Whatever's tugging at my brain handles
Posted in Job Hunting on May 9th, 2008
Just got a new job scam. They're very vague and don't give any details, but they're showing big red flags and you just should not reply to find out more. Here's the text:
Subject: Representative Needed
From: "The Case Company (UK) Ltd" <info@case.co.uk>
To: undisclosed-recipients
We are one of the fastest growing company here in UK.Due to [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Apr 29th, 2008
The angle on this one is different than ones I've seen before. They want to pay you for proofreading services. And the rates they're offering are actually a little lower than a random check of per-word pricing from a couple of random proofreading services I looked up. But there's our first big flag. [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Apr 26th, 2008
Just got a job scam, though I'm a bit stumped as to what the catch is. According to this, they send you packages that you then forward on. They pay your mailing costs and $50 on top of it for the service... per package. I'm figuring there's something illegal in the packages [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Apr 23rd, 2008
Just got the following job offer for a "Financial Representative" position. Of course, it's a check cashing scam.
For those of you who haven't heard about the check cashing job scams going around the internet, they work like this: A company pretends to hire you as a "financial representative" to cash checks [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Apr 21st, 2008
I got the following e-mail with the subject: "Your Opportunity"
From: Cassandra Hayden <ssb@bluemedium.com>
Subject: Your opportunity
My name is Tim Kay. I am manager of Professional Escrow Company,
http://www.professionalescrow.org
Responsible employees are seeked for a part-time position. No experience is required. Our company will sign an agreement with you and you will be trained by us for free. [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Apr 21st, 2008
This scam just got through my own Spam Assasin filters and then through the filters at Gmail when I checked a personal account remotely. For those of you not familiar with the check cashing job scams going around the internet, they work like this: A company pretends to hire you as a financial agent, [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Apr 18th, 2008
This latest one got through the spam filters less than an hour ago with the subject "New job opportunity with All Money Group" from Isabelle Short (terry@asetquality.com).
Here's a red flag... How many people's e-mail address has someone else's first name?
Another big red flag, the sender is at one domain but the contact you [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Apr 16th, 2008
Just got this and I thought I'd share. For those of you not familiar with the scam... they send you checks to cash. You take a commission and send the rest of the money where directed, usually to some other country by Western Union. Problem is the checks are fake. Quite [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Apr 9th, 2008
Picked up another check cashing scheme job scam that slipped through Yahoo's spam filters.
Basically, for those of you new to this, the scam is that criminals in other countries tell Americans, and now apparently Canadians and Australians too, they have a legitimate company that needs reps to receive payments for them in your country. [...]
Posted in Job Hunting, Techno Thoughts on Mar 13th, 2008
So I only post the scams that get through the SpamAssassin on my personal e-mail account or through the spam filters at Gmail or Yahoo mail. This one just got through SpamAssassin. These jerks don't even bother to go to the trouble of inventing a fake company name or backstory, setting up a [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Mar 13th, 2008
So, I got another job scam from a company calling itself Guardian Consulting. It's remarkable how much effort they put into this, even sending a multi-page "contract" attached with the e-mail, yet let little things show through that show this is a scam. Here's the e-mail:
Hello, you have received this message because you [...]
Posted in Job Hunting, Technology & Life on Mar 7th, 2008
So I just got another check cashing scam. The subject was "Make $225 And More Every Day" and instead of text, they used a graphic. Inside the e-mail, they repeated the "Make $225 And More Every Day" plus a link to their scam site at fallseagull.com. A check into the registration on [...]
Posted in Job Hunting on Mar 6th, 2008
Got another "we'll pay you a commission to cash checks for us" job scam today. If you found this page because you were looking for information about the job on Google, trying to see if it is legit... it's not. In fact, no legitimate business is offering to pay high commissions to individuals [...]
Posted in Job Hunting, Society, Techno Thoughts on Feb 26th, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts on Feb 25th, 2008
No doubt many of you have received "job offers" from companies telling you they need agents in the U.S. to receive check payments for them, cash the checks, and then forward them the money (keeping a fee for yourself). Of course, the checks are fake, but generally good enough to get initially cleared by [...]