ScamSafe: Reporting check cashing & other Internet scams

Reporting check cashing & other Internet scams

ScamSafe has been contacted by a number of victims of the check cashing work-at-home scams asking what they should do. So we contacted the FBI and this is what we were told.

"Anyone who responded to these fraudulent schemes--whether you lost money or not--should file an online report with the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). Your report will be analyzed and disseminated to the appropriate federal, state and local law enforcement to help ensure a coordinated investigation. Anyone who lost money should also report the matter to law enforcement, whether it be the local FBI office* or Police Department."

Also, if you lost money, wired money or gave out your account number, you should contact the fraud department of your bank and probably close the account immediately. Although checking or savings accounts don't have the same protections against fraud as credit cards, your bank may provide recompense for lost funds--it's worth asking. And you'll need a police report to back up your claims.

* To find your local FBI field office go here: www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm

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I could tell upon reading this message it was to good to be true. I did not respond to this message. I was looking for a job on many websites. He has a friend that is helping him. Tony Alberts

enquiries.office.position@gmail.com)

-----Original Message-----
From: jespersoffice77
To: cheraquiqueen@aol.com
Sent: Mon, 18 May 2009 2:38 am
Subject: An employer has viewed your resume posting/Job offer

Hello,
This is a "work at home" job, you will be contacted if you are chosen for the position after you must have responded to this message. You don't even need to quit your present job if you have one.Under general supervision from the Accounts Receivable/Funds Manager, the
Accounts Receivable/Collection Specialist will generate daily invoices, mail purchase orders, Recieve payments From client accounts, as well as perform other accounting responsibilities and administrative duties as requested, or assigned, by management. You will be entitled to ten percent (10%) of every payment received, and depending on sales, you could make up to $2000 a week.
Please provide us with the following informations, which will be needed by the company for our transactions with you since payments will be sent to you via courier and we will need to upgrade your data file with us..

1) When will you be available to start work?
2) What is your Current Employment status?
3) Do you have a valid work permit or I.D?
4) References ( minimum of 3 )

I would also like you to provide or correct your direct contact/mailing details
below ;

Name:
Address:
City:
State/Zip:
Email:
Home Phone:
Mobile Phone:

As our Accounts Receivable/Funds Manager you are to keep records of all payments coming through and from the U.S.A. You are also to make sure all payments from our clients are processed and made available to the company.Our clients make payments for our supplies every week inform of Cashiers Check, Company Checks, Money Orders and so on. As you rightly know,these payments are not readily procesable outside the U.S.A We incure a lot of Bad Debt in order for a representative of the company to travel to the states
to get payments processed, and this has made the company run inefficiently and procure losses.This is a continuous opportunity, and most of all would require your honesty and sincerity in all transactions. We need someone reliable for this job, If you are hired, you will act as our Accounts Receivable/Credit Manager in the U.S.A who would receive payments from our customers within the U.S.A after
we must have supplied them product. As a suitable candidate for this job, you must assure us that all payments received would be processed immediately,and the balance minus your 10% and transfer charges, would be forwarded to
the assigned official immediately.We would like you to certify that we should trust your capacity to handle this
job efficiently.
Do you understand that false information may be grounds for not hiring me or
for immediate termination of employment at any point in the future if you am
hired?
Do you authorize the verification of any or all information listed above?
Go through this message carefully and get back to us with your intentions as
soon as possible via email (enquiries.office.position@gmail.com)
Best Regards,
Bill Youngers.
F. B. Jesper & Son (Commercial) Limited
Unit 2, Hydro Business Park,
Ripon Road,
HARROGATE,
North Yorkshire
HG1 2BS.
+447024082024.

Posted by: CheVonne L. at May 19, 2009 9:10:05 AM

On April 28, 2009, I received an email in reponse to my resume posted on monster/dice/telecomCareers.net, etc. for an at-home accounting job. The email came from:

Bill Youngers,
F. B. Jesper & Son (Commercial) Limited
Unit 2, Hydro Business Park,
Ripon Road,
HARROGATE,
North Yorkshire
HG1 2BS.
+447024082024

Please read an above entry about the scam Posted by: Vicki Gatton at Oct 9, 2008 8:28:25 AM.

The email sent to me stated that they wanted me to reply to this work-from-home/accounts receivable position at the following email addy: enquiries.office.position@gmail.com.

Their email was sent by the following email address:

jesper.and.son.bill305@hotmail.com.

This is a scam. I did not respond & selected "SPAM." I found ScamSafe by searching their said business name.

Posted by: Michelle M at Apr 29, 2009 9:56:07 AM

Look out for e-mails from Paul Miller's Art. I thought it would be interesting to see what turns up so I " went along" with it. The other day I did get a check for $9,950. They did a great job on the check, it sure looks real. There is no return address on the envelope it came in and it was mailed from Canada.It's from a Peerless Pump company in Indianopolis and the bank used is a PNC Bank, N.A. in Jeanette, PA. I'm going to call the pump co. and the bank and let them know what is going on. I already checked on the routing number on the check and know it isn't any good. Have to give these guys and E for effort.

Posted by: Mona at Mar 15, 2009 10:28:02 PM

I RECEIVED THE BAKER ARTS CREATIONS "SCAM"....I WAS FOOLISH ENOUGH TO GET INVOLVED IN THAT BUT AT THIS POINT, I HAVE NOT LOST MONEY, BUT I AM BEING EMAILED AND CALLED BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE INSISTING THE OTHER PERSON IS A FRAUD AND THAT I SENT THE MONIES TO THE WRONG PERSON AND THAT I OWE THE MONIES THAT I WIRED TO THE WRONG INDIVIDUAL AND THAT MY COMMISSION IS REDUCED OR STOPPED UNTIL I PAY BACK AND JUST KEEP CASHING THESE CHECKS AND WESTERN UNIONING THE MONIES TO THE "CORRECT" PERSON. AGAIN, I HAVE NOT LOST ANYTHING, BUT AM BEING HARRASSED.

Posted by: ANDREA FERRI at Feb 5, 2009 10:51:41 AM

Here is one of the latest online email scam that I received with the $2100 electronic check. I was told to cash the check and deduct 10% from $2100 and send the rest of money with Western Union only.

"Hello,
How you doing? My name is Willnas, from Tennessee and right now i work in Las Vegas I read your description and am inst rested in your services,I just brought some computers and they are are laptops Pentium 3 dell computer ..i want you to Install software such as Microsoft Office and Anti virus, clean inner & outer computer components, update software to current status,i have a shipper that will bring them to you and also bring them back when its done he will also come to you with the software and anti virus needed Get back to me with your total cost for the services of eight computer only cos all the software and anti-virus and windows will come with the pcs.i will like You to know that my mode of payment is by check or Money order. I await your urgent response so that i can put the arrangement in order."

Watch out for this scam!

Posted by: andy at Dec 8, 2008 7:52:34 AM

I receieved this e-mail right after I posted my resume on www.internshipprograms.com

Robbinson Frankers and Sons Art and Craft works.
Address: -21,Anthony Street,
Rothley,Leicester,LE7 7PA.
UK.
+447024011030.
Rc:147036

Hello,
I saw your advert on www.internshipprograms.com for indicating that you need job that is why i
introduced this to you.. I am looking for a representative in USA and Canada who will be working
for me as a part time worker and i will be willing to pay 10% for every transaction, which
wouldn't affect your present state of work.I need someone who would help me receive payments from my customers in the State,i mean someone that is responsible and reliable,because the cost of coming to USA and Canada to get the payments is very expensive,i am working on setting up a branch in the State,so for now I need a representative in the United State and Canada who will be handling the payment aspect.These payments will be made Via cash and
they would come to you in your name, so all you need to do is:
(A) Receive Payments on our Behalf from out global Debtors;such payments shall come in the form of Official Checks,Cashiers Checks ,Postal Money Orders and Bank drafts, all of which shall be issued in the USA OR Canada.
(B) Cash such payments and transfer the monies via Money gram Or Western Union Money Transfer.I have my way of getting anyone that gets away with our money,I mean with legal backing. It wouldn't cost you any amount,you are to receive payments which will be sent to you from my customers, which would come in Cash, then you are to cash it deduct your 10% charges and send the cash to me via Money Gram Or Western Union International Money Transfer.If you are interested,please get back to me as soon as possible with this information listed below :

FIRST NAME :
LAST NAME :
AGE:
GENDER :
ADDRESS :
CITY :
STATE :
ZIP CODE :
PHONE NUMBER:

Posted by: Confused at Nov 26, 2008 3:52:47 PM

I recently received an email in reponse to my resume posted on mlive.com for an at-home accounting job. The email came from:
Bill Youngers,
F. B. Jesper & Son (Commercial) Limited
Unit 2, Hydro Business Park,
Ripon Road,
HARROGATE,
North Yorkshire
HG1 2BS.
+447024082024

This seemed too good to be true, so we did some research. There is an actual company listed with Dun & Bradstreet. I responded to the email providing the information requested and they responded that I was approved. I received a check in the mail in the amount of $1,919. I was ready to deposit it, but wondered why it would be coming from Spelman College. After calling the college, we discovered the college gets a lot of these.... however they do not have an account with Wachovia Bank. I am glad I found this site and plan on contacting the FBI with the information. It's too bad in this bad economy that people like this make it difficult to trust legimate businesses.

Posted by: Vicki Gatton at Oct 9, 2008 8:28:25 AM

Scam or Real....Please anyone else get one!
BAKER ARTS CREATIONS

10 Newport ave, Scoffford Area,
Oxford, L349HA, 44(0)7031821746

Hello,

Due to the resent expansion in our Gallaria and the large demand for it in your
country,we will be glad to employ your services, I need a representative who can
be working for our company in The UNITED STATES; I have finalized now for us to
move on, at all I want is a representative. The job does not entail much. Your
percentage will be 10% ok? All i want is an honest representative over there.

All you would be doing is receiving these payments in form of MONEY ORDERS,
which would be coming from some clients I want to let you know that this is not
a scam at all ok? All I want is an honest representative that will be my
representative over there, but you must have to assure me that you are going to
be very honest in this transaction with our company ok?

In the United States via the mail. So when you get these Money Orders all you
have to do is have them cashed and deduct your share (10%) and wire the rest
down to me here in England via (Western Union Money Transfer). the wire
expenses will be
from my share.

I would also need some proof of Identity. So I have attached an Employment form
for you to fill and send back to me via email.

BAKER ARTS AND CRAFT APPLICATION FORM

FIRST NAME...................... LAST
NAME...........................................

ADDRESS ....................................................................

CITY STATE........................................................

ZIP CODE.. COUNTRY..............

PHONE NUMBER (S) ...................................

GENDER.. MARITAL STATUS.

OCCUPATION..................................................................................

AGE.

ATTESTATION

According to how you have been briefed earlier by me. You are required and
mandated to receive payment on behalf of the above-mentioned firm. You are to
deduct 10% of all funds processed on a particular Transaction and forward the
balance payment via Western Union Money Transfer.

You will notify me a week ahead if eventually you want to discontinue this job
so as to terminate all payment coming your way to avoid conflict.

In agreement to this kindly append signature below
BAKER ARTS CREATIONS

ANNE BAKER

Posted by: Elaina at Jul 7, 2008 9:07:16 AM

Here is a scam I received at 11:03pm last night.

Hello,
I am Bill Youngers, The Jespers Office. Company Registration No:

1892461, Registered in England & Wales VAT No: 417 9484 20.
I viewed your resume on jobs.pennlive.com
About the Company:
The Jespers Office is one of the leading independent suppliers of Office

Products in the North of England. We are passionate and totally

committed about the quality of service that we provide, and pride

ourselves on going that extra mile to get the job done.
We also believe in taking the hassle out of ordering your office supplies.

This is why we operate a one-stop-shop solution, where you can

purchase all of your Stationery, Office Furniture, Computer Supplies,

Catering & Janitorial, Facilities Management, AV & Presentation and

Business Machines from one dedicated supplier.
Who we need:
The Jespers Office needs someone who is a book-keeper/representative.

or someone who can play the role of a book-keeper/representative in the

United States,
The company produces Office Stationery, Computers, Machines and

Supplies, Furniture and Office Environment, Miscellaneous, Facilities

Management; we have clients which we supply weekly in the United

States.
This clients make payments for our supplies every week inform of

Cashiers Check and Bank Transfer, and as you know, the checks are not

readily cashable outside the United States.
So all we need is a self motivated individual to work as our representative

and assist us in processing the payments from our clients and we will pay

him or her 10% of the total amount per check.
ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS RECEIVE THIS PAYMENT FROM OUR

CLIENTS IN THE STATES, GET IT CASHED IN YOUR BANK THEN

DEDUCT YOUR 10% WAGE AND FORWARD THE BALANCE TO THE

COMPANY DOWN HERE VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.
The payments will be issued to you and you get it cashed at your bank.
Get back to me if you are interested and you don't have to quit your

present job (if you already have one).
Send an email to enquiries.joffice@googlemail.com if interested.
Best Regards,
Bill Youngers,
F. B. Jesper & Son (Commercial) Limited
Unit 2, Hydro Business Park,
Ripon Road,
HARROGATE,
North Yorkshire
HG1 2BS.
+447024082024.

Posted by: Keisha at Jul 4, 2008 1:08:47 AM

Good tidings to you as you read.
Please permit me to write you irrespective of the fact we have not met
before. I got your contact through network online hence
I decided to write you. I would be very interested in offering you a
part-time paying job in which you could earn up to $7,000 a month as
extra income. opening an account would have been my best choice if I
was not working on a deadline that must meet a 24 hour turn around
time, other options are not on my side due to time, money, and
requirements. This is why I am offering a part time opportunity to
someone responsible who can supply prompt assistant and service.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Work as my payment assistant in charge of collecting and processing
the payments from the associates.
1. Receive payment (inform of money orders/checks) from my
Clients/Associates.
2. Cash the Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10%, which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.
4. You will then forward the balance via Western Union Money
Transfer according to my instruction.
REQUIREMENT:
18 years or older.
Responsible, Reliable and Trustworthy Available to work a minimum 3-4
hours per week.Able to check and respond to emails often.
Easy telephone access.
IS THIS LEGAL? YES
It is very legal, Doing this job is 100% safe and legal. I would be
glad if you accept my proposal for an opportunity to make up 10% of
each transaction completed. Please reply via email with complete
information as requested:
A. NAME,==============
B. STREET ADDRESS (NOT P.O BOX),=================
C. CITY:===============================
D. STATE:=============================
E. ZIP CODE============================
F. COUNTRY============================
G. MOBILE NUMBER, ====================
H. AGE, ===============================
I. SEX, ==================================
J. OCCUPATION============================
K. E MAIL==================================
All replies should be sent to drrichardmoo@googlemail.com
Regards,
DR Richard Morgan

Posted by: notquite at Jun 28, 2008 1:47:15 AM

Just got this today:

Posted by: notquite at Jun 28, 2008 1:45:11 AM

I was just lured into a scam of this sort-
got an email from a kenneth santos from the uk wanting to hire me to cash cashier checks and send money grams to the uk for xenex company out of the uk- and i was to keep 10% of the checks i cashed-
when i called the bank that the check was from- they told me it was'nt a real check and they had several fraudulent checks with the remitter Tyson R Robins as was the cashiers check i received- when i emailed kenneth and told him i would be checking with Baker Boyer Bank to see if the cahiers check was good he never responded-

Posted by: katie at Feb 25, 2008 5:39:35 PM

MIRAGE RECRUITMENT AGENCY
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

ATTN: Jatin Talavia,

It is of utmost importance to inform you that after the screening and scrutiny of your Curriculum Vitae with other verification procedures carried out, ELLESSE OIL LTD LONDON (EOL) were able to resolve the status of your application.

On this note, we hereby congratulate you on the success of your application and as such we have attached to you the Offer Letter/Terms of Agreement that transcends any written document. You are therefore required to follow these procedures IMMEDIATELY so as to complete your employment formalities:

(1)You are to contact the traveling agent for a valid Work-Permit/Employment Authorization Document IMMEDIATELY so as to
enable your work in London legally.

Note that the procurement of your work-permit MUST not exceed the deadline as stipulated in the offer letter as it would take four (3) working days for the traveling agent to procure your work-permit before the United kingdom high commission.
Below are the contact details of the U.K traveling agent:

Visit UK Travel Agent
78 Water Crescent - Oakwood Press
GB 989 London, United Kingdom
Contact Person: CONTROLLER (Mr. KELVIN PHILIP)
Designation: VISA, WORK/RESIDENT DEPARTMET
Website: www.visituk-online.com
Email: info@visituk-online.com or visituktravelingagency@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44.702.401.6066,
Fax: +44.768.678.6566

(2)You are required to sign the Terms of Agreement and send back a copy to us and also the Human Resources of ELLESSE OIL LTD LONDON (EOL) via the below contact information for the preparation of your office, apartment and also for the release of your first month salary as stated in the document attached.

Ellese Oil Limited UK
89 Trinidad Road - Yorkshire
Manchester City - Great Britain
Contact Person: GABRIEL SMITH
Designation: HUMAN RESURCES DEPARTMENT
Website: www.ellesseoil.com
Email: info@ellesseoil.com or career@ellesseoil.com
Tel: +44.702.401.6175
Fax: +44.687.434.0646

You should also draft an acceptance letter and send it together with the signed copy of the contract agreement to Human Resources Department and inform them that you have accepted the job offer.

(3) Once we confirm your works and residence permit from the U.K traveling agent, which stipulates that you are ready to join the team, we will take care of your traveling documents together with your flight ticket and any money which you spend in the procurement of your U.K Valid papers will be reimbursed to you during your first month upfront salary.

We hereby once more congratulate you on the success of you application amongst many that have applied and thereby instruct you to expedite all requirements as aforementioned so as to be able to meet the team before the deadline. Do get back to us with developments and updates regarding the procurement of your valid work-permit.

Congratulations!!!

Regards

DR.SPEARMAN HADCASTLE
Recruitment Co-coordinator
Mirage Recruitment International (Agent)

Posted by: jatin talavia at Nov 28, 2007 12:36:08 AM

Help me out w/this one someone..I have been contacted many times w/obvious scams, checks the whole bit and did not bite..Here it is..I filled out an online application to be a mystery shopper..they not only accepted me sight unseen or untalked to and sent a check for over nine hundred dollars with an outline of which one hundred and twenty goes to me..I did a reverse on the bank the check (and it looks good)is drawn on it is in Ky.Fifth Third Bank,there are branches, one w/the zip on my mail check..Corporate valuation Concepts..www.corpevaluation.com is the site and company they are in Toronto, on M5r..Somebody contact me w/any info..Thanks will post also what I can find out..Thanks eM

Posted by: Elaine at Oct 4, 2007 5:59:09 PM

They responded back and here is what I emailed them with. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR GIVING ME A HEADS UP!

I am sorry... but getting an email from someone I don't know telling me that the job is 100% legal is not convincing. I have been doing some homework and I see that there are numerous people getting scammed and sent to jail for doing these things because these checks are bogus or stop payments are issued. I also see that you got my information from a job posting on career builder.com. I never applied to your company but I did apply at a place called Surrey Hotels (which by the way HAS NO hotels here in Dallas). Very sneaky.
I am NOT interested in being scammed or put in jail.... so the answer is no. Not Interested.
Remove me from your email list IMMEDIATELY!

>From: "Surrey Staffing, Inc."
>To: April Clemons
>Subject: Re: FULL training included: CareerBuilder Job - $3,800/month
>Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:53:36 -0700 (PDT)
>
>The job is 100% legal in USA and all our sales activities are recorded at Germany and USA work bureau and we pay taxes for all payments that we receive.
>
>
> Our website address is located at www.unique-ads.net
>
>
> We are selling various advertising packages (newspaper advertising, email advertising) in US and Canada and we need you to process all the payments for these products because here in Germany the money orders and cashier checks are cleared within two weeks or more and is not reliable for our sales.
>
> ALL sales taxes will be paid by our company, Surrey Staffing, Inc.
> Your commision is 10% from the total amount that you receive.
>
>
>
> You will have to pay income tax for these 10% that you earn with every processed order. You will NOT pay taxes for the entire amount because you can keep the transfer invoices that shows black on white that you transferred the payment minus 10% to Surrey Staffing, Inc.
>
>
> International taxes will be paid by our store. You will have to pay taxes but only for your 10% income, this means that you will pay $6 to every $100 earned with our company.
>
>
> We provide 1099 form at the end of each year.
>
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Randall Jager, Surrey Staffing, Inc.
> Company Location: Grünwalder Straße 115, 81546 München, Germany
> Phone: 0049 (089) 61178560 Fax 0049 (089) 61178580
> http://www.unique-ads.net

Posted by: April Clemons at Aug 4, 2007 7:44:22 PM

Ok... I have a good one for everyone. I applied for a job with Surrey Hotels on CareerBuilder (a real hotel in NY and Chicago). Then I get the following email from a company called Surrey Staffing Inc. So anyone could google the hotel company and see that it exists, but of course of no intention of having hotels in Dallas TX (where I live). Very sneaky way of getting my information. I reported the ad to CareerBuilder. Anyone applying for what seems to be a real job is actually opening themselves up to these scam artists!

Email:
We are an advertising company from Germany called Surrey Staffing, Inc.

Description of this job: Part Time Representative: $3,800/month

In this Representative position your task is to receive and clear at the bank
the money orders or cashier checks that our US customers have to pay to our
company for advertising packages.
In this way we will receive some payments faster (US money orders/checks are
cleared in Germany in 30 days from the day are received).

You have 10% commission from every check that you will receive so you are paid
for your services same day you process the payment because you will deduct your
share directly.
The job is 100% legal in USA and all our sales activities are recorded at US
Work Bureau.

In order to start this part time job today we have some requirements:

1. Be at least 18 years old and have a bank account (in order to cash
checks/money orders without fees - IMPORTANT: WE WILL NEVER ASK FOR YOUR BANK
ACCOUNT NUMBERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION FROM YOU)
2. Have an address where you will receive money orders and cashier checks from
our customers, your home address will be fine, or a PO Box, if you have one.
3. Possibility to check your email and respond to our messages (if any) same
day.

Our support team will assist you 100% in order to have all payments processed in
time.

All you need is an established bank account, where you will cash the checks. It
really depends where you cash the checks. We do not welcome new bank accounts
for our business for a few reasons. First, you won't be able to cash checks
fast, because the banks put at least a few weeks' hold to deposits into a new
account.
We do make background research on all the international customers before we sell
our advertising packages.
We also verify the checks for funds availability before it arrives to you. In an
outstanding case of any problem, we offer a full guarantee to cover the fees.
That way you can feel absolutely protected and safe.

You will receive various payments from our US or Canada buyers for our
advertising packages.
With US representative's help we can process payments faster and the customers
will be served faster. We are selling in US 95% from time advertising packages
like ads in Europe Newspapers, email marketing packages, Search engine services.

If there will be something that you don't know, simply ask our support team and
you will have all the answers within few hours or minutes.
My name is Simone Jager and I will keep you informed regarding payments and
procedures.

This is step by step explanation of entire and simple process:

1. You complete the name and address below
2. We advertise our services and in 4-5 days after you sent your address you
start to receive payments from our customers (money orders, checks) made payable
to your name and address for instant processing
3. You cash one payment (check or money order) - at the bank same day
4. You deduct your 10% from total amount of the check or money order that you
receive and clear at the bank.
5. You transfer us 90% minus transfer costs (the transfer costs are paid from
our 90%) with bank to bank transfer or Western Union
6. You receive another payment and you process it same way.

This job implies only checks/money orders cashing, nothing else is required to
work for us. We will never ask you any fees to work for us.

To begin this job we need your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS (your postal address --
home address) FOR PAYMENTS that will be mailed (shipped) to your address:

Full name:
Address:
City, State, Zip code:
2 Email Addresses:
Phone number:

The money orders and cashier checks that will be processed by you can be cleared
same day you receive the USPS delivery.
If you agree and want to start the job, Your response with your name and address
is expected today.

From the moment we have your approval and your name and address we will start
the advertising program and ask customers to send checks and money orders to
your address.

How you will be paid: You will have 10% from each payment that you receive and
process AND also will receive every two weeks $1,000 paycheck from our company
starting the day you process your first payment. After 30 days of testing
period we'll sign by mail contract for long-term.

Within these 30 days, testing period, your approval to work for our company is a
US legally binding contract, you cannot agree now, make us spend money
advertising and then leave this job.
We provide 1099 form at the end of each year. Please be responsible. Job is very
simple and all terms are clear, we will instruct you step by step if you don't
know anything.

Thank you for your time and hope to hear from you soon.

Posted by: April at Aug 2, 2007 10:37:12 PM

I received a new one today. Usually I just mark certain types of emails as "spam" without opening, but this was sent as a supposed job offer, and I'm looking to a job; and I happen to sew. So that's kind of weird, makes me wonder is someone actually did some background search on me? here it is:
copy/paste:
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 02:11:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Send an Instant Message "Bacon Fabrics"
Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.com. Learn more
Subject: PART-TIME JOB OFFER.......APPLICATION FORM
To: Send an Instant Message alextun00@yahoo.com
Dear friend,
Bacon Fabrics and Textiles need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper in other country. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA. You don't need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment, Our integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world leading suppliers. Order processing, production monitoring and process flow are
seamlessly integrated through a company-wide computer network .

* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 usd.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day This we need to get payments for our products as soon as it possible because customers can just "forget" to pay. Unfortunately we are unable to open bank accounts in the United State without first registering the company name. Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put it on hold. For fear of loosing the customers out rightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US soon enough as international Cheques take about 14 working days for cash to be made available. We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays. YOUR TASK Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process. You are not involved in any sales.
Our sales manager sells products. Once he makes a sale we deliver the product to a customer (usually through USPS OR FEDEX).The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to
pay through Certified Cheques and Money orders based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem. Your tasks are;

1. Receive payment from Customers

2. Cash Payments at your Bank

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 contacted to send payment to. (Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gramme or Western Union Money Transfer. Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer payment almost immediately.
For example you ve got 3000.00USD You take your income : 300.00 USD Send to us: 2700.00 USD - cost of sending, First month you will have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD
So you may calculate your income. For example 18 transactions on 3500.00
USD gives you 4410.00 USD

BACON DOZEN FABRICS INDUSTRIAL LTD
60 ALGERNON RD, LEWISHAM,
GREATER LONDON,
SE13 7AR, ENGLAND.

APPLICATION FORM

FIRST NAME............ LAST NAME..............

ADDRESS........................

CITY........................ STATE..................

ZIP CODE.............. COUNTRY...................

PHONE NUMBER (S) ...................

GENDER................. MARITAL STATUS..............

AGE.............. NATIONALITY.............

ID NUMBER (optional)...............

ATTESTATION According to how you have been briefed earlier by me. You are required and mandated to receive payment on behalf of the above mentioned firm. You are to deduct 10% of all funds processed on a particular order and forward the balance payment via Western Union Money Transfer and MONEY GRAM to any of our branch i would also be needing some proof of Identity.so i have attached an Employment form for you to fill and send back to me via email. You will notify me a week ahead if eventually you want to discontinue this job so as to terminate all payment coming
your way to avoid conflict. Have a good time,
Waiting to hear from you.

Posted by: brenda at Jul 6, 2007 9:48:04 PM

I got this email as well, but went ahead and asked for the contract anyway. Here is what they posted.

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KWR Security, Inc. Representative Contract

You can read the contract in this email attachment.

You can print the last page of the contract, sign it, make one picture of the signed page (digital picture if you have no scanner) and send this picture with signature back to us via email or to the fax number below or via email.

Our fax number is : +39-06-8038-0012

In order to start your job today we have some requirements:

1. Be at least 21 years old and have a bank account (in order to deposit checks if needed â€“ IMPORTANT: WE WILL NEVER ASK FOR YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBERS OR OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION FROM YOU)
2. Have a postal address where you will receive money orders and cashier checks from our customers.
2. Check your email several times a day (two times each day is needed)
3. You need to respond to our emails same day.
4. Be responsible, hard working and communicable.
5. Be able and know how to cash one check or money order.
6. Have at least one free half hour every day (in the evening or in the morning, your choice) to cash payments that will come from our customers.

Our support team will be next to you in order to have all payments processed same day.

We do make background research on all the international customers before we sell our products.
We also verify the checks for funds availability before it arrives to you. In an outstanding case of any problem, we offer a full guarantee to cover the fees. That way you can feel absolutely protected and safe.

You will receive various payments from our US or Canada buyers for our products/services and every customer will specify when the payment will be sent the amount and the products that were purchased.

In Europe they ussualy deliver the funds within 10 days if we have one bank account open to one US bank(we have the bank account open to one Spanish bank - this will delay payments with another 3-4 days) and this delay is not profitable for our company.

With US representatives help we can process these payments faster and the customers will be served faster.

We are selling in US 95% from time system alarms . We are also selling other various security products if customers are interested.

If there will be something that you don't know, simply ask our support team and you will have all the answers within few hours or minutes.

One explanation of this job, step by step

1. You agree with our contract, send your postal address and you are ready to process payments.
2. We advertise our products and in 4-5 days after you agreed with terms you start to receive payments from our customers (money orders, checks) made payable to your name and address for instant processing.
3. You cash one payment (check or money order) - at the bank or check cashing store.
4. You deduct your 10% from total amount of the check or money order that you receive and cash.
5. You transfer us 90% minus transfer costs (the transfer costs are paid from our 90%) with bank to bank transfer.
6. You receive another payment and you process it.

Please call me Oliver, my name is Oliver Balack and I will keep you informed regarding payments and procedures.

This job implies only checks/money orders cashing, nothing else is required to work for us. We will never ask you any fees to work for us. If you know to cash a check, this is the job for you. Please don't expect to earn thousands of dollars in the first weeks, we promise that you will earn more than $5,500 every month but first we have to advertise our products in US, you will surely make $500 every week in your first month of work.

To begin this job we need your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS (your postal address) FOR PAYMENTS that will be mailed(shipped) to your postal address:

Full name:
Address:
City, State, Zip code:
Phone number:

Fax the address and also send it via email.

The money orders and cashier checks that will be processed by you can be cleared same day you receive the USPS delivery.

In order to start this job, your response is expected today and also your signature (last page of contract signed).

From the moment we have your approval that you agree with all terms of the contract and your name and address we will start the advertising program and ask customers to send checks and money orders to your address.

Thank you

Staffing/Management Group

KWR Security , Inc.

Via Boncompagni,37
00187 Rome,Italy

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I have to admit, even I was almost convinced. It's just a shame that emails like this totally reek of Nigerian inheritance scams...

Posted by: Ixnayonthetimmay at Jun 26, 2007 6:52:33 PM

I got several emails offering the check scam and the deposit money into bank account scam. All having to do with transfering money.
Here are some of the many companies that I have received those emails from:

My name is Michael Sasse (Head of Public Relations, WINGAS Companies).
WINGAS GmbH COMPANIES.
Head Office.
Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 160
D-34119 Kassel Germany.
Web site: www.wingas.de
Email: jobs.wingas@gmail.com
APPLICATION FORM

BPO Security, Inc.
$5500 monthly job - response at your resume on careerbuilder.com
BPO Security , Inc.

Via Boncompagni,37
00187 Rome,Italy

businesstrade99@aol.com
http://business-trade-company.net/index.html
Antonio is my corresponders name.

densongroup@aol.com/James Button
As DensonFinance Independent Agent
http://densonfinance.com/ and apply
http://densonfinance.com/registration.htm

Christopher Martin with Live Solutions
Christopher Martin
Department of employment
job.department.live.solutions@gmail.com
LIVE Solutions Inc.
http://www.live-solutions.hk/e/

Mr Larry Topper
Marketing Executive
Xenex Navigation Inc

Posted by: Rhonda at Jun 7, 2007 8:10:18 PM

Well, I found this on Craigslist. Scammers are working everywhere. Looks like differant person same game.

From: Michael Kaplan
Date: 05/28/07 15:26:47
To: duaine s
Subject: Re: Fast courier. 1000 weekly

Hello, Duaine.

Here's some info about our company and the whole process so you can find
answers for most of your questions

CIS Express was created in March 2003 to assist small vendors and
individuals from Russia, Ukraine and Eastern European countries in
their work in US and Canada's markets.

Most of our clients are working in adult business or selling software.
Payment is the main problem for such sellers. The most popular methods
of payment for such sellers are checks and electronic transfers.

There are only two methods of payment available Russia and Eastern
European region - services like Western Union and Moneygram or Wire
transfers. Wire transfers and rather complicated and Western Union
and Moneygram are not widely known by US customers and transfer fees
of such services are rather high for P2P transfers. This makes the work
of individual seller very hard.

Our aim is help such sellers. We've tried different working schemes
but none of them was good enough. Finally we decided to use P2P agent
method of work.

Right now we have over 500 clients who are working with us on
permanent bases. We work as an agent between our clients and
individuals in US. A few years of successful work shows the benefits
of that organization scheme for all parties involved.

Starting with online payment systems now we are also working with
checks processing and electronic transfers.

You'll work as an independend contructor and you can be provided with
1099 form for IRS by the end of the year.

We also provide high level of security for everyone. We check all
seller before we start working with them to verify their legibility
and legibility of the content they are selling. We also verify all our
employees before they are allowed to work with out clients and our
employees are protected from any type of reversals by our policy of
next day refunding (money will be credited from our client's account).
Also note that you'll receive all transfers only AFTER services are
rendered. This protects us from being involved in online fraud and
money laundering schemes.

Our main office is located in Moscow, Russia.
In 2007 we are planning to open our Kiev and New York branches.

Right now we have openings for wire and check processing.

Note: we also have a special offer for workers with business accounts

What you need to work with checks.

What you need to start:

1. To have a checking account at least 4 months old or you can open a
new account for this.

2. Be able to accept incoming transfers and resend them in 3 days.
(Only after transfer is cleared at your bank)

3. A copy of your legal ID scanned and emailed to us. Digital photo of
ID is fine too.
This is needed because we are working with your client's money and
we have to be sure in our employees. This copy will be used ONLY
for verification of Identity.

We offer 10% for processing bank transactions.
You are responsible for all transfer fees.
Transfers are usually $8000-$15000
Western Union transfer fee for large amounts is about 4%
Using International wire transfer is about $50

Sample transaction:

1. You receive a wire transfers for $10000
2. You wait for the transfer to be cleared and withdraw money
3. You should send 90% of funds received to our client.
That would be $9000
4. Transfer funds with our client's preferred method - Moneygram
or Wire transfer.
Sending $9000 with Moneygram would cost you about $300.
You income is about $700.
Transfers using wire transfers are much cheaper but clients usually
prefer Moneygram

--
Best Regards,
Michael

Posted by: Duaine at May 28, 2007 4:49:33 PM

it seams this one has changed what email thier sending from

$5500 monthly job - response at your resume on careerbuilder.com website
From: BDO Sec Inc (bdosecurity@gmail.com)
You may not know this sender. Mark as safe | Mark as unsafe
Sent:Fri 5/11/07 11:20 PM
To: shadowlrd2@hotmail.com

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Dear careerbuilder jobseeker, This message is a response to your resume from www.careerbuilder.com website. We have one job available for Work at Home with GUARANTEED $5,500 every month. Established European company seeking dependable, enthusiastic representatives. No matter what you do for a living - whether you are a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a secretary, nurse, housewife or construction worker. We don't ask fees for this job. We don't ask experience, just few hours are needed in one week. IMPORTANT - You must be over 21 years old. IMPORTANT - US CITIZEN We are looking for 30 representatives in US for beginning. First, you have to understand what our company is looking for and if you think that this kind of job is made for you to ask for our Representative Contract to be signed. If you have one free hour daily (not including weekends) you are welcome to join today. You can earn FROM $50,000 up to $200,000 a year (depends on our software sales) and more after one year working with us. Our company can guarantee $5,500 every month in your first year of work. What we offer you: · Flexibility of hours (any hour you choose) · Work at home (all you have to to is check your email and go to the bank) · Part Time/Full Time · Daytime and Evening Hours · Professional management team with a strong support system We have stores in Spain and all Europe and we are looking for US representatives to handle US payments. We are selling various products (security systems) in US and Canada and we need YOU to process all the payments for these products because here in Europe the money orders and cashier checks are cleared within two weeks or more and is not reliable for our sales. 90% from US buyers don't have the knowledge to pay with bank to bank transfers. You can intermediate our sales (process payments) and you will be paid with 10% for every payment that you have to process. Remember that your commission from this job is 10% from every amount that you will receive. This means that if you receive You will have more than one payment for process per day. Your profit will be instant: you will have your commission in hand same day because you will deduct your money from every payment that you receive after the bank or the check cashing store clears the payment. You DONT HAVE TO PAY FOR ANYTHING TO WORK FOR US like other internet companies are asking. Instead: you will have your 10% commission in hand with every order that you process. No need to wait for paycheck at the end of the month because you DEDUCT YOUR COMMISSION SAME DAY YOU WORK. You will receive the response same day. Remember: No costs: Nothing to buy. No membership to pay. No accounts to purchase. More benefits:Work Full Time or Part Time This is NOT Network Marketing This is NOT a Distributorship There is NO 'Kit' to Buy There are NO Envelopes to Stuff We DO NOT Charge You a Dime We Pay Weekly We have stocks of products for US and Canada customers and we need US representative to intermediate the payments between our company and the end buyers. To simplify what this job implies: we advertise our software products on US market and because checks that are sent by customers here in Spain are cleared very slow (2 weeks plus shipping delay - more than 3 weeks), we need US representative (you) in order to receive payments for our products (checks, money orders) and cash them same day at the bank. Your commission is 10% from each money order/ check, if you receive 2-3 checks one day you will make more than $200 every day. If you agree please ask for our Representative Contract today to be viewed and signed. If needed, contact us with your questions - REMEMBER: NO FEES TO WORK, NOTHING TO PAY, NOTHING TO MANUFACTURE HOME. If you are interested working with our company reply today. You can start within 2-3 days if you agree with our contract. Thank you for your patience

Posted by: Jason at May 11, 2007 4:42:49 PM

Marketing Alternatives, LTD- William Lean

So today i got a fedex package with three checks for $3000 and a form to fill out about how the service was when i cashed the checks. I barely remembered applying for this but then looking back to my emails, I saw that i had an email from him asking if I was still interested in and he went ahead and fedexed me the checks without me telling him to.

i had a weird feeling about this so i decided to check on here if anyone knew anything about it

Posted by: Kelsey at Mar 16, 2007 9:21:20 AM

Beware of United States Rare Coin @ Bullion Reserve Austin,Texas. I am in the 5th week of attempting to return some of my gold coins for cash. Getting nothing but excuse, promises. They promised to overnight a check after they received my coins on Tuesday. It is now Saturday.

Posted by: Don at Feb 24, 2007 7:49:30 AM

Posted by: Don at Feb 24, 2007 7:48:27 AM

Just received a email regarding a manager job I sent my resume to on Craigslist Seattle. Ad said it was a non office job. Guy's name was Paul Restuccia from cis-express,com. Same as previous posts about doing money transfers for Russia and Eastern European businesses. How can this person continue to do this when we all know it's a scam. Thought it was interesting that my email provider automatically put his in my Junk folder. STAY CLEAR of this scam or you will lose all your money in your bank account!!

Posted by: Eric at Feb 19, 2007 9:52:10 AM

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