Is this a scam? Job Opportunity: Receiver Agent

Received this in my inbox today. Surprisingly didn't filter as spam.

Raymond Grey <[email protected]>


to me
Job Opportunity: Receiver Agent

A highly regarded and well established company is currently searching for Receiver Agent to manage shipping activities of company clients. As specialists in the Freight Forwarding, Shipping, Logistics, and Courier sphere, we are always looking for experienced candidates. We provide training course if you need. If you have the necessary experience in any of the above sectors, please write us and we will be happy to assist you in finding a new post.

As Receiver Agent your responsibilities are:
- Write formal reports as to the condition, performance and costs associated with managed shipments.
- Examines incoming shipments, rejects damaged items, records shortages, and corresponds with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.
- Track shipments to verify delivery.
- Ability to keep information confidential.
- No criminal issues.

All candidates must be eligible to work in Australia.
To get more information about our opening please email us at [email protected] with your contact information.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Is this a job scam, because it sounds convincing. Below is the header

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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:18:53 -0400
From: "Raymond Grey" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

The email was sent from Vietnam. It's pretty unlikely that someone having a genuine job for Australians would be sending an email about it from Vietnam using a free email address. A scam job with that description would be receiving packages bought with stolen money at your home and reshipping them overseas to mask the source.

I got exactly the same email today. I did a bit of searching couldn't find a company of the name raymond grey. I just found a couple of links suggesting it's a scam + your post as well

Flag this messageJob #3931346-02Monday, 18 March, 2013 1:39 AMFrom: "Raymond Grey" <[email protected]>Add sender to ContactsTo: b*undisclosed*@yahoo.com.auJob Opening: Receiver Agent

A highly regarded and well established company nowadays is in need of Receiver Agent to manage shipping activities of company customers. As specialists in the Freight Forwarding, Shipping, Logistics, and Courier industries, we are always looking for experienced applicants. We will provide training course if you need. If you have the necessary experience in any of the above sectors, please write us and we will be happy to assist you in finding a new job opportunity.

Main responsibilities are:
- Prepare formal reports as to the conditions, performance and costs associated with managed shipments.
- Examines incoming shipments, rejects damaged items, records shortages, and corresponds with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.
- check up outgoing shipments to verify delivery.
- Ability to keep information confidential.
- No criminal records.

All applicants must have work permit in Australia.
To get more details about our post please write us at [email protected] with your contacts.
Hope to hear from you as soon as possible!
Raymond Grey


Is what i recieved today, didnt filter as spam.Did a little research is definately fake

plus you can clearly see some differences between your email and the one i recieved

I had the exact same email this morning..

I think the contents differ so that it would not show up on the google search when someone copies and pastes the text onto google search.

A highly regarded and well established company is currently searching for Receiver Agent to manage shipping activities of company clients. As specialists in the Freight Forwarding, Shipping, Logistics, and Courier sphere, we are always looking for experienced candidates.

Google will only search 30 words and the few small differences should make no difference . The quote above should be sufficient but other parts are just as good and the odd different word here and there won't affect the results. Scammers often reuse the same text and edit things such as gender specific references and search wil still work .

Well thanks to the awareness of members and topics on this forum, the top 2 search results on google for the above quote shows this website! You guys rock!

Hi, since this "Receiver Agent" email I was sent I've now received 2 more similar? emails ... I've never got these sorts of emails before offering "job opportunities" ... Anyway today I just got this one: (from email address [email protected])

" Hi,

I work as a representative at Orbis. We are a big and quickly growing company. As a matter of fact, we frequently expand our staff. Now we have an open vacancy of a Operations Assistant. For this position we look for capable, diligent and professional people. Among your job responsibilities will be bookkeeping tasks and direct support of our clients. This is a flexible-hours work directed to residents of Australia. If you think you might be interested in cooperating with us, please write me back ASAP.

Best,
Orbis Ltd. team
No virus found in this message.
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Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6192 - Release Date: 03/20/13 "

... the 'cooperating with us' part of the text sounds wrongly worded ... ?

A few days ago I got this one:

"Work Opportunity: JR Accounts Assistant

We email you about our new opening because we got your information from jobboard that you are in need of job opportunity. At this time our Company has one new opening to show you in Australian market. Pavazo LLC deals with management consulting area around the world. We help our clients to get right decisions regarding their difficult financial and other troubles.

You don't need any extra knowledge. We provide Trial Period with complete support. So this is a great opportunity to get extra money!
In order to become JR Accounts Assistant you need to have good managerial skills and be able to work under tight schedule pressure. The JR Accounts Assistant's duties influence on the profitability of the business. JR Accounts Assistant responsibilities will include support with local clients, preparing reports, cooperate with our branches.

If you want to get good extra money and have great job opportunity, please reply directly to this email for more information.
Kind regards,
Jon Harton,
Pavazo LLC.
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6185 - Release Date: 03/17/13 "

[it's from a [email protected]]


thoughts ??

Both are from free email addresses, so are probably scammy. pavazollc.com looks like a domain of the Grafton-Riggs scam gang, but there's nothing on the website except an "under construction" sign, so we'll need evidence. I don't know what site the other recruiter is using. Could you respond to both of them, as if you were interested, then post here whatever reply you get? Include the headers; we may need them.

orbis-bs.com is a money mule site and is in the process of being reported for fraud.