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, December 12, 2006

Arts & Crafts Activities

This money mule job reeks of Nigerian check forgery. Note in particular the bit (highlighted in red) about them being from a church, and having an arrangement with the FBI to track cheaters. These guys sure don't have any shame about their lies, do they?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: desmond abure <desmondabure@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 12-Dec-2006 12:25
Subject: EMPLOYMENT JOB WANTED
To: [redacted]

Arts & Crafts Activities
506, Lock Heart Road
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong
DO GET ME BACK AT : williams_adams001@yahoo.com
 
Hello Sir/madam,
           How are you doing today and hope all is well,
Would you like to work online from home and get paid weekly?
ARTS & CRAFTS ACTIVITES needs a book-keeper in the United States, so I
want to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid weekly
without leaving or affecting your present job?
    The company presently run an  Arts Galleria in Hong Kong and we need
someone to work for the company as a representative/book keeper in the United
States. The company deals with, sales of Art and Craft works, sculptures and
carvings, antique artifacts and produces various fabrics materials &
Traditional batiks, assorted fabrics and various traditional costumes
from all over the world and we have clients we supply weekly in the United
States. Our clients make payments for our supplies every week in form of U.S. Money
Order,  Cheque and cashier cheque , which are not readily cashable outside the United States, so we need
someone in the United States to work as our representative and assist
us in processing the payments from our clients and he/she would be paid a
weekly salary.
      NOTE: ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS  TO RECEIVE THIS PAYMENTS FROM OUR CLIENTS ON BEHALF OF OUR COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES, GET IT CASHED IMMIDIATLY. THEN DEDUCT YOUR 10% PERCENTAGE AWAY FROM THE MONEY AND WIRE THE BALANCE BACK TO ANY
OF OUR ACCOUNTANTS AND LAWYER IN OUR REGIONAL WAREHOUSE VIA WESTERN UNION  MONEY TRANSFER. OR MONEY GRAM
      Our payments will be issued out in your name and you get them cashed in
your bank  deduct your 10% percentage and send the balance back to any of  our
accountants/lawyers in our regional warehouses via Western
Union/MoneyGram
money transfer Services. Basically what the Company is searching for is
a Representative/Book-keeper in the States who would help to establish a
medium of getting our funds from our customers there. If you are interested in working with us we would be very glad as inability to get our Payment in cash has posed a big problem and has affected account reconciliation and turn over grossly.
         These are legitimate transactions between our customers and our company
Representative and there is no legal risk as these are payments for
goods already bought and delievered. We are offering 10% of whatever amount
it is that you cash per week as salary and subject to your satisfaction you
will be given the oppurtunity to negotiate the mode by which we will pay for
your services as our official Representative/Book-keeper in the States.
The mode we would prefer would be instant deduction of your salary from
the Amount before going ahead to send whatever is left back via Western
Union OR MoneyGram Money Transfer.We are aware that you would be charged to have the money sent, whatever that would amount you will useto send the rest money will be  deducted from the balance of the funds after you must have deducted your salary okay. We need honest and trustworthy person who can do this job and it can not affect your formal work you are doing before okay. All you have to do is to be at home and wait for any check that willbe com ing from any of out clients and get then cash in your own bank immediatly and deduct your 10% as i told you. Please you have to follow thed intruction because we are christian from CHURCH MOSSION BIBLE CHRCH in WA SHINGHTON,  that is why we need honest person and trustworthy who have fear of GOD okay. And also we have way of geting those who run away with out money because we have make an arrangement for FBI  to get those who will run with out company money okay.
       
Please if you are interested forward the following informations:.........
 
1.)     FULL NAMES ..............
 
2.)     PHONE NUMBER ( WHERE YOU CAN BE REACHED AT ANYTIME) .........
 
3.)     FULL HOME ADDRESS WITH CITY & ZIPCODE........
 
4)       COUNTRY .......
 
5.)     STATE.......
 
6.)     CITY........
 
Hoping to hear from you soon .I will send you an Application Form to fill
when  you have provide all theinformations reqiuried from you immediatly  .
please let me know if you are interested in this employment Offer.
Regards,
Thanks for your assistant and God bless,

Director of Arts & Crafts Activities Causeway Bay,Hong Kong  
DO GET ME BACK AT : williams_adams001@yahoo.com
 
MR WILLIAMS ADAMS

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