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.

Monday, October 30, 2006

seekjobdeals.com

This is money mule recruitment.

Domain Name: SEEKJOBDEALS.COM
Registrar: YESNIC CO. LTD.
Whois Server: whois.yesnic.com
Referral URL: http://www.yesnic.com

Name Server: NS2.DNSHOST4ALL.BIZ
Name Server: NS1.DNSHOST4ALL.BIZ
Status: ACTIVE
EPP Status: ok
Updated Date: 23-Oct-2006
Creation Date: 23-Oct-2006
Expiration Date: 23-Oct-2007

A brief glance at DNS records for www.seekjobdeals.com shows that the
website is being proxy-hosted by a botnet. This is hard-core organised
crime -- not that organised crime is an unusual thing to report here.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Antoine Mcfadden <[redacted]@luckysearching.com>
Date: 30-Oct-2006 05:13
Subject: Easy Job Goo dMoney
To: [redacted]@gmail.com


Dear Sir/Madam!

Our company are trying to find as many people as possible, people who
are trying to find a job are perfect for us. We are a reasonable compnay
and you will make good money with us. We are offering a job for
everyone and everywhere, any country. Anybody can handle this job. You don't
have to have any education degree, you don't have to have any past
experience. Even if you are just a student an dlooking for additional money
- this job is for you. You will not spend a lot of time for doing this
job since it is a part-time job. The only one requirement is you have
to be 18+ years old.

A little bit about job:

A position is called "Bank Courrier". Your goal will be very simple.
You get money from our clients and you pass the omney to our agents to
another country where our main Western Union office is located, or Money
Gram. You work 1-3 hours a day. Saturday and Sunday areyour weekend
days and you willnot work on these. We will pay you daily, depends on
what sum you are working with. For examlpe: You recieved 2000 USD. You
get your 200 USD which is 10% and the rest of money you send to our
agent,
we will provide you with details for every transaction. Job is very easy
and money you will get paid are good, thus you will be able to make
1000 USD and more a week.

If you are ready to start working with us you have to make a
registration on our website http://www.seekjobdeals.com Click "Register" . After
you make a registration on our website and within 24 hours we will start
working with you. If you are ready - go ahead and make registration and
work with us. We guarantee a stable high pay outs. {.W_SL}

Best Regards
Best Job Life Comapny

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, it's spam bot, please, delete this message and i never return) I promise.

Spotter said...

I don't delete pages -- especially not for spammers.