"Olpio Solutions" appears to be a completely made-up name, with no hits in Google at the time of composing this report. Based on information from their website, it's clear that this is a cheque ("check" in the USA) fraud scam: they send you forged cheques, and want you to cash them and wire back the cash. Cheques can bounce after you draw on them in most cases, so you'll wind up personally out of pocket quite a large amount for your efforts.
Here is an extract of the WHOIS data for their domain.
Domain Name: OLPIO-SOLUTIONS.COM
Registrar: ACTIVE REGISTRAR, INC.
Whois Server: whois.activeregistrar.com
Referral URL: http://www.activeregistrar.com
Name Server: NS123.MDWEBHOSTING.COM.AU
Name Server: NS124.MDWEBHOSTING.COM.AU
Updated Date: 29-oct-2008
Creation Date: 29-oct-2008
Expiration Date: 29-oct-2009
A little further digging reveals that this scam is an old scam with a cosmetic name-change. An almost identical site is currently operating under the name "Apex Websolutions", and registered only a month and a half ago.
Domain Name: APEX-WEBSOLUTIONS.COM
Registrar: ACTIVE REGISTRAR, INC.
Whois Server: whois.activeregistrar.com
Referral URL: http://www.activeregistrar.com
Name Server: NS56.EUKDNS.COM
Name Server: NS57.EUKDNS.COM
Updated Date: 16-sep-2008
Creation Date: 15-sep-2008
Expiration Date: 15-sep-2009
Oh, wait! There's more. These guys are also known by the following names and domains.
- Rapidweb Solutions (rapidweb-solutions.com, registered 05-aug-2008, currently active)
- Complet Ecommerce INC (complet-ecommerce.com, registered 05-oct-2008, currently active)
- ? (ecommerce-websolutions.com, registered 20-may-2008, now offline)
- ? (designeweb-corp.com, no longer registered)
- Webdesign Corp INC (webdesigns-corp.com, registered 15-sep-2008, now offline)
- Firstclass Solutions INC or Firstclass Services INC (firstclass-ecommerce.com, registered 20-may-2008, now offline)
- Ecomweb Solutions INC (best-solutions.biz, registered 28-jun-2008, now offline; ecomweb-solutions.com, registered 20-nov-2007, now offline)
- Digital Ecommerce INC (digital-ecommerce.com, registered 09-oct-2008, currently active)
- Secure Web Solutions INC or Secure Web Projects INC (secure-webprojects.com, registered 31-mar-2008, now offline)
- ? (proweb-designs.com, registered 05-dec-2007, now offline)
You can't possibly keep up with all these names, can you? Thankfully you don't have to! Just refuse all job offers that involve processing payments, because they're all scams!
From: Martinez A Carlos <carlosm@olpio-solutions.com>
Date: 2008/11/1
Subject: New Job Available for Ideceive@gmail.com : Accounts Payable Manager/Payments Processor
To: ideceive@gmail.com
Dear Applicant,
We have an exciting opportunity with our company for: Accounts Payable Manager/Payments Processor in your area with no need of relocation
Job Snapshot
Compensation: $85,000 - $95,000 per year
Employee Type: Full-Time Employee
Manages Others: Yes
Job Type:
Accounting
Finance
Admin - Clerical
Customer Service
Desired Education Level: High School
Experience: N/A
Required Travel: NO
Relocation: NO
Requirements
Must have Microsoft Office Intermediate experience, checking emails 3 times/day.
For more details please visit our website and see the job description:
(Click on the link above to get to our webpage and read all our terms and conditions for the job)
Please read them carefully and reply to this email if you agree and comply with them with the information required. Even if you do not agree with them please let us know so we can keep looking for someone who can help us!
Thank you!
Carlos A Martinez
General Manager
Olpio Solutions INC
This email has been sent on behalf of Olpio Solutions INC to Ideceive@gmail.com
2 comments:
omg! thanks for the heads up i just got the e-mail today and cut and pasted the company name on a google search... you came up.. great web site... thank you so much...Nick in Omaha
Yeah I got this email and I knew it looked to good to be true. To get paid $85,000 a year just to cash checks and send money around? Not possible.
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