Posted by Mr Spamalicious | Posted in Get Rich Quick Spam - Work at Home Schemes, Online Businesses and Other Scams for the Unemployed and Desperate | Posted on 03-24-2010
I don’t know what the specific scam is, but I can guarantee it is one. I’ve received about 15 of these today and each one with a different subject line and a different contact email. No phone number and no website. Plus the offer makes no economic sense. Don’t take the bait
A car store seeks remote employees.
What is the essence of the job being offered: car sale ads appear in your city and our customers want to purchase these cars.
A small prepayment is usually made to the seller to reserve the vehicle for our customer.
However, recently, there have been some swindlers who offer non-existent cars and disappear after receiving the prepayment.
In order to eliminate this risk factor, we hire employees in all cities to verify such sale information.
How this is done – we agree beforehand on a trip date, send you passport information of both the seller and car,
and you need to come (within your city limits, no further) and check if the actual information complies with that supplied by us.
You need to check the seller’s documents, vehicle papers and whether the car actually exists.
You get $50 to 300 for this simple assignment.
Since this check is subject to the interest of our customers in a car purchase, any ‘false’ (unpaid) trips are excluded.
Number of trips per week: from 1-2 (at the beginning of work) to 5-7 (after the first probation month).
Benefits:
1. Officially contracted job
2. Travel expenses covered + monthly bonuses
3. Earnings in addition to your current job
4. No need to sell anything or look for customers
Requirements:
1. Mobile and stationary phone
2. Access to e-mail via Internet or mobile phone
3. Minimum age: 21
If you are interested in this job offer, please send the your free form application to: Issac@web-projects-us.com
I’ll answer you as soon as possible.
We received the same email today. Is it Spam? If it is it is a clever way of harvesting emails or….?
Does it matter? ALL spam is a scam of some sort. What is spam? Any unsolicited email you receive. All of it. Really, I mean ALL of it. Did I mention that all unsolicited email is spam and designed to rip you off? Yes, all email from strangers offering you anything is a scam. It’s all a scam. If you get email from someone you don’t know offering you a job, a career, lotto winnings or an inheritance, it is a scam. ALL notices that your email account has been compromised, that your bank account has been frozen, that you need to reset a password, or that you need to open an attachment is a phishing scam, a virus, or both.
I know this is hard for the majority of decent hard working people of the world to wrap their mind around, but there really are people in this world who are EVIL to the core. They are sociopaths. They will steal a window’s pension. They will take food from starving people. They only see the world from one vantage point – how will it benefit themselves – and they make these decisions without any moral restrictions or considerations. This is who spammers are. They are anti-social personality types.
Sociopath–noun Psychiatry.
a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
i have also recieved the same but with different email address Asdrubal@web-projects-us.com
A car store seeks remote employees.
What is the essence of the job being offered: car sale ads appear in your city and our customers want to purchase these cars.
A small prepayment is usually made to the seller to reserve the vehicle for our customer.
However, recently, there have been some swindlers who offer non-existent cars and disappear after receiving the prepayment.
In order to eliminate this risk factor, we hire employees in all cities to verify such sale information.
How this is done – we agree beforehand on a trip date, send you passport information of both the seller and car,
and you need to come (within your city limits, no further) and check if the actual information complies with that supplied by us.
You need to check the seller’s documents, vehicle papers and whether the car actually exists.
You get $50 to 300 for this simple assignment.
Since this check is subject to the interest of our customers in a car purchase, any ‘false’ (unpaid) trips are excluded.
Number of trips per week: from 1-2 (at the beginning of work) to 5-7 (after the first probation month).
Benefits:
1. Officially contracted job
2. Travel expenses covered + monthly bonuses
3. Earnings in addition to your current job
4. No need to sell anything or look for customers
Requirements:
1. Mobile and stationary phone
2. Access to e-mail via Internet or mobile phone
3. Minimum age: 21
If you are interested in this job offer, please send the your free form application to: Asdrubal@web-projects-us.com
same from this email Asdrubal@web-projects-us.com
If no one fell for these spammers scams, they would quit doing it. It never fails though. They make it too tempting to risk not clicking on it! Hold on, I need to go check my spam. I might have won the lottery again, and I know one of those job offers has to be real.
So true. And the sad part is that the financial investment from the spammer’s side is so low that their conversion rate can be dismal and yet they can still make enough money to make it worth their while. It’s like the drunk guy at the club who hits on every girl. Just one needs to say yes and it validates his methods.
Oops – that might have been me at the club!
I have received about 50 of these remote employees emails in two days. Luckily gmail sends it to spam.
Here’s a guess at what the scam is, Mr Spamalicious.
Just the fact that you reply means they might have a live one on the hook, so then they could:
1) Ask you to fill out an application and get your name, address, ssn, and your bank account# because “we only pay by direct deposit”
2) Have you do some little B.S. service and pay you with a cashier’s check. Oops! “We waaaay overpaid you (with a fake check). Would you please send back the extra money from your bank account” (that has your real money in it)?
3) “Your qualifications are far to high for this job. Would you instead care to help us take care of the transfer of $25,100,000 from the late Mr. Kugger’s estate to the United States?”
Any or all of the above scams and maybe more. They are just looking for lazy, greedy, dumb (or all of the aforementioned) people to scam and they can tell they have one just by the fact that you responded.
That’s sounds like the most likely scenario.
I have discovered how to stop most spam from my word press blogs I just block comments in posts and use the plugin “slick contact forms ” This way they cannot use a software program to leave a spam comment and it will not work with out a valid email address not perfect but so far so goood.