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.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Shenzhen Marpa Imp. & Exp. Trading Co., Ltd.

It's funny how a bunch of apparently unrelated companies wind up using exactly the same text in their recruitment emails. This one, for example, has significant overlap with the CMIEC strain of scams. Ultimately, the text seems to originate with a company description on Alibaba.com -- a popular source of company descriptions for job scammers to plagiarise. The names and addresses change, but the underlying "money mule" scam remains the same. The spam appears to have been sent througn a compromised end-user computer.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ShenzhenMarpaImp.&Exp.TradingCo. <ShenzhenMarpaImp.&Exp.TradingCo.>
Reply-To: ShenzhenMarpaImp.&Exp.TradingCo., "Ltd." <shenzhenmarpar@terra.es>
Date: 25-Jan-2007 15:36
Subject: REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!!!
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Shenzhen Marpa Imp. & Exp. Trading Co., Ltd.
Avd. De Calle Barcelona 28942,
Madrid , Spain .
Email: shenzhenmarpa@mixmail.com
http://www.biz4cn.com/company/3396/szmarpa.html

Sir/Ma,

We are the Shenzhen Marpa Imp. & Exp. Trading Co. Ltd , a up growing business organization in
Guangdon province, china(5022 Binhe Road, Futian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province.
China ), and also our branch office in Madrid Spain . We write to inform you that WE REQUIRE YOUR
REPRESENTATIVE ASSISTANCE (10% offer). Our company exports raw materials such as non-metallic
minerals such as Calcite, Barites, Manganese Dioxide, Dolomite, Mica , China Clay, Manganese Dioxide,
Ferrous(Iron )Oxide, and other products for world trade.

Our company is currently recruiting Representatives/Agents in the USA/CANADA that will assist us with
some logistics jobs as well as receiving payments on our behalf and remitting back to us. Please contact
us for more information if you are interested in being an agent of our company. And be given more
information about the job and your remuneration.

For further information and enquiries, contact the agent below via mail for more details:

Sr . Mark Lopez
Avd. De Calle Barcelona 28942,
Madrid , Spain .
Tel:0034-669-513-968
Email to: shenzhenmarpa@mixmail.com

We anticipate your earliest response in this regard.

Best regards,
Mrs Soliany Helen Gomez. (Secretary)
Shenzhen Marpa Imp. & Exp. Trading Co., Ltd.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

TOTALFINAELF EXPLORATION UK
25-01- 07
JOB REF NO: TFEE/012/06



ATTN: SIR,

BASED ON YOUR RESUME POSTED TO OUR DATABASE VIA WWW.AQUANIC.ORG ,WE TOTALFINAELF EXPLORATION RECRUITERS UK, A DIVISION OF UNIVERSAL ENGINEERING COMPANY (CHARLESTOWN ) UNITED KINGDOM,WHO SPECIALISES IN RECRUITING SKILLED PROFESSIONALS FOR JOB VACANCIES IN OVERSEAS LOCATION,THROUGH OUR NETWORK OF INTERNATIONAL OFFICES,OUR DEDICATED RESOURCING CONSULTANTS ARE WELL PLACED TO FIND CANDIDATES TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT WORK IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR.

HENCE WE ARE PLEASED TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT YOUR RESUME WAS FOUND SUITABLE FOR EMPLOYMENT WITH OUR CLIENT TOTALFINAELF EXPLORATION COMPANY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (TFEE),

TOTALFINAELF EXPLORATION IS A GLOBAL PLAYER IN THE ENERGY AND PETROCHEMICAL BUSINESS AND IS ONE OF THE WORLDS MOST SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES, OFFERING INTERNATIONAL CAREER PROSPECTS AND OUTSTANDING CHALLENGES.

TOTALFINAELF IS COMMITTED TO A BUSINESS STRATEGY THAT FOCUSES ON EXCELLENCE WHILE BALANCING PROFITS WITH PRINCIPLES. AS SUCH, WE REQUIRE WORLD-CLASS TALENTS TO JOIN OUR TRULY WORLD-CLASS BUSINESS.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER THAT PROMOTES DIVERSITY AND VALUE DIFFERENCES.

CONSEQUENTLY, WE EMPLOY PEOPLE OF DIVERSE BACKGROUND REGARDLESS OF GENDER, RACE, CREED, SOCIAL AND MARITAL STATUS ETC. WE HAVE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR TALENTED GRADUATES IN OUR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, FINANCE, HUMAN RESOURCES, CORPORATE AFFAIRS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS ORGANISATIONS.

ON NOTIFICATION OF YOUR INTENTION YOUR ARE TO SUBMIT YOUR MOST CURRENT RESUME STATING YOUR CURRENT RANGE OF SKILLS AND EXPERINCES .
WE ADVICE YOU SUBMIT THE AFFOREMENTIONED AS SOON AS POSSSIBLE FOR A PROPER EXAMINING.

REGARDS
MR CHRIS. B HAYWARD

RECRUITING CO-ORDINATOR
TOTALFINAELF EXPLORATION U.K
Universal Engr universal121_engr_recruitment@yahoo.co.uk

Jonathanmcunha@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:53:29 -0800
From: humanresources@total-uk-plc.com
Subject: TOTAL FINAELF EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION UK EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
To:


Job Ref:TOTAL/UK/011/07
Date: 24th November 2007
Attn:
Based on positive academic qualifications, experiences and your answers to our online interview, we are pleased that your qualification is suitable for the position of a HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY ANALYST with our esteem organization “Totalfinaelf Exploration and Production UK PLC”.
The position specified here is for a period of 2 years, annual renewal of contract is based on your performances. You will be on a six months probation during which you will be trained on the company mode of operations. This period will enable us to determine your potentials and ability towards specific & general functions. All offers of employment are contingent upon verification of personal identity and work Authorization as required by the immigration reform & control act of 1986 and 1996.Your area of operations will be in London and Aberdeen, because there are numerous awarded projects which are slated to last for at least two (2) years.
This is a technically challenging work environment characterized by research and the pursuit of new ways of working. It demands people who will thrive in a culture that encourages and rewards innovation, collaboration and the ability to learn from success as well as failure.
For this reason, we would be pleased to have you in our team. Our recruiters/Immigration Consultants have been assigned to provide you with the necessary recruitment information and assistance in the issuing of a work permit by the British Home Office.
Attached to this mail is your Employment Contract. This should be officially signed by you through email or fax. Signed document {contract agreement} should be forwarded to us immediately for further actions.
Sincerely,
Mr Edward James ,
Human Resources Department,
Totalfinaelf Exploration and Production UK PLC
Tel: +44 704 576 4692,
Fax: + (44) 709 288 7483
Here they go again!!!!!!SCAM OR NO SCAM?

Anonymous said...

the bastards got me too. though i was offered 11,100.00 lbs per month to join their team as a drill superviser. same phone numbers too. So what do we do? but hey, i went one step farther and placed a call to the address and sure enough, they answered..... but left the phone down some where and i could hear dogs barking and people arguing in the back ground.how in the world do they find us? damn good thing i put my house on the market!!! bastards

Anonymous said...

they got me too. the jonathanmcunha@gmail.com account is mine. I had no idea that's it was stolen until i googled my email out of curiosity. I want to get to the bottom of this. Those bastards!

Anonymous said...

TotalFinaElf Exploration and Production UK
Crawpeel Road, Altens,
Aberdeen, AB12 3FG,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +447024039576


Sir,

Client code / UNC / PE / vol.12

Congratulations because after screening and evaluations you find suitable for this 2years contract in our Company.We attached your appointment letter, Employment Legacy and the contract agreement terms in this mail which you're advise to sign the documents and return it to us.

We advise you to contact the immigration chamber(Westfield Chambers) for your work permit and visa.The earlier the better since the immigration agency is working on all the permit papers for the employees right now.Contact them on time.You can call me on my number for further information if needed, i have a lot of work to do now.

Thank you
Roland Festor
Managing Director

__________________________

MF were rather patient, sent me a job offer eventually, with 114,000 pound salary for a simple PC any-key))))