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.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Hartford Small Business Limited

Due to some sort of stuff-up on the spammer's part, the text of this scam appears twice in the same email. It's a money mule scam: they don't specify whether the incoming money arrives via forged cheque or fraudulent direct transfer.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hartford Small Business Limited <micdu190@yahoo.com>
Subject: WORK AT HOMEWORK AT HOME
To: ideceive@gmail.com

WORK AT HOME


Pleasant day,


If you have access to a computer, you can get paid.Would you like to work online from home, temporarily and get paid weekly?

If yes. We are glad to offer you a job position in our company, Hartford Small Business Limited As part of our Multi Level Marketing Network, we seek capable individuals to work for us as our representative.You can easily make 300 pounds- 1,000 pounds a week or more just by collecting payment on behalf of Hartford Small Business Limited.

Sound like your dream job? Well, it certainly is for 10,000+ current members who are making 300 pounds- 1,000 pounds weekly online with this system.


* No form of investments from you.

* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day.

Our Company manufactures and sells textile and fabrics, we have seller all over


Your tasks are:
======================================

1. Receive payment from Customers.

2. Deduct 10% which will be your Commission/pay on Payment processed and remit our balance to us either via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram



Note: This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. This job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the Honest and Open - Hearted Individual who satisfies our requirements and glad to offer this job position to you.To get Started, please provide with the following details to my personal E-mail Box: - ( micdu190@yahoo.co.uk) in order for us to reach you:-

Full Names:
Full Contact Address:
Age:
City:
Zip Code:
State:
Home Phone:
Cell Phone:
Gender:WORK AT HOME


Pleasant day,


If you have access to a computer, you can get paid.Would you like to work online from home, temporarily and get paid weekly?

If yes. We are glad to offer you a job position in our company, Hartford Small Business Limited As part of our Multi Level Marketing Network, we seek capable individuals to work for us as our representative.You can easily make 300 pounds- 1,000 pounds a week or more just by collecting payment on behalf of Hartford Small Business Limited.

Sound like your dream job? Well, it certainly is for 10,000+ current members who are making 300 pounds- 1,000 pounds weekly online with this system.


* No form of investments from you.

* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day.

Our Company manufactures and sells textile and fabrics, we have seller all over


Your tasks are:
======================================

1. Receive payment from Customers.

2. Deduct 10% which will be your Commission/pay on Payment processed and remit our balance to us either via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram



Note: This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. This job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the Honest and Open - Hearted Individual who satisfies our requirements and glad to offer this job position to you.To get Started, please provide with the following details to my personal E-mail Box: - ( micdu190@yahoo.co.uk) in order for us to reach you:-

Full Names:
Full Contact Address:
Age:
City:
Zip Code:
State:
Home Phone:
Cell Phone:
Gender:
Marital Status:

Thank for your Co-operation
Anthony Simpson
Hartford Small Business Limited
Marital Status:

Thank for your Co-operation
Anthony Simpson
Hartford Small Business Limited



Thursday, November 08, 2007

Indigo Global Consulting Services

"Financial Manager" = "Money Mule". Apparently this identity has been around since 20-Sep-2007 13:00:13 UTC (time at which "indigo-consulting.org" was registered), but this is the first I've seen of it. The job can be summarised as "aiding fraud and theft", or "money laundering".

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 8 Nov 2007
Subject: Indigo GCS  - New opportunities

 

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Indigo Global Consulting Servińes is one of leading suppliers of consulting services in the world. Our success depends not only on high quality of our services, but also on expertly managed and reliable business processes.

It explains the reason why we attach tremendous value to quality. However, the only way to achieve high quality in our business is continuous struggle for it and building up of reliable procedures for quality assurance.

In order to achieve high quality, we need employees who are interested in provision of qualitative processes and projects in their routine work. At the moment vacancy of Financial manager is open for unlimited time period.

Job responsibilities of Financial Manager include processing of remittances entering his account from clients of the company. After appropriate procedures of transaction documents execution he is to transfer money to accounts advised by our dispatchers. All you need is spare time (about 3-4 hours a day), wish and will for teamwork, responsibility. At the initial stage your wage will amount to 5% of total turnover per a month.

Requirements to candidates:
  • Higher education
  • Age: from 18 years
  • Confident PC user (SW package Office), mail programs, Internet
We offer:
  • Worthy salary
  • Social security and medical insurance
  • Free training
If you are interested in this vacancy you may e-mail your resume to the address job@indigo-consulting.org .

Indigo Global Consulting Services. 2007 Š All right reserved.



 

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Logistic Solutions Co. (logistic-solutions.us)

This spam was posted as a comment under my entry on Preston Logistics, It appears to be a money mule scam, but I'm not sure if the same party is responsible for it. The domain " logistic-solutions.us" was registered Tue Aug 28 11:25:40 GMT 2007, but their website claims they have been around for several years.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

"My name is Carol Belmonte. I am the manager of the Logistic Solutions Co, which can be found at www.logistic-solutions.us . Recently I've examined your resume on careerbuilder.com. At the moment we need an agent in your state and your resume looks attractive. You have several qualifications and based on your job history you look trustworthy enough for this position. I'd like to proceed to an online interview, and send you a contract to read over and sign. Once returned to me, we can proceed to the interview process.



To provide some information about the position, I'd like to start off with the logistics of the way our business works. Our company participates in transactions with Ebay, Online stores ( Buy.com,Amazon.com etc) and it is a common matter that a buyer and a seller are in different parts of the world and it does not meet with our clients requirements to use international wires, paypal, or other such methods of payment, as they are in process from one week up to one month. That is why we would like to hire some employees that can deal with the money transfers between the buyer and the seller.



The job description is as follows:

Your responsibilities will be:

- Check your e-mail two times a day to verify incoming transactions. This must be done, and you must send us a confirmation e-mail at least twice a day to verify when you checked your mail.
- Once a week, visit your bank to receive money transfers, and resend it to our clients via another transfer system. We prefer you use Western Union.



Your compensation will be:
1. You will receive 5% from each transaction, up to a limit of $1700 per your probationary month.
After your probationary month your salary will be $2500-$3000 depending on the jobs you receive.



2. You can receive 7% from each transaction but it is necessary for you to register an independent company(Limited Liability Company) and to open a corporate account. You can make up to 5000 but the introductory fees are 300 in your state to form a LLC.

Your commissions, which are 5-7% of every transaction and depend on the quantity of completed transactions and the speed of your work. Normally the amounts that we process vary from $5,000 to $35,000, but can go higher on special occasions. For your convenience, there will be no paycheck. Just leave the commission in your bank account directly after each transfer.



Taxation:
According to US laws you are not required to pay taxes on bank transactions. If you wish to file a 1099 for any work given to your LLC, it will be your responsibility.



To apply for the job, visit https://logistic-solutions.us/tmanager/index.php?_m=core&_a=registercarol

If you have any questions , please do not hesitate to email me at CarolB@logistic-solutions.us



Human Resources

1220 Chadsworth Ct

McLean,

VA 22102

(703) 972-9139



Best Regards,
Carol Belmonte

"Universe" Logistics

This is a reshipper scam. It usually works like this: the scammers purchase goods fraudulently, have them shipped to you, have you reship them overseas. When the fraud is discovered, the original seller sends the police to the reshipper's address. The reshipper then has some 'splaining to do. There's a good chance that your wage payments are fraudulent too!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Subject: Vacancies at "Universe" Logistics

"Universe" Logistics Inc. invite residents of the various countries to cooperation. We found your resume on  some Job
Website  because we are searching for reliable professionals or your information has been passed to us by your friends/relatives.
Our clients need to accept goods from the various countries. Therefore we creating a network of regional agents which
functions are reception of goods and further transferring goods to our shipping managers. We pay you 40$ per received
package. We guarantee worthy payment of your work.
This job is for you If you want to earn from $150 to $800 per week and work Only 2-3 hours then!
This job requires punctuality, good organizational skills and proficiency with Microsoft windows and office programs to
maintain inventory and fill forms if nessesary.

This job is ideal for: housewives , students, older persons, people with restrictions. No money needed to start. This is a
business requiring only limited amount of your time.
Requirements:
1. A computer with access to the Internet, e-mail
2. We don't work with persons under 18
3. 1-3 hours free during the week
4. Check your e-mail several times a day (each hour is perfect)
5. Reply to e-mails immediately
6. PayPal account to receive payments (optional, WU is also accepted)
7. Be responsible, hard working and communicable
We offer competitive compensation, including commission and expense reimbursement.

Please send your resume to universe.logistics@gmail.com

Thank You
Jean Hudson

Regional Transportation Manager,
"Universe" Logistics Inc.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Cheap Fabrics Ltd

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I had some scammer claiming to be Cheap Fabrics Company Limited. The scam is the same (conning people into caching forged checks), but is this a different scammer? I conclude that... I don't really care. Nigerian scammers are common as muck, and this one appears to be literally Nigerian: the source IP was 41.219.215.89, which is allocated to Nigeria.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Domnic Walter < walter_cheapfabrics@yahoo.com>
Date: 7 Nov 2007 00:34
Subject: JOB OFFER
To: walter_cheapfabrics@yahoo.com
Cc: [a number of email addresses, including mine]

 
Cheapfabrics of Windsor UK
Thames Court, 1 Victoria Street Windsor,
Berkshire SL4 1Yb

London
United Kingdom

Tel,44-703-1942-625
Fax: 44-703-0403-941
 
OFFER AS A REGIONAL SALES & CASH OFFICER/REPRESENTATIVE
Introduction:
Cheap Fabrics Ltd, is specialized in home textiles import and export.
It was reorganized from Fabrics and Poles Textiles Ltd, into a new joint-stock company.
With an annual export turnover over US$260 million, Cheap Fabrics takes a leading position in its own trade all over Uk and across the globe.
Cheap Fabrics has been awarded the certificate for compliance with the standard ISO9001: 2000.

Job Description:
We need someone who would be helping in receiving payments from our clients in the States.
An agent who is responsible and reliable that will be handling the payment aspect. The
payment will be addressed and sent to you and all you need do is to get it cashed, deduct your percentage and wire the balance back to any of our accountants/lawyers in our regional warehouses. The problem we have is getting someone that is really capable and trustworthy as though we surely have our way of getting anyone that tried to get away with our money. The
FBI will surely be interested and get involved.
This offer is not going to cost you any amount because all you need to do is to receive payments which will be sent to you via delivery courier from our clients, which would come in form of a Draft get it cashed and send the cash to our accountants/lawyers
via MONEYGRAM MONEY TRANSFER OR WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, and required charges for all transfer should be deducted from the money.
 
Requirements:
1. FULL NAMES
2. CONTACT ADDRESS INCLUDING PHONE/FAX NUMBERS,
3. OCCUPATION/POSITION.
4. AGE/SEX OR SEND US YOUR RESUME

Compensation:
10% commission on proceeds made to you on behalf of the company by our customers/clients
via your regional sales office
- Basic salary of 60,000 United States Dollars per annum (Negotiable, i.e., 5,000.00 USD monthly) . and - 4% bonus on total sales of company products quarterly upon sales office establishment at the end of year.

Please Reply me Via my Private
Email:joe_cheapfabrics@Aol.in
I humbly look forward to your soonest responds,


Thanks for your time and anticipation to work with Cheap Fabrics Ltd.

Sincerely Yours, 
Walter Joe

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