Employment/Tourism Opportunity

Dear friends,

I received the following email on my gmail account:

"Martins Lucas
(from: [email protected])

Dear Sir/Madam.

Compliment of the season. We are happy to announce to you we are an organization responsible for MANPOWER RESOURCE. Our job is to get interested job applicants employed by one of our various principal Employers. We are headquartered in the USA , Note we shall be responsible for your traveling facilities.

We have vacancies in Ac Courier delivery Agent. Presently they are seeking for two men and two women from Europe, America and Canada to employ in their delivery services. If you are from within the areas mentioned and interested to work on this field as a courier delivery agent under Ac Courier Services you are required to send us a scan copy of your international pass port, address and telephone number. It is a contracts employment which is to say you will be paid for any delivery or service rendered. Your duty will be traveling to wherever the organization will send you across the world. You will be paid the sum of 2500 Euros in any of the contract executed, this exclude your traveling and accommodation allowances. If you are interested with this opportunity please contact us back at [email protected], we only require a scan copy of your international pass port, address and telephone number as mentioned above, this will grant us the knowledge of your acceptance to be employed. Good luck.

Martins Lucas,

Manager WTB MANPOWERS.

New York ."

Now, this seams really suspicious especially if You consider the email it came from and the return address at yahoo.com. Also I haven't been able to find such a firm on Google (with this plural ending manpowerS).

Anyway I do suppose this is a scam but I should very much like to know what would they do with this data once they received them (scan copy of your international pass port, address and telephone number). Anything You could tell me that would help in unraveling this shady "offer" shall be highly appreciated.

Welcome to Scamwarners. Definitely a scam, although I can't recall seeing one quite like it. Assume that any unsolicited email with the words "Compliment of the season" is a scam and you won't go far wrong.
I expect it will involve a fake check and you sending most of it on by Western Union. Scanned passports would probably be used in other scams.

Thank You kindly for the answer and for the welcome as well.

Yes, I have to admit that I also haven't seen one quite like this one so far. Of course that I wouldn't dream of sending any money anywhere for any "online" reason whatsoever and the enclosed emails are more than enough. Yet, I still can't help but wonder: could they even use the data they required in this mail for some sort of scam?

Really what could they do with a scan of someones passport, home address and phone number? Did anyone had experience with such attempts of fraud?

Anyway, I thought that this seemed like a new type of scam so I googled this forum and decided to ask about it here. I think that in my line of work I was very well acquainted with other types of internet frauds but this seemed to me like a new one.

Scammers sometimes use scanned passports with a matching fake email address to make themselves look legit. And thy ask for postal addresses as real employers or sellers would need it.
I think I'll bait this lad to see what sort of scam it is.