Job Opportunity smells like fish [email protected]

Hello I was recently looking for work and posted an ad on Craigslist explaining that I would take any job I can.

Well a man emailed me claiming to work for Cambridge Mineral Resources looking for an employee in the United States who could handle some profits. My scam alarm went off when he mentioned money handling. But I would really like this job if real. So I'm hopeful to say the least.

Here I will post the original email and an IM conversation I had with this person.


The Email:



The IM conversation:




After honestly asking if the job was a scam:





Is there ANY possibility this job is legit? I wanna hear a "Yes" but something else tells me "No".


Thank You

Sorry this is a Scam, as soon as Western Union is mentioned alarm bells should be ringing !

Good luck with your job search, but I strongly suggest you leave this one alone and have no more contact with the scammer

100% scam. The scammer wants you to be a money mule. He is asking you to receive money from other victims and forward it to him.

When these victims realize that they have been scammed they will notify Law Enforcement. Your name is the only name that will be reported. The scammer will not get caught because he is using a fake name in another country.

People and businesses do not meet strangers over the internet and ask them to receive money for them. If someone ask you to receive money for them it is a scam and money laudering.

Please post the email addresses the scammer used. I can see [email protected]. It appears that there is another email address you used to chat on gmail.

I'm not being snobbish but the scam all falls down when the scammer tries to pretend to be a high powered executive in a major UK company and speaks English as if he didn't even get as far as high school. The scammer is a clueless lowlife who is just following a script he's been given.

Ohhh this one is extra specially nasty.

http://payments.intuit.com/mobile-credit-card-processing/

http://payments.intuit.com/mobile-payments/get-started/

Wouldn't a scammer just love to get someone to do this for them.

I'd need to look at this in detail but generally the process for getting a means to process credit cards isn't so easy, but criminals would love to get someone to process the stolen details they hold. They won't stop trying and, if they get someone signed up, they'll keep him busy morning noon and night until the Feds kick down your door.

There's nothing scammers like more than a new payment system that people aren't familiar with, and once you bite they'll bully. threaten and do whatever it takes to get you to do as they say because the potential rewards for them are massive. This is going to be a new angle we'll hear a lot more about.

I strongly doubt it can be so easy to set up, but that won't stop them trying.

The following information would make them go weak at the knees.

Did you know you can also take credit cards without the reader?
If you don't have your card reader yet, you can still get paid. Just key in the credit card information*. Your card reader arrives in about 7 days.

Scammers want one of these.

THANKS A LOT GUYS!!

You really saved my butt from the Feds. This job seemed a little too good to be true

100% scam. The scammer wants you to be a money mule. He is asking you to receive money from other victims and forward it to him.

When these victims realize that they have been scammed they will notify Law Enforcement. Your name is the only name that will be reported. The scammer will not get caught because he is using a fake name in another country.

People and businesses do not meet strangers over the internet and ask them to receive money for them. If someone ask you to receive money for them it is a scam and money laudering.

Please post the email addresses the scammer used. I can see [email protected] . It appears that there is another email address you used to chat on gmail.

[email protected] is the only email the scammer used.

The other email you're seeing(in the chat box) next to his name "Stephen Henderson" is actually MY email. I don't know why gmail sets it up like that.

What should my next move be? Should I just stop talking to him cold turkey? Or do you recommend I get some more info out of this scammer?

Just stop talking to him. All of the information he has given you so far is fake, and he isn't going to give you a real name or information.

The nasty point about this scam is that by merely applying for this facility could get you into trouble, as most people will have no valid reason for applying for, or getting one, and they would have to lie to be successful. so that you've committed an offence before you've even laundered any money. If you've lied to get a a facility that is then used to launder money, any legal defence is at best flimsy, at worst non-existent.

Anyone suggesting that they run a company that can't process card payments and needs the help of an employee is scamming you.

Thanks for all the knowledge and advice guys