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, March 22, 2007

African Art And Craft

Art is a popular cover story for these money mule scams.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: african_art03@yahoo.com <african_art03@yahoo.com>
Date: 23-Mar-2007 00:47
Subject: YOU AS OUR COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE
To: african_art03@yahoo.com

African Art And Craft.
Import & Export Co., Ltd.
132  Mandela Road, Pretoria City,
Geuteng Province. South Africa




We are exporters based in  SOUTH  AFRICA.We export  African  Art And Craft  into Europe, America and Australia. Our company, African  Art And Craft. Import & Export Co., Ltd. Was established in 1987.
We need your services, to work for us as our foreign agent,who can help us eastablish a medium of recieving payment on our behalf for Goods and services we supply to our clients. With a 10% compensation of whatever amount you clear for the company and the balance remitted to us on our instruction. If you are interested in this offer, ensure that you reply immediately you acknowlege this
mail with the following infos below;


Full names...................
Full Contact Address.........
Mailing Address..............
sex..........................
Age.........................
Telephone....................
Fax..........................
Occupation...................
Company Name.................
Country......................

We look forward to working with you.

Very Respectfully,

Mr.Robert  Themba.
Please Contact Us With Our  Alternatitive
Alternative  email: african_art02@yahoo.com
Alternative  email: africanart01@webmail.co.za


4 comments:

Spotter said...

I received a reply to this, but it was sent to an account I haven't checked recently, so this report is a bit late.

I said:

Can you please give me more information about this job? How do I receive payments and how do I remit them to you? Are there any up-front costs?

They said:

Thanks for your understanding and your willingness to assist us. We want to inform you that we have discuss with our client who as accepted to pay within the amount of $12,000 to $15,000 and he as requested for your banking information that will enable him pay in the money into your bank account.

We want to inform you that once we have your banking information and your bank full address he will send the cheque directly to your bank for them to credit the money into your account which he will inform us once he made the payment to your banking details.

You are require to forward the followinng details.

ACCOUNT NAME:
ACCOUNT NUMBER:
BANK FULL ADDRESS:
BANK BRANCH:
STATE OR PROVINCE:
COUNTRY:
YOUR PHONE NUMBER:
HOME ADDRESS:

Once we receive this details our client will contact you immediately to notify you when is going to make the payment into your bank account.

Note once this is done you will take your 10% as promise to you by this company before remiting the rest to us.once you clear this money send it to us Through Telegraphic transfer.

Thanks once more.
Regards
Robert Themba.

Spotter said...

They're still at it. They are in no way linked with africancraft.com.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: repcoy77771969@yahoo.com <repcoy77771969@yahoo.com>
Date: 11-Apr-2007 00:11
Subject: YOU AS OUR COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE
To: repcoy77771969@yahoo.com

African Art And Craft.
Import & Export Co., Ltd.
132 Mandela Road, Pretoria City,
Geuteng Province. South Africa


We are exporters based in SOUTH AFRICA.We export African Art And
Craft into Europe, America and Australia. Our company, African Art And
Craft. Import & Export Co., Ltd. Was established in 1987.

We need your services, to work for us as our foreign agent,who can help
us establish a medium of recieving payment on our behalf for Goods and
services we supply to our clients. With a 10% compensation of whatever
amount you clear for the company and the balance remitted to us on our
instruction. If you are interested in this offer, ensure that you reply
immediately you acknowlege this mail with the following information below;


Full names...................
Full Contact Address.........
Mailing Address..............
sex..........................
Age.........................
Telephone....................
Fax..........................
Occupation...................
Company Name.................
Country......................

We look forward to working with you.

Yours Respectfully,

Mr.Robert Themba.
Alternative email:repcoy1@hotmail.com
http://www.africancraft.com/

Spotter said...

More of the same; new email addresses.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: african_art09@yahoo.com <african_art09@yahoo.com&rt;
Date: 29-Apr-2007 03:20
Subject: JOB OFFER
To: african_art09@yahoo.com

African Art And Craft.
Import & Export Co., Ltd.
132 Mandela Road, Pretoria City,
Geuteng Province. South Africa

Attn:
We are exporters based in SOUTH AFRICA.We export African Art And Craft into Europe, America and Australia. Our company, African Art And Craft. Import & Export Co., Ltd. Was established in 1987.
We need your services, to work for us as our foreign agent,who can help us eastablish a medium of recieving Cheque Payment on our behalf for Goods and services we supply to our clients. With a 10% compensation of whatever amount you clear for the company and the balance remitted to us on our instruction. If you are interested in this offer, ensure that you reply immediately you acknowlege this mail with the following infos below;
Full names...................
Full Contact Address.........
Mailing Address..............
sex..........................
Age.........................
Telephone....................
Fax..........................
Occupation...................
Company Name.................
Country......................

We look forward to working with you.

Very Respectfully,
Mr.Robert Themba.
Please Contact Us With Our Alternatitive
Alternative email:africanartcraft@gmail.com

Spotter said...

This scam is still active.