Hidden Treasures - Edward Sanfort Scam

I replied to an ad for an Administrative Assistant posted on Glassdoor.com. I have reported this scam and the add has since been removed.

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Thanks for getting back to me, I'm happy to receive your application from our recruiters, I have gone through your posted resume and i will consider you for the position. I am looking forward to work with a reliable and multitask individual. My aim and intention is to be able to restrict myself to painting alone while I have someone else who will handle all sales and customer service aspect of the business. My late wife used to handle all sales before, but i lost her to cancer last year and this has slowed down the business for a while, coupled with the fact that I am always busy at work. I am only trying to revive the business and bring it online so that the business can continue even when i am not available. I have just been deployed on a brief tour and I am just getting settled here. This is why I need to bring my art online by setting up an online gallery. Your involvement in this business venture will be very limited for a start, but you will get more involved gradually over time in order to give room for you to learn the basics. This is a home based assignment with flexible hours, you will be working at your convenient time within the required time frame.
But For now, while I will respond to all client inquiries and provide them with all information needed such as price list, sizes and history behind every painting, I will refer them to you to complete the sale if the buyer still wants to proceed. All you have to do is to coordinate packaging, reproductions, receive payment and shipping. You will be working along with my printer who will be making the prints, packaging them and shipping.
I am offering to pay $400 weekly (Payment will be made every Fridays) for a start with no benefits and of course I bear all cost. But hope to add benefits and retirement in the near future as the business expands. I market my arts through agents and galleries and usually get between 8 to 15 inquiries in a week and out of this, 3 to 5 of them ends up buying while the rest might delay purchase or look elsewhere thus you will only be dealing with those who wants to buy only. You will also mail an invoice to the buyer after payment and keep record of all sales.
I would want you to find a local printer who can make prints for us (Though I think you might not be ready for that now) so that you can pick up directly from the printer, package it and post/ship personally. My printer handles this for me and his service is quite expensive.
Later in the future, you will have to set up a merchant account ( I will walk you through the process and it is free to set up.) but before that, please let me know when you will be ready to start working and if the terms explained above is clear to you.
Lastly I want to know if you have any special interest or passion for art or if you are just taking this job for the extra income. (This is not a requirement for this job, but just to know you better).
Like I stated earlier, this does not require you to make any payment/investment and I would be setting up a meeting with you as soon as I return, this is very important.
Please let me stress that my job gives little room for online browsing and I might be very difficult to reach sometimes when I have a special assignment, but this does not happen all the time. I have to go now to attend to other issues while I wait for your response.
Hope to have your response soon.
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Edward Sanfort

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Scott,

Thanks for getting back to me, I'm happy to receive your application from
our recruiters, I have gone through your posted resume and i will consider
you for the position. I am looking forward to work with a reliable and
multitask individual. My aim and intention is to be able to restrict myself
to painting alone while I have someone else who will handle all sales
and customer service aspect of the business. My late wife used to handle
all sales before, but i lost her to cancer last year and this has slowed
down the business for a while, coupled with the fact that I am always busy
at work. I am only trying to revive the business and bring it online so
that the business can continue even when i am not available. I have just
been deployed on a brief tour and I am just getting settled here. This is
why I need to bring my art online by setting up an online gallery. Your
involvement in this business venture will be very limited for a start, but
you will get more involved gradually over time in order to give room for
you to learn the basics. This is a home based assignment with flexible
hours, you will be working at your convenient time within the required time
frame.
But For now, while I will respond to all client inquiries and provide them
with all information needed such as price list, sizes and history behind
every painting, I will refer them to you to complete the sale if the buyer
still wants to proceed. All you have to do is to coordinate packaging,
reproductions, receive payment and shipping. You will be working along with
my printer who will be making the prints, packaging them and shipping.
I am offering to pay $400 weekly (Payment will be made every Fridays) for a
start with no benefits and of course I bear all cost. But hope to add
benefits and retirement in the near future as the business expands. I
market my arts through agents and galleries and usually get between 8 to 15
inquiries in a week and out of this, 3 to 5 of them ends up buying while
the rest might delay purchase or look elsewhere thus you will only be
dealing with those who wants to buy only. You will also mail an invoice to
the buyer after payment and keep record of all sales.
I would want you to find a local printer who can make prints for us (Though
I think you might not be ready for that now) so that you can pick up
directly from the printer, package it and post/ship personally. My printer
handles this for me and his service is quite expensive.
Later in the future, you will have to set up a merchant account ( I will
walk you through the process and it is free to set up.) but before that,
please let me know when you will be ready to start working and if the terms
explained above is clear to you.
Lastly I want to know if you have any special interest or passion for art
or if you are just taking this job for the extra income. (This is not a
requirement for this job, but just to know you better).
Like I stated earlier, this does not require you to make any
payment/investment and I would be setting up a meeting with you as soon as
I return, this is very important.
Please let me stress that my job gives little room for online browsing and
I might be very difficult to reach sometimes when I have a
special assignment, but this does not happen all the time. I have to go now
to attend to other issues while I wait for your response.
Hope to have your response soon.
--
Edward Sanfort

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I received an identical offer for a virtual assistant job from someone who calls themselves Brittany Owens and the company they were going under was faith artistry world. Email [email protected]. I received the job request on Freelancer.com. Their user name was faithingod4.

My question is what is the scam? They have not asked me for any user names or passwords or any money. How are they planning to scam me? The only thing that gave it away was poor spelling and language skills as well as saying they were based in California but freelancer.com had them in Nigeria.

Please tell me what their plan is if you know.

Welcome to Scamwarners,

The scammer wants you to receive stolen money or packages for him. Basically be a mule for him. He does not want to be traced so he wants you to do the dirty work.

You will never be paid for helping him scam others.

Stop all contact with the scammer. Do not confront him.