Reshipper Scam. [email protected]

Fraudulent domain: cbintprodtrad.com
Created 01-mar-2012
Expires 01-mar-2013

Good morning,

Last week Your attention was caught by our company's advertisement about Purchasing Manager/Supply Chain Manager Job. I have great pleasure in sending you full information about this position and our organization.

CB International Products and Trading is going to expand and offers Full- and Part - time positions.

To find more about salary, work schedule and hours, base commissions and benefits, location and other, please read over the Job Description file. There is NO relocation required. There is NO fee to apply. There is NO fee to start. The purpose of the position is to perform a variety of duties in connection with customer service and logistics. You may have experience from a different field than small business or technology, sales or customer service but must to have an ability to work under direct control and guidance of supervisor.

HOW TO APPLY: If you are interested, please complete the Application Form and return it to current email or by fax number listed below:
1) by mail: you may simply download the Application Form, complete the Application Form by required information and send it back to my email.
2) by Fax: you may simply download the Application Form, print it and complete by required information to send back at fax number listed below.

If you need more information, please contact us via email or by phone indicated below.

CB International Products and Trading ,
Sandra Adrian
Phone: (646)7559284
Fax: (888)6815806

Images of the fake documentation which accompanied the scam email;
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Subject: Full/Part Time Job you was interested last week, Job Description
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I have received this scam E-Mail. Does anyone know where this is coming from and how they were directed to me? Does anyone know any more information about this SCAM?

[AlanJones]

hello jerbear2265 and welcome to ScamWarners

An analysis of the header in the OP shows that the email originates from Malaysia.

Header Analysis Quick Report
Originating IP: 1.9.2.17
Originating ISP: Tmnet, Telekom Malaysia Bhd.
City: Jitra
Country of Origin: Malaysia
* For a complete report on this email header goto ipTRACKERonline

As to being directed at you, you will be just one of many who receive it after your email address was harvested from somewhere on the Internet.

Hello. Why do you think this is a scam? I have gotten the same email and was offered a job last week. I'm now working on my first project and I do not feel that this job is scam.... I checked the paperwork they sent with my lawyer and found that company is legitimate business. They did not ask me to receive and re-ship out packages.....I got an assignment to find the products from their list and submit me report......Do I need to worry from now????
Vane

Reiterating what A.B pointed out:

Domain Name: CBINTPRODTRAD.COM
Registrar: BIZCN.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.bizcn.com
Referral URL: http://www.bizcn.com
Name Server: NS1.AGITNSX.NET
Name Server: NS2.AGITNSX.NET
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 01-mar-2012
Creation Date: 01-mar-2012
Expiration Date: 01-mar-2013

Now let's look at their email:

CB International Products and Trading is going to expand

Pretty impressive that they are expanding, considering they have only existed a week.

The phone number is from Level 3 Communications - a company that offers services that are routinely abused by scammers who are outside the US but pretending to be in the US.
The fax is a freephone number - again, not consistent with a legitimate business.

The salary is ridiculously high. No legitimate job is going to offer 59K, plus the opportunity for huge bonuses, to a brand new employee simply for shipping items.

A quick search of the company's address shows that the same address belongs to a company called TBS biometrics--unlike this so-called "employer", TBS Biometrics has a solid internet presence and has been around for years.

So we have a "company" that cropped up a week ago, that is not verifiable, using a fake address, and phone numbers services typical of scammers. Then this "company' is offering typical scam reshipping jobs to random people (without meeting and/or interviewing them) by email (note it pops up here too), with salaries that are completely out of alignment with the "responsibilities." In addition, they claim to be in switzerland, but send their emails from Malaysia.
There are other things too, but this is already quite clear.

[AlanJones]

Dear Xxx
Our company would like to offer you the Purchasing Manager position for the reason of your resume and application form. You are offered th position without interview but with one month of probation period. Our probation period it's one month from your actual start date which allows us and you to understand how much we can make together. Your actual start date is a day when your first purchase order would be completed.

You will be paid once in two weeks during probation period. Your wage is indicated in our job offer attached to this email. Please see attached files to get more details about your salary, work hours and other. Also, I attached Payroll Form which must be filled and send back by email or fax. Your Payroll Form form could be send during next 10 days from your actual start date.

Please look other all attachments to this email and let me know your comments or questions. I have to find out can you accept our work conditions during probation period or not? Please let me know about it via email. It is not necessary to sign Offer because you are required to send your acceptance as an email back. If you would like to accept our position then send me back your email with answer.

There are two additional files attached to my email with general information about position and start process. Our Company is absolutely new company in the USA market and you could not find more information about us. If you would like to check our company legitimacy then please fell free to visit http://www.zefix.ch or http://www.moneyhouse.ch (Please will not forget select an English language). Please use our company's name or registration number which are indicated in our job offer to find and check us.

If you need more information to understand process, please ask me about Example by email. If you need my answers, please contact me immediately!

This is a 1099 work from home position. If you do have a current employment then you can stay with ones during the probation period. We do not ask you keep our position as main job before you pass probation period(3-4 weeks).

CB International Products and Trading ,
Sandra Adrian
Phone: 6467559284
Fax: 8886815820

I also received that email and exchange emails with this individual, they said they just opened an office in N.Y. The lady even called me and left me a voice mail. I was sent 2 emails involving a lot of documents in reference to the company. I emailed back after I read all the paper work with some questions. But I have not heard back. I have all of the exchange emails and documents. Thank you for putting this information out there and sharing it with the world. Is really important to be aware of this abuse.

is this something to worry about? i received the same email.

[AlanJones]

^^^ It's a scam email and it is bulk mailed to loads of people. Just delete it and don't reply.

My fiance replied to this company with a resume and was hired. As per their instructions she was given their bank account, routing number and nickname for their account. She contacted her credit card companies with this info and her balances were paid off. This is in excess of 20k. She checked her balances today and they are 0. These posts have made her very anxious about making the purchases. She has given CB no info about her cards only a checking account separate from all others to direct deposit her salary. Where is the scam?

The scam is that the money in that bank account is stolen. By using it and then sending items to the scammers, she is an active participant in a money laundering scheme, at a minimum.

Eventually the person or business from whom the money was stolen will most likely identify and report the loss. (On rare occasion this might not happen, but the risk is certainly not worth taking).

When that happens, the stolen money will be tracked, and transactions most likely will be reversed.
But she doesn't just lose the money that was used to pay off her cards.
-If she has continued to use her cards, she is going to be subject to a variety of interest fees, late payment fees, and possibly over-limit fees if new purchases added to the original balance trigger the limit.
-She can face a variety of bank fees for illegal transfers, etc.
-That bank account may be closed, and any other accounts she holds with the bank may be frozen or closed.
-She may be banned from having an account at that bank again, and find it difficult to open an account with any bank depending on how this plays out.
-She can be reported for, and charged with, a variety of crimes, from money laundering to theft, (which crimes would be dependent on exactly where the money came from). Some of the possible charges are even felonies. Even if she doesn't end up in court, she will very possibly be stuck with attorney fees avoiding it. And if charges are pursued, a felony on her record will have a huge negative impact on the rest of her life.
-Depending on what she is ordering and shipping, and who it is shipping to. she could also attract some very unwanted attention from homeland security or another security agency.

This scam has backfired on victims before--and it has usually resulted in a significant (hundreds to thousands of dollars) loss of money--plus a lot of legal complications.

I wast sure in ms sandra and the company after the post. I was praying to get the first paycheck in time. The check was delivered by mail last Friday and I'm happy now. I spoke with my friend who is attorney and was told there is no scam. I'm going to continue our relationships. Vane

Admin note: This is a fake testimonial designed to lure victims into falling for this scam. The user (who clearly is not American, even though this "job" is supposedly for Americans) was dumb enough to log in using a proxy implicated in fake postings, comment spam, and bots all over the internet--not to mention the fact that he can't seem to make up his mind what his name is supposed to be. I have left this post intact to illustrate how low scammers are willing to go to steal your money.-Dotti.

[AlanJones]

I would guess that you are either the scammer trying to legitimise his scam, or you have been seriously misled by your lawyer friend.

If you bank that cheque, it will seriously come back and bite you in the future, it may take weeks, but eventually the cheque will be found to be fake and the money will be clawed back from your account, by which time you will have already sent on the money via Western Union to the scammers. You will be down the amount that you forwarded on and you could also be facing money laundering or fraud charges!

If you are real then I would seriously ask you to stop and think for a minute. Re read the whole of this thread and consider where a company that has only had a website since the start of this month is getting it's customers from. Also, consider why a company needs you to channel funds through your personal account (perhaps ask your bank if they can give you a legitimate reason for a company wanting to do this - I doubt they will be able to come up with one)

Hello, I also received this email, replied (with generic info), and was also offered a "job" with a probation period. Based on what I have read on this thread that it is apparently a scam to launder money.
Do you think there is risk of identity theft to these victims aside from being scammed into an illegal operation?
Also, if this company does really pay off a debt on someones credit card, who is to say that person cannot walk way at that point with a cleared credit card balance, and never do anything further for the scammers?
It appears they are risking alot of money by clearing out "employees'" balances to allow for purchases without an assurance that those purchases will be made and products shipped.

[AlanJones]

The money that is used to pay off the credit cards will be stolen from other victims, the scammers will not pay a cent of their own money.

When the victims discover the theft of the money and complain to their bank, the money will be clawed back from the credit card that it was paid on to and the cardholder will have a lot of explaining to do to their bank and possible the police.