Job Scam? Please Help!

I am curious to see if this is a scam. I think so but I am not sure. The weird thing is, is that it's from off of careerbuilder and I have never had this happen before, so I really have no idea if it's true or not.




Message from Job Poster
CareerBuilder: Assistant Manager Position
Dear --------,

It is a pleasure offer you our up-to-date position. Our team is intent on finding a new Assistant Manager in your area. Hereby we are all excited about the value you can fetch up to our company.

Firstly we would like you to learn our corporate agenda in a few words. Our company deals with global consulting, outsourcing and provides various IT services.

Combining great experience, total possibilities across all the businesses, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, we collaborate with the clients to promote them as high-level firms. Utilizing our professional skills, expert's appraisal and technology capabilities, we find out new business and technology trends and evolve solutions to serve clients all around the world. We would like you to notice that we have many clients located in the USA.

If accepted, your base compensation package includes a monthly salary of $4500 paid biweekly, full medical and dental coverage through our corporate employee benefit plan. At the beginning you have to cover the 2-week training period, ending which you will get paid $1800.
As Assistant Manager you are responsible for:

* Carrying out correspondence with the local customers
* Announcement of information to clients
* Executing administration work
* Negotiations` arrangement between the company and clients
* Analysis, systemization and exploration of complex customers` database
* Organization of payments directly from the local clients to our programmers by dint of international money transfer systems
* Reckoning up costs of the company
* Drawing up business reports and reports of internal use

Our Assistant Manager should have a talent of diplomacy and should be an adept in the following subjects:

* Computer mastery
* Usage of Microsoft Office

Actual schedule: from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. including 1 hour of a break Monday through Friday.
To accept this position please fill out the following details and send us them via email:
1. Your complete name
2. Your cell #
3. Landline #
4. Your e-mail
Accepting this offer you understand, that employment is offered at will, meaning both you and the company may decide to terminate employment without notice and this offer letter of employment should not be considered a contract.

We look forward to joining you to our company.
HR Dept.
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Well I replied back and this is what I got,

Dear Christopher ,
We are delighted to get your response. Our enterprise is entitled MS Company. My name is Mary Kay and I`m a hiring coordinator. Thus, if you have any issues regarding our position or hiring process, please contact me via email and I would answer you at the earliest convenience. Since I travel a lot, you could be got in touch with some delays, please don`t worry about them. Thus, here are the job details:

You would be working at home. No traveling is involved.
Your major responsibilities include: maintaining connection with the local customers, elaborating some internal and tax reports you would receive the examples, timely distributing the payments from the customers to our free-lancers, opening a new office branch in your city. Details would be clarified during the training process.

At first, you would have to go through 2-week training period that would be paid by the firm at the rate of $1800. Afterwards, you would become our full-time employee and you would be paid $4500 per month.

To distribute the payments you would get access to our corporate account as soon as you get a full-time position. While you go through the training, you would have to use your personal account.

Hours of service: 9am to 3pm Mon-Fri (while you are training); 9am to 6pm Mon-Fri (full-time).

If you agree with the conditions, please find our employment agreement in the attachment. You should print it, fill in it with a pen, scan it and forward to me via email. Also we need a copy of your ID (driver`s license or passport).

Waiting to hearing from you,
Mary Kay


I haven't replied back yet, because I'm not sure.

Without seeing the email address or headers, it's shouting "scam" to me. I'm basing that on the amount of money offered for seemingly light duties, and that it involves the sending of "payments" to others.

Could you post the email plus any other contact information? I'm sure others are looking into the website.

Welcome to Scamwarners chowell2624 and I can only confirm what Martha suspects.

When you blow away the 'froth' it sounds as if you are being set up to receive counterfeit cheques. Never ever pay the cheques of strangers through your bank account, especially if you're expected to pay the money elsewhere.

To distribute the payments you would get access to our corporate account as soon as you get a full-time position. While you go through the training, you would have to use your personal account.

Businesses don't run their cashflow through the accounts of employees and there is no such job as receiving cheques and paying out cash. If they have an account they can direct customers to post their cheques to the bank. Your involvement is required so that you can be scammed by paying out cash on cheques that will bounce.

The worst part of this scam is that you can not only lose money but also get into serious trouble by passing counterfeit paper.

As others have said already, this is a scam. In fact, I recognized that script as one we had seen before, so a quick search led me to this: http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewto ... =4&p=49510

Look familiar? Notice how they slightly altered the company name and the "hiring coordinator" name.

Unfortunately, even sites like Careerbuilder will have their share of scammers. Scammers create fake company accounts on any job site they can. They quickly spam as many people as possible, because they know that their accounts will be closed as soon as it is clear they are scammers. When their accounts are closed, they start over with a new name and account. They continue to target these sites, because they know that if they appear to be affiliated with a reputable job site, this will make them appear to be more reputable themselves.