Want to work for Russians...in Florida?!? design guild inter

Hello again.

Received the following email, am sure it is a scam. Googled the company, found them listed in Hoovers & Manta. They say they've been around over 10 years. BUT it was a different website. Went to corporate site...identical to the one sent to me. Even the crazy job description. (through manta: http://www.d-g-interiors.org/jobs.html )

(PS: anyone know why the text is jumping around in the writing screen? It's really hard to edit!)

ML

Here's the original email:

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Hello ,

My name is Mr.Alexander Guzman. I am recruiter. Our company looking to fill
the position of US Financial Manager.
I got your CV on Resumark, Inc.
For more information concerning current position, go to this Url:

http://design-guild-interiorsllc.biz/career.html

This work may be the nice addon to your current work.

Pls see there for more info about our company:

Products: http://design-guild-interiorsllc.biz/services.html
License: http://design-guild-interiorsllc.biz/buslic.html

If you're want to start, answer me for the next step of the process.

Faithfully
Alexander Guzman


from their links:
Job description for Finanial manager:

U.S. Representative/Financial Manager Job Position
Job Summary:

Type of Employment: Agreement
Job Type: Part Time (2-4 hours per week)
Career Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Salary: $60,000-$80,000.00 /year
Location: Any ( at home on free time)
This could be the perfect complement to your current job.



About Company:

Our company primarily deals in design activities for corporate and residential ground plans. Our business unit is experienced in both creation and implementation of plans conceived.

•Accommodations
•Premises design
Since our company’s founding in 1998, we have assisted numerous corporate and some private individuals around the world. Although we are currently headquartered in Moscow, Russia, the arms of our innovation have reached the four corners of the planet. We maintain a direct and diligent marketing process in the United States, and repeatedly offer services that are ahead of the industry “curve” in both pricing and quality. Our advantages lay in certain benefits our Europen clientele experience that only an overseas company can provide:

1.We are able to offer similar products for lower than standard pricing; we are able to cheaply staff our Moscow office
2.Our Home Office is staffed with industry experts with over 8 decades of combined experience

Why do we need U.S. Representative/Financial manager?

When we initially started operations in the United States, we experienced some issues with US trade laws that can be summarized into two different problems:

1.All financial services operations have to take place inside the USA
2.Customers cannot make payments to a company don’t have offices inside the US, even if the company is an industry leader around the world. Our Home Office is located in Russia, which is why customers are not able to directly transfer money (payments for our designs) to our office in Russia. Under US law, the funds must be deposited into the account of the Financial Manager of Staffing Solutions that resides in the USA. Then, it is the Financial Manager’s responsibility to transfer the funds to our business in Russia. The company has to be registered in the US tax administration, which we have already finished. By maintaining a Financial Manager in the US, we are able to solve both of these problems and continue to help the companies that need us in the USA.
Main duties include receiving payments from customers:

1.Bank checks
2.Wire transfers
3.Certified funds


Compensation:

The Financial Manager will be entitled to 5% of all completed transactions. The maximum turnover handled by a single manager is limited the by company’s policy and is set at $100,000 per month. Thus the maximum monthly pay will constitute $3,000-5,000.

Type of Employment:

Agreement

Time Commitment:

2-4 hours per week

Important:

We also have a business proposal for US company owners and managing directors. Private US businesses can accept funds from our customers with no limitations with a monthly turnover of up to 500,000.00 US dollars. Their profit is set at 7.5% of the turnover and may constitute $40,000.00 monthly. Please apply if you have a legal running business and are interested in this offer.

You can combine this job with your current job, because you'll spend no more than 3 hours per week. This job can become perfect addition to your current job.

Although it would be nice to earn $60-80k only working 2-4 hours a week you are correct it is a scam. You would be asked to cash checks keeping your "salary" and sending the remainder via Western Union. Only to find out later the checks bounce as they are fake after you wired the money.

Justin, love your avatar!

Yes, wouldn't it be lovely to earn so much for so little?
What blows me away is the real website is up and the whole thing hasn't been shut down. It is equally suspicous as a *.org when it should be a *.com.

I expected the front organization grabbed a legit site, but the legit site is the front!

MotherLode

Unfortunately there are thousands of these out there. Some Rusian scammers even host the sites on private servers. Often the domains are registered with Chinese registrars that can be difficult to work with to have the sites shut down.

I just received a number of emails (4 of them) the first to send the offer and the next to follow up and confirm I received the offer...

The website they have up now is...

http://design-florida.com/jobs.html

to try and make themselves look legit...

Unfortunately there are thousands of these out there. Some Rusian scammers even host the sites on private servers. Often the domains are registered with Chinese registrars that can be difficult to work with to have the sites shut down.

Yes, Ebert Veil was another mule breeding operation, hosted in Russia, registered in China, with a German address, claiming that the mules would send money to Finland. I knew enough Russian to get it shut down.

Looks like design-guild-interiorsllc.biz is dead at the nameserver.

xWiseguyx, could you post the emails, with headers?

They have now changed their "company" name to Design by Design. The letter is almost identical to the one posted above. Pretty persistent, have emailed my twice today so far.

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I thought my job offer was too good to be true. Design by design just contacted me with a slightly different approach. My message looks like this, followed by a reply from someone named Maricella:

For Danielle,

How are you?
This is Ms. Maricela Ellis again. As you know I'm a personnel manager of
Design by Design company and Staff department noticed your resume on job
search web site so We believe you are suitable for the post of US
Financial Manager.
And I have already sent you an email with a little bit short job
description. Could you confirm the receipt? This position does not require
special skills and we offer you that vacancy. To get more info concerning
current post, go to this address: http://www.designbydesigninc.com/
This position could be the good addition to your during work. Pls read
there for further info about our firm:

Company products: http://www.designbydesigninc.com/services.html
Corporate License: http://www.designbydesigninc.com/buslic.html

If you're ready, feel free to e-mail me as soon as possible.
Enjoy your day!

Regards
Maricela Ellis

PS
IMPORTANT: I will reply to your message tomorrow but let me know if you are
interested in the provided position. Please let me know by sending me just a
short response.
_______________________this mssge came up as phishing warning f Google
Hello again!

How are you?
This is Maricela Ellis again. I got your message, thank you for quick response. And thank you so much for your interest in our
vacancy of financial manager. I've reviewed your resume and I propose you to join our team! So right now you have successfully
completed the first step of recruiting process. And let me describe the employment procedure:
In order to perform the checks you should provide us the following information ASAP by completing the documents (see attached):

1)The Contractor Agreement(the signed copy)
2)The Application(the signed copy).

***Please note: All necessary documents are attached to this e-mail in MS Word. If you have trouble with the documents
opening, please contact me by e-mail and I will send the documents in different format(PDF format).

Please fill out that documents, sign and send me the copies. You can send a copy of your signed Contractor Agreement and
Application by two ways:

1. To my Fax: 206-333-1121 (US inside fax) -OR- 2. You scan the documents and after that you should send to my e-mail.

And after that our HR department will carry out:
- your name, place of residing, contact phone numbers
- reliability of information you provided (your name, place of residing, contact phone)

This information will be totally secured and will not be shared with the third parts. Your candidacy will be approved
after getting of your documents and verification of your personal information. And you can begin your primary duties after
this procedure.

***Please note: The signed documents give you the full right to represent our company in the USA, and the receiving
and processing customer's payments.

AS FINANCIAL MANAGER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RECEIVING PAYMENTS FROM CUSTOMERS AND PROCESSING THE RECEIVED FUNDS TO OUR HEADQUARTER
IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION. YOU WILL START RECEIVING PAYMENTS BY FOLLOWING SERVICES:

1. Bank Checks
2. Wire transfers
3. Certified funds and Cash funds

-Salary and Compensation:
The Financial Manager will be entitled to 5 percent of all completed transactions. The maximum turnover handled by a single
manager is limited the by company’s policy and is set at $100000.00 per month. Minimum salary- $3,000/monthly, plus income
tax compensation (under the US tax form 1099).

-Type of Employment and Time Commitment:
Part-time. You will work from home as an Independent Contractor. Approximately working schedule - 3-5 hours per week. You can
combine this work with your current work, because you'll spend no more than 5 hours per week. To sum it up, your next step
for getting the position with our company is submitting the requested information for verification purposes. We already have
some applicants and the time limit is short, so please do your best to provide it ASAP. Please let me know your final decision
within 2 days. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Have a nice day!

Sincerely,
Personnel Manager
Maricela Ellis
fax: 206-333-1121
tel: 206-337-9153
Design by Design, Inc.
________________________________________
They're website they do have copies of business liscences...found below
DESIGN BY DESIGN, INC.



Russian Address
7 Mira Street
Moscow Russia 121171


United States Business Name: DESIGN BY DESIGN, INC.
Address: 940 CLEARWATER LARGO RD N SUITE 104
LARGO FL 33770-4107
Tax ID (FEIN): 352290530
Duns Number: 78-738-0807

You guys have me so freaked out I don't know what to believe but u are usually right so i am just sharing my experience


If I had not received the phishing warning from Google I may not have checked before I filled anything else, although there is no way i have or will ever give my personal info re: bank accounts etc either... I am going to continue communication with them on a tentative basis and see what else I can find out before I report them to Google.Is there anything else I should do?

Don't bother telling Google. The message was sent from a compromised home computer at some ISP in Arkansas called Suddenlink, even though the From address says Gmail.

The barely legible Russian license appears to be for an architecture/construction firm and was issued in 2007. Neither the company name nor the address matches what you were told in the email. The process of reporting the domain for fraud has begun.

You don't need to continue communicating with the scammers. I'm pretty sure there's enough information on here and the website to prove fraud. Just ignore anything they say and don't answer.

ETA: The phone number is in Washington, the opposite corner of the Lower 48. The Florida certificate is fake. Do a Google image search and you'll see.