Home Assistant Position Scam

This is the email that I got after answering an ad on Craigslist:



APPLICANT’S NAME

APPLICANT’S ADDRESS

___________________

___________________


Dear Applicant’s (Home Assistant)

I must apologies for the delay, it is due to screen and logistics reason.

Thank you for your interest in the Home Asssistant) position. I am looking for someone who can help me carry out the task assign in a very positive manner in my new acquired house.


I'm SCOTT STEVEN MCMAHON, 56years old, a retired attorney from the of California, I and my family finally prefers to relocate down to your current location,due to the calm nature of the environment .


My special assistant (MARY MAC) posted this position due to my current business travel in several locations. I am designated to be in ____your location_________(state location) in few days and this route will consistently continue for the rest of the year.


I WILL OFFER THE FOLLOWING COMPENSATION:


(1) Weekly pay $400 for 2 hours daily (Monday – Friday)= 10 hours weekly
(2) Tips comes regularly

(3) Will keep up to my salary payment even before the week ruins out



The reason why I never responded is because I carried out a background check about you and I must say I am truly satisfy about all records, therefore do not expect any FACE TO FACE interview until I arrive town .

UPFRONT DUTIES:



(1) Before my arrival will send some funds to hire a service car ( Self Drive)
(2) You will make reservation for hotel just for 1 night with my family ( 5 star only) before my arrival VIA PHONE OR INTERNET, above task can be done by calling or visitation
(3) Few more task might be carried out ( not certain)

The major task entails,running errand within the house,working with the householdmachine,sometimes on a rare occassion run some banking errand and so on
If this job criteria and description fit your current needs, email me with your full name, physical address and phone number so I can have my assistant send the advance payment at once for this task. below are info needed to be filled and filed



FIRST NAME..................... LAST NAME.................. HOME ADDRESS (NOT P.O BOX).................
CITY ...........STATE..............ZIP CODE............ PHONE NUMBER (S) ........................
AGE: ........................ PRESENT OCCUPATION.................... ....



Please email , Mary Mac through this email ([email protected]), so both of you can coordinate with each other. Another email will be sent before your 1st task. Mary Mac For Scott

The headers for this email are the following:

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Hello elgafoso, and welcome to ScamWarners.

Thank you for posting the above scam mail, which will help to warn other people who receive an email like this.

You will notice that the scammer says that an advance payment will be sent, and also that you will be involved in hiring a service car. It is most likely that the scammer intends to send a fake or stolen check, and will then request that a payment is made, probably through Western Union or MoneyGram.

If somebody does this, when their bank discovers that the check is fraudulent, the money it represents will be subtracted from that person's bank account. Therefore, the payment that was made will no longer be covered by that check, and that person will discover that they have sent the scammer their own money! And they will never get it refunded.

Thank you also for posting the header for this email.

X-Originating-IP: [80.89.181.62]

This shows that the email was actually sent from Nigeria.

Thank you very much, Chris.

My main concern was to make this message searchable in Google (that's how I ended up in your site).
Your explanation was most enlightening.

Keep up the great work.

All the best,
E.

I sent them an email:

Dear Nigerian Scammers,

Please stop trying to steal money from honest unemployed people.

I posted your bogus email on line and notified the authorities.


Sincerely,
E.

Unfortunately, an email such as the one you sent could only serve to help them.

The scammers know as well as we do that the authorities will not do anything to them and telling them that their details are posted on line is likely to make them use a different fake name, if they use a new fake name, any report we have on them will be of no use to anybody.

The best thing to do is to ignore any emails, as frustrating as that may seem.

These folks never give up and try to intimidate job seekers who are already feeling bad having to look for work in a recession by trying to pour salt on their wounds. Can't the police arrest them on Harassement at least?... I believe these folks are also the one behind the Quest University BC Scam.

LAST WARNING???
Friday, December 17, 2010 9:12 AM
From:
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"Mary Mac" <[email protected]>
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To:
undisclosed-recipients
Attn:
This is my final notice before i formally REPORT YOUR CASE/ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD ME.
I sincerely accepted your offer to work with me as a personal assistant,sending you $1990 on trust and yet you are held funds after clearance.
if funds are not utilized for orders,then i will have to report you to the royal POLICE,FBI
be warned
david

Welcome to Scamwarners Vicky (Can we call you that? )
Some scammers do try frightening victims who have realised it's a scam. There's no point in reporting it to the police as they can't take any action against anonymous foreign scammers.