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, November 27, 2007

John Lee Textiles and Fabrics

This one was forwarded by a correspondent. It's just another check forger acting under an assumed identity, looking for suckers to deposit his dodgy checks and send back cash, but a quick search on the associated phone number shows that I haven't listed it yet, so here it is.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "PARK LEE" <parklee_16@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:44:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Employment Offer !!!!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,
    My name is JOHN LEE .  I am the owner of JOHN  LEE
TEXTILES AND FABRICS COMPANY IN THE UK
Presently, my company is looking for a trustworthy bookkeeper,
representative in Canada/USA.
An excellent opportunity to work at home part time and still keep your
full time job.
JOHN LEE Textile is a company that produces and sells Chinese and
African textile and fabric material in London.  Our company produces
various clothing materials, batisks, assorted fabrics and traditional
costumes.  We have clients we supply weekly in the states. My clients
 make
payments for our supplies every week by check which are not readily
cashable outside of the US or Canada; so we need a representative to
assist us in processing the payments.  This will enable our cash to
 flow
more quickly and therefore would not tie down our capital. I would be
willing to employ you on contract basis to be my payment representative
back in the states.  I am involved in alot of travel and this way I
 could
give my clients the authority to make the checks, money orders, etc out
to you.  You could then easily cash at your bank,  then  withdraw 10%
of the total amount as your commission and  send the rest back to me
through Western Union wire transfer.

IF YOU AT ALL INTERESTED IN THIS PROPOSAL FOR EMPLOYMENT  PLEASE
COMPLETE THIS APPLICATION AND
LETTER OF EMPLOYMENT.  I NEED TO FILL THIS POSITION AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.
LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOON.
JOHN LEE

JOB DESCRIPTION?
1.  RECIEVE PAYMENT FROM CLIENTS (delivered by FedEx or UPS you would
need to be at your address to sign)
2.  CASH PAYMENTS AT YOUR BANK (PAYMENT WILL BE MAKE IN YOUR NAME TO BE
CASHED AT YOUR
    BANK) CLIENTS WILL CONTACT YOU FIRST AND SEND PAYMENT VIA COURIER
OR MAIL.
3.  DEDUCT 10% WHICH WILL BE YOUR PERCENTAGE/PAY ON PAYMENT PROCESSED
(Examle $5000.00 you
    would deduct $500.00 pay the Western Union fee out of the $4500.00
left and send remainder to my company.
4.  FORWARD BALANCE AFTER DEDUCTION OF PERCENTAGE/PAY TO MY COMPANY
(WESTERN UNION
    MONEY TRANSFER).

JOHN LEE TEXTILE LIMITED
APPLICATION FORM
Name:____________________________________
Lastname:________________________________
Address___________________________________
City:______________________________________
State:
Zipcode:_________________________________

Country_________________________________
Phone Number:_________________________
Age:___________________________________
Nationality________________________

Marital Status:_______________________________

Sex:______________________________________

*Please make sure you telepone # is correct -- I will need to call you
when everything is in place.
ATTESTATION
You will adhear to the rules as advised earlier in this e-mail and by
Job Description.
You will notify the company one week ahead if eventually you want to
discontinue these funds from coming to your
address in order to avoid conflict.
If in agreement to this kindly append signature below.
Warmest Regards,
park Lee
+447045742866
Human Resources

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

i just got this one from jone lee textiles and fabrics. i sent them my information but no one called me so i assumed that i didn't have to worry about anything. but someone just sent me a check on christmas eve. it's a real check. but i don't have an address to send it to or anything. what the heck!!!

Spotter said...

It's not a real check: it's a high quality forgery. It will take a while to bounce (check processing is slow) but it will bounce eventually.

Anonymous said...

Iam so glad I found this sight, I just recieved the same email from John Lee Textiles asking if i would be interested in a work from home position. i have been unemployed for over 6 months BUT I'm still very cautious about who I deal with on the internet and in person. I recently recieved a email similar to this one and went straight to the FBI with it, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that this is totally illegal!!! Thanks again for the update. Keep up the great work...

Anonymous said...

I was looking on the internet for a company called Park Lee Textile Limited because I was sent the same exact email to have checks sent to me and I cash them at my bank and send it to them. When I received it, it was like a light went off in my head that it was illegal. I also received another email from a lady claiming to be named Winslow Sarah for Hafren Industries in the UK asking to do the same thing. I sent her some emails asking if her company was legit and of course she said yes. But I already know its a scam and your answers proved it.

Anonymous said...

I got this from a man a couple of weeks ago. Got a check in the mail. I took it to a check cashing place and asked them to check it out. It was fraudulent. I contacted the Robert Half Management (a legitimate company) and gave them all of this guys info.

JOB OVERVIEW

Company: Robert Half Management Resources
Location: US/CANADA
Base Pay: 10%
Employee Type: Finance
Manages Others: No
Job Type: Payment Officer
Finance
Req'd Education: Not Specified
Req'd Experience: Not Specified
Req'd Travel: Not Specified
Relocation Covered: No

Contact: Recruiter
Email:
Email your contact


Job Description
Classification: Payment Receiver

Compensation: 10%
My name is Mr Johnson Craig Head of job processing unit at Robert Half Management Resources,We are registered in Geo trust for emailing online recruitment as payment officer.
We have an immediate need for a Temporary Payment Receiver. The payment
officer will stand as payment representative to receive payment in his/her
area on our behave.you shall earn 10% of any payment receive by you.

All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in
the United States. All applicants applying for Canadian job openings must be
authorized to work in Canada.

Robert Half Management Resources is the world's premier provider of
senior-level accounting and finance professionals on a project and interim
basis. Through our parent company, Robert Half, an S&P 500 firm with over $4
billion in annual revenues, we've been matching skilled professionals with
the right jobs for nearly 60 years.

YOU WILL REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE CHIEF FINANCIAL CONTROLLER AND BE REQUIRED
TO APPLY YOUR EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE TO A RANGE OF DUTIES.

If interested you can get back with the information below,so as to give the
company lawyer for proper documentation.......


FULL NAME..
ADDRESS....
STATE......
CITY.......
ZIP CODE....
CONTACT NUMBER....
NOT P.O.BOX ADDRESS

THANKS
NAME..JOHNSON CRAIG
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT JOB PROCESSING UNIT/CHIEF FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

musk78 said...

i jimmy from west warwick was contacted as i lost my job looking for online work they contacted me email and phone asked all info said get back said i had the job i recieve checks and money orders and have cash them to do the books for rhode island area ok i thought it was all leget they said one customer wanted tattoo stuff order list was sent order cod sent 3 blank post office money orders i ordered the stufff sent out no problem i recieve my check money order same thing blank said make out to whoever or yourself cash i went to post office as i read online they cash them cool im like great its an online money company u see on tv they held thje money order and the envelope it was sent in he is calling me and emailing me saying fbi is coming as i had the other one held by the post office withe the envelope was sent in i mean theses ppl are good theese money orders had the faces inside the strips water marks it looked real as can be im no pro but it took the supervisor a while to see it i mean he is calling and emailing me saying the fbi is coming as on this money order thats post office took he wanted 400 and 450 was for my work help pay rent now still no job and this is crazy i mean i sent them 2,500 to start cash they wanted sent to enrole i gave my rent money and stuff as they said i make 3,000 to 8,000 a week if im willing to workm hard and i was so no im so screwed any one got ideas i told him try trick them i got there info telling them io send the cash lol so i told him call post office they needed his info to relese the money lol i hope there is a reward there should be on this ring if they ar ripping people for hundreds of thousand i mean companys should have an reward now im screwed any ideas or loans that are real lo,l james musk,24 curson street west warwick ,ri,02893 usa i need a job need support my son going back to school now im so broke im loosing everything because of theses people im ready for the rope for real i cant take one worse thing after another im so just cant explain this feeling i will never take a check again only cash sent from now on or a personal check cashiers check i no will probally be good maybe im so depressed all this money time effort buying equipment ready to start this im in idiot and i should seen it but i blame tv as they have all these idiots saying computer home based buisness doing nonthing and you see this and think i dont no if use see my paper in the obituaries you no why life keeps going down hill and everyone is scam artist and this world is just to evil to live like this i mean cant get job at a gas station mcdonalds anywere its crazy its like god is calling sorry to say theses ppl make people kill themselves taking there dreams and money broke yeah broke is the word never get that break i guess i hope they get all theese idiots and they fry.myhuvepm

Anonymous said...

Looks like these guys are going as Union Fabrics and Textiles and the guys name is John Daniels or John Richmond. I got the money orders from someone and called Money Gram and found out that the Money orders were already cashed. Then the guy calls me and I told him that I handed everything over to the FBI along with the names of the people involved. Someone needs to nail these guys for preying on innocent people. I was contacted because I am looking for a job and am currently unemployed and need to pay bills.

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Anonymous said...

I received a job offer from Warwick Fabrics. They never asked for any personal information and I didn't give any except my name, address, phone number, and email. They said I'd be working from home mailing things to clients at no cost to me. That was 2 months ago. Never heard anything else back. I got checks in the mail from them a week ago. I took them to the bank and asked if they were legit and they said they were and the funds were in the account and they cashed them.

Spotter said...

The checks are invariably forgeries. Expect them to bounce at a later date.