by lockbird
Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:27 pm
So I received an email to my university email address (actually several emails from two different people) about a job opening for part-time work, done in free time around studying and other work, and offering $500 weekly guaranteed. I responded to the email with my cell number and didn't receive a reply for probably a week.
Yesterday, I got a text from someone about the job. He said OCP Group (which, it must be noted, is a real company which deals in phosphates) was looking for representatives to meet with potential buyers of phosphate products, relay orders to the company, report on transactions, etc. He linked me to the very real OCP Group website (which is also described on Wikipedia). He wanted personal information like name, address, phone number, which I gave to him rather naively I suppose, but I figured that sort of information is somewhat available anyway. (Also, in hindsight, the texts were kind of unprofessional, and VERY pushy). Then he asked if I could start tomorrow and began to request bank information for "the accountant." Which included account holder name, usernames, passwords, and pin number???
He said I should move all my money out of the account before providing that information so I "felt safe." Which still kind of confuses me because... what then? Take out credit cards in my name and wreck my credit? Heaven knows I don't know, but getting into my bank account sounds horrifying.
At some point he sent me a "contract" to look over by email. It had what is probably the real signature of the real head of OCP Group at the bottom. Otherwise, bad capitalization, grammar, spelling, and a really poor job description.
I really was more taken in that I should have been, but I am a poor college student. I gave him more information about my bank than I really should have.
Also worth noting is that all these emails came to my school address, so they're probably targeting university students, and that "Brandon" and "David" who sent me the emails each had several different email addresses, most of which sounded pretty sketchy.
Rude, scamming college students.
Yesterday, I got a text from someone about the job. He said OCP Group (which, it must be noted, is a real company which deals in phosphates) was looking for representatives to meet with potential buyers of phosphate products, relay orders to the company, report on transactions, etc. He linked me to the very real OCP Group website (which is also described on Wikipedia). He wanted personal information like name, address, phone number, which I gave to him rather naively I suppose, but I figured that sort of information is somewhat available anyway. (Also, in hindsight, the texts were kind of unprofessional, and VERY pushy). Then he asked if I could start tomorrow and began to request bank information for "the accountant." Which included account holder name, usernames, passwords, and pin number???
He said I should move all my money out of the account before providing that information so I "felt safe." Which still kind of confuses me because... what then? Take out credit cards in my name and wreck my credit? Heaven knows I don't know, but getting into my bank account sounds horrifying.
At some point he sent me a "contract" to look over by email. It had what is probably the real signature of the real head of OCP Group at the bottom. Otherwise, bad capitalization, grammar, spelling, and a really poor job description.
I really was more taken in that I should have been, but I am a poor college student. I gave him more information about my bank than I really should have.
Also worth noting is that all these emails came to my school address, so they're probably targeting university students, and that "Brandon" and "David" who sent me the emails each had several different email addresses, most of which sounded pretty sketchy.
Rude, scamming college students.
