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, September 25, 2007

Sales Masters

This is a money mule job scam. Compare the list of requirements in this scam to those of the ProCardio Group scam. Suspiciously similar, no? Several variations of the domain name exist already, and I expect there are (or will be) more.

   Domain Name: SALESMASTERS-LTD.NET
   Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.register.com
   Referral URL: http://www.register.com
   Name Server: NS1.TRAINGTE.COM
   Name Server: NS2.TRAINGTE.COM
   Updated Date: 24-sep-2007
   Creation Date: 24-sep-2007
   Expiration Date: 24-sep-2008

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: real offer <[redacted]>
Date: 25 Sep 2007 09:02
Subject: Real job offer - RJ[redacted]
To: [redacted]

 

Sales Masters Ltd is online auction trading assistant. We sell things on international e-auctions (eBay, Yahoo!, etc) for other people. Our clients are individuals, businesses, or dealers, who want to sell personal possessions, excess stock, or equipment, but lack the time, people or expertise to do so.

Sales Masters Ltd also supports the Seller with Financial Representative_s services in the Buyer's country, therefore accelerating and facilitating payment process through mutually acceptable payment methods.

Sales Masters Ltd has now opened Administrative Coordinator vacancies in Australia.

Duties: The position entails the communication and coordination of activities of workers engaged in one or more projects. Administrative Coordinator may perform work of a similar type and level as that of subordinates. Administrative Coordinator provides liaison with clients and reports to senior management.

Responsibilities:
- Be the primary point of contact for assigned project staff.
- Control timely pickup and delivery of customers merchandise by our couriers.
- Controlling and processing financial transactions on behalf of Finance Representative (sometimes you may work on behalf of Finance Representative for a few days to cover an absent staff).
- Distribute all incoming and outgoing correspondence (tasks) for assigned project staff.
- Review project proposals or plans to determine time frame.
- Communicate project progress to Customer Service Representative.
- Submit progress report directly to the client (you should be able to easily communicate with clients in case CS Representative is absent).
- Obtain and file all project information.

Wage Details: 64k AUD

Working Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm (1 hr for lunch). Part-Time positions are also available (9:00am-1:00pm)

Costs and Fees: There are no costs.

Main requirements for the candidates are:
- Effective interaction with customers;
- Willingness to work at home;
- The ability to operate with more than one task effectively, and have an adaptable, flexible, professional attitude;
- Honesty, responsibility and promptness in operations;
- The ability to create good administrative reporting;
- The ability of stable communication with our company and on-time and detailed reporting;
- Prior customer service experience is a good benefit but not a must ;
- Effective dealing with tight deadlines and frequently changing priorities.

To the successful applicants we offer a position on a trial period (2 weeks starting from the beginning of work). This is the period when you will be trained. You will receive online support while working and being paid. The evaluation of employees on a trial period is usually done at least 3 days prior to the end of their trial period. During the trial period, the supervisor can recommend termination. At the end of the trial period, supervisor makes his final decision.

If you are interested in this vacancy and you feel, that your qualifications correspond to our requirements, please visit www.salesmasters-ltd.net to fill in an application form.

Thank you for your interest to this job.
Sincerely,

Sales Masters Ltd

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.




2007 _ Sales Masters Ltd
All rights reserved.
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, 73 Holbrook Rd
+1 (619) 381 9011

 

3 comments:

Spotter said...

Domain Name: SALES-MASTERS-LTD.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com
Name Server: NS1.TRAINGTE.COM
Name Server: NS2.TRAINGTE.COM
Updated Date: 24-sep-2007
Creation Date: 24-sep-2007
Expiration Date: 24-sep-2008

Spotter said...

Domain Name: SALES-MASTERS-LTD.NET
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com
Name Server: NS1.TRAINGTE.COM
Name Server: NS2.TRAINGTE.COM
Updated Date: 24-sep-2007
Creation Date: 24-sep-2007
Expiration Date: 24-sep-2008

Spotter said...

A correspondent correctly points out that the same scam has been conducted under the name "Online Auction Pro". joewein.de has documented an instance of the spam at http://www.joewein.net/fraud/fraud-job-2007-09.htm.