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, February 06, 2007

Superbag Co, Ltd (impostor)

This is just some random money mule recruiter using a (German) Yahoo! freemail address and pretending to represent an actual (Japanese) company. The scammer has made a fundamental error, however: he provides a link to the web page of the company in question. The company has, in turn, put up the following warning on their homepage.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Superbag received reports about scam mails that somebody pretends to be a Superbag's employee who said Superbag is recruiting company representative for North America and Europe. Superbag is not currently recruiting representatives in those areas and Superbag has nothing to do with those scam e-mails.

This sort of scam happens all the time, but most of them don't identify themselves as scams quite so clearly.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: YOSHIMITSU FUKADU <superbag13_company@yahoo.de>
Date: 06-Feb-2007 11:21
Subject: SUPERBAG COMPANY LIMMITED!!!
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Attn: Mr yoshimitsu fukadu,
It is my pleasure to write to you in respect of our organization,I am
Mr yoshimitsu fukadu / President and CEO( SUPERBAG COMPANY,LIMITED) a
japanesse based company,Superbag will soon be 100 years of old. Taking the
lead in the bag-making industry, Superbag has always been active to
develop bagging materials and implement up-to-date bag-making machinery
with new ideas and flexible thinking. Our efforts have also been
directed toward the wider use of new bagging materials, thus contributing
greatly to the progress of the distribution industry coping with today's
globalization, Superbag has launched into international business; its
overseas production bases so far implemented for more production and
enhanced technology include those in China (Shanghai), Taiwan, Thailand and
Indonesia..

We have just started the exportation of our products into the
Canada/America and Europe market.We are searching for representatives who can
help us create a structural base in this areas and .establish a medium of
getting to our customers in the Canada/America and Europeans as well as
making payments through you to us.Please note that we are aware of the
high frudulent checks on the internet now and all payments are going to
come via bank wire.

Please if you are interested in transacting business with us we will be
very glad. Please contact us for more information.visit our website :-
http://www.superbag.co.jp/e/index.html

Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to
negotiate your mode contract of which we will pay for your services as our
representative in Canada/America and Europe.Please if you are interested
forward to us your,

FULLNAME................................
DATE OF BIRTH..........................
ADDRESS...................................
SEX............................................
AGE............................................
NATIONALITY. ............................
OCCUPATION..............................
TELEPHONE................................
EMAIL..........................................
DATE...........................................
SIGNATURE.................................

Thank in Advance.
Regards,
yoshimitsu fukadu

2 comments:

Spotter said...

Same scam now known to be using superbag12_company@yahoo.com and superbag001@yahoo.es as contact addresses.

Spotter said...

This scam has made a reappearance with reply-to address "fiduciaryagent06@excite.com" and contact address "superbag12_company@yahoo.com" in the email body.