Company Representative scams, Payment Processing scams and other Employment scams.
by h3ad3rb3ar Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:39 pm
From: [email protected]
Subject: Urgent: New Position Offer
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:34:55 +0200

We would like to propose you a new job opportunity. The company I represent is searching an Assistant Manager in your region. Our team believes that you could share valuable experience.

First of all, we want you to grasp in a nutshell our business strategy. Our firm deals with global consulting, outsourcing and providing IT services.

Bringing together important experience, up-to-date knowledge in the field of industry and business and extensive research of the world’s number one businesses, we deal with corporate clients to help them appear successful partnerships. Grace to our industry expertise, service-offering skills and technological knowledge we spot new trends in business and technology and create solutions to assist various firms worldwide. We would like you to pay attention to the fact that we have a lot of clients in the USA.

If you take the job your base compensation package will include a monthly salary of $4,500 paid biweekly, as well as complete medical and dental coverage in accordance with our company's employee benefit plan. At first you would have to go through the 2-week training period with a salary of $1,800.

Working with corporate clients as well as individual clients, we offer unique cooperation chance to many business leaders who can thus get a possibility to take part in supporting important corporate contracts with various bonuses. The bonuses in question can reach several thousand dollars. We also provide the compensation of $5,000 provided monthly as well as individual assistance. Our clients have the possibility to visit industry events and get free Internet access.

As an Assistant Manager you will be responsible for the following:


Having correspondence with the local customers
Informing partners
Doing administration work
Arranging conference calls between the company and clients
Analysing, systematising and exploring different customers` information
The delivery of payments straight from customers to our free-lancers using international money transfer systems
Keeping record of company’s expenses
Making fiscal reports and reports of internal use


Our Assistant Manager has to be a skillful diplomatist and well-trained in the following fields:


Computer skills
The usage of Microsoft office programs


Working timetable: from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a 1-hour break Monday through Friday.

In case you would like to accept the offer kindly complete the following sheet and email it to us:

1. Your complete name

2. Your cell #

3. Landline #

4. City

5. Country

6. Your e-mail

By 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 letter of employment offer can not be considered a contract.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our team.

HR Dept.

New Position Offer. ID #1314635691.



Not entirely sure how they had access to my email but I've got two pages of sent emails from whoever it may be sending this same message from MY hotmail address. I've changed my password but I'm not entirely sure this will be enough seeing that they already had my password once and it is possible that they may have all my information that I had stored into my email information. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so how do I fix it? I do not want to be labeled as a spammer from my hotmail address, since this is the main email I use for jobs and such. So it's putting me in a rather nasty dilemma.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
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by Bubbles Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:44 pm
Welcome to ScamWarners h3ad3rb3ar. I deleted your duplicate post. We prefer to have one topic per scammer.

You don't give us much to go on regarding your email account being used to send out this scam. Scammers do use agency or company email addresses that they spoof, they usually have a Reply To email address that goes to them. I don't see that in what you have posted up.

If this is the crux of your post, the script they used really doesn't mean much.
Not entirely sure how they had access to my email but I've got two pages of sent emails from whoever it may be sending this same message from MY hotmail address. I've changed my password but I'm not entirely sure this will be enough seeing that they already had my password once and it is possible that they may have all my information that I had stored into my email information. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so how do I fix it? I do not want to be labeled as a spammer from my hotmail address, since this is the main email I use for jobs and such. So it's putting me in a rather nasty dilemma.


I would suggest you gather any and all evidence you have in your defense and be prepared to present it to hotmail IF your account gets shut down. The shut downs are pretty well automated, so if you were to be shut down it would probably be done already.

Hopefully you changed your password to something others cannot guess.


I have other theories, but we shall see.

Bubbles, former Scamwarners moderator.

Rest in Peace 24 June 2015.

Gone, but never forgotten.
by h3ad3rb3ar Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:12 am
What kind of information would you like for me to gather about this scam being sent from my email? Yes, I did change my password but like I said before, I'm not entirely sure that's going to be enough.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
by Bubbles Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:46 am
Was there a Reply to email address in the message they sent out?

Other wise, there is not anything we can do. We cannot repair that your email account was hijacked. You have it back now and that is a good outcome. Congratulations!

Bubbles, former Scamwarners moderator.

Rest in Peace 24 June 2015.

Gone, but never forgotten.
by began steele Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:26 am
I have a thought about the from NOREPLY address if no other is given and that it actually is monitored for replies. If your email address was used to send out scam messages then you are lucky to have what amounts to a scammers email list and it could be of use to scamwarners, for benign reasons of course.

The delivery of payments straight from customers to our free-lancers using international money transfer systems

The true nature of the scam with receiving fake cheques and cashing them, and forwarding the money by Western Union.

Also see here.
http://forums.careerbuilder.com/topic/1131

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. ~~ George Orwell.
by h3ad3rb3ar Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:27 am
From what I am seeing, no one has replied back but then again the email addresses it sent all these emails to looked to be like they were randomly generated from some kind of program. I got a lot of "delivery status notification: failed" in my inbox from most of those random emails not going completely through. And then I've got a few emails of where they HAVE replied back but was a random program or something saying the spam was intercepted.


From: Heather Mullins ([email protected])
Sent: Mon 8/29/11 1:05 PM
To: [email protected]

^^^^^^^ this is one of the email addresses that was sent back to me saying it failed.


From: Mail Sieve Subsystem ([email protected])
Sent: Mon 8/29/11 1:05 PM
To: [email protected]


Your message was automatically rejected by Sieve, a mail
filtering language.

The following reason was given:
This account is no longer active

This was apparently sent to some school of some sort and they caught it and the email isn't active anymore.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
by @CBSiteSecurity Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:10 pm
Thank you for helping spread a word of caution about these types of messages! Based on the information listed within your original post, the message in question does appear to be a payment processing (shipping) scam. It also appears to be a spoof message designed to appear as if it came from a legitimate source or 3rd party company in order to lend it credibility.

We recommend such messages be disregarded and any current or future correspondence attempts related to the message be ignored.

For more information about Online Fraud, we do offer a Fraud Page for Jobseekers:

http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Info/Fraud.aspx

Thank you.

CareerBuilder’s Trust and Site Security Team
@CBSiteSecurity
by Katharina Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:13 am
h3ad3rb3ar wrote:What kind of information would you like for me to gather about this scam being sent from my email? Yes, I did change my password but like I said before, I'm not entirely sure that's going to be enough.


You should also change your test question that the email provider will ask you in case you forgot your password.

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