by Zakkotta111
Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:16 pm
ATTENTION, ATTENTION:
Two days ago I received the following two emails offering a job as a text editor. Having some journalism experience, I jumped in with both feet, but as earlier posters said, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. So I Googled “Text Editing Scam” and voila!
EMAIL #1
—-Original Message—–
From: Peter Ginzburg
To:
Sent: Wed, Jun 13, 2012 10:31 am
Subject: RE: Re: Equal opportunity : id – (V279JHFJQ8P413598)…
Hi again,
This e-mail is to confirm that we have got your reply regarding text editing work.
ABOUT WORK:
During 24 hours you will get an e-mail from us with texts. Several short
texts, you should review the texts and fix spell and grammar errors.
This will serve as a test of your skills and competency of the English
language.
You will be paid for the work of couse. We will pay you at the standard
editor’s rate of $5.00 per 1 kilobyte (kb). 1kb=1024 symbols.
We pay only to PayPal and it should be Premier or Business. No other ways.
We would like the texts we send you to be edited within 1 day.
The reason we need such a quick return is because we must then mail your
edited texts to our clients or employees. That is why we are looking for
responsible individuals to help us succeed.
Please be in touch with us every day. We look forward to cooperate with
you. Check your e-mail daily (also spam folder).
We will pay a salary to you every 2 weeks. The amount of the salary
depends on the sum of kilobytes (kb) of the texts you have corrected
during 2 weeks.
1Kb (1024 symbols including space and other) = $5.00
We pay only to PayPal and it should be Premier or Business. No other ways.
The support mail you get with each text will include exact information on
the size of the text so you can keep track on you earnings. Also we send
you confirmation mails after we get your edited text where we tell you your
current earnings.
Attention!
The texts we mail are sent in a body of email so please watch your spam
folder carefully. It may land there by mistake.
We hope for a long-term cooperation that will benefit both of us.
—
ABOUT US: We are Travel Service.
We represent an european holding which combines several partner
companies and has diffrent branches worlwide. You will be directly
(via e-mail)
communicating with one of our representatives located at St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Our Juridical details:
OOO”Rambler Internet Holding” 1996-2012
Address:
Russia, 115000, Moscow,
Leninskiy street 117, BL “Omega-Plaza”
Phone/Fax: +7-495-981-1111
We need you to edit the texts which are part of communication between our
employees and clients.
The exact job process entails:
*On a daily basis you receive 5Kb-10Kb of text (maybe more). Editing this
volume of text would bring you $25-$50 a day;
(it takes up to 30-40 minutes per day)
*We should receive the revised text back from you the same day.
We will discuss a payment method with you 1 day prior to the day you should be paid.
Thank you,
Travel Service
EMAIL #2
Equal opportunity : id – (V279JHFJQ8P413598)…
Erin Foreman to:
From: Erin Foreman Hide
Date:Tue, Jun 12, 2012 6:10 am
Hi.
We have found your CV on job board website and thought you might be a
prospective employee.
We are looking for new workers, who can speak and proofread English very well
and will help us communicate with our English speaking clients.
This work takes about 30-40 minutes per day. You may do this in your free time.
You will have to review our business text files and edit spelling and grammar
mistakes that we make.
Salary: $5.00 for 1 Kb. (1024 symbols)
This letter to you is about 1Kb in size.
Basic Requirements:
- Location: USA
- Age: 21 years old and older
- PC user skills, email proficiency
If interested please provide us with data requested below so as to confirm we
have your name and other information correctly.
– Your Full Name:
– Country, State:
– Age:
– Occupation:
I’ll wait for your answer.
Details should be e-mailed as a reply to this letter. Our supervisor will e-mail
you detailed description about our company and the position offered shortly as a
reply to your confirmation e-mail.
We appreciate your review of this opportunity.
With Best regards
Two days ago I received the following two emails offering a job as a text editor. Having some journalism experience, I jumped in with both feet, but as earlier posters said, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. So I Googled “Text Editing Scam” and voila!
EMAIL #1
—-Original Message—–
From: Peter Ginzburg
To:
Sent: Wed, Jun 13, 2012 10:31 am
Subject: RE: Re: Equal opportunity : id – (V279JHFJQ8P413598)…
Hi again,
This e-mail is to confirm that we have got your reply regarding text editing work.
ABOUT WORK:
During 24 hours you will get an e-mail from us with texts. Several short
texts, you should review the texts and fix spell and grammar errors.
This will serve as a test of your skills and competency of the English
language.
You will be paid for the work of couse. We will pay you at the standard
editor’s rate of $5.00 per 1 kilobyte (kb). 1kb=1024 symbols.
We pay only to PayPal and it should be Premier or Business. No other ways.
We would like the texts we send you to be edited within 1 day.
The reason we need such a quick return is because we must then mail your
edited texts to our clients or employees. That is why we are looking for
responsible individuals to help us succeed.
Please be in touch with us every day. We look forward to cooperate with
you. Check your e-mail daily (also spam folder).
We will pay a salary to you every 2 weeks. The amount of the salary
depends on the sum of kilobytes (kb) of the texts you have corrected
during 2 weeks.
1Kb (1024 symbols including space and other) = $5.00
We pay only to PayPal and it should be Premier or Business. No other ways.
The support mail you get with each text will include exact information on
the size of the text so you can keep track on you earnings. Also we send
you confirmation mails after we get your edited text where we tell you your
current earnings.
Attention!
The texts we mail are sent in a body of email so please watch your spam
folder carefully. It may land there by mistake.
We hope for a long-term cooperation that will benefit both of us.
—
ABOUT US: We are Travel Service.
We represent an european holding which combines several partner
companies and has diffrent branches worlwide. You will be directly
(via e-mail)
communicating with one of our representatives located at St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Our Juridical details:
OOO”Rambler Internet Holding” 1996-2012
Address:
Russia, 115000, Moscow,
Leninskiy street 117, BL “Omega-Plaza”
Phone/Fax: +7-495-981-1111
We need you to edit the texts which are part of communication between our
employees and clients.
The exact job process entails:
*On a daily basis you receive 5Kb-10Kb of text (maybe more). Editing this
volume of text would bring you $25-$50 a day;
(it takes up to 30-40 minutes per day)
*We should receive the revised text back from you the same day.
We will discuss a payment method with you 1 day prior to the day you should be paid.
Thank you,
Travel Service
EMAIL #2
Equal opportunity : id – (V279JHFJQ8P413598)…
Erin Foreman to:
From: Erin Foreman Hide
Date:Tue, Jun 12, 2012 6:10 am
Hi.
We have found your CV on job board website and thought you might be a
prospective employee.
We are looking for new workers, who can speak and proofread English very well
and will help us communicate with our English speaking clients.
This work takes about 30-40 minutes per day. You may do this in your free time.
You will have to review our business text files and edit spelling and grammar
mistakes that we make.
Salary: $5.00 for 1 Kb. (1024 symbols)
This letter to you is about 1Kb in size.
Basic Requirements:
- Location: USA
- Age: 21 years old and older
- PC user skills, email proficiency
If interested please provide us with data requested below so as to confirm we
have your name and other information correctly.
– Your Full Name:
– Country, State:
– Age:
– Occupation:
I’ll wait for your answer.
Details should be e-mailed as a reply to this letter. Our supervisor will e-mail
you detailed description about our company and the position offered shortly as a
reply to your confirmation e-mail.
We appreciate your review of this opportunity.
With Best regards