Real or scam?

Original email:
Hello Good Day,


INTRODUCTION:

Payroll People Inc. (PPI) was established as a customer-first automated
Payroll processing, and employer Tax Payment & File, service provider in
1981. The original three founders of PPI (including President and CEO,
Bettye L. Smith) and a staff of two service and systems experts commenced
operations in California's Central San Joaquin Valley.People Payroll Inc
is Thirty years of dedication means that our Clients continually benefit
from our complete suite of workforce management and payroll-related
administrative solutions. From companies with just a few employees
to those with a workforce of thousands, we deliver superior products
and a quality of service that exceeds our clients' expectations --
Making Business Easy Since 1981 offering online and work at home
services for its customers.


ABOUT THE POSITION

We are in need of Workers as a Payroll Processor of the company, your
Task and duties is printing and mailing payment to most of
our(Customer)(Client)(Workers) in the United State and Canada through
Our check Creation Program-me and dispatch of Payroll checks.You can
apply as Full time or Part time Worker's You will be proceeding
payment Four to Five Times weekly so as to satisfy the best of our
customers and client Needs.


The check will be printed with:

*A colored printer
*Scanner
*Constant Home Internet access
*Check Creation software (Will be Provided Free)
*Versa Check paper business size.
*Mailing Envelopes


You are paid a constant $300 Weekly working from your home office
As a part time worker which the full time salary payment will be
discuss further with an offer to make extra $200 - $500 once your
honesty as been established and Your Hard Working has been discovered
More so there will be Reimbursement for the materials That You
Purchased During the Process,N:B: for Swift and Quick to the
Acknowledgment of your offer You are to contact The Payroll District
Manager Lewis Quin, Via Yahoo IM on
([email protected]) also for more details about the
Opportunity A swift acknowledgment of the receipt of this
email will be appreciated. Thanks For Your Total Understanding.


We will need following details if you are interested in the position


NAICS: Offices of Certified Public Accountants (541211)
SIC: Accounting, Auditing, & Bookkeeping (8720)
fill and return it back to us asap.
text copy of the contract
Reference No:- DSA/100447732/ 100/08
Batch No:- PPI-R6/D 244/3-60


EMPLOYMENT FORM


First Name:................ Middle Name:............... Last
Name:.........................
Address Line 1:............................ ....................
Address Line 2:............................ .....................
City:......................... ..................State....... .......
Zip:................ Fax:.......................... ............
Home Phone...................... Cell Phone.........................
Gender:.............. Marital Status........................ Age:......
Nationality:.................. .........................
Front and back of your driver license
------------------------------------------------
YAHOO MESSENGER ID (COMPULSORY):.................. ..........................


Thanks



Waiting to read from you


Christopher Clerk,
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
& PAYROLL DISTRICT HIRING MANAGER


Payroll People Inc.
2152 E. Copper Ave, Ste 105
Fresno, CA 93730-5404
http://www.payrollpeople.com

It seems legit but I'm scared it's not after reading a few forums..

It's a typical money mule recruiting scam. You would be distributing fraudulent checks to other victims on behalf of the criminals.

Go to "work" for these people and the only thing you have a chance to earn is a criminal record.

The website was a real website, that's why I somewhat believed it.

[AlanJones]

Scammers regularly steal the identity of real companies and their websites as part of their scams. Just quoting a website in an email doesn't mean that the person actually works for that company. If you look at the emails that you receive, you will see that any replies you send will go to a totally different domain (or possibly a free email address).

Could you post the email addresses that the mail was sent from and the replies go to - those are things that victims will search for.

The header where the email address would usually be was "I believe in God" which I found REALLY weird, the email was [email protected]

gmail does not = payrollpeople.com, does it?

This same scammer has previously scammed for "Car Wrap" scams
https://www.google.com/search?q=taymosr ... 1&ie=UTF-8

The writing is clearly West African, not American, and no real company hires after only a Yahoo Messenger interview. It's a scam.