Abandoned Hilliard Woman Loses Hundreds To Worthington Company

The job was described as an entry-level management position with no experience necessary.

Two Central Ohio women answered the ad they found on Craigslist. But after a week with the company, they discovered a trail of questionable business practices around the country.

One woman claims company employees abandoned her in Dayton after she refused to sell the products.

Now both women have lost hundreds of dollars.

Sentre Management operates from an office in Worthington. It's a perfume distribution company with two other offices in Ohio.

However, a search of several names associated with the company turned up complaints from claiming fraud and at least one state called the operation a "pyramid scheme."

Nichole Schmidt, of Hilliard, and Angela Miller went to the company in Worthington on Jan. 21.

"I met with a man named Dan Chasin. He barely gave me any information about the company. He claimed he wanted people who had big ambitions and wanted to get up and be a go-getter," Schmidt said.

After two days of training, Schmidt said she learned that the posted job was nothing more than peddling knock-off designer perfume and cologne to businesses in strip malls and individuals, pocketing any money over a $19 sale.

Schmidt said it took a marketing trip to Dayton with company employees last Friday to convince herself the operation felt like a scam.

"They wanted me to stay there until twelve o'clock at night. I'd asked to be taken back to my car several times and Jeremy Kiefer, one of their district managers told me we weren't leaving until everyone made their goal," Schmidt said. "This is a scam. They drove us to Huber Heights, Dayton and demanded we sell perfume. When I refused, they left me in a horrible neighborhood. Now I'm out $200 and I still have not been paid for training I received."

NBC4 went to Sentre Management offices on Lakeview Plaza Drive in Worthington and spoke with Chasin, who quickly refused requests for an interview. However, he denied the woman's claims, saying they were told the position was commission-based.

But an online search of RipoffReport.com revealed a history of complaints against Sentre Management executives Dan Chasin, Dan Long and Jeremy Kiefer.

Reports from Missouri, Arizona, Colorado and Texas describe the operation as a scam and players involved use several names to sell their product, including National Management, Executive Management, Global Marketing-World Perfume and Innovative Management.

There was a 2011 ruling from the appellate court of Illinois second district which declared the contract the sell knock-off perfume between Dan Long and Scentura Creations was a "pyramid sales scheme" and violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act.

The contract is like the one Schmidt signed more than a week ago in what she calls a mistake that cost her hundreds of dollars and her reputation with family and friends.

"All I wanted to do was get a job and get a career and help my mom as best as I can," she said.

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