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 15, 2007

TELE-TRANSFER COMPANY

This looks like a typical money mule job, but the modus operandi is a little different than usual. The scammers have registered their own domain and have their own website, but the URL uses a redirect through a third party website. I don't know whether the third party website was compromised to enable this, but it's a distinct possibility.

   Domain Name: TELE-TRANSFER.COM <-- scam
   Registrar: ESTDOMAINS, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.estdomains.com
   Referral URL: http://www.estdomains.com
   Name Server: NS1.XP-HOSTING.COM
   Name Server: NS2.XP-HOSTING.COM
   Updated Date: 08-mar-2007
   Creation Date: 08-mar-2007 <-- new
   Expiration Date: 08-mar-2008

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tele-Transfer Company <idemers[@]stmary.k12.la.us>
Date: 15-Mar-2007 09:19
Subject: COMPANY TELE-TRANSFER
To: [redacted]

TELE-TRANSFER COMPANY

 

 

 

Work from home , real job, up to 7000$ per month

 

 

 

 

WHO DO WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for financial and marketing agents who are responsible for financial management and internet marketing for our Tele-Transfer Company inc. business. Agent duties also include receiving money proceeds from Tele-Transfer inc. orders and its further transfer to our international accounting department for distribution to our customers.

 

 

 

An applicant must:

 

- be capable to work;

- be older than 18;

- be capable working with deposit account receivables and payments to/from customers and our financial office;

- be able to spend not less than 2 hours per day to do this work;

- have knowledge to use PC, have an access to PC and Internet during the day.

 

 

Send Your resume to mail: techsupmanage@2d.com

 

Sincerely  " TELE-TRANSFER COMPANY"

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Worked With them for 4 months
cashed out money came to my neteller account,


no problem ever happened
money are coming from on-lne merchants and casinos

Spotter said...

Four months? The domain name was registered only one month ago. This leads me to suspect that you are lying, and that you might be one of the scumbags profiting from other people's misery.

This is a money mule scam, and I'm not the only one reporting it. Don't be sucked in, friends.

Anonymous said...

I found this site here http://www.tele-transfert.com/careers.htm
I'm assuming it's the same?

Spotter said...

Whether it's the same or not, it's a scam. The position offered is a "reshipping agent".

Domain Name: TELE-TRANSFERT.COM
Registrar: ABACUS AMERICA, INC. DBA NAMES4EVER
Whois Server: whois.names4ever.com
Referral URL: http://www.names4ever.com
Name Server: NS1.WMHOSTING.NET
Name Server: NS2.WMHOSTING.NET
Name Server: NS3.WMHOSTING.NET
Name Server: NS4.WMHOSTING.NET
Updated Date: 04-feb-2009
Creation Date: 19-jan-2009
Expiration Date: 19-jan-2010

Anonymous said...

i also recieved a letter from the desk of lee yang who said he was principle assurance manager for the nanyang commercial bank in china, i am waiting for a reply from bank to verify if he does work their.he told me there was 10 million dollars if i wanted it as i had the same surname of a person who invested this money and had just recently died so i could claim this money for having the same surname. he wanted me to email him or phone which i havent and stressed not to tell anyone, ha ha ha .