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, November 14, 2006

mike13george@yahoo.com

I can't tell which particular scam this is from the body of the ad itself. All I can tell you is that any job ad that's spammed indiscriminately like this has to be a scam. If anyone feels like applying for the job (use a disposable email address!) then please post further details about the response in a comment below.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MIKE AND SUSAN GEORGE <mike13george@yahoo.com>
Date: 14-Nov-2006 23:50
Subject: FANTASTIC JOB OFFER AWAITS YOU !!!
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Good Day ,

ARE LOOKING FOR A LUCRATIVE JOB? TAKES ONLY 3-6 HRS A WEEK,AND EARN UP TO
$2500 -$10,000 PER MONTH (BASED ON HOW HARD YOU WORK FOR THE COMPANY)
YOU DO NOT RESUME OR A C.V AT ANY OFFICE IS A JOB FROM HOME .TRY WITHOUT RISKING
YOUR CURRENT POSITION.GET BACK TO US IF INTERESTED

MIKE AND SUSAN GEORGE

Thanks & Get Back..

Posted by Spotter at 16:13

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