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.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

CMIEC

The originating IP of this scam was 204.11.80.97, which is in the USA. What's also interesting is that the name "CMIEC" has appeared in several otherwise unrelated scams [ search for "CMIEC"], suggesting a single scammer behind them. This particular money mule recruiter has a preference for Yahoo! freemail addresses, impersonating Chinese companies, and seems to use third party computers to conceal his actual location. My educated guess is "eastern Europe", for what that's worth.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: WOO YENG <web_information[@]bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: woo_yeng101@yahoo.com.hk
Date: 17-Jan-2007 01:40
Subject: Work With Us
To: reply[@]wooyeng.cmiec.hk



REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!!!

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am an exporter base in China who exports raw materials,such as
Calcite,Barytes,Manganese Dioxide , Dolomite ,Mica, China Clay,
Mangnese Dioxide,Ferrous(Iron ) Oxide,Paints, Rubber, Plastics,
Construction chemicals and i export from Asia and export into America,
Australia, Canada and  Europe. My company (CMIEC) was established in
2001.I am interested in employing your services,to work with me as
my payment agent with a reward of 10%, of every payment made out to
you,You can help me eastablish a medium of recieving payment on
my behalf for Goods and raw materials i supplied to my customers in
Europe,America or Australia Canada.If you are interested in transacting
business with me.

Please contact me via my private email address;
emailbox: woo_yeng101@yahoo.com.hk

Faithfully Yours,
Mr.Woo Yeng.
============


Posted by Spotter at 03:23

2 comments:

Spotter said...

Same scam, new email address.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: WOO YENG [address897]@[bellsouth.net]
Reply-To: contact_wooyeng@yahoo.com.hk
Date: 25-Jan-2007 12:46
Subject: Work With Us
To: contact_wooyeng@yahoo.com

REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!!!

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am an exporter based in China who exports raw materials,such as
Calcite,Barytes,Manganese Dioxide , Dolomite ,Mica, China Clay,
Mangnese Dioxide,Ferrous(Iron ) Oxide,Paints, Rubber, Plastics,
Construction chemicals and i export from Asia and export into America,
Australia, Canada and Europe. My company (CMIEC) was established in
2001.I am interested in employing your services,to work with me as
my payment agent with a reward of 10%, of every payment made out to
you,You can help me eastablish a medium of recieving payment on
my behalf for Goods and raw materials i supplied to my customers in
Europe,America or Australia Canada.If you are interested in transacting
business with me.

Please contact me via my private email address;
emailbox: contact_wooyeng@yahoo.com.hk

Faithfully Yours,
Mr.Woo Yeng.
============

5:05 am, January 25, 2007
Anonymous said...

I recevied a new message from cmiec woo yeng

Dear Partner,
We are presently searching for Sales
Representatives
/Collection Agents who can help us
establish a medium of getting to our
customers in USA and Canada.If interested
you can contact me on my email
for more information
cmiec112@yahoo.com.hk Thank
you for your time.Very Respectfully
Mr Woo Yeng
President/CEO

2:23 am, April 13, 2008

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