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, June 12, 2007

GoldSelling Inc

Looks like I'm too late reporting this particular scam, since the website is currently reporting a 404 "not found" error. Oh well, good riddance to unwanted evil. Here are the usual details for the record, though, in case a variation crops up.

Domain Name:                                 GOLDSELLING.US <-- scam
Domain ID:                                   D12187656-US
Sponsoring Registrar:                        DOMAIN BANK, INC.
Registrant ID:                               DOT-PHL3XSXBV6OU
Registrant Name:                             Jan Hoffman
Registrant Organization:                     GoldSelling
Registrant Email:                            goldsellinginc@gmail.com
Name Server:                                 NS1.TUTHOST.COM
Name Server:                                 NS2.TUTHOST.COM
Created by Registrar:                        DOMAIN BANK, INC.
Last Updated by Registrar:                   DOMAIN BANK, INC.
Domain Registration Date:                    Thu Mar 22 22:43:37 GMT 2007 <-- recent
Domain Expiration Date:                      Fri Mar 21 23:59:59 GMT 2008
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Thu Mar 22 22:48:04 GMT 2007

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: no_reply[@]careerbuilder.com <no_reply[@]careerbuilder.com>
Date: 08-Jun-2007 17:22
Subject: Your resume is on careerbuilber.com
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Dear Mr/Mrs,

You have received this letter, because you left your resume on careerbuilder.com website and you correspond to our requirements.



About the GoldSelling inc. company.

Our company specializes in purchasing, selling and exchanging of electronic currency. We began our activity in 2003 and we can confidently say that we have already reached the determined success in the market payment system sector.

At the point of development we are expanding the sphere of activity for our company overseas. It is planned to open our USA official representation in the nearest future. (same have been already opened in Dortmund, Germany and Brussels, Belgium).

According to that recruiting of employees in USA is announced.



You can get more information by visiting the address http://www.goldselling.us/vacancy.php , you can fill the application form. We are calling your attention that there is an opportunity of working at home.



Regards,

Peter Walton, GoldSelling Inc.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was almost taken by this scam artist and was only cautious due to the fact that I had been scammed by someone else. Also be on the look out of Caltex Corp job offer

Spotter said...

I've now seen this scam operating at "goldselling.org", registered 12-Jun-2007 18:58:05 UTC.

Anonymous said...

Definitely a scam.

They took me for a ride that's for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Refusing to pay me and then calling me up and telling me I'm a fucking bitch.

Anonymous said...

I received this email and it looks like the same company. Beware!

Dear Mr/Mrs,
You have received this letter, because you left your resume on careerbuilder.com website and you correspond to our requirements.

About the RP inc. company.
Our company specializes in purchasing, selling and exchanging of electronic currency. We began our activity in 2003 and we can confidently say that we have already reached the determined success in the market payment system sector.
At the point of development we are expanding the sphere of activity for our company overseas. It is planned to open our USA official representation in the nearest future. (same have been already opened in Dortmund, Germany and Brussels, Belgium).
According to that recruiting of employees in USA is announced.

You can get more information by visiting the address http://ralphpenland.com/vacancy.php , you can fill the application form. We are calling your attention that there is an opportunity of working at home.

ralphpenland.com/vacancy.php

Regards,
Michael Hopkins, RP Inc.