Suckers Wanted: UK Modulus Invest Co

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 02, 2006

UK Modulus Invest Co

Description

This scam was seen last month, and is nearly identical to the Norway Consulting Group scam in all significant aspects, including the fact that it is a money mule scam, and often uses the same "subject" heading.

The Spam

The message is presented in a GIF image, accompanied by "filter buster" text coloured to be invisible against the background.

Additional data

Although this spam is considerably less frequent than the Norway Consulting Group spam, it does have a tendency to arrive several times in a month. Rather than report individual instances, I'll summarise the data for the month here.

Subjects encountered

Best vacancy of the month!
Got free time? Become richer!
Top job offer - don't miss your chance!
Top vacancy of the year!
Work on a securities market with us everyone can now!
Work with Us

Sender names encountered

UK Modulus Invest
UK Modulus Invest Co

Names used as signature in image

Annabelle Klung

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About This Blog

This blog is an offshoot of iDeceive, which documents deceptive Internet activity. For more general information, please go to that blog. All entries posted here are employment scams. If you've received an email that resembles anything posted here, you'd be well advised to assume that the sender wants to exploit you, not employ you. Scammers often impersonate real companies. Where real company names are mentioned here, you should assume that a scammer is using that identity fraudulently unless you have strong evidence to the contrary.

What is a money mule?

The vast majority of job scams seek to recruit money mules, usually under titles like "financial manager", "payment processor", "transaction specialist", or just plain "representative" or even "partner". The job of a money mule is to be a financial middle-man, accepting payment in one form, and forwarding it (minus a fee) to another party, usually via Western Union. Scammers employ money mules to launder money on their behalf: the mule is responsible for converting a fraudulent transaction of some kind into quick, anonymous cash, usually transferred via Western Union or some similar scheme. Scammers send out a lot of job ads for money mule positions and never refuse an applicant because they are disposable: money mules either get ripped off directly (as when they are persuaded to bank a forged cheque or money order which is later dishonoured by the bank), or take the blame for defrauding someone else (as with most payments involving direct bank transfer, PayPal, or similar). Don't make an ass of yourself: don't be a money mule.

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