Company Representative scams, Payment Processing scams and other Employment scams.
by zacgp Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:22 pm
Cramer Consulting Associates is the world's favorite provider of online Internet foreign exchange tools and services. Independent rankings consistently confirm that more people - and websites - use our wide variety of currency tools than any others.
Our company is continuously moving forward, as we have traditionally emphasized the quality of our services. In nearly all of the promising areas of development in the Forex industry Howell International Management has developed and implemented its own proprietary solutions, which often do not have analogues on the market. Since June 2012 we have offered trading accounts which often do not have any analogues on the market. Now, along with the advantages you get from trading with the immediate execution of orders in Forex Mini and Forex Classic accounts, our clients have access to all the possibilities of direct access to interbank liquidity in Forex ECN accounts!
Our aim is to provide a fully transparent brokerage service that prides itself on delivering clients interbank prices, licensed and regulated services and a secure trading environment. Traders are provided with first-class support giving clients worldwide complete confidence in our business as their preferred forex broker.

Vacancy Information-Account Assistant

We are hiring people from UK willing to work in an international team of high-skilled professionals of economy and finance for all the positions listed below. Any special experience is not required because our training managers ready to prepare you and provide all the information.
The position is considered as office-based and home-based, so that you may choose flexible working hours and your future schedule for part-time or full-time-employment.

KEY TASKS:

- Effective Account management to deliver against agreed plans.
- Manage the day-to-day running and coordination of accounts and projects.
- Onsite Project Management.
- Inform and communicate with Project Coordinators to ensure the smooth running of events.
- Develop and monitor project timelines, in conjunction with Account Director and project team.
- Monitor sales and stock performance of customer.
- To ensure that all relevant compliance tasks are completed within timescale.
- To provide assistance and support to the all members of staff where required.
- To undertake any other duties as requested by management on an ad-hoc basis.

Working hours:

- Full Time - Monday to Friday (09.00 – 18.00)
- Part Time - 2-3 hours during the day (3-6 days per week)









SALARY

The company are offering a salary FULL TIME £19600; PART TIME £14800 and a full package to include:

- 25 days’ holiday plus 8 public holidays;
- Bonus,
- Pension and bonus schemes;
- Fully expensed car;
- Pension;
- Life assurance and healthcare.

Starting salary is £400 per week (full -time) and £340 per week (part - time), paid in biweekly installments by your choice of check or direct deposit (it will be agreed with you personally already on 1st interview).

Performance Bonuses: Up to three percent of your annual gross salary, paid quarterly by your choice of check or direct deposit.

Company is a professional trader education company that provides education to its students regarding trading on financial markets of USA and Europe. Before you start to work you should pass a free 10-days training course to practice with company’s software and several financial services to be prepared to perform any of your responsibilities for the position. After you successfully finish the training courses, you become a company’s employee and will get a certified specialist.

If you are interested in the position and ready to start working, please fill out the attached employment application and send it in reply to this e-mail address. You can fill it out on your PC or print it out and fill it by hand (in that case please write block letters; illegible applications may be excluded from consideration). You will be contacted by a company manager within 48 hours. You can start the training course within 1-4 business days after signing the application.


Cramer Consulting Associates
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by Gateway Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:40 pm
Yes it is a scam.

I have a feeling that they will have a website somewhere if they sent you a link to it please post it her, perhaps we will be able to get it shut down

Also it would help if you post the headers for the email thanks

The reason I know it is a scam is that I was sent something similar to my real life email, luckily I know what to look out for.

If you wish you can email me at
[email protected]

How to get E-Mail Headers
http://www.isipp.com/resources/email-headers/
by vonpaso xlura Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:47 pm
In particular, if you have the email that gives the Cyprus registration number, post it. But what you've posted already should be enough to kill the website; it matches scripts sent by many websites belonging to a well-known scam gang.

In case the website is blank (several have been), please post the full headers of the email.

ETA: The email mentions two company names. Howell International we already know about; it is howellinter.com and has been reported for fraud. Cramer's domain name is the one we need.

... ni los estafadores heredarán el reino de Dios. 1 Cor. 6:10
by Pilpil Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:45 am
Hi, I have also received a brief email offering me to send my CV to them. Name of the company (Cramer Consulting LTD) and salary is the same, mail is [email protected], name is Christy M. Cook.

cramerltd.com is under construction, I did a whois search and it was created on 2013-03-28. I think that's the web you were looking for.

Just out of curiosity, I have never received an employment scam mail like this... what are they supposed to want after I send them my CV? I don't need any visa to work on UK, so can't figure out what they will be asking money for.
by Dotti Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:04 am
Just glancing at this one quickly, I see "financial" and "home-based" mentioned.

Typically, these will lead to money mule scams--i.e., your "job" is to receive payments and forward them. In reality, it means they want to use your bank account as an intermediate when they empty the bank accounts of others who have been phished or hacked.

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by TerranceBoyce Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:11 am
Welcome to Scamwarners Pilpil.

To cut the story short, basically they will want you to act as a 'money mule' to launder stolen funds through your bank account and relay it on to their associates using a cash transfer service that cannot trace the recipient.

They haven't actually told you this yet, and they'll delay giving you details of the actual job as long as possible, but the pre-amble is the same as all the others we've seen.

The fact is that no reputable company has its staff launder company funds through their accounts, which is illegal anyway, and no company would entrust a member of staff to handle company funds without a face to face interview first. The only person who can be traced out of this deal is the person who agrees to do the laundering and the consequences can be very serious.

The worst thing is that you will waste a lot of time before you know what the real job is and you might be tempted to take a risk, if you haven't worked out the consequences.

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by vonpaso xlura Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:21 pm
Welcome Pilpil! How are Pilpilon and Pilpilonet getting along?

Please post the headers of an email from the cramerltd.com domain so that we can kill it. I don't have headers from howellinter.com, and it's being hard to kill. Here are the headers from an earlier domain by the same gang of scammers so that you know what to look for:
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.204.9.195 with SMTP id m3csp801584bkm;
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:41:05 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.50.187.194 with SMTP id fu2mr24824728igc.63.1354228864997;
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:41:04 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from smtp110.biz.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (smtp110.biz.mail.ne1.yahoo.com. [98.138.206.47])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id eg1si7493823igc.63.2012.11.29.14.41.04;
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:41:04 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 98.138.206.47 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [email protected]) client-ip=98.138.206.47;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 98.138.206.47 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [email protected]) [email protected]; dkim=pass [email protected]
Received: (qmail 92799 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2012 22:41:04 -0000
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X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3
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by smtp110.biz.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2012 14:41:03 -0800 PST
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:01:13 +0000
From: "Jessica T. Hayes" <[email protected]>
Organization: Grafton Consulting Center
To: Xxxxx xxxxxx <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: Dear Xxxxx xxxxxx job no experience required
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


It is indeed a money mule job, as described in the following snippet from the email whose headers are above:
First, $50 you should take for yourself as your personal training wage for the lesson (you may leave it on your account) and the rest of the amount you will use for practicing with Money Gram and Western Union payment systems.

ETA: I do have headers from Howell, and it's dead. Cramer is reported for fraud.

... ni los estafadores heredarán el reino de Dios. 1 Cor. 6:10
by Lora1993 Sat Apr 06, 2013 7:10 am
I received an email from them yesterday to send my CV about a job vacancy, i thought it was weird because I do not remember applying for that company but I sent my CV anyway, then they sent me two application forms to fill in, I stopped when I seen they wanted me to fill in my bank details. I then copied their email address in google and found this forum, I am very glad I'm not some naive teenager, I'm glad I checked before I went any further so thank you for posting this. :)
by spetho2001 Sun Apr 07, 2013 2:36 pm
Can anyone tell me about this email [email protected]
Thank you,
TomS
by Gateway Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:22 pm
Hi Tom welcome

I read your post on yahoo and the advice you got there was good, as I se you found us... :D

If you have received an email from [email protected], and it has come from no one that you know, this is likely spam. if however it is telling you that you have won xxxx amount on a lottery, or have inherited a vast amount of cash, then that is a scam.

Could you post the email here ? and we will be able to tell you exactly what you have, if you can please post the headers also remember to take out your personal details

If you wish you can email me at
[email protected]

How to get E-Mail Headers
http://www.isipp.com/resources/email-headers/
by spetho2001 Sun Apr 07, 2013 5:41 pm
I can not do that as I deleted it with out opening it. I did not look at the source as it would not of meant anything to me, at least I did not think it would. What I was interested in was, when I Google something like that I get a hit in Google that is exactly what I am looking for. How do I get that exact email address to show up as a hit on Google that says it is junk, so that when someone else gets it they can do the same and see my post to Google. It wouldn't be a post to Google it would be something that showed up on Google. Do you follow me?
Thank you,
TomS
by Jillian Sun Apr 07, 2013 10:25 pm
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're asking how to get scam email addresses listed so that when someone Googles them, they show up as a scam? If so - by listing them here! Every email address, name, or other text listed here is indexed by Google - if someone does a search in Google, they will see a result here on ScamWarners and clicking the link will bring them directly to the topic. Often, seeing that it is listed on an anti scam site is enough to warn people off.

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by spetho2001 Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:57 am
Jillian,
Thank you. You do understand me correctly. The post I did on April 7 which included the email address in question, is all I have to do? Am I right? So anyone who Googles it will get the post about it on this web site?
Thank you,
TomS
by virtual_john Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:02 pm
I received an unsolicited email from Christy M. Cook @ Cramer Consulting Associates. As the header is different to the one posted above I thought it might be of value to you.

Return-Path: [email protected]
Received: from mx02.topaz.synacor.com (LHLO mx.tesco.com) (10.21.6.123) by
md04.topaz.synacor.com with LMTP; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:37:51 +0000 (UTC)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
X-BINDING: md04.topaz.synacor.com
X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined
X-CNFS-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=0I1sey+azvQPfkht13IbynF6sCLhP6pw5LBuHMryiyM= c=1 sm=0 a=ybvlesGvCUIA:10 a=8CJmqY4AmbAA:10 a=jPJDawAOAc8A:10 a=s8SSHawOLJyMQByRbJgA:9 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=1kpI77lvWXc3adjl:21 a=UTk1kG3vPKWvU4yNvCqsnw==:117
X-CM-Score: 0
X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine
Authentication-Results: mx02.topaz.synacor.com [email protected]; sender-id=neutral
Authentication-Results: mx02.topaz.synacor.com [email protected]; spf=neutral; sender-id=neutral
Received-SPF: neutral (mx02.topaz.synacor.com: 98.139.44.194 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of cramerltd.com)
Received: from [98.139.44.194] ([98.139.44.194:44290] helo=nm30-vm0.access.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com)
by mx.tesco.com (envelope-from <[email protected]>)
(ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r(37554)) with ESMTP
id A1/99-15007-EB8F6515; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:37:51 +0000
Received: from [98.139.44.107] by nm30.access.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Mar 2013 14:37:49 -0000
Received: from [98.137.12.185] by tm12.access.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Mar 2013 14:37:49 -0000
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp110.biz.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Mar 2013 14:37:49 -0000
X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: [email protected]
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3
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X-Yahoo-SMTP: MohekWGswBBavx13cwfPdCyYqcnMiCW65vFA
X-Rocket-Received: from [98.137.12.64] ([email protected] with plain)
by smtp110.biz.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Mar 2013 07:37:49 -0700 PDT
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:12:04 +0000
From: "Christy M. Cook" <[email protected]>
Organization: Cramer Consulting Associates
by Dotti Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:56 pm
Welcome virtual_john (and others).

We do need the text of the email itself to be posted.

Our forum only covers scam emails, not spam emails or viruses, and without the text of the email itself, we don't know if the email connected to that header is actually in our scope.

For SPAM emails (e.g. emails selling pharmaceuticals, cheap watches, spamming links to websites etc.) the best thing to do if you want to take action is to report them to their email provider. Then, the provider can close the email account or, if the account has been compromised, address it with the user.

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