Suckers Wanted: International Job Employee

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, December 04, 2006

International Job Employee

Summary

Money mule recruitment scam. [See sidebar for information on money mules.] Advertised via plain text spam: all email addresses in the spam are believed forged, and no reply is possible; only the link contained in the spam points to the actual site. The one site may be hidden behind a large number of domain name registrations, since many spam filters keep track of links used in spam as a means of spam identification.

The Spam

The following is a representative extract of the spam. The text was followed by a number of line-breaks and some random "hash-buster" text.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Seek AU and MyCarreer announces the beginning of a new global
employment campaign offering you one more opportunity to earnextra
money workin gwith Int-Job Deals Company.
Illusively pencil stems verses extends. We are looking for honest,
responsible, hard-owrking people that can dedicate 2-4
hours of their time per day and earn extra 700-1000 AUD weekly.

 All offered positions are ucrrently part-time and give you a chance to work
mainly from home. If you are interested, please go to
http://www.injobdeals.com click  "REGISTER".

Since the above sample was posted, other spams pointing to the same "International Job Employee" scam have been received. If your spam looks different, don't be fooled -- it's still a scam.

Website

Here is a snapshot of the website taken at around the time this blog entry was first posted.

Domain Names Involved

The following domain names have been seen in association with this scam. There may well be others that we haven't seen: please comment below or send us samples if you have seen others.

injobdeals.com

Whois query at around 2006-12-04 21:10 UTC.

   Domain Name: INJOBDEALS.COM
   Registrar: YESNIC CO. LTD.
   Whois Server: whois.yesnic.com
   Referral URL: http://www.yesnic.com
   Name Server: NS2.KERKULES.NET
   Name Server: NS1.KERKULES.NET
   Updated Date: 22-Nov-2006
   Creation Date: 22-Nov-2006
   Expiration Date: 22-Nov-2007

auseekjob.hk

Query at around 2007-02-06 02:37 UTC

Domain Name: AUSEEKJOB.HK
Email: john12roberson@yahoo.com
Domain Name Commencement Date: 2007-02-04
Expiry Date:  2008-02-04
Name of Registrar: HKDNR
Account Name: HK1804659T
Name Servers Information:
NS1.VYSOKON.NET
NS2.VYSOKON.NET

lightjob.us

Query at around 2007-02-21 14:57 UTC

Domain Name:                                 LIGHTJOB.US
Domain ID:                                   D11927133-US
Sponsoring Registrar:                        MELBOURNE IT LTD
Registrant ID:                               F117174483475210
Registrant Email:                            pizdarez33@yahoo.com
Name Server:                                 YNS1.YAHOO.COM
Name Server:                                 YNS2.YAHOO.COM
Created by Registrar:                        MELBOURNE IT LTD
Last Updated by Registrar:                   MELBOURNE IT LTD
Domain Registration Date:                    Sat Feb 17 20:40:58 GMT 2007
Domain Expiration Date:                      Sat Feb 16 23:59:59 GMT 2008
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Sat Feb 17 20:41:01 GMT 2007

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Other sites with the exact same template:
- holiday-job.com
- streamjobbiz.com
- bestsunjob.com; 1:20 pm, December 20, 2006
Anonymous said...: I just received this email. Clearly a scam.

From :www.seek.com.au@seek.com.au
reply-to recruitinginfo@seekdatabase.cn

We have seen your profile on the of the employment website seek com au.
World Duty Free Int. is opening vacancy for the Payment Handling Manager position.

Company Overview

World Duty Free Int. serves as an exclusive benefit to customers all over the world by renderring the assistance in transferring operations with minimum expences. Hundreds of people who have decided to have a well-paid job with flexible working hours are enjoying their work with us.
Payment handling managers are providing an excellent service to our clients in various countries as valuable employees of our Company.

Job Description and Requirements

Payment handling manager is responsible for receiving and transferring the payments from our customers.
The detailed instructions are provided before each transfer is received.

Our Payment handling managers are required to:
- Handle and resolve issues involving member accounts.
- Provide contact information to their personal managers.
- Open a banking account (or if it is already existing account - make sure it is active and ready to use) and provide the information on it to the personal manager.
- Answer the telephone calls from the personal managers.
- Maintain a thorough knowledge and understanding of the working instructions before every transfer.
- Sending detailed report after each transfer via e-mail to their personal managers.
- Provide efficient work in completing forwarding the transfer once it is received on their account not later till 11 a.m.

Base Payment

Payment handling managers receieve 10 percent value of the total handled payments amount withing the time period.
The salary is transferred to the provided banking account every 10 days or can be received the day the transfer was completed.

If you ready to apply, please reply. You will get all necessary information regarding this position.

Looking to hearing from you soon!

Yours faithfully,
WDF International.; 7:19 am, September 17, 2008

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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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