HAMPTONS ESTATE LIMITED <[email protected]>

[AlanJones]

This is a Company Representative Payment Scam. You will be sent fraudulent cheques or Money Orders, which you will be asked to cash and send the money (minus your 10%) to someone by Western Union. The cheques will eventually be found to be fraudulent by the bank and the money will be debited from your account. If you get involved with these scammers, you will lose money and may also face investigation for fraud.

Received from: HAMPTONS ESTATE LIMITED <[email protected]>
Reply-to: [email protected]
Subject: JOB PROPOSAL (Please read carefully)

Hamptons Estates Limited,
32 Grosvenor Square,
Mayfair, London W1K 2HJ.
Website: http://www.hamptons.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 7024033455
Tel: +44 (0) 7024033040
Fax: +44 (0) 8719003981
Company Number: 2036215
INTRODUCTION:
This email is serving as an invitation to treat with the above named company. We are pleased to inform you that we have offered you a part time job position in our Satellite Representative Department as our Satellite Estate Agent in your area, following our job search procedure; you were short listed in the initial email listing in our job search directory.
ABOUT US
Hamptons had been established since 1869. Over the years we have accumulated invaluable experience in our business. At Hamptons, we acquire properties and valuable commodities for our clients around the world. Our main offices are located in the UK, Dubai, Italy, Morocco and Oman but we have developed a Multi Level Online Marketing Network to meet the demand of our fast growing customers worldwide by introducing Satellite Estate Agents. At Hamptons, we believe that quality comes through dynamic teamwork. We are making a noticeable difference in the property world by providing the best Estate Agents to deliver the best possible customer service, working closely together to achieve the highest results. We are proud of our reputation. If you are looking for a dynamic, professional company, which recognizes that the key to success is through the training and development of its staff, look no further.
OUR PROPOSAL
We need self-starters with excellent skills who are looking for long-term\part-time career development to be our Satellite Estate Agent and will be working as a medium of reach between our fast growing customers in their area of locality. This offer is as a result of the fact that international transactions take longer time to clear than local transactions; hence you will be taking care of all transactions in your locality. We will provide you with the material and chance to succeed. It is your responsibility to make the most of the opportunity.
YOUR SALARY/JOB DISCRIPTION:
The job requires a flexible schedule shift that would not affect your present state of work. Your salary is based on commission for the first Month and there after you will be entitled to a full salary of $400 per week which is $1,600 per Month with some allowances that will be made known to you later base on your ability to handle the job perfectly. You are to choose how you want your salary (Monthly/Weekly). Your commission will be ten percent (10%) of every transaction you process on our behalf, which is not part of your salary. This implies that every transaction of $5000 you process, you stand to gain $500. You will deduct your $500 with any extra cost of sending the money to the company before sending the rest of the money to the company. Once you receive any payment from our customers who are making payments for outstanding invoices on behalf of the company, you will notify us. All payment should be wired to the company via Western ! ! Union Money Transfer, Money Gr
If you are interested in position kindly provide the details below:
Full Name: …………………………………..
Street address: ……………………………..
City: ……………………………………….
State:………………………………………….
Zip code: ………………………………………..
Country: ………………………………………..
Age: ………………………………………….
Gender:……………………………………..
Phone #: ……………………………………
Occupation: ………………………………...
Job Experience (If any): ………………….
PLEASE NOTE:
Note that this is not one of these scam artists going on in the Internet. We are aware of internet fraud going on recently, we employ you to forward any proposal in resemblance to this proposal to us so that we will take proper action against it and so we suggest you go through our website for more details about us, also disregard any email asking you to provide your Credit Card details and your ss# and also note that this transaction is risk free and legal under the reserved bank operation act 2005. All information given by you will be treated confidentially and used only for the purpose of your employment. This is in accordance with the US Data Protection Act 1998.
Best regards,
Mrs. Stacey Williams,
Employment Director.

NOTE: Despite the assurances at the bottom of the email this most definitely is "one of these scam artists going on in the Internet".

Hamptons Estates Limited,
32 Grosvenor Square,
Mayfair, London W1K 2HJ.
Website: http://www.hamptons.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 7024033455
Tel: +44 (0) 7024033040
Fax: +44 (0) 8719003981
Company Number: 2036215

This is a genuine and long-established business, but using the names of real companies is a common scammer trick. The two phone numbers are redirect ones, and can be answered anywhere in the world.
The fax number looks like a genuine UK number, but a web search shows that several scammers use it. It may be that the scammers are relying on victims being unlikely to use it.

[AlanJones]

^^^^ (0) 871 numbers are non-geographic numbers like (0) 70 numbers are, they are just charged at a different rate for calls. They can be set up in the same way that the (0) 70 numbers are and directed anywhere.

Not to mobiles or outside the UK according to www.4telgroup.com/ngn/faqs.htm#8 . Not without using Call Direct as well.

Can I point my non-geographic number to my mobile?

No. We will only route calls through to a normal UK landline telephone or fax number.

If this is something that you are looking to do we normally recommend that you contact your line provider e.g. BT, and arrange to have a Call Divert service added to your package. This would give you the ability to divert calls to 'any' number you wish, and would also mean that you would have greater control over the delivery of your telephone calls.

PhonepayPlus will be regulating 0871 numbers in a couple of months, and they are pretty good at dealing with rogue users. I reported one a few years ago and they were fined £20,000.
http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/output/0 ... Range.aspx

[AlanJones]

It does look like you might be able to direct them to email though, which is possibly what the scammers are doing. Alternatively, its possible that if the scammer is part of a gang, they may have a contact in the UK who picks up faxes and passes them on.