Congrats! You're Hired! (To Be An Advance Fee Fraud Victim)
Are you a fast worker? Can you cash checks drawn on your name? File monthly reports on your preformed tasks? How would like a job in the exciting and burgeoning field of being an advance-fee fraud victim? Positions are available, and filling fast. Here's the hot job offer reader Joel got emailed:
Hello,
We have analyzed your resume and consider you as a potential employee for our firm.
You may obtain more information about our activities at our site.
We'd like to offer you the Financial Manager position.
You may also keep a position in a another company as the position we are offering won't require from you much of your time.
Requirements for the Financial manager position:
- THE CITIZENSHIP OF THE USA an obligation
- 1-3hours of free time weekly
- Over 23 years oldFinancial manager position obligations:
- Well-timed cashing of the checks drawn on your name
- Monthly report on performed tasks
- Work efficiencyFinancial manager position payment (earnings, profits):
- The first probation month - $1600. It'll grow up to $2700 later on
- Every transaction's commission is not less than 10% out of cashed check sum or from the amount entered to your account).Our firm undertakes to cover transaction, check clearance and all other expenditures at its own cost.
If you willing to work for our company, it is necessary for you to:
1) To register yourself on the company's site as a Financial Manager.
WHEN REGISTERING, FILL IN YOUR DETAILS WITHOUT MISTAKES.
2) Follow the instructions indicated on the site during registration. Fill in the Contract, etc.
Additionally, you may find all the detailed information at our site.
TO VISIT OUR SITE, FOLLOW THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LETTER.
Transfer Manager Position
I like a job with prospects, a career path. It looks like in this one you can eventually move up from being an advance-fee fraud victim, to being an advance-fee fraud scammer! Hot diggity.
(Thanks to Joel!)
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Wait, all it takes to become a financial manager is to register myself on a website and work 1-3 hours a week?!
Sign me up! I have "THE CITIZENSHIP OF THE USA" too!
I like how the part about not making mistakes is in big caps while the entire message has mistakes in just about every line.
where do I sign up? forgot to post the link!
Hot diggity dog.
@lolababy: Well they do miss out on the 18-23 year old crowd. The 18 and under group isn't bound by contracts and they don't have money.
So this what the people from AIG have been doing....BAZZING!
Since I signed up with Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com, all I get are these scam e-mails. If you post your resume on these sites, choose the "confidential" option for your online resume to hide your contact info and don't put your address, phone number, and e-mail on the resume that you upload. Employers can still contact you through the sites, but spammers won't have your personal info.
@Graciela:
I think Careerbuilder.com is the offender in this case. I got two of these great job "offers" and both were sent to the email address on file with Careerbuilder. It seems Monster does a better job at preventing scam job offers. I have not received any to the email address on file with Monster.
A-me-ree-ca numba one! My con-tree numba two!
Easy money good! Real work no good!
Obedience good! Questions no good!
A-me-ree-ca good!
I get at least 6 of these a week. They will die down for a while and then start up again. Most of them claim that they are acting on information from Careerbuilder.com, which I haven't used in years.
Once I was bored, so I traced the email to a server in Singapore and from there to a place in China. Explains the poor english, I guess.
Between that and all the people who responded to my craigslist ad to sell a blackberry..they all lived just a few blocks from me, were out of the country at the moment, just remembered a loved one's birthday (in another country) and would gladly pay me much more than I was asking if I would ship it there. Oh, and they were all just coming or just on their way to church.
I mean seriously, who is stupid enough to fall for these things?
@lolababy: They're also limiting themselves to US citizens. Apparently, Green Card holders are not reliable transfer managers.
The best part about advance fee fraud is that they were once called the Spanish Prisoner con because when these were perpetrated in earlier times the scam was that you were helping bust someone wealthy unknown from a Spanish prison. The scams and cons change names and costumes but they still prey on the same things.
@Bargaineering.com: Its always those damn Spanards you just can't trust them!!!!
oh wait.. i married one.. crap... SHE SCAMED ME!
BTW thanks I have one more thing to rag on about the Spanish now; I usually make fun of the Inquisitions and the horrible Armada incident.
What's the point? Are you supposed to mail the rest of the money (from the bogus check you cashed) like in other scams I've seen?
@Scott Steiner: Yes. You wire the money using Western Union and "keep" the rest...which end up being a fraudulent check. But probably not before you've spent it and written your "report" to them about transactions.
I honestly don't know how people still fall for these things.
I've received two 'offers' like this one, both resulting from Career Builder membership.
@JGBrock: Had scammers try to play me for an Airport Express on Craigslist. I told them I felt sorry for them, all that work for a $60 pay out.
I am a customer service manager at a bank and I see what happens when our customers fall for these scams. We try to look out for them, but we can't run their lives, and can only do so much. Sometimes they think they're getting away with something, but then when the check gets returned, they knew it was too good to be true.
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@GiuliettaGanymede: Oh, please. You forgot your email address. I'd really really like to subscribe so I don't get ripped off.
I think they might be limiting themselves with the over 23 requirement.