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 12, 2009

BellHouse Fabrics & Interiors

I've been slack on the scam-reporting front of late, so this one is over a month old now. I don't have a lot to say about it: it's a money mule scam of some sort. The theme of "fabrics company" is surprisingly popular with scammers: just search this blog for "fabrics" and see.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rev Richard Cooper. <[redacted (unverifiable)]>
Reply-to: rev.richardcooperonlinejob@gmail.com
Date: 2009/7/4
Subject: JOB ONLINE ASAP.
To:


BellHouse Fabrics & Interiors-
Cranbrook,Kent. UK - TN17 3DN


My name is Rev Richard Cooper, I am emailing you on behalf of BellHouse Fabrics & Interiors, United Kingdom. I would like to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job or even affecting your day-to-day activities of any kind, actually we need a representative who can work for our company as an Online Payment Processor.

We are presently making waves in the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland fabric markets, we intend expanding our business towards the United States of America by accepting orders from both individuals and companies within USA. We recently placed Ad's on online websites for sales of our fabrics and got a very good number of requests for our products,however it is against our company policy to accept International Payments such as : UK Bank Wire Transfer , USA Bank Wire Transfers. Therefore, we are requesting your partnership to assist in receiving payments on behalf of our company.

We are willing to pay you 10% for every payment processed through you from our clients/customers who will pay for their products which are purchased from our secure website stated above. These payments are coming from these clients within USA and will be sent to you directly from our customers, all you have to do is lodge and cash each payment, deduct 10% and forward 90% to our Payment Processing Center via Western Union Money Transfer / MoneyGram Money Transfer. All sending fee's are to be deducted from our 90%, however you will be required to have a valid checking account in which our customers might request to make payment either via Wire Transfer (Bank to Bank Transfer) or either via Certified Check.

You do not require any special skills to work with our firm, however in order to apply for this job you need to ensure you have access to your e-mail regularly and reply to our e-mails promptly. You will also need to provide us with a valid phone in which you can be reached at anytime in case of any special update, in order to accept this job kindly fill the form stated below :

Please if you are interested forward to us your following details:

1. Full Names: ................
2. Contact address: ...........
3. Telephone/mobile and fax number...
4. Gender......
5. Age.......
6. Occupation: .......
7. Bank Name.......

E-Mail: rev.richardcooperonlinejob@gmail.com

P.S: You must have a valid checking account in which can be used to receive payments being sent from a customer, this might be via Wire Transfer or Direct Deposit.

Kindly get back to me ASAP by filling the form stated above, once i hear from you i will immediately send you a reply with further information.

Regards,

Rev Richard Cooper.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've just received this one.
Here's a tip curse them that they will die of aids. Sometimes you even get a reply. Means it hurts! Lol

tess said...

I've just received this one. They must think we are all gulible! No-one get "owt" for "nowt". There are no "fairy godmothers" out there.

Anonymous said...

I received the same scam, this time not Richard Cooper, but Derek Park. When will these people bow down to God????

Anonymous said...

I have also received one from a Derek Park!

I typed the name of the company on google to see if anything would come up, adn this is how I got to this blogsite.

I think it's VERY IMPORTANT to denounce these kind of emails, congratulations on this blogsite, we must spread the word....

Anonymous said...

I have an email from Derek Park, offering me a job. I have forwarded it the company concerned @ sales@bellhousefabrics.co.uk

aaron said...

just got this mail today.....


Global Fabrics International, Inc. (Head Office)
Phone Number:
Fax Number: 567-202-4777
Usa Mailing Address:
3000 Old Alabama Road
Suite 119-350
Alpharetta, Georgia 30022.
www.globalfabricsintl.com



UK Mailing Address:
Global Fabrics International Limited
69-73 Ridley Road, Dalston,
London, E8 2NP, United Kingdom.
Tel. UK Phone: +447035908142
24hrs operator service


My name is Richard Williams, I am emailing you on behalf of Global Fabrics International Limited, United Kingdom. I would like to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job or even affecting your day-to-day activities of any kind, actually we need a representative who can work for our company as an Online Payment Processor.


We are presently making waves in the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland fabric markets, we intend expanding our business towards the United States of America by accepting orders from both individuals and companies within USA. We recently placed Ad's on online websites for sales of our fabrics
and got a very good number of requests for our products,however it is against our company policy to accept International Payments such as : USA Certified Checks, USA Bank Wire Transfers, USA Money Orders. Therefore, we are requesting your partnership to assist in receiving payments on behalf
of our company.


We are willing to pay you 10% for every payment processed through you from our clients/customers who will pay for their products which are purchased from our secure website stated above. These payments are coming from these clients within USA and will be sent to you directly from our customers,
all you have to do is lodge and cash each payment, deduct 10% and forward 90% to our Payment Processing Center via Western Union Money Transfer/MoneyGram Money Transfer. All sending fee's are to be deducted from our 90%, however you will be required to have a valid checking account in which our customers might request to make payment either via Wire Transfer(Bank to Bank Transfer) or either via Certified Check.


You do not require any special skills to work with our firm, however in order to apply for this job you need to ensure you have access to your e-mail regularly and reply to our e-mails promptly. You will also need to provide us with a valid phone in which you can be reached at anytime in
case of any special update, in order to accept this job kindly fill the form stated below :


Full Name :
Address :
City :
State :
Country :
Zip Code :
Phone Number :
Age :
Current Occupation :
Bank Name:


P.S: You must have a valid checking account in which can be used to receive payments being sent from a customer, this might be via Wire Transfer or Direct Deposit.


Kindly get back to me ASAP by filling the form stated above, once i hear from you i will immediately send you a reply with further information.


Regards,


Richard Williams

http://www.globalfabricsintl.com
Email: globalfabricsinternaional@gala.net

Anonymous said...

Just received this:

My name is Michael Bulfield, I am emailing you on behalf of BellHouse Fabrics & Interiors, United Kingdom. I would like to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job or even affecting your day-to-day activities of any kind, actually we need a representative who can

work for our company as an Online Payment Processor.

in order to accept this job kindly fill the form stated below :

Full Name :
Address :
City :
State :
Country :
Postal Code :
Phone Number :
Age :
Current Occupation :

Kindly get back to me ASAP by filling the form stated above, once i hear from you i will immediately send you a reply with further information.

Regards,

Michael Bulfield

Anonymous said...

I've just received this scam today and given him false information.