Assistant position on Craigslist

Hello All,

I received two emails that are exactly the same....one from Mark Erick, and just a few moments ago Reza Williams. Please add this to the other 4 names to be aware of. At first I did reply to Mark Erick, although my fiance swore it was a scam. Once he found this, I replied again, saying that I wasn't interested and he should remove the post. Right after I did, I received the same email, only this time with poorer grammar and punctuation from a Reza Williams. I thought I would warn the next folks who ate it up just like I did at first.

Thanks!!

Welcome to Scamwarners, and I'm glad you weren't scammed. Can you post the two email addresses please.

Hi....I revceive the same e-mail,from Terry Barnnett ,a " famous" photographer...who is never in town.He offer himself to send me all the equipment to be the perfect PA...I sent my CV but..something was to beautifull to be truth.So I got here and what I found???All these messages about the same e-mails ( more or less) I wanted just to Thank you!My feeling was not wrong...How come I get trust from now- on?I'm trying to get a job and I star to be afraid...

Welcome here dana75.

Don't worrie too much. You found out about this scammer also, so you already are seeing a possible scam. If you are in doubt about a job position, just ask here. Remember, if it looks too good to be true, then it usually is.

I've been communicating with the alleged "Derek Antonini"; knowing his intentions were to scam me. The initial emails were identical to the others posted here except for this one. How low can someone get???? This takes the cake and I plan to continue playing dumb until he sends me some form of payment, in which case I will probably cease contact and burn the worthless check/money order. I guess I'm just having fun reading the ridiculous messages and wondering what he will come up with next.

I pasted the email (except for a phone number below his name) I might call it just to see what happens.


Hello

  How are you doing today?I hope everything i going on fine with you and your family?I am so sorry for not getting back to you all this while.I did lost my father some days ago and has been so stressful for me since i was the eldest child.I want you to know that the job is still yours and the paycheck will be getting to you this week and i want you to get back to me as soon as possible,thanks.

 Kindly bear with me
Derek Antonini

I suppose it is a good thing that these people haven't learnt grammer yet and I hope they never will as it makes it very easy to spot.

Dace - Welcome! What you are doing is known as scambaiting--but we do not encourage baiting with your real information, as that is not considered safe. You can find lots of great info about safe scambaiting at our sister baiting site www.419eater.com

Koraxbear--you are absolutely right, we like it when they make mistakes that show they are lying. That's why we try to make sure we never point out their mistakes, as we don't want to educate them. In fact, baiters like to encourage scammers to make even more mistakes

Ugh... almost fell for the Terry Barnett guy too :/

I'd never seen a scam like this before, so of course I fell for it. I was actually supposed to receive money orders today, but the post office caught it because of a fake shipping label... Apparently these guys are too cheap to even pay for that part. Anyway, I called the post office because I tracked the package online and saw that it had been 'disposed'. I was kinda pissed at first, thinking they'd accidentally thrown away my payment, and then I talked to a lady in Mail Inspection. She basically described exactly what Mr. 'Terry' had asked me to do: take the money order and deposit them at my bank, then withdraw it, keep part for myself, then forward the rest to some place in Malaysia (I was actually starting to think it was a scam at that point anyway).

It was at that point I googled 'terry barnett scam' and it led me right to you guys. So, I guess, thanks for that? XD

Sucks I won't be getting paid though :/

Welcome to Scamwarners.
It sounds as if you were one of the lucky ones, although with any luck, your bank would have spotted the fake money order. And you are safer from scams now. There's never a genuine reason to bank a check or money order and send part of the amount on by Western Union or Moneygram.

PS I like your avatar.

Well, that's good to know.

p.s. I like yours too :3

Jeffrey Dyer to me
show details 3:55 PM (5 hours ago)

Hi,
My name is Jeffrey Dyer, I am an attorney and been practicing for 30 years now. I am 54 years old with three kids and happily married but wife is died. I am in dare need of a personal assistant that can
handle my official and personal needs when I am not around. The job is on part time basis and it may turn around to be a full time one in the future if the need be. I travel a lot because of my kind of work, interaction with some international organization and my position in the field because I am an international lawyer and I have a license to practice in just eight states
in the USA. I am presently in Canada for a three weeks summit and will need some work done before getting back. Your work details are as follows:


* Printing and sending out mails for me.
* Help make hotel or flight reservation while I provide all my personal and delicate information to secure booking.
* Handling and monitoring some of my administrative files and financial activities.
* Running personal errands, supervisions and monitoring.
* Acting as an alternative telephone correspondence when I'm away.


I hope you understand the job details very well and some shall be discussed in full as soon as we move on. The most important thing is trust and proper accountability, which I believe it will resolve itself as time goes on. The basic wage again is $500 weekly and I want you to understand that paying this kind of wage means you need to do my work or the duties assigned to you perfectly.. I hope you will be a very good and commendable personal
assistant that I can trust because my work may come in at anytime . For documentation and confirmation with regardless of the information on your resume, I will need you to provide me with the information below:


First Name.................
Last Name...................
Physical Address ............
City....................
State.....................
Zip Code.................
Cell phone number.............
Home Phone number.............
Present occupation.............
Age............................
Email Address...................
Do you have full office equipment ?




I believe you have accepted the job offer as soon as I receive this information from you and I will also put you through a week trial assignment to determine your work rate and efficiency in carrying out duties. You shall help with buying and mailings of some basic children needs to some foster home. I do this once every month and will want you to handle that for me
this time around. You shall be sent funds to purchase all these items and also be paid for the trial week, I can also give you some other duties to do apart from that during the trial week. I hope I have been able to express in details all the things involved . Thanks and waiting for your response.


Cheers
Jeffrey Dyer Esq.

I received the same exact email today. I had a feeling that it was a scam.

Welcome missdfisher and hubbard34. Thanks for posting more information. Please post the email header for that scam email so that the information will show up in searches and lead people here to alert them to the scam.
Let us know if you have questions.

I received the same email by Jeff Dyer.

I knew it was a scam so I did not reply but... if I sent him my resume when I was applying originally, what should I do?????????

On my resume, I just have my physical address and email... but nothing about my financial information..

Hello sykimx, and welcome to ScamWarners.

The scammer will have received many resumes from many people who thought that they were applying for a real job. He probably didn't even bother to open it and read it - because he is not interested in anyone's employment history or qualifications; he is only interested in tricking people into sending him money.

Drop all contact with him, He will move on in trying to find someone who will believe his scam, and forget about you. Just be on the look out for other scams being sent to you, because sometimes scammers will share email addresses with their scamming friends. Simply delete any that you spot - and ask about any that you are not sure of.