Question:
Is this a scam? Job opportunity?
Lily
2011-11-03 16:25:33 UTC
Thanks for your interests in the Errand Runner/Personal assistant position, I will deeply appreciate all genuine efforts to help me monitor and keep up to date with all my activities. I most very often get my hands occupied because am working with many companies both states and outside,so it is imperative for me to have a worthy assistant who can monitor and keep me up to date with my activities.As my assistant, your activities amongst other things will include:make travel arrangements and submit expenses for Attorneys Order office supplies, Running personal errands,Check Processing filing documents,faxing,printing and typing letters Web research, Internet search skills and posting ads Quality communication etiquette skills and good organizational skills Serious sense of humor required and mandatory to work with me Ability to handle highly sensitive and confidential information Perform duties with accuracy, quality, and integrity. Basic wage is $400 a weekly

About me: My name is Faris Joe.I own an Art Gallery in Australia. I will return to USA in JANUARY so this process will be on going till then. If you don't mind, I will meet up with you when I return and then we can talk about the possibility of making this long term.I travel a lot,hence the reason why i need an assistant to handle affairs for me on the home front when i am away on business which is usually quite often. This position is home-based and flexible you can be in any location,working with me is basically about instructions and following them, my only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, I need someone who can be able to meet up with my regular timings.There is also a very sensitive issue on trust and accountability which I believe will resolve itself as time goes on.

This is only an introductory e-mail, as time goes on we should be able to arrange a proper meeting to get things started officially. I do have a number of things you could help me with this week if you will be available for me. This can act as a stable foundation to our working relationship. Note:This position is home base office work you can be in any location and work with me from your home. let me know your interest if you are ready to work with me from your home.for more Information contact me via e-mail

So fill This application And e-mail It back here asap!!!
Three answers:
Buffy Staffordshire
2011-11-03 21:35:31 UTC
100% scam.



There is no job.



There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.



The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.



Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.



You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.



Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.



Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.



6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:

1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.

2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.

3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.

4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.

5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.

6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.



Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.



If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "money mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
Kittysue
2011-11-03 16:32:54 UTC
Google Money Mule scam - this is one of the most common job scams. And you can even be arrested for this.



NOBODY would ever consider hiring a person that they have never met, especially someone to run errands for them, file documents, process checks, etc. This is something you would only entrust to someone that you had not only interviewed in person but also conducted a full background check on. DO NOT give your home address for any reason - these scams are run by criminal gangs and you do not want them to know where you live.



Just google the sentence from his email "I most very often get my hands occupied because am working with many companies both states and outside,so it is imperative for me to have a worthy assistant who can monitor and keep me up to date with my activities." -- which is not even written by a native English speaker -- and you'll see how many times this EXACT sentence has been reported as a scam

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=24142

http://forum.kijiji.ca/post-7654085.html

http://flakelist.org/page/viewpub/tid/1/pid/5112

http://kmay-craigslistscam.blogspot.com/

and about 1500 more
2011-11-03 16:27:10 UTC
Common scam.



The "check" he sends you will be fake and will bounce after a few weeks. Your bank will require you to reimburse them for the full amount.



He has claimed he needs you to send payments out on his behalf--so the fake check will be for, say, $4000. Among his errands will be payments back to him of your money.



Take any phrase from this email and google it. The scammers recycle the wording for years.

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3942&start=75

https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20100721134813AAPpUEH

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&forum_id=15&thread_id=3121163

http://baheyeldin.com/technology/technology-society/email-scam-professional-personal-assistant-electronics-company.html?page=9


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