Another Job Scam: MarinellSoft

I just got another job scam e-mail, this time offering me a sales rep position. What some of you may not know is that not all the job offer scams are intended to get you to cash fake checks or buy classes you don't need or buy supplies for a project that never materializes. Some of them are phishing scams.

Think about how much information you're asked for on a job application. It's generally as much as you are asked for on a credit application, which means if some scam artist can fake you into giving them all that personal information, they can steal your identity, get credit cards in your name, and possibly do worse. If you have your resume up on a site like careerbuilder.com or monster.com, you need to be very careful when fielding letters of interest from recruiters, because a lot of scam artists are finding these job sites a rich source of leads for all sorts of scams that play on your need/desire for a new or better job.

Here's the mail...

We would like to offer you a vacancy of Sales representative.

My name is David Borman and I'm Manager of the personnel department in MarinellSoft, Ltd. I am pleased to offer you a vacant position of Sales representative in MarinellSoft, Ltd.

Over the years, we at MarinellSoft have successfully completed a wide range of projects for different industries and business sectors. The projects differ in their scope and duration. For all of the projects, we do our best to remain cost-competitive vendors, leveraging our technical expertise to provide outstanding services and deliver high quality solutions in time.

MarinellSoft is a team of experienced software developers, engineers, and scientists with expertise in different technical domains. Team members possess a wide range of backgrounds from software development, sales and marketing, and education and training to the technical sciences.

Work requirements:
1. Location/citizenship: USA.
2. Legal age.
3. Excellent presentation skills in front of high level executives.
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
5. Driven by personal and financial success.
6. Self-motivated, thorough, highly organized, and have a complete understanding of the sales process.

No upfront payments or pledges for the goods required!

Please reply to this e-mail - [e-mail deleted]
if you are interested in this opening. We will provide you with more information. Feel free to ask questions.

Best Regards,

David Borman
MarinellSoft, Ltd.

Despite their claim of having operated "over the years," there is only ONE search result at this time for MarinellSoft at Google and it's on a list of things that were hot searches at Google earlier today. Even worse, their marinellsoft.org domain name record was created less than a week ago (February 20th). Amazing that such an "established" company's web site is less than a week old and there's NOTHING about them on Google.

These are Russian crooks looking to steal something from you. Do not respond to them, even to tell "David Borman" to go screw himself. Delete the mail and be glad you weren't sucked in.

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