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, November 08, 2007

Indigo Global Consulting Services

"Financial Manager" = "Money Mule". Apparently this identity has been around since 20-Sep-2007 13:00:13 UTC (time at which "indigo-consulting.org" was registered), but this is the first I've seen of it. The job can be summarised as "aiding fraud and theft", or "money laundering".

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 8 Nov 2007
Subject: Indigo GCS - New opportunities

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Indigo Global Consulting Servińes is one of leading suppliers of consulting services in the world. Our success depends not only on high quality of our services, but also on expertly managed and reliable business processes.

It explains the reason why we attach tremendous value to quality. However, the only way to achieve high quality in our business is continuous struggle for it and building up of reliable procedures for quality assurance.

In order to achieve high quality, we need employees who are interested in provision of qualitative processes and projects in their routine work. At the moment vacancy of Financial manager is open for unlimited time period.

Job responsibilities of Financial Manager include processing of remittances entering his account from clients of the company. After appropriate procedures of transaction documents execution he is to transfer money to accounts advised by our dispatchers. All you need is spare time (about 3-4 hours a day), wish and will for teamwork, responsibility. At the initial stage your wage will amount to 5% of total turnover per a month.

Requirements to candidates:

Higher education
Age: from 18 years
Confident PC user (SW package Office), mail programs, Internet

We offer:

Worthy salary
Social security and medical insurance
Free training

If you are interested in this vacancy you may e-mail your resume to the address job@indigo-consulting.org .

Indigo Global Consulting Services. 2007 Š All right reserved.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Yes this is a scam artist company, they dont have any jobs just more drama in your life then you need.
Dont ge involved with this company.; 3:54 pm, January 24, 2013

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This blog is an offshoot of iDeceive, which documents deceptive Internet activity. For more general information, please go to that blog. All entries posted here are employment scams. If you've received an email that resembles anything posted here, you'd be well advised to assume that the sender wants to exploit you, not employ you. Scammers often impersonate real companies. Where real company names are mentioned here, you should assume that a scammer is using that identity fraudulently unless you have strong evidence to the contrary.

What is a money mule?

The vast majority of job scams seek to recruit money mules, usually under titles like "financial manager", "payment processor", "transaction specialist", or just plain "representative" or even "partner". The job of a money mule is to be a financial middle-man, accepting payment in one form, and forwarding it (minus a fee) to another party, usually via Western Union. Scammers employ money mules to launder money on their behalf: the mule is responsible for converting a fraudulent transaction of some kind into quick, anonymous cash, usually transferred via Western Union or some similar scheme. Scammers send out a lot of job ads for money mule positions and never refuse an applicant because they are disposable: money mules either get ripped off directly (as when they are persuaded to bank a forged cheque or money order which is later dishonoured by the bank), or take the blame for defrauding someone else (as with most payments involving direct bank transfer, PayPal, or similar). Don't make an ass of yourself: don't be a money mule.

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Thursday, November 08, 2007