Just got this faked "Career Builder" e-mail (Career Builder's e-mails are sent through their servers, not through Earthlink) from "Charlotte Wallace".

Here's the text:

Thank you for your interest. After viewing your resume on careerbuilder.com, we have decided to contact you.

We have an excellent opportunity for you.

We are looking for:

Responsible and motivated individuals to assist in Company’s financial business. We value the exceptional people and provide our employees with an environment conductive for productive and long-term employment.

We offer:
- New concept. Commissions without sales.
- VERY competitive salary plus attractive bonuses plus commissions with each order
- No Fees
- You can start tomorrow
- Compensation: $85,000 - $95,000 per year
- Employee Type: Full-Time/Part-Time
- Vacation (2 weeks for Exempt employees)
- 4 paid Company Holidays / 2 paid floating holidays

Large and stable corporation

Requirements:

- MS Office (Word) - basic knowledge
- Internet access and e-mail
- A sufficient level of work ethics
- Ability to learn fast and perform tasks in a timely fashion
- U.S. resident or green card holder
- You are not required to quit your current job.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Assist in company’s financial business.
- Perform financial tasks.
- Make reports.

We offer opportunities for internal advancement for the responsible employees. During the initial stage of work you will receive precise instructions and any possible help from the company’s Manager. Qualified candidates will be offered flexible schedules of work, competitive salary, bonuses and other benefits. Company covers all the reasonable expenses.

You will be able to plan your own working schedule (few hours weekly).

Please reply to this email if you are interested.

Hiring Department

The reply address is diagnosticparts@aol.com.

Read through my "job scams" tagged posts and you'll see this come-on over and over. Financial job, easy hours, work from home, perform financial tasks, good pay. Sounds too good to be true... because it is. The job usually entails receiving "customer payments" via forged checks or hacked PayPal accounts. You cash out the payment, take the cash to Western Union, and wire it off to your "employer" in another country. You're instructed to take a percentage of the payment for yourself as your commission.

Sounds great until the check fails to clear or the PayPal fraud is discovered, as always happens. Then the money for it is pulled out of your account. If you had enough to cover it, you're out the amount of the check. If you didn't, the bank that gave you the money wants it back and will involve the police.

No legitimate company needs a U.S. representative to cash checks for them and wire them the money via Western Union.

If someone you don't know offers you an amazing job cashing checks or receiving and forwarding packages (stolen goods paid for from hacked PayPal accounts or with credit card fraud), they're usually a criminal and they're trying to make you an unwitting accessory. They will leave you owing money you don't have, and maybe a few weeks closer to financial ruin because you weren't out job hunting because you thought you had a new job.

Be safe out there people, and if you are job hunting, good luck.

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5 Responses to “The Latest Check Cashing Scam”
  1. kevin says:

    FROM CHARLOTTE WALLACE OF Diagnostic Parts Solution PLC

    Hello Klight317,

    Having seen your resume I would like to offer you a position with our
    company. My name is Charlotte Wallace and I am the International Human
    Resource Manager of Diagnostic Parts Solution PLC. I am pleased to inform
    you that we have an open position for you within our company.

    Before we start I want to point out that you can work for us part time also
    even if you had a prior job before talking to us. All you have to do is
    check your e-mail a couple of times per day, a trip to your bank and a trip
    to a Western Union office or agent. You can use the "Find Agent Location"
    search function on the Western Union website to find an office close to you.
    With every check that you process you instantly earn 10% from its total
    value cash in hand and also a consistent bonus. How does it work: you will
    receive the first check as soon as you send back the filled contract with
    your actual name and address which we need to be able to send the check to
    you. Depending on how fast you will send the funds from the check back to us
    you will receive the next two checks and so on, each fast processed check
    yields two new checks to process. This is the dream job for many people that
    have joined us. There is no trick to it. You help us clear our funds from
    orders we receive from our customers in the US and we will repay you
    handsomely. You have our monies with you all the time while processing a
    check so you will keep your commission plus bonus instantly and at the end
    of the month you will receive the $1,000 salary as a fixed income at the
    address you specified in the contract (which can be changed afterwards if
    you relocate). Ask for the contract today and we can start in a few days as
    soon as we finish processing your information and a few verifications for
    safety. If you sign today you will receive your first check within one week.
    Don't miss out on this great chance to increase your income, ask for the
    contract and further details right now!

    Our company was founded in 1972 and it has quickly grown to be one of the
    largest resellers in United Kingdom of medical equipment and apparatus as we
    as in the rest of Europe. We have contracts exclusively with hospitals and
    other medical companies and groups supplying several hundred types of
    products ranging from surgical needles and syringes to MRI and EKG machines
    and everything in between. Our partners include top manufacturers around the
    world such as GE Healthcare, Medtronic, Baxter International, Tyco
    Healthcare, Philips Medical Systems, Cardinal Health, Siemens Medical
    Solutions, Zimmer Holdings, et cetera. Our company has grown very fast
    during the last few years and now we have expanded our market and business
    to the United States. As such we have a high demand in terms of job openings
    in almost every state and we are looking for dedicated and hardworking
    individuals to work for us and help us expand.

    Our success is due to the fact that we are able to meet our customer's
    demands in every shape or form and at any time. We are very flexible and we
    can honor our orders when others cannot. Very fast delivery system combined
    with the fact that we accept almost any type of payment and great customer
    support are the reasons why we have been able to grow so fast and took us to
    where we are today. We take great pride in what we do because it is not
    always easy to satisfy all customer demands while still processing the
    orders very fast and receiving payments for the products in a timely manner.
    We need you to work for us and bellow you will find the job description and
    what will be asked of you should you decide to accept our proposal.

    Job description:

    - NO SALES INVOLVED! Very limited contact: you will not be involved in
    any kind of sales or contact with our customers;
    - Zero fees policy: while performing this job you will encounter no
    fees to be paid in advance whatsoever;
    - Respect privacy: no employee from our company will ever ask you for
    any sensitive information;
    - Total transparency: everything you will do is legal under the
    European Union/United States and International laws as they are currently
    applied.

    Your duties are:

    - To receive payments from our customers which are mainly in form of
    checks (only U.S. emitted checks, no international checks will be sent to
    you; All check will be written in your name);
    - Cashing the checks using your existing bank account; do not use
    checks-cashing stores, they charge too much, sometimes even 10% of the total
    value of the checks
    - Forwarding as'' money in minutes'' by Western Union, we will pay all
    money transfer fees after you will deduct your 10% commission from each
    order you process.

    Your benefits are:

    - Commissions: 10% from each check your will process in the first
    month.
    - Salary: within one month after receiving the first check you will
    receive $1,000 as fixed salary.

    This is a commission based job, the faster you process orders the more your
    income will increase. This bonus is given to also cover internet, phone or
    gas bills. Please note that this salary will be sent after 30 days have
    passed since you received your first payment to process.

    - Rewards for good performance: after two months of working for us an
    increase to 15% commission from all payments might be applied to your
    contract if you process and send all the transfers to us in a timely manner.
    In this case you will be earning around $1,200-1,300 per week as well as the
    $1,000 salary at the end of the month.

    - Education reimburse
    - Vacation (2 weeks for Exempt employees)
    - 4 paid Company Holidays / 2 paid floating holidays
    - Large and stable corporation

    There are also bonuses for cashing the checks and sending the payment to us
    very fast:

    - Cash the check same day: $150 for each check;
    - Cash the check within 24 hours: $100 for each check;
    - Cash the check within 48 hours: $ 50 for each check.

    The $1,000 salary will be sent to you in form of a cashier check.

    The job opening is that of a Representative within the US. The today's
    situation on the financial market requires us to open and fill several of
    these job positions within our company. This opening will help our company
    to reduce the time it takes to receive funding from orders that we receive
    each month and we offer you one of the highest incomes on the market today
    and the minimal expenditures of time.

    With the number of orders we have we cannot put them on hold for fear of
    losing our customers, secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US
    soon enough, as international checks take about 28 working days to cash
    anywhere in Europe. We lose a lot of time and money each month because we
    have money transfer delays. Our clients could pay us where we want by
    sending checks to an US address. What we need you to do is to provide us an
    address where you can receive our customer checks. We need someone who can
    receive the money through this method of payment. Regarding the check
    process all you have to do is to receive the checks our customers will send
    to your address, take them to your bank, cash them and send the remainder
    amount to us after deducting all fees incurred and your commission. You will
    always take your commission upfront. All fees for transferring the funds
    will be supported from our share. Bonuses will apply for cashing checks
    within 24 hours upon receiving a check.

    We make direct contact for sales of products. Once orders are received and
    processed we deliver the product to our customer (usually through USPS). The
    customer receives and checks the product and proceeds to send the payment.
    We accept all forms of payment but most of our customers pay using Bank
    Checks and so to solve this problem and not lose any of our customers we
    have decided to open this new job position. This job is legal according to
    the U.S. legislation as it is today. Local money transfers take but a few
    hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost
    immediately.

    PAYMENT AND SALARY:

    For example you receive a check as payment for 3000.00 USD, you deduct your
    commission (10%): 300.00 USD and then send to us the balance: 2700.00 USD.
    In the first month you will receive around 15-20 orders under 3,000.00 USD
    to process and after checking your performance records during that first
    month the orders you will receive, may increase from 3,000.00 upwards to
    6,000.00 USD. For example 20 transactions each around 3000.00 USD gives you
    a total income of 6,000.00 USD per month and after establishing a close
    co-operation with us you'll be able to operate with larger orders and you'll
    be able to earn more. You will also deduct fees that are related to this job
    (gasoline, western union fees, bank commissions, etc.) from our balance, not
    from your commissions. At first the checks you will receive will vary from:
    $500.00 to $3,000.00. We will also send you a 1099 Form for tax deduction on
    your part. Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have
    them cashed in your existing bank account, we don't accept newly created
    bank accounts because it slows the cashing process. Deduct your percentage
    and forward the balance to the company attorney manager via a western union
    money transfer, the name will be given to you later after cashing a payment.
    This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free time for
    taking up another job; you'll get good income and a regular job. This job is
    very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the
    employee who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest assistant.

    We have health insurance and the 401K retirement savings plan as well as all
    the other standard benefits that a major company usually provides.
    Unfortunately we can only start talking about this after the first month has
    passed since you're working for us. We consider the first month as a trial
    period. In any case you do not have to pay for anything in advance; there
    are no hidden costs for performing this job. Any fee you might encounter
    will be deducted from our share of the funds before you send it to us.

    You will receive next instructions step by step.

    Unfortunately we cannot setup any interviews now, as we do not have any
    representatives in US. We will be able to come to meet within the next few
    months when the new offices will be opened in your area!

    Please let me know if you are still interested. Within 24 hours after we
    will receive this information we will forward you a copy of the contract you
    have to fill in, sign and e-mail back to us.

    Charlotte Wallace
    Diagnostic Parts Solution PLC
    High Holborn
    Chancery Lane, WC1V
    London, United Kingdom
    FAX 011-44-022-555-1245

    From: Klight317 [mailto:klight317@****]
    Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 5:51 PM
    To: diagnosticparts@aol.com
    Subject: Re: Immediate Job Opening

    Whats the name of the company?

    Kevin Light
    klight317@******

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Charlotte Wallace
    To: Charlotte Wallace
    Sent: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 5:13 pm
    Subject: Immediate Job Opening

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    Thank you for your interest. After viewing your resume on
    careerbuilder.com, we have decided to contact you.

    We have an excellent opportunity for you.

    We are looking for:

    Responsible and motivated individuals to assist in Company's financial
    business. We value the exceptional people and provide our employees with
    an environment conductive for productive and long-term employment.

    We offer:

    - New concept. Commissions without sales.
    - VERY competitive salary plus attractive bonuses plus commissions with
    each order
    - No Fees
    - You can start tomorrow
    - Compensation: $85,000 - $95,000 per year
    - Employee Type: Full-Time/Part-Time
    - Vacation (2 weeks for Exempt employees)
    - 4 paid Company Holidays / 2 paid floating holidays
    Large and stable corporation

    Requirements:

    - MS Office (Word) - basic knowledge
    - Internet access and e-mail
    - A sufficient level of work ethics
    - Ability to learn fast and perform tasks in a timely fashion
    - U.S. resident or green card holder
    - You are not required to quit your current job.

    DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

    - Assist in company's financial business.
    - Perform financial tasks.
    - Make reports.

    We offer opportunities for internal advancement for the responsible
    employees. During the initial stage of work you will receive precise
    instructions and any possible help from the company's Manager. Qualified
    candidates will be offered flexible schedules of work, competitive
    salary, bonuses and other benefits. Company covers all the reasonable
    expenses.

    You will be able to plan your own working schedule (few hours weekly).

    Please reply to this email if you are interested.

    Hiring Department

    You are receiving this employment opportunity email because you uploaded
    your resume on CareerBuilder. If your employment status has changed or
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  2. Mary Inman says:

    another scam - this is about six I have gotten all thru Carreer Builders. Can anything be done abuot these. Feel sorry for people who fall for this kind of junk

    • Greg Bulmash says:

      Worth noting that I was explicit that this did not come through CareerBuilder. CareerBuilder e-mails come through CareerBuilder's servers, not a residential DSL line in Atlanta.

      CareerBuilder has problems, but there's no proof that CareerBuilder was involved with this in any way. Job Scammers try to use CareerBuilder and Monster's brand recognition to make their scams look more legit.

    • Javier Valentini says:

      The only thing you can do is to notify Career Builder sending a copy of the post. I did already.
      Bad that we have to waste our time while searching for new jobs.... I always request address, phone and site name of a company. Also another place where there are many...many scams or spam is Craiglist.

  3. Javier Valentini says:

    I applied for this job too and got the same response as follows. Of course it is a scam, maybe somebody sent you bad checks and then you have to wire the money from your account, and you don't even know that the checks are bad until it is too late. I want to notify the authorities somehow because some people will do this and loose their money. I hate this, searching for a good job and this crap comes to take advantage of me!!!!!!

    Hello Javier,

    Having seen your resume I would like to offer you a position with our
    company. My name is Charlotte Wallace and I am the International Human
    Resource Manager of Diagnostic Parts Solution PLC. I am pleased to inform
    you that we have an open position for you within our company.

    Before we start I want to point out that you can work for us part time also
    even if you had a prior job before talking to us. All you have to do is
    check your e-mail a couple of times per day, a trip to your bank and a trip
    to a Western Union office or agent. You can use the "Find Agent Location"
    search function on the Western Union website to find an office close to you.
    With every check that you process you instantly earn 10% from its total
    value cash in hand and also a consistent bonus. How does it work: you will
    receive the first check as soon as you send back the filled contract with
    your actual name and address which we need to be able to send the check to
    you. Depending on how fast you will send the funds from the check back to us
    you will receive the next two checks and so on, each fast processed check
    yields two new checks to process. This is the dream job for many people that
    have joined us. There is no trick to it. You help us clear our funds from
    orders we receive from our customers in the US and we will repay you
    handsomely. You have our monies with you all the time while processing a
    check so you will keep your commission plus bonus instantly and at the end
    of the month you will receive the $1,000 salary as a fixed income at the
    address you specified in the contract (which can be changed afterwards if
    you relocate). Ask for the contract today and we can start in a few days as
    soon as we finish processing your information and a few verifications for
    safety. If you sign today you will receive your first check within one week.
    Don't miss out on this great chance to increase your income, ask for the
    contract and further details right now!

    Our company was founded in 1972 and it has quickly grown to be one of the
    largest resellers in United Kingdom of medical equipment and apparatus as we
    as in the rest of Europe. We have contracts exclusively with hospitals and
    other medical companies and groups supplying several hundred types of
    products ranging from surgical needles and syringes to MRI and EKG machines
    and everything in between. Our partners include top manufacturers around the
    world such as GE Healthcare, Medtronic, Baxter International, Tyco
    Healthcare, Philips Medical Systems, Cardinal Health, Siemens Medical
    Solutions, Zimmer Holdings, et cetera. Our company has grown very fast
    during the last few years and now we have expanded our market and business
    to the United States. As such we have a high demand in terms of job openings
    in almost every state and we are looking for dedicated and hardworking
    individuals to work for us and help us expand.

    Our success is due to the fact that we are able to meet our customer's
    demands in every shape or form and at any time. We are very flexible and we
    can honor our orders when others cannot. Very fast delivery system combined
    with the fact that we accept almost any type of payment and great customer
    support are the reasons why we have been able to grow so fast and took us to
    where we are today. We take great pride in what we do because it is not
    always easy to satisfy all customer demands while still processing the
    orders very fast and receiving payments for the products in a timely manner.
    We need you to work for us and bellow you will find the job description and
    what will be asked of you should you decide to accept our proposal.

    Job description:

    - NO SALES INVOLVED! Very limited contact: you will not be involved in
    any kind of sales or contact with our customers;
    - Zero fees policy: while performing this job you will encounter no
    fees to be paid in advance whatsoever;
    - Respect privacy: no employee from our company will ever ask you for
    any sensitive information;
    - Total transparency: everything you will do is legal under the
    European Union/United States and International laws as they are currently
    applied.

    Your duties are:

    - To receive payments from our customers which are mainly in form of
    checks (only U.S. emitted checks, no international checks will be sent to
    you; All check will be written in your name);
    - Cashing the checks using your existing bank account; do not use
    checks-cashing stores, they charge too much, sometimes even 10% of the total
    value of the checks
    - Forwarding as'' money in minutes'' by Western Union, we will pay all
    money transfer fees after you will deduct your 10% commission from each
    order you process.

    Your benefits are:

    - Commissions: 10% from each check your will process in the first
    month.
    - Salary: within one month after receiving the first check you will
    receive $1,000 as fixed salary.

    This is a commission based job, the faster you process orders the more your
    income will increase. This bonus is given to also cover internet, phone or
    gas bills. Please note that this salary will be sent after 30 days have
    passed since you received your first payment to process.

    - Rewards for good performance: after two months of working for us an
    increase to 15% commission from all payments might be applied to your
    contract if you process and send all the transfers to us in a timely manner.
    In this case you will be earning around $1,200-1,300 per week as well as the
    $1,000 salary at the end of the month.

    - Education reimburse
    - Vacation (2 weeks for Exempt employees)
    - 4 paid Company Holidays / 2 paid floating holidays
    - Large and stable corporation

    There are also bonuses for cashing the checks and sending the payment to us
    very fast:

    - Cash the check same day: $150 for each check;
    - Cash the check within 24 hours: $100 for each check;
    - Cash the check within 48 hours: $ 50 for each check.

    The $1,000 salary will be sent to you in form of a cashier check.

    The job opening is that of a Representative within the US. The today's
    situation on the financial market requires us to open and fill several of
    these job positions within our company. This opening will help our company
    to reduce the time it takes to receive funding from orders that we receive
    each month and we offer you one of the highest incomes on the market today
    and the minimal expenditures of time.

    With the number of orders we have we cannot put them on hold for fear of
    losing our customers, secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US
    soon enough, as international checks take about 28 working days to cash
    anywhere in Europe. We lose a lot of time and money each month because we
    have money transfer delays. Our clients could pay us where we want by
    sending checks to an US address. What we need you to do is to provide us an
    address where you can receive our customer checks. We need someone who can
    receive the money through this method of payment. Regarding the check
    process all you have to do is to receive the checks our customers will send
    to your address, take them to your bank, cash them and send the remainder
    amount to us after deducting all fees incurred and your commission. You will
    always take your commission upfront. All fees for transferring the funds
    will be supported from our share. Bonuses will apply for cashing checks
    within 24 hours upon receiving a check.

    We make direct contact for sales of products. Once orders are received and
    processed we deliver the product to our customer (usually through USPS). The
    customer receives and checks the product and proceeds to send the payment.
    We accept all forms of payment but most of our customers pay using Bank
    Checks and so to solve this problem and not lose any of our customers we
    have decided to open this new job position. This job is legal according to
    the U.S. legislation as it is today. Local money transfers take but a few
    hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost
    immediately.

    PAYMENT AND SALARY:

    For example you receive a check as payment for 3000.00 USD, you deduct your
    commission (10%): 300.00 USD and then send to us the balance: 2700.00 USD.
    In the first month you will receive around 15-20 orders under 3,000.00 USD
    to process and after checking your performance records during that first
    month the orders you will receive, may increase from 3,000.00 upwards to
    6,000.00 USD. For example 20 transactions each around 3000.00 USD gives you
    a total income of 6,000.00 USD per month and after establishing a close
    co-operation with us you'll be able to operate with larger orders and you'll
    be able to earn more. You will also deduct fees that are related to this job
    (gasoline, western union fees, bank commissions, etc.) from our balance, not
    from your commissions. At first the checks you will receive will vary from:
    $500.00 to $3,000.00. We will also send you a 1099 Form for tax deduction on
    your part. Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have
    them cashed in your existing bank account, we don't accept newly created
    bank accounts because it slows the cashing process. Deduct your percentage
    and forward the balance to the company attorney manager via a western union
    money transfer, the name will be given to you later after cashing a payment.
    This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free time for
    taking up another job; you'll get good income and a regular job. This job is
    very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the
    employee who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest assistant.

    We have health insurance and the 401K retirement savings plan as well as all
    the other standard benefits that a major company usually provides.
    Unfortunately we can only start talking about this after the first month has
    passed since you're working for us. We consider the first month as a trial
    period. In any case you do not have to pay for anything in advance; there
    are no hidden costs for performing this job. Any fee you might encounter
    will be deducted from our share of the funds before you send it to us.

    You will receive next instructions step by step.

    Unfortunately we cannot setup any interviews now, as we do not have any
    representatives in US. We will be able to come to meet within the next few
    months when the new offices will be opened in your area!

    Please let me know if you are still interested. Within 24 hours after we
    will receive this information we will forward you a copy of the contract you
    have to fill in, sign and e-mail back to us.

    Charlotte Wallace
    Diagnostic Parts Solution PLC
    High Holborn
    Chancery Lane, WC1V
    London, United Kingdom
    FAX 011-44-022-555-1245
    mail used: diagnosticpartscareer@aol.com

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