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.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

A&E Textiles

Search this blog for "textiles", and you'll notice that it's a popular theme with scammers. No, I have no idea why -- just one of those things, I guess. As usual, there may be a real company that operates by this name, but the name is purely incidental. The scam is almost certainly check forgery: the scammer wants you to bank forged checks and send most of the money to him. You can draw on a forged check, but the bank can also deduct it back out of your account after you draw on it, so guess who loses money.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: job vacancy <bndunguru@hotmail.com>
Date: 2008/7/30
Subject: IMMEDIATE JOB OFFER IN USA
To: [redacted (privacy)]


Hello,
 
Would you like to work online from home and get paid weekly? A&E Textiles needs a book-keeper in the states, so I want to know if you will like to work online from home and get paid weekly without leaving or affecting your present job.
 
Please if you are interested in this position make sure you get back to me on the private e-mail address below:
mail to:Grahamgreen207@gmail.com
Send me your Full Name,physical address,telephone and fax numbers.
 
Thanks


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2 comments:

Spotter said...

This one had a bit more text in it, so I include it for search purposes.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: job vacancy <bndunguru@hotmail.com> [SPF verified]
Date: 2008/8/2
Subject: IMMEDIATE JOB OFFER IN USA
To: [redacted]


Hello,

Would you like to work online from home and get paid weekly? A&E Textiles needs a book-keeper in the states, so I want to know if you will like to work online from home and get paid weekly without leaving or affecting your present job.working for us.A&E Textiles(INC) is an Online Distributing Company who has needs to recruit more Book keepers due to its growing investments in the United States .
I'm willing to bring you on board and if you really want this job. All we need is a trustable person.About experience you dont need much, but i'd like to know how much job experience you have.Though you'll only need a ledger book, ruled to reflect all the payments in the form of check,money order and western union transfer which will sent to you from our clients. You'll only need to clear them at your bank before sending the payments to some of our manufacturers here in the States and all other regions to be disclosed to you later Your commission will be on 10% of each payment processed which is subject to an upward review if your performance is good.
You will still need to fill a signed form and send back to me to show your committment to this job but i need to know what you think.

Please if you are interested in this position make sure you get back to me on the private e-mail address below:
mail to:Grahamgreen207@gmail.com
Send me your Full Name,physical address,telephone and fax numbers.

Thanks

Spotter said...

"Graham Green" likes the number 207 more than his nom de plume. In the most recent instance of this spam, his contact address has changed to "GORGE207@GMAIL.COM".