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.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

S&A International Ltd

This scammer is a little confused about which identity he's impersonating: he points to the website of a UK fabrics company, but signs off as "S&A International". The Yahoo! email address seems to be the only real point of contact. Other than that, this is a money mule job which makes it fairly clear that the job involves cashing fraudulent cheques or money orders.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: TiTi Salaw <titisalaton@yahoo.com>
Date: 08-Mar-2007 21:22
Subject: Job offer
To: [address redacted]
Cc: [14 addresses redacted]

Hi,
   
 Please can I have ur attention for a moment?Would you like to work  online from home/temporarily and get paid weekly?well as i just come across your name and address posted online and I would be very interested in offering you a part-time paying job in which you could earn alot. This job would be based on contract and commission terms, it is a part-time job and it would involve quite a handful of trust and honesty. If you would be interested in including a good-paying,part time job to your daily list of activities,I would be glad to brief you more.before I go further I thought I'dinform you of both who you would be working for and what you would be doing.As I have previously informed you,well we are into Manufactures
of   Fabrics and Textiles with numerous customers home and abroad and here is our site
http://www.fabricuk.com. We produce various clothing materials,batiks,assorted fabrics and traditional costume. We need a representative in the UK who will be incharge of all our payment from the United Kingdom clients/customers  because most of our customer from any part of the country pay us throug hUnited kingdom cheques which are not negotiable here in UK. This brings  our quest to employ a credible and trusthworthy fellow as our representative to handle our payments. This would not affect your  present job but serve as another stream of income to your goodself. 
 
 Being our representative and assisting us in processing the payments  from our clients, we will pay you weekly salary and shall earn about 10% of every payment .Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and   help us with the payment process.You are not involved in any sales. Our sales manager sells products. Once he makes a sale we deliver the  product to a customer (usually through FEDEX).The customer receives and  cheques
the products.
 
After this has been done, the customer has to pay  for the products.About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay  through  UK  cheques  based on the amount involved.We have decided to open this new  job position for solving this problem.Your tasks are;

1. Recieve payment from Customers
 
2. Cash it at any cashing point or at your banks and  you will deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processe
3. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of   thoffices you will be contacted to send payment to.(Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer. Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost immediately.  We understand it is an unusual and  incredible job position. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free time doing another job, you'll get good income and regular job. But this job is very hallenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest assistant. We are glad to offer this job position to you. If you feel that you are serious about this and earnest worker,All we will need is your
 
FULL NAME;
  ADDRESS;
  COUNTRY:
  PHONE/CELL PHONE NUMBER;
  NATIONALITY;
  Zip Code:
  GENDER;Male
  AGE so we can forward it to our clients and they willstart making payments to you as the company's representative in the states and i would be glad if i can hear from you with all the information i ask for. 
 
 Regards,
S&A International Ltd


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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

DPA Group

Theis pretends to come from monster.com, but has a reply address at careerbuilder.com. It comes from neither: the source IP is 72.22.92.37, which is just a web-hosting address. Other than that, it's a typical money mule scam.

   Domain Name: DPA-GROUP.COM <-- scam
   Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.register.com
   Referral URL: http://www.register.com
   Name Server: NS1.KOTINT.COM
   Name Server: NS2.KOTINT.COM
   Updated Date: 05-mar-2007
   Creation Date: 05-mar-2007 <-- new
   Expiration Date: 05-mar-2008

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: no_reply[@]monster.com <no_reply[@]monster.com>
Reply-to:
no_reply[@]careerbuilder.com
Date: 07-Mar-2007 01:17
Subject: monster.com : You have been invited to a Job!
To: ideceive@gmail.com

DPA-Group. invite residents of the various countries to cooperation.

Our clients need to accept payments from the various countries. Therefore we creating a network of regional agents which functions are reception of money and further transferring money to accounts of our company. We give you 8 % from the sum of translation. We guarantee worthy payment of your work.

If you want to earn from $200 to $800 per week and work Only 2-3 hours then this job for you !

This job requires punctuality, good organizational skills and proficiency with Microsoft windows and office programs to maintain inventory and fill nessesary forms:   http://www.dpa-group.com/job/



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. Bank or PayPal account to receive payments

7. Be responsible, hard working and communicable

We offer competitive compensation, including commission and expense reimbursement.

If you would like to get more information about this position and join our team please fill in the online application form:  http://www.dpa-group.com/job/jobs.htm



Thank You

http://www.dpa-group.com/job/

Hubei Machinery & equipment Import & Corporation

Badly named fake company with Yahoo! contact address seeks sucker to act as money mule. Probably involves forged cheques.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: notification1[@]universia.net.mx <notification1[@]universia.net.mx>
Date: 06-Mar-2007 14:39
Subject: COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED IN YOUR COUNTRY
To: undisclosed-recipients



Dear Sir/Madam,
I am  Mr.pn lee fouh, managing Hubei Machinery & equipment Import &
Corporation (CMEC HUBEI CO.) we are a company who deal on mechanical
equipment,hardware and minerals, electrical products, Medical &
Chemicals,light industrial products and office equipment, and export
into the Canada/America and Europe.

We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium
of getting to our costumers in the Canada/America and Europe as well as
making payments through you to us.Please if you are interested in
transacting
business with us we will be glad. Please contact us for more
information,Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the
opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your
services as our
representative in Canada/America and Europe.

Note that at no point or time will we ask you to spend any of your
personal money. Please if you are interested forward to us your phone
number/fax,occupation, your full contact addresses and age to
leefouh2007@yahoo.com

Thank in advance.

Mr.PON LEE FOUH

Managing Director

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

GINA FABRICS AND TEXTILES INDUSTRY LTD

This message was sent via bellsouth.net, so the "from" address isn't considered forged in this case. The scammer wants replies sent elsewhere, however. The domain name " ginatextile.com" has not been registered at this time, so I assume the name is completely made up. So is the location, actually: there's an awful lot of scamming going on in the "Scoffford Area", and not much else.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: GINA RAYE <admin_notice107@bellsouth.net>
Reply-to:
ginaltd0108@yahoo.com.sg
Date: 03-Mar-2007 01:58
Subject: COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED
To: info[@]ginatextile.com

GINA FABRICS AND TEXTILES INDUSTRY LTD
10 Newport ave, Scoffford Area, Oxford, L349HA, +44 701 114 0249
Private email  _  gina_textilebiz@yahoo.com.sg


REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED FOR IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT

The above named company based in the United Kingdom
need Representatives world wide. As our Representative
in your country, you will receive payments from our
customers and also establish a medium of contacting our
customers in your country. Please if you are interested,
forward all required information below to our Enlisting officer.

1. Your Name:  2. Mailing Address:  3. Zip Code:  4. Phone Number:
5. Country:  6. Age:  7. E-mail address:
The above information should be forwarded to our Enlisting officer

Mr Michael Brown
Tel: +44 703 590 0049
Email:  gina_textilebiz@yahoo.com.sg

Regards
GINA RAYE,ceo
For:Gina Fabrics And Textile company.

Omni Royal Hotel Canada

Yet another "Canada Hotel" scam. The sender is not associated with Canada at all, let alone a Canadian hotel. He's actually in Africa: the originating IP address is 212.60.73.25 (Gambia Telecommunications company). When I've responded to such scams, the first thing they've wanted out of me is a scan of my passport. If you're silly enough to give them that, then they'll probably start asking you for various fees. I've never bothered faking a passport in order to see what they do next, but if you're the kind of person who likes to bait Nigerian scammers, then please do tell.

Images have been removed from this spam.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: canada hotel <royalomni@walla.com >
Date: 03-Mar-2007 23:03
Subject: WORK AND LIVE IN CANADA
To: [redacted]


         OMNI ROYAL HOTEL CANADA.
The management of Ominicity Hotel In Montreal, Canada wish to use this medium to adverise that we have Job Vacany in our Hotel . Due Ato the expansion in our services and the opening of new outlets the hotel needs both men and females workers to fill in different categories of job openings.Currently , Canada is Exprience a decline in Labour force as such we seek Serious minded and honest prospective applicants should apply .Hotel shall be responsible for Air Ticket and also excercise in your visa processing.


 
   
Regards,
Mrs Rose
Hotel Manager.