Guess what...he never got back to me and now he doesn't answer the phone. He might be scare because what he didn't know was that I have acquaintances in the New York criminal courts and in the consumer protection agency; I'm thinking in following with a formal complain about his practices, simply, because is not fair that honest people are looking for a job, usually young guys recently graduated, who have to go through this tough economy, and the only thing they find is a total scam. I encourage you readers and smart people to file a formal complain against this company and their practices. Thanks

this is just an speculative attempt from investors after an IPO. But that doesn't mean that the company's business practices are all honest; they might have a intention to do good and make money, which is absolutely fine, what they lack is the proper corporate culture from their middle management and independent agents, who are only interested in bringing people in and expect that 80% of those fail, but they keep the policies / money. Think about it and then report market activity against real company culture.

so stop sending me these bogus mailings and start sending me hundred dollars bills with no strings attached.  trust me, i won't think the bills are scams.

good job ov.  sounds to me like any of the other MLM/pyramid scheme scam that pop up whenever the economy's bad and people are desperate.  none of these "companies" sell anything.  they prey on the poor and uneducated and get them to "sign on" more suckers.

you sound like you might want to sell monavie or trump vitamins or scamway products too.

"What I found out is that many of the so-called "Reputable" companies are the ones that actually rip-off the community...just look at all the big financial companies getting into trouble today. Roussis International is one of the few companies out there actually working and helping in the community. "

yes, deny it and then try to blame somebody else.  and, yes, they are working to "help" the community.  all we need now is how this is all god's plan for you.  hahaha.  typical scam.

they prented to be rel but it is Primerica - cattle mentallity- try and get names to sell life products to - not a scam but mosdef a waste of time - they DO NOT  hire VP or Manager or Branch Managers

I stumbled across this ridiculous blog and happen to be a very very happy client of Roussis International/ Primerica.

I've run several business and wouldn't want to do business with or trust my money with another company. They've vastly improved my own finances as well as that of several friends and family members.

They are a positive, upbeat, tough, and knowledgeable team.

You know who I wouldn't want to do business with? Negative people who make outrageous claims on blogs without doing proper research or due diligence, have no background in the industry....and can't even spell correctly on their postings. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the competition casting dispersions.

So, all the negative people that have posted up on this blog have done Roussis International / Primerica a great service by eliminating themselves as candidates; not that I can imagine that they would want negative people on their team anyway.

So, if you have been contacted by this team for an opportunity with their business, you should consider yourself lucky (unless you're negative, in which case you may already go around always considering yourself unlucky).

You owe it to yourself, if you're trustworthy, positive, and open to success, to at least go meet the wonderful people that work there, who would love to help you get started or improve your career in the wonderful and lucrative profession of financial services.

The worse that happens is you meet some successful and influential business leaders and learn about an opportunity.

Best wishes for your success.

p.s. There's nothing a negative person could ever say or do to influence me anyway, but that's just me....and all the other successful people I've ever met.

Recieved a call from the mention number above, regarding my resume posted on monster.com. I proceeded to call, and I was directed to an office in Hauppague NY. The lady who answered the phone said they were looking for investors??? and if I was ready to make a life change with a job that had the potential of earning 100k +. I googled the website Roussis International, and they are looking for people to invest $200 into the business venture of selling financial services. Total scam, look into it...

Got a call from John (Jiann?) Lee @ 718-321-3979
same as has been described
extremely sketchy
no details
i know i didnt send my resume to them and Lee would not tell me how he got it

the fact that the website for Roussis International is teamrtime.com, which itself is shady says something

thank god i found this site or i would have wasted alot of times with these fools


also, lol @ Roussis for making up "happy" clients and employees to post on this site

This website seems shady...and the people posting here as well. There's real research and then there's this crap. I'm going to go find out for myself. negative people always have negative things to say....I want to meet the people making money and see what they have to say.

Got a call from Bret Koswith or something like that. Same phone #. Glad I found these postings!

Ted Roussis asked me to contact you regarding your resume on monster.com. You can reach me at 631-361-6271.

Thank you Fred. I just got the same exact message from Lee at the (718) number. He's a busy boy. I don't fully understand what the scam is and I haven't yet spoken to him but I am curious as to what his line of BS will be.

Roussis International is a part of Primerica. I have been a Primerica client for over 5 years, and my father has been a client since 1979, when they were known as A.L. Williams. I have always felt that they have had a significant positive impact on my family. Recently, I was told that I should be wary of this company, that they are a “scam” and a “pyramid” scheme, and that I should do some research on this company on the internet. I decided to do so, and this is what I found.

There are some very favorable articles that have been published on this company lately.
They have been featured on/in
    -The Wall Street Journal.
    -The London Times
    -Fox Business News        
    -Jim Cramer’s Mad Money        
    -Wikipedia
    -Google Finance, among others.

Here are some interesting facts I found on the company:

    -Been in business since 1977
    -Regulated by the SEC, FINRA, and the Dept. of Insurance in every state they         are in.
    -Maintains a positive rating with the Better Business Bureau
    -Rated A+ by AM’s best, an independent insurance rating company (similar to         Consumer Reports)
    -Owned for 20 years by Citi, the largest corporation in the world.    
    -Recently went public, April 1, 2010. Traded on the New York Stock Exchange
    -Warburg Pincus, a private investing firm, invested $240 Million into the IPO         (Initial Public Offering)
    -Before Warburg Pincus invested, they spent over $9 Million investigating         the company
    -The stock is up over 50% in the last 10 months, and has been called the “IPO of         the year” by Jim Cramer and others.

Here are some links you can explore yourself:

http://www.bbb.org/atlanta/business-reviews/f ... -duluth-ga-6985

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270 ... 2249937544.html

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4133597/primerica-ipo-soars/

www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:PRI

http://www.ripoffreport.com/financial-services/rip-off-report-inves/rip-off-report-investigation-9cp7d.htm





As a matter of fact, this is the only negative information I could find on this company:
    
    -Blogs, such as the one here, posted by anonymous people, who do not have to         post their credentials, their real name, or anything to show that they are         telling the truth, or even know what they are talking about.

I’m sure there are some people in Primerica who are not on the up and up. They are a large company. However, with all the government agencies, consumer advocacy groups, media, and investors looking so closely at this company for the last 34 years, I’m sure that if they were a scam, pyramid, or into any kind of shady practices, someone would have found out and shut them down by now.

I’m glad that I had an agent over 5 years ago. The simple financial advise they give  
is going to make a difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars to my family over the next 30 years. When doing research, don’t look to the “gossip”, look to the facts.

PS: You may see this post on multiple sites, I don’t like to see any of the few good companies out there get bashed undeservingly.

I just got a call from a restriced number from a woman claiming to be Jiann Lee's wife, by the name if Diedre Ann Lee ([***])---on a Sunday night too mind you at 7 pm (talk about desperate). I was told that Jiann Lee would like to speak to me, and to call him back at (718) 321-3979. After doing some research, and finding websites like this, it's pretty easy to tell that this is BS. I'm gonna talk to him or whoever else it is that does or doesn't call me and give them a piece of my mind. What [***].

Hahaha, this post is surely from Alex Roussis or one of his family members. It was a sales pitch. All these bottom-feeding salesmen are the same. They call their scams "opportunities" and it is amusing that these "opportunities" require the sucker client to put up the money, do all the work (excuse me, they probably "train" with a "customized" program, hahaha) and take all the risk while Roussis just sits back and collects. They always say "excited" as in "I'm excited because this is such a great opportunity for you! And such a great product!" and "Do you want to spend money to make money."

I have looked these guys up, and you can order their personal information on websites (just like you can do for everyone nowadays). They are low-level scam artists. I cannot believe they call themselves business leaders. Just like having to tell people you are famous, if you have to tell people you are a business leader...that means you aren't. You think Jamie Dimon goes around telling people that he is a business leader? Buffett goes around telling people that he will give you a great opportunity? No. If the opportunity was great you would keep it to yourself. If it's a scam you share it with others and ask for fees.

These guys are small time. Their website is www.teamrtime.com and you can see that after years of this crap they only have 100MM under management. In the business world, that is not even a zit. Further, the fact that they manage so little shows that the money they raise comes from individual people that are easier to scam (it's not so easy to scam, say, PIMCO, or CALPERS, who would laugh at these guys if they managed to even get on the phone with investment heads).

Save your money. If these clowns could make money they would not share it with anyone else. And as a rule of thumb, whenever someone asks you for money up front and they take a fee (which means they don't have skin in the game and they win whether you succeed or fail), it's a scam. If this were the 1850's, these jokers would be selling snake oil and cure-all from wagons as they went from town to town.

I call bull. You sound like another low-level salesman protecting his corporate sugar daddy. I love the fake "my father was a client for ages and so am I"...please tell us how your children will be too and how this will be a family tradition...because Roussis...they're like family to you. Right? Salespeople, seriously, the worst most desperate scum on the planet. I had one of these losers call me, except that he was trying to sell me on attending a conference (and paying for it, of course). Losers.

Ok...regulated by the SEC. I think we are all painfully aware that the SEC can't regulate anything. Being a lawyer on Wall Street I can tell you that there is no such thing as regulation and the SEC does not pay attention to small fry scams run by off-the-beaten path people located in obscure places. They are much too busy trying to get bigger game now that they have been made to look bad. That's why clowns like you and your company can safely fly under the radar.

That A+ is given by a company that gets its revenues from the companies that it rates. What do you think they are going to rate them? Absurd. Comparing it to a consumer bureau is intentionally misleading, which leads me to believe that you are a sales agent or principal of this sales scam firm.

Maintains a positive rating with the better business bureau. Really? So does every other business until it doesn't. And even then, you can pay to regain your positive rating after screwing up. This credential means nothing.

Also, the stock was up 50% based on its IPO valuation, and as you have seen, LinkedIn soard more than 100% when it went public based on its valuation. That means very little. It takes time for a stock to settle and guess what...Primerica is down from its IPO day closing price.  Also, you talk about Primerica, not about Roussis, which is what this is about. Roussis is basically a subsidiary sales agent of Primerica, which is itself a sales agent for the banks that it channels funds to.

Warburg Pincus...you mean the fifth-rate investment bank that had to be bought up and merged with other banks multiple times because it was facing liquidation? Awesome. Real winner.

Citigroup invested in it. Have you seen Citi's stock? The massive writedowns and legal suits it faces? That is like saying, "Endorsed by R. Kelly."

Jim Cramer endorsed it. Jim Cramer endorses everything and he's wrong half the time. He is also right half the time. He also got shown up on Jon Stewart (which I am sure you watch, salesman) for blatantly lying about inside trading and he got caught on camera.

Being covered by publications means nothing. Especially when you are referencing a 1 liner or one paragraph filler article on page A-3000000000 which no one reads. Bernie Madoff was covered by WSJ and there's this scam artist Jon Lebed that boasts on his website that he was on the cover of the NYT Magazine. What he doesn't say is that he is on the cover for scamming suckers. A little truth in advertising, my slippery salesman friend.

I like the bit at the end where you say their advice blah blah blah hundreds of thousands of dollars...what you are really saying is with that statement is "come buy Roussis/Primerica crap...look how much money they made me? Imagine what they could do for you."

Enjoy watching Glengarry Glenross as you eat your ramen noodles, salesman.

But it is a scam. The proof is in the pudding. They lure you in with "managerial opportunity" instead of "becomes a salesman working on commission" because otherwise they would get no takers. Don't fool yourself, this is not financial services. I am in financial services. You are just a parrot salesman who would be selling newspaper subscriptions, or cars, or this because you have no other prospects. And do not equate this with handing out hundred dollars bills no strings attached. You are asking people to give you hundred dollars bills (multiple, might I add), and in exchange you give them "training."

You are scum who lies to itself about what it does. A parasite, plain and simple. And even sadder, you do not understand what it is you do. You just parrot whatever you are told to parrot to sell "products" you don't understand yourself.

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