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, February 01, 2007

Donation Europe

These scammers are pretending to be a charity. Being paid large amounts by a charity for very little work just doesn't make any sense, does it? Of course not: it's a money mule scam, not a charity. The sender's name is somewhat ironic, under the circumstances: "Prison" indeed.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Prison <yypzpife[@]net.br>
Date: 01-Feb-2007 22:18
Subject: Freelance job
To: ideceive@gmail.com
Job for students, home-workers and people which have free 2-3 hours a day.

Dear Sir/Madam,

We're glad to offer you a position in our company Donation Europe.
We are a charity organization in Central Europe.
We help and support the community in Europe to help children of all ages.
Donation Europe is an organization which supported by donations.
All information about us you can read at our web-site.
You can earn money and help children with us.
We are looking for freelance representatives in EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
Donation Europe receive donations in Europe, you have a possibility to
become a "Freelance representative" of our company.
You do not need any funds to work and you do not need to find anybody.
We hire people for freelance work.
You can combine it with your full-time work, 2-3 hours a day is required from you.
The salary is 1500 - 3500 EUR per week.
If you have an interest to our proposition and have a desire to help children
send your reply to dekids@gala.net
Our manager will send you more information about the job and terms of employment.

[REPLY TO dekids@gala.net ONLY]

Helen Wilson
Donation Europe.


Poland
Nowoursynowska st. 119,
02-776 Warsaw
Phone/Fax: (+48) 22 389 7424
Charity Registration No.: 101682-5923411
Company Registration No.: 2350841
Posted by Spotter at 18:50

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i got one of these things it was good to know that this was not real and send my money to these suckers. how pathetic

5:33 pm, February 12, 2007
Anonymous said...

The email scams are becoming more like real job adverts and there are a lot of unsuspecting (unaware) email users who would be sucked in by the latest scam. I was unsure at first if it was a real job offer, until I saw the unrealistic weekly pay. No-one would offer an inexperienced worker that much money to work from home.

10:38 pm, November 27, 2007

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