Sydney Oil LLC

I have received a couple of notices in the last few days about a scam operating under the name of Sydney Oil LLC. This is a check/money order fraud scam targeting victims in North America: the scammers send forged checks/money orders to their victim employees, and the employees are asked to send back cash via Western Union. When the fraudulent nature of the checks/money orders is discovered, the bank or other institution which cashed them will take its money back, leaving the victim out of pocket as the victim of fraud.

The scammers do not represent any company: the name "Sydney Oil" is just one of many random names that these scammers have used over time. At the time of writing, the domain name "sydneyoil.com" is hosted by Google Apps. It has been registered for a surprisingly long time, although still less than one year. It's possible that these scammers plan their future scam names well in advance to make them look less suspicious.

   Domain Name: SYDNEYOIL.COM
   Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
   Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
   Name Server: NS57.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
   Name Server: NS58.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
   Updated Date: 28-aug-2008
   Creation Date: 28-aug-2008
   Expiration Date: 28-aug-2009

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009
Subject: HAND BOOK 1.0
From: adminstaff@sydneyoil.com
To: adminstaff@sydneyoil.com

HAND BOOK 1.0

This simple guide was put together to help you learn the ropes and is subject to the application of intuition in the real job environment.

The nature of your job and job description is simple. And below are five guidelines that should lead you to accomplish your first transaction and subsequent transactions.

5 STEPS

1. Track and Receive Customer Payments

2. Deposit or Cash Payments

3. Deduct Percentage Salary

4. Send Companies Balance

5. Log Book

STEP 1 - Track and Receive Customer Payments

After orders are sealed on our end, payments will be sent out to you via Courier service. Mostly FedEx or UPS. Tracking numbers to these payments will be emailed to you.

Kindly visit the site www.ups.com or www.fedex.com input the tracking issued to you and you will be able to see the status of the package in transit to you.

This is so you are aware of the delivery time and you make yourself or someone available to
receive the payments from the courier service.


STEP 2 - Deposit or Cash Payments

once payments are in your possession kindly go to your bank and have the payments (MONEY ORDERS) deposited for 24hrs . If you can get cash immediately better, then proceed with step 3.

(Kindly have in mind that the sooner you complete a transaction, the sooner another payment is sent to you. You will not receive another transaction until a pending transaction is completed.)

Time is of essence, so I suggest all transactions are completed within a space of 48hrs.


STEP 3 - Deduct Percentage Salary

kindly deduct 8% from the cash at hand.

The efficiency and Speed you use in handling your fir st transaction will go a long way in determining the size of the next amount you will receive, this way you hold your promotion to handling larger payments in your own hands.


STEP 4 - Send Companies Balance

An email will be sent to you detailing appointed delegates to receive the companies balance. Kindly locate
a western union agent office close to you and have the monies sent to the delegates from there.

Once payments are sent off, kindly email the sending details back to me which will include the following;

MTCN (Money Transfer Control Number)
Test Question and Answer
Total Amount sent.

Be careful to avoid typographical errors when sending payment details from Western Union and emailing
details back to me.

NOTE: Western Union Charges are to be deducted from the company's remaining balance and not from your percentage pay.

To find Western Union Agent location please dial 1-800-325-6000 and follow the voice prompts.

STEP 5 - Log Book

Once you have completed all four steps above, go to your Log Book and enter the following;

Name of Re miter on Check
Amount of payment Received
Date Received
Date you sent Western Union
How much Sent
To which delegate you sent payment via Western Union

The log book can also be a Note Pad on your PC.

This marks the full completion of your transaction.


If you have questions on any of these 5 steps, kindly contact me via email and i will reach you
as soon as possible.

You are required to reply this email with a ''YES'' as subject to indicate your continued interest in the job offer.

Please also confirm your Full Name and Address (including city and state).

Thank you once again,

Rob Cole.
Sydney Oil LLC