Comments on: Job Scam: Grandy's EPack Corporation

By: maggie

maggie — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:50:12 +0000

Wow another one bites the dust...I too got the Tangram Interiors offer, and THANK GOD I looked it up and found your site...thank you thank you thank you...did I mention thank you...hey does anyone ever let the real company know about their name being trashed??? maggie

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:54:13 +0000

I got the one from Tan Gram and when I "googled" the name I got your site. I have fun with these companies. So far the fools have sent me $575,000 in counterfeit money orders and checks that have been turned over to FBI. I never cash them but the crooks have to pay UPS or FEDEX shipping charges, also have to work at making the counterfeits.

By: Mia

Mia — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:32:32 +0000

I just recieved this today and was wondering how can i prove that this is real.

From: "TAN GRAM INTERIORS COMPANY" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Accounts Payable/Receivable Manager (Job Offer).
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:40:23 +0100
To:

Pleasant day,
We are offering this position to all interested applicants. Please
carefully read through.TAN GRAM INTERIORS COMPANY is a well established
Manufacturing Firm,That delivers / delivering high quality precision
furnitures products to some of the largest and best known companies in
far back Asia ,the Regions Of America and Rest of The world for a long
time.You will find our high quality furnitures in the BEST products
on the market today.

JOB DESCRIPTION

1. Receive payment from Clients in USA
2. Cash Payments
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the
offices you will be directed to send payment to (Payment is to be forwarded
by Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram). Transfer Charges will
be deducted from Our funds.

Prospective Finance Co- ordinators should forward their resume or
Infos.below if interested:

====================================
Full Names:
Full Adress:
City:
Zip Code:
State:
Home Phone:
Cell Phone:
Age:
Gender:
Marital Status:
Occupation:
====================================

Thanks For Your Total Understanding.
Henry Anderson,
Staffing and Recruiting Dept,
Regional Manager,
TAN GRAM INTERIORS COMPANY

STATUS OF YOUR RESUME !
N.B:Note: We will never ask you for anything more than that which we
have stated above. No bank names, No bank account number, routing
number,credit card, passwords, SSN# etc. If anyone asks for those on our
behalf please do not give out this info.This is to ensure your security and
non involvement in cases of Identity theft.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:00:54 +0000

I received the e-mail and i responded back to it. They told me to sign an agreement which stated that I would work for them for a year. I contacted the Better Buisness Bureau and they said this is not a legitimate company...I can only hope that no one will fall for this scam!

By: Meghana

Meghana — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:25:43 +0000

thanks so much for the update greg,
i too received a mail from the above mentioned comp i found certain points in the mail to be fishy like "Ability to accept payments using your BANK ACCOUNT" why our bank account,wanted to check the authenticity of the mail so browed the net and voila came up with ur link .keep up the good work.all the best.

By: John

John — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:41:23 +0000

I won so many UN, Euro, British, Email lotteries that I should be insanely wealthy by now. In any case the same scheme is now being repeated with TANGRAM INTERIORS COMPANY being used as the company. Here's the buzzards email. Send him a virus or two. craig_smiths@hotmail.com. I'm putting this up so when somebody Googles it, (as I did) they may get a hit here and figure out that all that glitters is not gold. These people relay upon a human fraility called GREED. Money for nothing and the...Don't be a dupe or a chump and fall for the trash of the world.
Hope they get a very nasty intestinal virus and poop their little brains out.

By: Shireen

Shireen — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:47:39 +0000

Thank you so much for this. I received mine 2 days ago, as soon as my bank account was mentioned I knew it was a scam and decided to google them. I hope no one falls for this scam.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:11:08 +0000

Thanks for the information. I have received several of these in the past but did not know how the scam worked; so I really appreciate your explanation. I did get the email that you show and mine was from Deon Conner [bxttebmsc@boulevarde.com.au]. I responded to the email address that they asked me to use and pasted the brainhandles url, inviting them to visit your site and see how well their scam is not working!

By: summer

summer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:10:10 +0000

I have received the same email today. I feel very strange for that and search the "Grandy's Epack Corporation" and find this interesting information.
In any case, thanks all of you for your info.

By: Dave Zechas

Dave Zechas — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:32:31 +0000

Yeah,those are good ones!How bout tangram Interiors.lloyd Davis is his name.googled that name.noone at that company by that name.But they used a.legit website as a front!SAW Thru that though!

By: George

George — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:53:03 +0000

I have received these types of e-mails from time to time, and I thought they were a scam. Thanks for the info, now I know how they are a scam.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:51:34 +0000

I got this email today at work and I found it really amusing. See, I actually am a software engineer who works for a payment solution provider / automated clearing house (psp/ach). We could actually set him up with something similar to what he's looking for -- I doubt he'll get 5% though, maybe closer to 13.5%. And his bank account would be electronically debited and cleared before we released any payments.

I forwarded this to our sales staff, just for fun.

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:27:22 +0000

@F. Zeigler, There's nothing stopping you from using a fake address on your e-mail. They use a legitimate company's e-mail address by using faked headers, and if you know how to do that, it's sooooo easy. A lot of us fake headers all the time. If I want to send mail from a brainhandles.com address, I can just instruct my mail program to use the mail server Comcast provides for use with my cable modem, but use my Brainhandles.com address instead of my Comcast address. The mail's going out with a Brainhandles.com e-mail address on it, but it never passed through a Brainhandles.com server. Some mail servers now try to match the sender's IP address to known IP addresses for the domain in the sender's e-mail address, but even then, it's a far from perfect check (because a lot of legitimate people use their ISP's mail servers for outgoing mail from multiple domains they own or have addresses at), and you only see if that check failed if you know where to look in the e-mail headers that are normally hidden from your view.

By: F. Zeigler

F. Zeigler — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:04:18 +0000

You have a great blog. Your comments about "Grady's EPack Corporation" are very interesting. I recieved e-mail today from a tequilaman909@patula.com. I checked "patula.com" and it is a Chicago law firm's web site. I see you got one from someone using xfidnsqcvacf@bowkerandassoc.com. The bowkerandassoc.com web site is owned by a consulting engineering firm in Portland Maine. Its nice to know there are people exposing scams. However, I do have one question about these e-mails. How do scammers send e-mails using a legitimate company's email address?

By: Richard Harper

Richard Harper — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:42:09 +0000

I have a receive only mail address for automatic notification of errors from my web site, and that's getting them too: "Salvador Matos"