Job scam quick guide: it's a scam if...

  • they want you to collect and forward money in any way (a "money mule" job). You'll wind up engaged in money laundering, personally defrauded via expertly forged cheques, money orders, etc, or defrauding someone else who pays for goods that never arrive.
  • they want you to receive packages and reship them somewhere else. The goods will have been obtained fraudulently, and they're just using you to make the shipping address appear local. You will be aiding fraud.
  • they want up-front payment (either to them or someone else) of any sort for anything before you can get the job. This is advance fee fraud: there is no job -- it's just a big con to extract money from you.
  • they want you to buy any kind of "membership" or "kit" in order to start. Forget it -- it's not a real job at all: they're trying to sell you something, and they're probably making a bunch of other false claims about it if they're pitching it as a "job".
  • it's a job offer, and it's spam. There are LOTS of these scams about, as you can see.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Advertising International Company

Summary

This is a fairly blatant money mule job. The associated website explains that the job is targeted at Australians, involves having or opening a bank account, and transferring money via Western Union.

The Spam

The spam is HTML formatted text. The copy below does not include the original HTML formatting; just the text.

GET A JOB!

For online work in largest Advertising group are require managers with minimal computer knowledge.
Work with e-mail, MS Office, Internet etc.
- Excellent ability to problem solve.
- Flexible hours
- No financial risk, you do not need pay money for start work!
Just honest hard working people that are willing to earn an extra income!
Best regards,
Bratello Mancini

Check up our site for the further information

Subjects encountered

  • [name], GET A JOB!

Sender names encountered

  • Job Offer in Australia !

Links encountered

  • http://www.piar-company.com//

Website snapshot

Domain information (for experts)

piar-company.com

WHOIS query at Tue Oct 10 14:08:41 UTC 2006

Connecting to whois.crsnic.net.

Domain Name: PIAR-COMPANY.COM
Registrar: NEW DREAM NETWORK, LLC
Whois Server: whois.dreamhost.com
Referral URL: http://www.dreamhost.com
Name Server: NS2.MSG44HIM.COM
Name Server: NS1.MSG44HIM.COM
Status: ACTIVE
EPP Status: ok
Updated Date: 08-Oct-2006
Creation Date: 25-Sep-2006
Expiration Date: 25-Sep-2007

DNS query

Trying "www.piar-company.com"
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.msg44him.com
Address: 24.176.5.233#53
Aliases:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19499
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.piar-company.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.piar-company.com. 300 IN A 88.134.38.164
www.piar-company.com. 300 IN A 213.209.66.180
www.piar-company.com. 300 IN A 89.228.223.161

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
www.piar-company.com. 300 IN NS ns1.msg44him.com.
www.piar-company.com. 300 IN NS ns2.msg44him.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.msg44him.com. 300 IN A 24.176.5.233
ns2.msg44him.com. 300 IN A 204.191.146.95

Received 178 bytes from 24.176.5.233#53 in 54 ms

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