Become community representative at us-resum.com

The following scam mail is being sent out by the thousands. The mails look like they are being sent from [email protected] (or a similar jobbankusa.com adress). Make no mistake, it only appears that jobbankusa.com has sent them, in reality they have nothing to do with this scam setup.

The domain us-resum.com is just a few days old, and is operated from Russia. In this scam you will either be asked to send money for documents; or to act as a money mule. Do not send them your details, certainly do not send them any money and do not what they say. They are scammers, only out for money.

USA Job Openings!

International Student Exchange, a not-for-profit education consortium,
provides affordable and practical opportunities for students enrolled at member campuses to study and live in a new location.

ISE Exchange and Direct members are institutions of higher education that are regionally accredited (U.S. institutions)
or recognized by their government or ministry of education (non-U.S. institutions).

BECOMING A COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE

Being a Community Representative gives you the opportunity to make a difference in the community,
with your local high schools, and most importantly, with families. It is a challenging and rewarding position.
As a Community Representative, you are our face out in the community.
It is very important for us to have well-trained, professional staff working with our students.

You are able to work with youth and learn about other countries and cultures.
You can make a personal contribution to the enrichment of young people from around the globe and can help to promote cross-cultural understanding.

Type: Full time
Salary: $38K annual
Sector: Nonprofit

You will:
• Be an ambassador for your community and the USA by creating world-wide friendships and cross cultural understanding.
• Create or maintain relationships with local high school officials to determine availability for International Student Exchange students.
• Process and distribute language textbooks and teaching materials, as well as monetary aid and donations from local sponsors and charities among partner student organizations.
• Guide and support your students and families throughout their exchange experience.
• HAVE FUN! Plan group activities, picnics, and gatherings for the students and host families in your area!

Community Representatives should have the following key qualities:
Flexibility, motivation, dedication, warm heart, integrity, commitment, involved in the community,
interested in teens, good communication skills, and interested in global peace and understanding.


Computer Knowledge: intermediate-level abilities and hands-on skills with Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook/mail-merge; group e-mails.

Send cover letter and resume to [email protected] for immediate consideration!

I've just received this solicit'n, Googled it, hit your message, registered, and here I am.

A few years ago I was solicited for a scam by someone who'd copied but slightly modified the contents of an existing legitimate exchange student organiz'n which was indeed looking for community reps. After much back-and-forth by e-mail and phone, I inferred that the copycat in question at that time would have had me go to the trouble of picking up someone at the airport (to make it look legit, I guess) and launder an overseas check for his ostensible stipend, from which I was to be paid a fee. So that type of scam does exist. Too bad for the real organiz'n on whose name they were trading; I then applied to them to be a community rep, because it looked interesting, but unfortunately was never tapped. Actually maybe I shouldn't feel sorry for them, since they say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and I'd've probably never have heard of them otherwise!

The question is, how do we know this solicit'n is such a scam? The bit about "Process and distribute...monetary aid and donations" looks supicious (the scammer previously mentioned didn't say that up front, relying on the gen'l description of the job by the legitimate page they'd ripped off), but without knowing more details I couldn't come to a firm conclusion, though I'd certainly be circumspect. How were you able to determine their address was a spoof? I see nothing in the header that's a tipoff to that.

Hi Robert,

for starters, a real company wouldn't spam their job openings to thousands and thousands of email adresses. Secondly, the domain us-resum.com was created five days ago, which certainly doesn't build a lot of trust. Third; when looking at the WHOIS of that domain we see the registrant, which appears to be someone in Russia. Why would an organisation in the US let someone in Russia deal with job applications for jobs in the USA?

I see nothing in the header that's a tipoff to that.

In the headers I have I see the following line:

Code: Select allReceived: from host201-88.kaskada.net (host201-88.kaskada.net [81.161.201.88])

The real jobbankusa.com isn't connected to those servers (location: Poland) in any way, so the mail can't be sent from the actual domain

Thanks. Guess what? Today I got another of the same solicit'n, except that the "no-reply" address ostensibly at jobbankusa.com was differently numbered, and the reply-to address at us-resum.com was different too.

Then again, there's a headhunter who frequently e-mails me real job descriptions over and over for the same job, whether I've replied already or not. But of course he doesn't hide his identity behiind shifting addresses!

I did a little more Googling and found the legitimate organiz'n whose copy the scam solicit'n was apparently cribbed from: http://www.facetheworld.org/comm_repr.html . But at least the scammer isn't trying to trade on their name -- possibly because it could too easily be checked this way. That's better than what's happening with Worldwide Mail, a legitimate Seattle-Tacoma mail drop business whose name and physical address are being used at a Web site by a package mule scammer; they have a phone number listed which doesn't match the one given on the scammer's "contact" Web page (the rest of site contents apparently cribbed from elsewhere), and different people answer. Poor Worldwide Mail (the real one) may have to change their name to clear it!

I see some of the material was lifted from http://www.aspectfoundation.org/coordin ... ities.html

I feel sick.

My local college university posted this on their job board and I just sent my resume to them with all of my personal contact information.

Obviously I will contact the university ASAP tomorrow and tell them to remove this.

The email address felt weird. I usually go to the website on the end of the email. In this case us-resum.com doesn't go anywhere.

It seemed legit since I found it on the job board at school, though. I didn't think much about it.

Yes, I also got it! Was very excited for awhile until I did a search and found you all. Then, 2 days later I got the SAME message from another person!

First one;

CareerBuilder Actual job offerFriday, January 21, 2011 11:51 PMFrom: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>Add sender to Contacts
To: [email protected]
USA Job Openings!

International Student Exchange, a not-for-profit education consortium,
provides affordable and practical opportunities for students enrolled at member campuses to study and live in a new location.

ISE Exchange and Direct members are institutions of higher education that are regionally accredited (U.S. institutions)
or recognized by their government or ministry of education (non-U.S. institutions).

BECOMING A COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE

Being a Community Representative gives you the opportunity to make a difference in the community,
with your local high schools, and most importantly, with families. It is a challenging and rewarding position.
As a Community Representative, you are our face out in the community.
It is very important for us to have well-trained, professional staff working with our students.

You are able to work with youth and learn about other countries and cultures.
You can make a personal contribution to the enrichment of young people from around the globe and can help to promote cross-cultural understanding.

Type: Full time
Salary: $38K annual
Sector: Nonprofit

You will:
• Be an ambassador for your community and the USA by creating world-wide friendships and cross cultural understanding.
• Create or maintain relationships with local high school officials to determine availability for International Student Exchange students.
• Process and distribute language textbooks and teaching materials, as well as monetary aid and donations from local sponsors and charities among partner student organizations.
• Guide and support your students and families throughout their exchange experience.
• HAVE FUN! Plan group activities, picnics, and gatherings for the students and host families in your area!

Community Representatives should have the following key qualities:
Flexibility, motivation, dedication, warm heart, integrity, commitment, involved in the community,
interested in teens, good communication skills, and interested in global peace and understanding.


Computer Knowledge: intermediate-level abilities and hands-on skills with Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook/mail-merge; group e-mails.

Send cover letter and resume to [email protected] for immediate consideration!

WHOIS information for us-resum.com :

[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[whois.verisign-grs.com]

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: US-RESUM.COM
Registrar: REGTIME LTD.
Whois Server: whois.regtime.net
Referral URL: http://www.webnames.ru
Name Server: NS1.NAMESELF.COM
Name Server: NS2.NAMESELF.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 18-jan-2011
Creation Date: 18-jan-2011
Expiration Date: 18-jan-2012