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 26, 2007

STMicroelectronics, Inc (not)

Scam type: money mule (forwarding stolen money). Sender is an impostor, not actually related to the real STMicroelectronics at st.com.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: STMicroelectronics, Inc <joe_21@bellsouth.net>
Reply-to:
stonline_contact@yahoo.es
Date: 19-Jun-2007 06:43
Subject: Requirement for Marketing Executive in STMicroelectronics, Inc
To: [redacted]

Message from Desk:
Executive Officer
STMicroelectronics

Dear Sir / Madam

I am Mr. CARLO BOZOTTI, President and Chief Executive Officer of STMicroelectronics, who has it worldwide headquarters' in GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.

ST offers one of the world's broadest product ranges, with over 3,000 main types of products. The carefully balanced portfolio includes both
Application-specific products containing a large proprietary IP content and multi-segment products that ranges from discrete devices to
High-performance microcontrollers.

Due to the balancement between the industry's five major high-growth sectors: Communications, Consumer, Computer, Automotive and Industrial,
We have reached big sales volume in the European market and now are trying to penetrate the Northern American market. Quite soon we will open representative offices and authorized sales centers in North America and therefore we are currently looking for people who will assist us in establishing a new distribution network there. The fact that despite the Northern America market is new for us we already have regular clients also speaks for itself. This idea of REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRES is making us to contact you today to know if you would be able to perform the duties below


DUTIES

1 Supervising all activities that would be carried out in the OFFICE.
2 Receiving payments on behalf of the company for goods sold and from our Customers in time past, in any payment method they feel is comfortable with Them as at the time of their contact with you or vice versa.

Be informed that you do not need to have any form of education because we will Be having an ORIENTATION EXERCISE for all of our staff.

If you deem capable of performing these duties, we will want you to send us You're resume as soon as possible or the following information

1 Your Full Name
2 Contact Address
3 Telephone Number. Endeavour to include your MOBILE number.
4 Present Occupations and Position Held
5 Country

Note that you would be placed on a monthly salary of $2,000USD monthly and a Commission of 5% for any payment you receive on behalf of the company.

Thank you so very much for having the patient and time to read this email. We Look forward to hearing from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr CARLO BOZOTTI
CEO STMicroelectronics, Inc
Email:stonline_contact@yahoo.es
www.st.com/stonline/index.htm

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are bunch of idiots..I just got a similar email yesterday...But they wanted a credit card#....Here's the email that was sent:


Dear Friend,

This email is from the desk of Mr CARLO
BOZOTTI, President and Chief Executive Officer
of STMicroelectronics, who has it worldwide
headquaters in GENEVA SWITZERLAND.

ST offers one of the world’s broadest
product
ranges, with over 3,000 main types of products.
The carefully balanced
portfolio includes both application-specific
products containing a large proprietary IP
content and multi-segment products that range
from discrete devices to high- performance
microcontrollers.

We are looking for diligent, honest and God
fearing person(s) that
will act our representative in their location and
will earn 10% of the
total payment that will be made to him by our
client, if the performance is okay we will place
you on a
monthly salary along side the 10%. if you are
interested, please fill out the details below:

1 Your Full Name
2 Contact Address
3 Telephone Number. Endeavour to include your
MOBILE number.
4 Present Occupation And Position Held
5 Country
6 Your Bank Name
7 Do You Have A Credit Card

Thank you so very much for having the patient
and time to read this
email. We look forward to hearing from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr G. Bertino
Computer Peripherals Group (CPG)
Email: bertino_stmicroelectronics@yahoo.com.hk
http://www.st.com/stonline/
STMicroelectronics

Anonymous said...

Here is another:

-----Original Message-----
From: STMicroelectronics [mailto:office@st.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 11:24 PM
Subject:




Dear Friend,


This email is from the desk of Mr CARLO
BOZOTTI,President and Chief Executive Officer
of STMicroelectronics,who has it worldwide
headquater s in GENEVA SWITZERLAND.

STMicroelectronics was created in 1987 by the
merger of SGS Microelettronica of Italy and
Thomson Semiconducteurs of France with the
aim of becoming a world leader in the sub-
micron era.Since its formation, ST has grown
faster than the semiconductor industry as a
whole and it has been one of the world`s Top
Ten semiconductor suppliers since 1999.ST
offers one of the world`s broadest product
ranges, with over 3,000 main types of products.
The carefully balanced portfolio includes both
application-specific products containing a large
proprietary IP content and multi-segment
products that range from discrete devices to
high- performance microcontrollers.

Due to the balancement between the industry`s
five major high-growth sectors:
Communications, Consumer, Computer,
Automotive and Industria, we have reached big
sales volume in the european market and now
are trying to penetrate the Northern American
market. Quite soon we will open representative
offices and authorized sales centers in North
America and therefore we are urrently looking
for people who will assist us in establishing a
new distribution network there. The fact that
despite the Nothern America market is new for
us we already have regular clients also speaks
for itself.

This idea of REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES AND
DISTRIBUTION CENTRES is making us to contact
you today to know if you would be able to
perform the duties below

DUTIES

1 Supervising all activities that would be carried
out in the OFFICE

2 Receiving payments on behalf of the company
for goods sold and from our customers in time
past,in any payment method they feel is
comfortable with them as at the time of their
contact with you or vice versa.

Be informed that you do not need to have any
form of eductaion because we will be having an
ORIENTATION EXERCISE for all of our staff.

If you deem capable of performing these
duties,we will want you to send us your resume
as soon as possible,or the following information

1 Your Full Name
2 Contact Address
3 Telephone Number.Endeavour to include your
MOBILE number.
4 Present Occupation And Position Held

Note that you would be placed on a monthly
salary of $3,000USD monthly and a commission
of 5% for any payment you receive on behalf of
the company.

Thank you so very much for having the patient
and time to read this email.We look forward to
hearing from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr C.Ferro
STAFF FUNCTION
STMicroelectronics

Anonymous said...

I got this one:

Dear applicant

We wish to inform you that your resume has been reviewed by the appropriate department, It is now required for you to have the Hiring Manager Mr Mark Powell added to your Yahoo Messenger or hot mail contact list for the job briefing and interview. His ID is ( interview.hrdesk@rocketmail.com ) He's online now and ready whenever you are interview time is ASAP

I was like OK an interview by instant message yeah right. I actually got a little curious and used my 'dummy' email account on yahoo to see what it was all about.

Basically the entire process is the hiring manager Mark Powell or whatever his name is briefing you on your responsibilities.

Its a bot, because I was writing some questionable (cough, cough) responses.

LMAO, It was hilarious.

Anyways it total B.S. don't fall for it.

Anonymous said...

Dear applicant
We wish to inform you that your resume has been reviewed by the appropriate department, It is now required for you to have the Hiring Manager Mr Mark Powell added to your Yahoo Messenger or hot mail contact list for the job briefing and interview. His ID is ( interview.hrdesk@rocketmail.com ) He's online now and ready whenever you are interview time is ASAP.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITY:Tracks data and source documents.Prepares and sorts source documents, and identifies and interprets data to be entered.Compiles, sorts and verifies data for accuracy.Contacts responsible parties or clients from other organisation to resolve moderately complex questions, inconsistencies, or missing data. Also perform Records keeping, keyboarding/data entry and performing a variety of other office tasks account balancing, invoicing recording,proper data analysis of sales records and recording pay slips into accounting database all these will be done through the use of the Accounting Software, such as faxing or emailing confidently and positive attitude Online from home.
interview.hrdesk@rocketmail.com (Jul 05 3:32 PM): The Supervisor, who would be attached to you online, He/She would assign logs of duty daily and you would be required to work according to instructions, using the Microsoft Office tools and the Accounting software. Now the function of the Accounting software is to arrange, formalize and manage the data you have processed, sent to your supervisor via E-mail.

You will undergo a one week training from your training supervisor,he will training you on how to work with the programs accurate and other Data entry works you will need to get done.Your training is going to be done online through your Pc and Phone

You will Earn $20 per hour,You will receive your pay via Direct deposit or Paycheck bi weekly.Training $18 per hour

Here are the name's of the software's you will need to start working with Myob business essentials software 2011, US Patent Single Users Pack simply accounting 2011,Apple Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Upgrade,Norton Ghost 9.0,Microsoft Office XP 2002 Standard Upgrade,Peach tree Premium Accounting 2011and a Brand new HP laptop

The company will be providing you with the funds you will be using in purchasing the software's you will be working with .You will be getting a check mailed to your home via fedex and once you get the check with You are to get the cashier check deposited to your account ..

Sheila Gazlay said...

Thanks for the great info but your first clue to the fact that something like t his is a scam is use of nonwords like "balancement". If you respond to anything with non words in it these days, you're just asking for trouble.