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 29, 2009

CAREER OPPORTUNITY IN 2010 WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA

This email was sent from South Africa [165.146.86.191] via a mail server in Italy [88.42.95.42]. There is no evidence that the sender is actually associated with project2010.co.za in any way, however. It looks like a set-up for Advance Fee Fraud: applicants are likely to be offered a job (one that doesn't really exist), but be required to pay certain fees for work visas and the like. This is just a con to extract money from the job seekers.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: PROJECT 2010 RECRUITMENT CO <project2010@mail.co.za>
Reply-To: <project2010@mail.co.za>
Date: 2009/7/29
Subject: CAREER OPPORTUNITY IN 2010 WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA
To:


CAREER OPPORTUNITY IN 2010 WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA
http://www.project2010.co.za/

2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, An international tournament for Football,
that is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa.
It will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African Nation.


PROJECT 2010 RECRUITMENT COMPANY intends to Invite Experienced and
Reputable Persons having prime experience and capable of providing building and ground
maintenance support services as individuals.

We are currently Recruiting for Medical Personnel, Contractors, Construction
Workers,Electricians,Shipping Management, Technicians, Welders, Quantity Surveyors,
Estimators, Project Managers, Commercial/ Cost Managers, Contract Managers & Computer
Programmers ,Translators and Security Personel to work on the most prestigious engineering project currently
being undertaken in Africa.

All CV Should be forwarded to the Recruitment's email contact as follows

E-mail: info.project2010@webmail.co.za

ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE WILLING TO WORK ON CONTRACT BASIS ONLY


PROJECT 2010 RECRUITMENT COMPANY,
1st Floor,Suite 452, JanSmuts Building,
219 Blaauwberg Road, Tableview,
Cape Town,9000
South Africa


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