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.

Saturday, July 05, 2008

FASEX

Scams of this sort don't usually admit to being from Nigeria. In fact, I'm inclined to think that the WHOIS details for this domain might be false, but it doesn't bode well for the so-called job offer either way. The job offer is careful to avoid any direct mention of money-handling, but these scams almost invariably come down to money laundering under the pretext of payment processing.

Domain Name:                                 FINEARTEX.BIZ
Domain ID:                                   D25898833-BIZ
Sponsoring Registrar:                        ESTDOMAINS INC
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID:                832
Registrant ID:                               DI_8399664
Registrant Name:                             Olumide Harrison
Registrant Organization:                     N/A
Registrant Address1:                         [redacted] Saint George St
Registrant City:                             Lagos
Registrant State/Province:                   Lagos
Registrant Postal Code:                      23401
Registrant Country:                          Nigeria
Registrant Country Code:                     NG
Registrant Phone Number:                     +351.28276xxxx [partially redacted]
Registrant Email:                            harrisonolumide@yahoo.com
Name Server:                                 NS1.MGSDOMAINS.COM
Name Server:                                 NS2.MGSDOMAINS.COM
Created by Registrar:                        ESTDOMAINS INC
Last Updated by Registrar:                   ESTDOMAINS INC
Domain Registration Date:                    Thu Jul 03 15:25:10 GMT 2008
Domain Expiration Date:                      Thu Jul 02 23:59:59 GMT 2009
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Thu Jul 03 15:45:34 GMT 2008

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <no-reply@fineartex.biz>
Date: 2008/7/5
Subject: Australian Jobs
To: [redacted (privacy)]


The FASEX, international fine art and antiques shipping transportation system is the largest in the United States. FASEX has been fortunate during its history to assemble the most experienced staff of any company in the specialized field of fine art services. In 2008 FASEX is creating new international offices and starting to provide service in Canada, Central Europe and Australia.SnqTtKcfIvyh4SH9H0

FASEX has now opened Regional Administrative Coordinator vacancies in Australiad

Main duties are:
Coordinating internet sales projects.
Contacts with company's clients
Operating within prescribed budgets
Managing cash and balancing receipts

Wage Details: 52k AUD + benefitsUw08H7Vxt318uL5MMgrLHq

Main requirements for the candidates are:

· Effctive interaction with customers;
· Willingness to work at home;
· The ability to operate with more than one task effectively, and have an adaptable, flexible, professional attitude;VTS0B
· Honesty, responsibility and promptness in operations;
· The ability to create good administrative reporting;
· The ability of stable communication with our company and on-time and detailed reporting;
· Effective dealing with tight deadlines and frequently changing priorities;
· Must have good leadership skills and be ethical, polite, tactful;uCG9G

To the successful applicants we offer a position on a trial period (2 week).Lqar01yDFftzE

More information about this and other vacanies you may find on our website.

If you are interested in this vacancy and you feel, that your qualifications correspond to our requirements, please visit www.fineartex.biz to apply online.

Sincerely,
FASEX fine art service vKkkmBl779gsVM1HEUO5hlD0j1mL

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Friday, July 04, 2008

Shuenn Jaan Machinery (impostors)

In some sense this is just the same old story: scammers pretending to be a company with payment processing difficulties as a means to recruit victims. On the other hand, you don't often see a requirement that the employee have a credit card account, by which I suspect they mean a merchant account capable of receiving payments. I strongly suspect that anyone who did have such an account would realise what an awful risk this is. I may respond to this just to see if the scam is what I think it is.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <SHUENN@s15283134.onlinehome-server.info>
Reply-to: s_huen_njaanmachineryltd@hotmail.com
Date: 2008/7/4
Subject: Be Our Agent
To: ideceive@gmail.com


Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




SHUENN JAAN MACHINERY CO., LTD

No.803, CHUNG SHAN N. RD., YUNG KANG CITY,

TAINAN HSIEN TAIWAN R.O.C.

http://www.soongiant.com.tw

Email: s_huen_njaanmachineryltd@hotmail.com

Tel :886-5-236-2685, Fax:886-2-6602-1090



Dear Sir/Madam,



Please can I have your attention for a moment? Would you like to work online from home temporarily and get paid weekly? Our Company Shuenn Jaan Machinery Co., Ltd. is a company based in Taiwan and we are into  Manufacturer of plastic injection molding machines, bakelite machines, dual-colors injection molding machines and accessories supplied worldwide since 1975 with numerous customers home and abroad. We produce  various industrial machinery ( machines) & equipments supply ( supplies) you will be glad with our  products. We need representatives in the UK who will be in charge of all our payments from the  United Kingdom clients/customers.



 Most of our customers from the United Kingdom pay through Bank wire transfer,Credit Cards, Certified  cheques and Cashier cheques which are not negotiable here in Taiwan. This brings our quest to employ a  credible and trustworthy fellow as our representative to handle our payments. This would not affect your  present job but serve as another stream of income to your good self. Being our representative and assisting  us in processing the payments from our clients shall earn you a weekly salary and commission of about 10%  of every payment you assist us with.



Due to the fact that we can not process the United Kingdom Credit cards here in the Taiwan, we have lost in  the past about £85,000 of net income each month because of money transfer delays. Most of our  clients/customers who purchase our products need to pay large amount of money through their Credit Card  account and this is the reason we also need a representative who has Credit card account to receive large  amount of money for our company. Your task is to co-ordinate payments from customers and help us with the  payment process. You are not involved in any sales.



If you are interested, email us back for more information.



Best Regards,

Jack Lin (Mr)





Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Atrium Transport&Logis Solutions

This is a reshipper scam. The usual story with these is that the "employers" are making purchases of expensive equipment (e.g. laptop computers) using stolen credit card details, and they want a shipping address that is somewhat local to the seller so that they don't raise too many suspicions. The employee reships a whole bunch of equipment overseas, and eventually the sellers realise they've been ripped off and come knocking on the door where all their goods were delivered. No good will come of this.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Debbie Stevens <Hiring@harris.hostingzoom.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM
Subject: AtriumSolutions: Job Proposition
To: [redacted (privacy)]


 
Dear [redacted]:

Logistic company Atrium Transport&Logis Solutions entered the market of the transport logistics in the 90th years of last century. The aims of the organization are to solve logistic tasks on a higher professional level promptly. The staff of logistic company Atrium TLS has more than 5000 people. The company has 17 consolidation centres in countries of Europe, America, Asia, also it has an agency network in more than 40 countries all over the world. In sum we have transported 182000m3 of cargo to the amount of more than 500000000 Euro. Constant work on our service in logistic sphere, enlargement of the agency network let us accomplish difficult clients' requests. We focus on preservation and increase of our clients' and partners' values, also we focus on long-term cooperation. Our competitive advantage is long experience, close-knit professional team and spotless reputation.

Our company always enlarges a range of services for our clients, that's why we always need enterprising and ambitious employee. At the present moment we are taking on staff of quality assurance managers. What are the main requirements for this job? The main requirement is that a candidate has a permanent address, which we can use to work with him/her and he/she has spare time.

The main task of a quality assurance manager is to get and process returnable goods. What does it mean? As you know our company offers unique service to its clients. The clients, who buy goods in the stock of our company directly, can return displeased goods to our stock and we guarantee 100% refund. Our sales department are occupied with further realization of goods. All products are sent to quality assurance managers, who test them for any mechanical defects and capacity for work. After it a manager draws up a statement of discovered defects or absence of any defects and then he/she sends this product to a sales manager.

At the beginning of you cooperation with us your monthly income will be 1500 USD. Later on there will be special payments and bonuses based on the balance of your work.

Functional prerequisites:
  • Higher education;
  • A person of 18 years old and over;
  • A competent User of PC including Office software, postal programs, Internet.
We suggest:
  • Possibility of career and self-development;
  • The complete social security and medical insurance;
  • Free seminars and training courses;
  • Probation period and work in a dynamic and friendly atmosphere and team.


If you are interested in our job offer please REPLY.


Debbie Stevens,
HR Manager,
Atrium Transport&Logis Solutions.



ATTENTION! A vacancy doesn't provide for the permanent staying at the office. We can indicate any address given by you as a delivery address. The only condition is 8 hours a week of free time, a permanent Internet access, and a phone/fax presence.

2008 © Atrium Transport&Logis Solutions.
All right reserved.

 

INIT Fulfilment

The description offered in this spam isn't precise enough to determine which particular scam is in operation here. Even so, it's clearly a scam: anyone who sends out millions of job offers is looking for victims, not employees. I'll reply to them and see what comes back, though.

   Domain Name: INITFULFILMENT.COM (scam)
   Registrar: ENOM, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.enom.com
   Referral URL: http://www.enom.com
   Name Server: NS3.WRZHOST.COM
   Name Server: NS4.WRZHOST.COM
   Updated Date: 13-jun-2008
   Creation Date: 13-jun-2008
   Expiration Date: 13-jun-2009

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: batholomew thavy <[redacted (believed false)]>
Date: 2008/7/2 (UTC)
Subject: Message From Job Poster
To: ideceive@gmail.com


Dear Jobseeker

On behalf of the INIT fulfilment services,we found that you are capable of becoming a valuable member of our team. At
this moment we have a vacancy available for mail order service coordinator.
You have enough free time(20-30 weekly), like work from home, hardworking and have great customer care skills?

Duties
You will manage orders online, provide support for customers,  send customer requests, billings, invoices,  and etc. on
behalf of the Company.

Salary
Your salary is $20/h. We usually pay on demand from your first day. We provide monthly and yearly bonuses plus standard
benefits package after your successful 1 month  probationary period.

Work schedule
Three shifts available for this job. M-F 9am-2pm, 11am-4pm, 2pm-7pm. You can combine shifts, it actualy depends on you.

This position is free for you. And it doesn't involve any door to door sale nor cold-callings, and there's absolutely no
pre-requisite for you to qualify for this position other than your motivations and willing to do whatever it takes to get
it done and follow instruction properly, attention to detail and someone who is highly effective with somewhat
organization skill set.

We provide free trainings. Then you will get a certificate.
If you think this position fits your requirements email back at vacancy@initfulfilment.com
for further details.


Thank you
Yours truly,
Thomas Baruch.
INIT Marketing Services Group.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

WWP Sales Group

Same old scam; new made-up company name. Whoever it is that's targeting the "Dear Australian Population" in this way last did so under the identity "Int. Sales Company", but we've seen the same phrase used in the "Sales Company from Spain" scam, and the "Cama Sales and Distribution Group" scam. As usual, the scam is money laundering: they want money mules to accept transfers of stolen money into their bank accounts, then send most of it overseas via Western Union or similar.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: WWP Sales Group <[redacted (random, false)]>
Date: 2008/7/1 (UTC)
Subject: Want to earn $1000-$1200 in a week?? Join!
To: [redacted (privacy)]


Greetings Dear Australian Population!                    If you are looking for an EXTRA INCOME - this is for you! Successful foreign company - Wwp Sales Group, is currently seeking for Australian residents for a Banking Courier position. Make $1200-$1500 AUD a week and enjoy the job itself.  If you are 18+ y/o, if you are able to check your e-mail 3-4 times a day, if you have 1-2 hours of free time Mon-Thu - this job is for you! Very nice and rare opportunity for making extra income! If interetsted Reply with "Full Information" to: wwp.mainoffice@gmail.com
 Best Regards       WWP Sales Group.