Basic money mule job with an arbitrary company name and a Gmail contact address. Job involves forwarding stolen money via Western Union or similar.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: [redacted (false)]
Date: 11 Jan 2008 XX:XX UTC
Subject: New job
To: [redacted (privacy)]
Welcome to the WPP Group!
We are very glad that you wish to join our team, will be delighted to have you work with us
The position of "Representative" provides support filling the transactions of our customers.
We deal exclusively with private clients,- that have special requirements for high speed of receiving funds for their business .
This way we can offer a new kind of financial and banking service to our clients - and we
would like you to work as an "Representative".(part-time job 2-3 hours a day except holidays)
At first your work would be very basic, yet meticulous -you will make transfers for our clients to suit their needs. Our managers will assist you during the trial period and explain everything you will need to know.
We offer an extremely competitive graduated salary: for the first month you will receive up to $2500 for your work the next month your salary will be increased if you do your work accurately and on time.
Now you are only one step away from successful career.
All you need is to send an e-mail to: wppfinance5@gmail.com
with phone numbers and times to reach you, and one of our representatives will contact you and answer all your questions.
Thank you in advance,
Alice Mitchell
HR Manager
WPP Finance
Saturday, January 12, 2008
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18 comments:
Thankyou. I appreciate your site. I received the same email
I was thinking it was kind of fishy, so glad I googled this company. :)
Thanks
Thank you. This is a very useful site. Keep up the good work. I received 2 of these offers. Am I on more than one mailing list? How do I get off these lists? What do the authorities do about these illegal activities? I get average 2-4 of these dodgey offers a week.
thankyou. glad I googled this..getting pretty sick of all these weird emails
I too received this exact email therefore googled the company and came across this website. Well done and keep up the goodwork.
thanks guys got exact email decided to search info on group couldnt find anything under yahoo search but found this under google definately will not be doing this job. keep up the great work again thank you without this site i would of ended up being another sucker
Hey there! Thanks for your site... I have been looking for employment on the job network sites and when I received this email(WPP Finance), I thought I had a legitamit job offer. So when I googled the WPP site and found your blog, I had to read it. So thank you for putting my faith back into human society and realising that there are good people out there. Not just scum bags trying to rip other people off. Your a legend !!!!!!;)
Thanks for saving me valuable time that would have been wasted with these losers.
I'm glad I'n not a sucker - thank you for a great site.
Cheers
JT
Does any one Know how to stop these bastards?
I was working for WPP for 3 months doing a few hours a night before i "googled" theyre website. made $10,000 and got out of there. Thankgod I didnt get caught with any money laundering or anything. Thanks for the heads up
same here. got the same email so i googled WPP. good thing your site showed up in the search results. im just curious though, how'd you find out that they were all about money laundering?
I've been tracking this kind of fraud for years. When you see these things on such a regular basis, recognising them becomes pretty easy.
Get this email about once a week and I work for a big bank. Hope they all get caught
This scam is ongoing. I've seen several additional contact addresses in use, all gmail.com addresses starting with "wpp".
Well done with the site, keep up the good work in helping to protect the unware of us.
Cheers
Thanks for the website and the help to avoid scum. Good job, man.
Greetings from Italy :)
Thank you very much for these explainations.
Very useful website.
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Egi
Thank you !!!glad I found this before it was too late- I thought it was a bit weird but when I got a call yesterday - (because I stupidly put my home line as a contact).. I decided to research more! Thank goodeness I did. I am seeking employment and have a young family so was tempted by the hours and such !! what an ass!!
Thanks for saving me from making a huge mistake.
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