by sadrhino
Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:27 am
Hello. Several days ago, I applied to a posting on Craigslist labeled "Office Assistant." I then got this email from sender name "Mrs. Michelle McLean" and email address "[email protected]"
"MM Children's Charitable Foundation
615 Anthony Blvd. West,
Suite 1220, Montreal
Quebec, H3B 1P5
Office Assistant is needed to support the busy Founder/CEO of a non-profit foundation.
This position is home-based for two weeks till I am back in town where am setting up an office in your area, I run a foundation, working with me is flexible and basically about instructions and following them, my only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, so I need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings. As my assistant, your activities amongst other things will include; providing reliable superior executive support and manage extremely complex business, as well as, highly demanding social calendars. Assist in supporting the foundation business; performing scheduling and coordinating meetings as well as highly detailed event planning from concept to execution.
Job Description:
Provide exemplary executive support and must have very strong interpersonal and communication skills, a pleasant demeanor and strong work ethic. The candidate must practice tactful diplomacy and possess the ability to multi-task with many projects in a fast paced environment.
Responsibilities:
Schedule appointments as well as coordinate travel to and from domestic and international locations; Book reservations, coordinate all appointments with office staff; Manage all business and personal mail and email correspondence; Coordinate all events and dinners - business and social; Exposure to high profile people will require the utmost in confidentiality and discretion; Must be energetic and extremely organized who can assist with miscellaneous errand and tasks as needed.
Your job for the orphanage is to get donations on our behalf, a donation payment in form of a check or money order will be sent over from one of our clients.
I'm sure you'll understand I tend to have a very busy schedule at this point, as I am presently in Canada I will be back in two weeks. I think you're the right person for this position, please note that this position is not office based for now because of my frequent travels and tight schedules; It's a part-time work from home and the flexibility means that there will be busier weeks than others, so it's a little difficult judging the exact number of hours you'll be doing per week.
If you can manage your time properly, this job may even give you some extras while you do something else on the side. Pay is fixed at $450 weekly for a start. I will like you to get back to me with your Contact Details such as:
Personal Information:
Full Name:
Address (Include Apt Number if Available):
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Residential Phone Number:
Mobile:
Age:
Email Address:
The employee, acknowledged the Detailed Job Description
And signed _______________
(First Name and Last Name of Employee)
Ensure you fill this form and send it to email: [email protected]
Completed employment forms sent here ([email protected]) would be processed immediately. All Completed Employment forms should be forward to the email above. Should you have any question, contact me through yahoo messenger where we can chat so I can answer all your questions.
If you don’t have yahoo id, it’s quite easy to get one. Simply create a yahoo mail account and download yahoo messenger software from yahoo as well. Once you have that, we would be able to chat and I would be able to answer all of your questions.
Just in case you sign in into yahoo messenger and I seem not to respond to you, it might be because I am not online or probably I am not on my sit as at the time you tried to IM me. Kindly wait for a few minutes and I would get back to you. Only serious minded employees who are ready to work should contact me. Here is my id: [email protected]
Once I have received your contact information, I will get back to you with the task for this week, please understand you will also be paid as at when due. Congratulations on your new appointment and I do hope that you would not disappoint me by giving me your support. Get back to me as soon as possible so we can get started.
Director
Mrs. Michelle McLean"
I thought it was pretty suspicious how they seemed to want to hire me without an interview and how the title at the top did not match the email they wanted me to send my contact info to. However, since I had already sent my resume to this email and all of my contact info was already on that, I figured there was no harm in testing the waters despite my suspicions and filled out the "form" to the specified email address.
I also wanted to ask a few questions and have a conversation with this person, so I registered a new Yahoo account and downloaded the Messenger to speak with her. We exchanged a few messages through Messenger, but I never got a real-time conversation with this person and all her messages were still really vague and did not present any new information, so I decided to search for some similar scams and found some on this forum. Some phrasing in this email was very similar to some of the scams I found on this forum, so I am now sure that this is a scam.
Of course, I have no intention to maintain further communication with this Michelle McLean. My only concern is that since I have gone pretty far with this scammer, they might continue to email me, and I'm not quite sure how to deal with that. Also, can they do anything with my contact information, such as identity theft? Thank you very much for your help. I will definitely be more careful with sending out my resume from now on and now that I know about this forum, will definitely post here and ask for help instead of testing the waters myself.
I also recently received this email from them, which pretty much confirms that they are a scam. I am posting it here in case it helps anyone else out.
"Dear [name]
This is to inform you that you have been formally appointed as my administrative assistant. This is based on the Achievement of all Requirements needed to work for me and our organization.
You are to adhere Strictly to the Organization’s Code of Conduct and Privacy Policy that is you are to dress properly like you are in an office environment whenever handling any of the Company's transactions and you are not(under no circumstance)allowed to disclose any of the Organization’s transactions to anyone for security reasons.
Failure to comply with these simple rules could lead to an automatic termination of your appointment.
This will be your first assignment, handle it well. I will email you with the FedEx tracking # of the check, and instructions as to how to handle the check and you must do the following.
1. Run my personal errands.
2. Cashing of Donations / Payments.
3. Deduction of commission from donations/payment received.
4. Sending cashed donation/payments to the institute following our Instructions.
Congratulations!!! I do hope that you would use this opportunity given to you judiciously and prove yourself worthy and competent with dedicated service to work.
Director
Mrs. Michelle McLean"
"MM Children's Charitable Foundation
615 Anthony Blvd. West,
Suite 1220, Montreal
Quebec, H3B 1P5
Office Assistant is needed to support the busy Founder/CEO of a non-profit foundation.
This position is home-based for two weeks till I am back in town where am setting up an office in your area, I run a foundation, working with me is flexible and basically about instructions and following them, my only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, so I need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings. As my assistant, your activities amongst other things will include; providing reliable superior executive support and manage extremely complex business, as well as, highly demanding social calendars. Assist in supporting the foundation business; performing scheduling and coordinating meetings as well as highly detailed event planning from concept to execution.
Job Description:
Provide exemplary executive support and must have very strong interpersonal and communication skills, a pleasant demeanor and strong work ethic. The candidate must practice tactful diplomacy and possess the ability to multi-task with many projects in a fast paced environment.
Responsibilities:
Schedule appointments as well as coordinate travel to and from domestic and international locations; Book reservations, coordinate all appointments with office staff; Manage all business and personal mail and email correspondence; Coordinate all events and dinners - business and social; Exposure to high profile people will require the utmost in confidentiality and discretion; Must be energetic and extremely organized who can assist with miscellaneous errand and tasks as needed.
Your job for the orphanage is to get donations on our behalf, a donation payment in form of a check or money order will be sent over from one of our clients.
I'm sure you'll understand I tend to have a very busy schedule at this point, as I am presently in Canada I will be back in two weeks. I think you're the right person for this position, please note that this position is not office based for now because of my frequent travels and tight schedules; It's a part-time work from home and the flexibility means that there will be busier weeks than others, so it's a little difficult judging the exact number of hours you'll be doing per week.
If you can manage your time properly, this job may even give you some extras while you do something else on the side. Pay is fixed at $450 weekly for a start. I will like you to get back to me with your Contact Details such as:
Personal Information:
Full Name:
Address (Include Apt Number if Available):
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Residential Phone Number:
Mobile:
Age:
Email Address:
The employee, acknowledged the Detailed Job Description
And signed _______________
(First Name and Last Name of Employee)
Ensure you fill this form and send it to email: [email protected]
Completed employment forms sent here ([email protected]) would be processed immediately. All Completed Employment forms should be forward to the email above. Should you have any question, contact me through yahoo messenger where we can chat so I can answer all your questions.
If you don’t have yahoo id, it’s quite easy to get one. Simply create a yahoo mail account and download yahoo messenger software from yahoo as well. Once you have that, we would be able to chat and I would be able to answer all of your questions.
Just in case you sign in into yahoo messenger and I seem not to respond to you, it might be because I am not online or probably I am not on my sit as at the time you tried to IM me. Kindly wait for a few minutes and I would get back to you. Only serious minded employees who are ready to work should contact me. Here is my id: [email protected]
Once I have received your contact information, I will get back to you with the task for this week, please understand you will also be paid as at when due. Congratulations on your new appointment and I do hope that you would not disappoint me by giving me your support. Get back to me as soon as possible so we can get started.
Director
Mrs. Michelle McLean"
I thought it was pretty suspicious how they seemed to want to hire me without an interview and how the title at the top did not match the email they wanted me to send my contact info to. However, since I had already sent my resume to this email and all of my contact info was already on that, I figured there was no harm in testing the waters despite my suspicions and filled out the "form" to the specified email address.
I also wanted to ask a few questions and have a conversation with this person, so I registered a new Yahoo account and downloaded the Messenger to speak with her. We exchanged a few messages through Messenger, but I never got a real-time conversation with this person and all her messages were still really vague and did not present any new information, so I decided to search for some similar scams and found some on this forum. Some phrasing in this email was very similar to some of the scams I found on this forum, so I am now sure that this is a scam.
Of course, I have no intention to maintain further communication with this Michelle McLean. My only concern is that since I have gone pretty far with this scammer, they might continue to email me, and I'm not quite sure how to deal with that. Also, can they do anything with my contact information, such as identity theft? Thank you very much for your help. I will definitely be more careful with sending out my resume from now on and now that I know about this forum, will definitely post here and ask for help instead of testing the waters myself.
I also recently received this email from them, which pretty much confirms that they are a scam. I am posting it here in case it helps anyone else out.
"Dear [name]
This is to inform you that you have been formally appointed as my administrative assistant. This is based on the Achievement of all Requirements needed to work for me and our organization.
You are to adhere Strictly to the Organization’s Code of Conduct and Privacy Policy that is you are to dress properly like you are in an office environment whenever handling any of the Company's transactions and you are not(under no circumstance)allowed to disclose any of the Organization’s transactions to anyone for security reasons.
Failure to comply with these simple rules could lead to an automatic termination of your appointment.
This will be your first assignment, handle it well. I will email you with the FedEx tracking # of the check, and instructions as to how to handle the check and you must do the following.
1. Run my personal errands.
2. Cashing of Donations / Payments.
3. Deduction of commission from donations/payment received.
4. Sending cashed donation/payments to the institute following our Instructions.
Congratulations!!! I do hope that you would use this opportunity given to you judiciously and prove yourself worthy and competent with dedicated service to work.
Director
Mrs. Michelle McLean"
