COX & KINGS LUXURY HOLIDAYS Employment Scam

I recently received an e-mail from a Henry Lowe of Cox and Kings Luxury Travel. After what i thought was a legitimate offer as a travel coordinator he sent me this e-mail from [email protected]:

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My name is Henry Lowe and I am working as personnel manager in "COX & KINGS LUXURY HOLIDAYS" Travel Company.
I have offered you a vacancy in our company, and now I will explain how to proceed to the next step.
Hope you will find it interesting and accept our offer.

We just wanted to apologize for a large number of messages. Many of the messages go automatically to spam,
therefore for confidence we send a few messages that you received our offer of employment.

My principal task is to lead you through the whole process of work as Travel Coordinator and explain what
you are supposed to do. You will find in this letter all your future duties.

As I said your resume was found on the site for job seekers. We have reviewed this information and think that
you would have been useful for our company. You may ask why you, you do not have special skills and you do not
have experience in this field. I can answer your question: For this position does not require special skills.
The main thing - diligence and desire to earn money and honesty.
You might think that this is not for you, but believe me, our employees receive good wages and bonuses for a
fairly simple job, and they are not going to leave this position. In our staff people of all special and you'll
be a good addition to our team. Perhaps you already have a job, but as you know is the position of part-time,
so it will be a great addition to your basic pay. I want to allay your fears. Our company has many years of fair play,
we trust our customers and employees, and they trust us in return. We do not require data on your account,
as it is your personal information and no one can claim it. Remember, only criminals need your account information.
Also it's position not based on sales.

Duties are simple enough, so I think you understand everything quite easy. Well, I want to tell you some words about
our Company - COX & KINGS LUXURY HOLIDAYS.

Cox & Kings is the world's longest established travel company, offering high quality group tours, private journeys
and tailor-made holidays to many of the world's most fascinating regions. Our luxury holidays range from the lavish
to the adventurous, and are planned by experts.

Wherever you choose to travel with Cox & Kings, you can travel with confidence. The clarity of our brochures and website;
the expertise and experience of our Tour Consultants and the knowledge and enthusiasm of our guides and local
representatives on the ground, all enable you to be fully informed before you book and carefree when you travel.
Here are just some of the benefits of choosing Cox & Kings.

***Our Expertise***
Our regional specialists have all travelled extensively in their regions meaning you can
be reassured that your hotels, excursions and journeys have been fully considered by an expert.

***Our Value***
Our buying power and long-standing relationships in the travel industry generated over many
years by the network of associated Cox & Kings companies worldwide enables us to contract flights,
hotels and ground services at highly competitive rates.

***Our Service***
Our regional specialists have all travelled extensively in their regions meaning you can be reassured
that your hotels, excursions and journeys have been fully considered by an expert.

For more information you can visit our website: http://www.coxandkings.co.uk/whycoxandkings.aspx

We are engaged in providing touristic services to any places in the world. Our Company is the leading
travel agency in the Europe, and now we start providing our services in the North America, including
the United States of America too.

Our main office is located in London, United Kingdom. We also have local offices in Europe, and also India,
Australia and and provide our services on the territory of the Europe Union and started working in the USA
and for this purpose we finished the registration here. So now we need the Travel Coordinators.

We offer such services as the best selection of flights, hotels and vacation packages using innovative search,
packaging and booking engines, from economy to lux-level packages. But our main direction is providing individual
tours, including extreme travels and luxury tours.

Our traditional device is to give the client everything he wants, because we depend from clients.
We do everything for enjoy of our customers. Actually we have all types of the travel services.
That's why we do our best in order to provide customers with the best flights and carefully customized tours.

I am honored to inform you that we want you to apply our team. And now we would like to suggest you to become our Travel Coordinator.
This position is limited to a certain number of person, so please make your decision ASAP.


The application process consist only from 3 steps.

-Application process:

I have attached 4 files to this letter: Job Description, FAQ file,
Application and Agreement in the MS Word format(if you couldn't open
MS Word files, please let me know and I will forward you the PDF files)

1. Please read DESCRIPTION carefully and respond me back with you questions and/or confirmation to work with us.

2. If You agree you need to fill out the Employment Agreement and Application and send back filled out by e-mail
or fax: +1.206.337.8716

3. When you send the documents back to me, I will forward your application documents to our HR department immediately.

From my side I will do my best in order to provide you with all necessary instructions and answers to your questions.
You can ask me for any information you will be interested in. Please inform me as soon as possible about your decision,
whether it is positive or not, because we have another candidates and we need to activate our human resource challenge.
Please give your answer within two working days.

Best regards,
Henry Lowe
COX & KINGS LUXURY HOLIDAYS
Fax: +1.206.337.8716
www.coxandkings.co.uk
6th Floor 30 Millbank
London, SW1P 4EE

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After further investigation, this WAS NOT a legitimate offer.
Red Flag: While the company is real, the e-mail domain is GMX and not the company domain
Red Flag: There are numerous grammatical mistakes in the text.
Red Flag: Payment was too goo to be true, $3000 a month for 5-10 hours a week work.

Welcome to ScamWarners CMIYC and congratulations for recognizing the scam. Thank you for posting the information up for others to find and be warned.

I also have received an email solicitation. Just 12 minutes after the 1st BS solicitation. The following is from the REAL company website.

Work for Cox & Kings
It has come to our attention that a number of emails have been sent offering various jobs at Cox & Kings by someone calling themselves Henry Lowe claiming to be a manager at our office in London. These are fraudulent emails. We do not have an employee of this name, or vacancies of the type being offered. We would never contact people in this way, or ask for money to progress a job application. Any available positions are advertised on our website. We are doing everything we can to investigate this fraud and put a stop to it.

Dear David,

This is Henry Lowe.

I'm staff manager of our hiring department.
Type of Job: receiving payments from our US customers.
Work basis: Part-time(4-6 hours per week)

We provide you:

- Training & Seminars.
- We pay $3k monthly.
- Wage+bonus pay.

This may be the nice addon to your current work.

Important: No subscriptions from our candidates. No start-up fees.
Candidates not required pay anything to work.

Pls view links below to find additional information about our Travel
Agency:

http://www.coxandkings.co.uk/

If you're want to start, contact me for further info as soon as you can.

Faithfully
Mr. Lowe
COX & KINGS




This arrives at August 5, 2012 10:17:01 AM EDT


My name is I'm Mr. Lowe. I'm recruiter of HR dept.
I involved to attracting new staff. I sent you brief description for the
position a few minutes ago.
I want to be sure that you did receive it. Please confirm that you have
received my initial email with info.

Respectfully
Mr. Henry Lowe
COX & KINGS

Also, the scam is out of WA. State or using a Von*ge or other spoofable #, the 206.337.8716 fax reveals this.

The fact that this scam is perpetuated on people who are placing their resume's online in search of legit job offers makes the hole scam a despicable demonic effort.

People that most likely are laying the groundwork for Identity Theft need to be investigated by the Fed's and I will be happy to forward the attached to the FTC. Any other recipients are encouraged to do the same.

Regards,

Bluesbuff Atgmail

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I'm glad you recognized this scam without losing anything.

Just a few quick points:

Also, the scam is out of WA. State or using a Von*ge or other spoofable #, the 206.337.8716 fax reveals this.

The scam is not out of Washington. The number is a K7 number, a free number that can be obtained online and can be accessed remotely.

Chances are, this scam is not about identity theft. It would most likely turn into a money mule position, where you receive and forward money to the scammers, a reshipping position, where you are sending stolen merchandise to the scammers, or a simple advance fee scam, in which you are offered this fabulous job but you have to send money for visas, documents, training, credit reports, taxes, etc. before you can get it.

This type of scam actually falls in the jurisdiction of IC3 in the US, though most likely the scammers themselves are in another country.