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 15, 2007

TELE-TRANSFER COMPANY

This looks like a typical money mule job, but the modus operandi is a little different than usual. The scammers have registered their own domain and have their own website, but the URL uses a redirect through a third party website. I don't know whether the third party website was compromised to enable this, but it's a distinct possibility.

   Domain Name: TELE-TRANSFER.COM <-- scam
   Registrar: ESTDOMAINS, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.estdomains.com
   Referral URL: http://www.estdomains.com
   Name Server: NS1.XP-HOSTING.COM
   Name Server: NS2.XP-HOSTING.COM
   Updated Date: 08-mar-2007
   Creation Date: 08-mar-2007 <-- new
   Expiration Date: 08-mar-2008

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tele-Transfer Company <idemers[@]stmary.k12.la.us>
Date: 15-Mar-2007 09:19
Subject: COMPANY TELE-TRANSFER
To: [redacted]

TELE-TRANSFER COMPANY

 

 

 

Work from home , real job, up to 7000$ per month

 

 

 

 

WHO DO WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for financial and marketing agents who are responsible for financial management and internet marketing for our Tele-Transfer Company inc. business. Agent duties also include receiving money proceeds from Tele-Transfer inc. orders and its further transfer to our international accounting department for distribution to our customers.

 

 

 

An applicant must:

 

- be capable to work;

- be older than 18;

- be capable working with deposit account receivables and payments to/from customers and our financial office;

- be able to spend not less than 2 hours per day to do this work;

- have knowledge to use PC, have an access to PC and Internet during the day.

 

 

Send Your resume to mail: techsupmanage@2d.com

 

Sincerely  " TELE-TRANSFER COMPANY"

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

LEE YANG INDUSTRIES .CO.LTD (not)

Random scammer with nothing more than a Yahoo! contact address claims to represent company; seeks sucker to act as money mule.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mr. Lee Yang <contactleeyang_cn@yahoo.com.cn>
Date: 14-Mar-2007 00:22
Subject: WORK WITH US (LEE YANG INDUSTRIES .CO.LTD )
To: ideceive@gmail.com

FROM
LEE YANG INDUSTRIES.CO.LTD.
Zhejiang,
China.

Dear Sir/Madam,
     I am Mr.Lee Yang,CEO.LEE YANG INDUSTRIES.CO.LTD.
We export raw materials, such as Calcite,Barytes, Manganese Dioxide ,Dolomite, Mica , China Clay, MangneseDioxide,Ferrous(Iron ) Oxide,Paints,Rubber, Plastics, Construction chemicals and we export from Asia into Europe,America and Australia.

We require competent representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in the Usa, Canada and Europe as well as making payments through you to us. our company . LEE YANG INDUSTRIES .CO.LTD was established in 2002.

We are interested in employing your services, to work with us as our payment agent who can help us eastablish a medium of recieving payment on our behalf for Goods and raw materials we supplied to our customers in Europe,America or Australia.

If you are interested in transacting business with us.
we will be very glad,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
Europe,America and Australia.

Please if you are interested forward

1.YOUR NAME
2.CONTACT ADDRESS
3.YOUR COMPANY ADDRESS
4.OCCUPATION
5.COUNTRY
6.PHONE/FAX NUMBERS
7.SEX


Regards.
Mr.Lee Yang
LEE YANG INDUSTRIES .CO.LTD
NO 1,Maanshan Road
Zhejiang,
China.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Biglobe Arts & Crafts inc (not)

Random scammer with Hotmail contact address, pretending to be a random Japanese company, seeks gullible person to act as money mule.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mrs kelly <leonadoart@hotmail.com>
Date: 12-Mar-2007 09:49
Subject: business
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Biglobe Art and Crafts Inc.
<http://www.biglobe.ne.jp/~maida/j-art/>.
The it Regional Office,
108 via pinarolo
10052 torino
italy

Dear prospective agents,
I am mrs.kelly leonado, personnel manager of Biglobe Arts & Crafts inc., a
Japanese company based in the italy. Biglobe Art And Crafts Inc. deals on Arts and Crafts and also exports these product into the America/Canada.Biglobe Inc.deals in the sales of japanese artware to countries which appreciate the ancient Japanese art.We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our custumers in the America/Canada regions. The aim is to accept payments from our customers in these regions.
Your role in this project, is serving as our agent to get to our customers who buy our products and helping in collecting their outstanding monetary sums which they owe to our company. You will be given a commission of 10% for any payment made to you and also be given instruction on how to remit the balance funds to us.Thus your position in the company would be that of a FUND RECEIVING OFFICER. I as the personnel manager would be your immediate boss. Hence you would be working according to my directives.
Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to
negotiate your mode of contract and the % we will pay for your
services as our representative in Canada/America.
Please if you are interested forward to us the below informations via
my private email contact;
FULL NAME:
MAILING ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
COMPANY NAME:
SEX:
AGE:
PHONE/FAX NUMB.:
COUNTRY:
ANNUAL INCOME:
Thank you very much for having the patient and time to read this
email.Anticipating your earliest and positive response.

Have a blessed day!
Mrs.kelly leonado
(Personnel Manager).
The it Regional Office
Japan Arts&crafts Biglobe inc.


Sunday, March 11, 2007

United Nations (not)

This is the most outrageously incredible story I've ever seen used in a money mule scam.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ambassador Briget Cox. <internship@australiamail.com>
Date: 11-Mar-2007 03:37
Subject: BE A UN AMBASSADOR ,HELP THE NEEDY AND EARN A LIVING
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Reply-To: internship@australiamail.com

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Message-Id: <20070310145204.658EF375D1@rcmdxwebc01.cavtel.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:41:28 -0500 (EST)



Dear Ambassador,

BE A UN AMBASSADOR ,HELP THE NEEDY AND EARN A LIVING



We are searching for representatives world wide who can help us establish a medium of getting to some voluntary organizations donors to the UNITED NATIONS AID CAMPAIGN for the help of the needy and sick all over the world in the Europe and America , so that through you their payments can get to us and you have the honor to become a UN AMBASSADOR for doing this good-will and still earn about $500.00 to $1, 000.00 every week with out going out or being disturbed . Please if you are interested in working with us we will be glad to accept you.



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 your area.

Click on the reply of this mail, or write directly to us on: internship@australiamail.com

Thanks in advance.





Regards,

Ambassador Briget Cox.

Friday, March 09, 2007

John Cole Research and Consultancy Ltd

Summary: lying West African forger of money orders seeks unwary middle-man to fleece.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: john_cole004@terra.es <john_cole004@terra.es>
Reply-to:
john_cole004@terra.es  <john_cole004@terra.es>
Date: 08-Mar-2007 21:24
Subject: Employment(part-time)
To:

IF INTERESTED YOU ARE ONLY ADVISE TO SEND RESPONSE THIS EMAIL ONLY john_cole71@excite.com. Thats only when the company will be able to get back to you in a short period.
Goodday
       My name is John  Cole, 35 years of age, 3 kids, a lovely girl and 2 troublesome kids, and the love of my life, my wife. I am a somewhat multitalented man and I do quite alot of travelling and get to meet quite alot of people who need my services.
   I own a research/consultancy firm which offers knowledge on developmental biology, embryology, paleontology and pretty much anything from zoology to plant life, Ireside in Dublin, Ireland  and even though I have lived most of my life in other parts of the world, I am fully residing in Ireland even though I get to do alot of travelling though.
   Presently, I have just been granted a funding to head a research project in the tropical regions of West Africa regarding rare and vulnerable plant species and this would be commencing very soon, However my fundings were by my american counterparts which sent me the bunch of payments mostly in US based money orders. Getting an accountant in the states or opening an account would have been my best choice but I have a deadline to meet and taking any of those choices would cost me time and a whole lot of other requirements I am not ready to deal with as I would be travelling alot in the meantime.
   So presently,  you would be able to deal with cash, I would be willing to employ you on contract basis to be my payment representative back in the states, thisway I could issue and make these money orders out to you, you could then cash them easily, withdraw 10% of the total amount on these money orders as your commission and then send the rest back to me through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANFER. Bear it in mind that we would be dealing with quite a handful of cash and you could be making up to $4000 just working with me in a short period of time.
   I would be glad if you accept my proposal and I intend to commence on starting as soon as you are ready. If you are interested, please email me back on john_cole71@excite.com so as we could  conclude all arrangements.United State Of  America are reguiered only.All this are required for the sending of the payment
NAME.................................
ADDRESS...........................
CITY...................................
STATE................................
ZIPCODE.............................
PHONENUMBER...................................
PRESENT OCCUPATION.............................
AGE.........................................................
Thank You
JOHN  COLE
JOHNCOLE Research and Consultancy Ltd
NOTE........ALL RESPONSE MUST BE SEND TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS ONLY john_cole71@excite.com


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