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, August 06, 2008

How many emails can you process a day? (snake oil)

I've been getting this crap quite regularly of late. I'm not exactly sure what the details are, other than the following.

1. Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and more spam.
2. Dishonest headers, and thus illegal even under the USA's notoriously lenient CAN-SPAM act.
3. The large print makes guarantees of easy wealth which are all subsequently nullified by the small print on the disclaimers page.
4. They want money up front. It's not a job: they're selling snake oil using spam and lies.

There are hundreds of variations on this crap out there; this just happens to be the most recent one I've seen. The domain name is "JobProcessors.info", which was registered on 29-Jul-2008 12:02:04 UTC (i.e. about a week ago) to someone using the email address "makesureprofits@gmail.com".

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: [redacted (address does not exist)]
Date: 2008/8/6 UTC
Subject: I can process 20 emails per day, Then I earn $500 Every Day! What about you?
To:


 
 
 
Hello Friends,
 
 
How many emails can you process a day?
If you can process 30 a day you'll
 
earn $750.00 everyday straight in your Paypal Account!
You Are Guarant'eed to be Paid Instantly for Each Email You Process!
This is an easy,profitable opp0rtunity to earn $1000's every week.
 
START YOUR EMAIL PROCESSING TODAY
 
 
SPECIAL PROMO: 50% DISCOUNT ON THE FIRST 50 SUBSCRIBER
CLICK ON THE PROMO CODE TO AVAIL: "( 50LESS )"
 
 
Your Earnings Are Un'limited
You can Make $150.00 in two hours easily.
 
The more time you invest, the more time you will have for email processing,
and the more money you can make while working in the privacy of your own home.
 
YOUR INSTANT ACCESS TO THE 50% PRICE
 
 
 
Regards,
Anne Black
 
 
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is your new Link to this scam:

http://ultraprocessstandard. 110mb.com/lene.htm