beautyinvestonline.com job offer

Okay, I got this the other day, likely in response to one of the ads I replied to on Gumtree.com.au

There were also two documents attached to this e-mail, one was an application form asking for private information, the other had info on this phony job, i'll copy that second one below, and seperate them with a boatload of dashes, so you know where the email ends and the pdf begins.

I looked up the website they supplied, it's some sort of online fashion store, that by all appearances is based in New York and does NOT hire in Australia.

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Torry Stewart [email protected]
Apr 26 (1 day ago)

to me



Hi, <REMOVED>
Thank you for the submission.
We have received your resume and appreciate your interest in employment with us. I'm pleased to inform you that your skills completely meet our requirements for this position.

Please see the "Job Description" file for more details about the position. If you have any questions – ask me.
Fill the "Application Form" and send me an email with attached form.Use e-mail or fax: (03) 9923 6846

Note:
Please visit our website for additional information about company and services.

I will do my best to help you in any way I can.

Regards,
Torry Stewart

Beauty Invest Ltd.
Tel: +61 (02) 8011 4363
Fax: +61 (03) 9923 6846

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Job Description

Vacancy: Accountant Assistant (Special knowledge in Financial Area and daily
presence at the office are NOT REQUIRED)

Vacancy type: Home-based
Working Hours: 9a.m. – 1p.m.
Salary: 800 AUD a week during probation period + daily bonuses – 5% per each
order. 1100 AUD a week is a full salary after the probation period.
Compensation: expenses on mobile phone communications, and expenses on
fuel if required.
Probation Period: 1 month.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Access to Computer with e-mail account and ability to check your e-mail box at least
twice a day;
• Basic knowledge of MS Office;
• Age 18+;
• Ability to work with printer and scanner;
• Sociability

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Our company is seeking a responsible assistant.

Duties include:
processing payments from our customers,
providing assistance to our accountant,
payment of expenses for our company.

Thanks for posting this one. Any online job that involves receiving and forwarding money is a scam, and as you already realized, this fits squarely into that category. It is an attempt to recruit mules for money laundering, and could open "employees" to a whole mess of trouble.


Scammers often do use names of legitimate companies to make their scams more believable, but they have nothing to do with the real company, of course. Often they register a domain similar to that of the real company--sometimes they simply spoof a sender email address, and have you reply to a different address, or they use a compromised (phished) address from the company.

In this case, it looks like the domain is a fake, and they have cloned a real website, bluefly.com.

I just got this email too. I called the number on the bottom, and it always says "Our reps are busy at the moment, leave your name and number and we'll call you back."
I also clicked the facebook and twitter links on the website, and neither exist, so I searched the name on facebook, and it came up with one guy listing Beauty Invest Limited as his employer and as weird as it sounds, he looks like his voice would match that of the one who is speaking on the voicemail.

This is super suspicious, and being that I've been out of work for so long, it's super annoying to be fooled into thinking it may have been real.

I hope that whoever is running this crap gets caught.