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.

Monday, May 26, 2008

ROBERTS AND SONS TEXTILES INDUSTRY LTD

A search on one of the associated phone numbers shows that this particular scam has been advertised under many different names, but all seem to end in "Textiles Industry Ltd". The "Textiles" cover story is inordinately popular with these scammers: do a search in my archives for that term, and see what I mean. It appears that this particular scam is targeting the USA, and the scam in question involves banking forged checks and forwarding money via Western Union or Money Gram.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: SEAN ROBERTS <sean.roberts88@gmail.com>
Date: 2008/5/24 UTC
Subject: YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS
To: [7 addresses redacted] ideceive@gmail.com, [2 addresses redacted]


ROBERTS AND SONS TEXTILES INDUSTRY LTD
10 Newport avenue, Scoff ford Area, Oxford,
L349HA, 44(0)871-720-1958,44(0)7024067042

 PART-TIME JOB OPPORTUNITY

My Name is Sean Roberts, I am a Texan Working in London, I want to know if You would like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job? Actually i need a representative who can be working for our company as online book-keeper. We make lots of supplies to some of our clients in the states for which i do come to the states to receive payment and have it cashed after i supply them raw materials.

Its always too expensive and stressful for me to come to the states and receive such payment twice in a month so i therefore decided to contact you. I am willing to pay you 10% for every payment received by you from our clients who makes payment through you.
 Please note you don't have to be a book keeper to apply for the job. Kindly
Get back to me as soon as possible if you are interested in this
Job offer with your

FIRST NAME......
LAST NAME.
ADDRESS.......
CITY.......
STATE....
ZIP CODE..
COUNTRY....
PHONE NUMBER (S).
GENDER......
AGE......
MARITAL STATUS...

ATTESTATION
According to how you have been briefed earlier by a qualified representative of this establishment. You are required and mandated to receive payment on behalf of the above mentioned firm. You are to deduct10% of all funds processed on a particular order and forward the balance payment via Western Union Money Transfer and MONEY GRAM
to any of "MILAND PHILIP " Group regional warehouses that will be
given to you later.

You will notify the company a week ahead if eventually you want to discontinue this job so as to terminate all payment coming your way to avoid conflict.
PLS SEND REPLY ASAP TO (sean.roberts 88@gmail.com)

Thanks God Bless
Roberts....

Posted by Spotter at 01:33

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