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Hi REMOVED,
Thanks for your reply to my ad and attaching your resume as well, I’m glad you are interested in learning more about this job.

There is a lot of flexibility in this job, so you can do it wherever you are located, provided there is a post office in the area. In addition to that, as long as the work gets done on time, you can do it whenever you wish, for example as a second job in the evening hours or when you are not in school. I wish I could meet with you to talk about this opportunity in person, but I am currently out of the country on business so we will not have a personal interview.

If you accept the position, I will prepay you in advance to make business purchases for me and have my mail/packages forwarded to your address. If you will be unable to stay at home to get the mail, I can have them shipped to a post office near you and then you can pick them up at your convenience.

All errands can be done in your city/town so you do not need to have your own car for the job, but you do have to have access to transportation to conduct the necessary errands (bus, taxi, etc). You will not have to use your own money, all you have to do is have packages shipped to your house and make purchases for me. When you get my mail/packages, one of your responsibilities will be to mail them to other business contacts. You are allowed to open the packages to reveal the contents. The contents of the packages will be business and personal correspondence. I will cover all expenses and taxes. The work should take about 10 hours per week, or 40 hours per month.
The starting pay for this position will be $250 per week. The pay is generous because I need the dependable services of a high quality assistant. As an oil merchant dealing in automobiles and gasoline, I am very often out of town and need reliable help while I am gone.

I will return to the States in late November, so this process will be ongoing at least until then. If the position works out to be mutually beneficial, I will meet with you when I return and then we can talk about the possibility of making this long term.

Thanks for your time. Please let me know if you have any questions and if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity.

Regards..
Reynolds.
THEN I GOT THIS FROM HIM:
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Hello REMOVED,
I will email you the list and pictures of what to shop for when I am ready. No heavy packages are involved! You can do the shopping at Sears, Walmart, Circuit city, Best buy, Staples and other stores. You will be shopping for Household items, Electronics and Clothing. I will provide you my UPS account number for Shipping to the address I will give to you later. All you have to do is provide my account number to UPS and shipping charges will be applied into the account. I will provide clear set of instructions for each task I need done as well as the funds to cover them.
If I were to mail you Money Order to do my errands plus upfront payment for your service, how should your name appear on the Money Order? Where should I mail it to in this order:

*Name to appear on the Money Order
*Address
*City
*State
*Zip
*Home & Cell phone numbers

Thanks for your time.

Regards..
Reynolds.
If this is a scam I sent him my resume without address and phone but my full name and email address is on the resume. Am I screwed?[b][/b]

I will prepay you in advance to make business purchases for me and have my mail/packages forwarded to your address. If you will be unable to stay at home to get the mail, I can have them shipped to a post office near you and then you can pick them up at your convenience.

You will not have to use your own money, all you have to do is have packages shipped to your house and make purchases for me. When you get my mail/packages, one of your responsibilities will be to mail them to other business contacts.

If I were to mail you Money Order to do my errands plus upfront payment for your service, how should your name appear on the Money Order? Where should I mail it to in this order:

If this is a scam

Looks like you are being set up to (1) receive counterfeit money orders to cash and (2) reship goods purchased illegally.

In both cases, the police would (depending what country you are in) be visiting you with a warrant for your arrest. Yes it's a scam.

Any internet job that requests that you accept parcels from one location and send them elswhere is a fraud. You would go down for handling stolen goods (as a minumum).

Any internet job that offers to pay you upfront with a cheque or money order (yes even cashiers cheques), where you keep some of it after cashing, and either purchase goods for reshipping, or send the funds elsewhere is a fraud.

If you have not provided anything but your name and email address, you have nothing to worry about, just ignore the perp, and any other offer of a similar nature.

http://whois.domaintools.com/78.106.181.4

The perp is in Russia. Run the heck away from that!

Everything Mac Ramses said is perfectly correct and there's nothing much left to add.

The IP address seems to lead to Moscow, Russia and is from a provider with a pretty bad reputation.
Your best course of action is to hit the block/spam button and remember that anyone who asks you to cash cheques or money orders for them is a scammer. Anyone that wants you to become a re-mailer is a scammer and anyone who asks you to send money using Western Union - or similar - is a scammer.

Never send money to someone you don't know, especially if it's not your money.

Thank you for the response. I have run far away.......
Again thank you

Yes! I received this same job offer. Only after I applied to what seemed like a real job add. I told him that my bank would put a 10 day hold on any money order deposited to avoid fraud. I thought this would discourage him and let him know that I was onto the scam. But instead, he responded and told me that he has mailed me a money order and to let him know when I receive it and he will let me know what to do. I've yet to receive it, but he told me it would take 4 to 5 business days. I received his last email 10/22/10. I've done some research on what to look for in counterfeit money orders, so I'm anxious to see if anything shows up. I know it's a scam, I just was more interested in seeing how far someone would go. More to come...

As to how far these scammers will go--there's no limit. They have shown us that time and time again. They will take all of your money from you and then demand that you sell your house, your car, and all of your possessions to send them more money--and they will tell any lie they think will work to make you do it. They will break romance victims' hearts, and then blackmail them over emails, photos or webcam footage just to get a few more dollars.

He wants to send the money order anyway because he knows if he gets you to deposit it, there is a chance the fake won't be detected in 10 days. He has nothing to lose--worst case, the fake is caught before the 10 days and he doesn't get the money, but he is safely across the world and his real identity is hidden anyway.

Well, just as we expected it is truly a scam! I received 4 money orders yesterday, each for the amount of $950.00. They were issued from MoneyGram. I called them to verify if they were legit, and of course, they had already been cashed months earlier for lessor amounts. I wrote the scammer back and told him that I had received the money orders, but my bank had put a 10 day hold on them. He replied back assuring me that they would clear in less than 10 days so to be sure and check every 2-3 days. He then went on and provided me with his instructions, which were to keep $250 for myself for my services, purchase an ipod for his son and then wire $3350 to some other "Joe" doing the same type of work for him in the US, and to be sure and let him know when I did so he could notify "Joe" to pick up the funds at Western Union. He even had the gull to sign "God Bless" in his closing. Should I contact the police? Will they even be interested since he's in another country? Or, should I just report his emails as spam and be done with it all together?

Below is his actual reply. Let me know if its worth troubling the police with. Thank you!


I am happy to hear that you've received the payment. All I want you to do now, is take it to your bank and get it deposited and cashed instantly which you have already done but a 10day hold has been placed on it. After it has cleared{it will get cleared before the stipulated 10days so please try to check on it every 2-3days OK}, remove $250 which is your money for this week, you will now use $200 to buy an Ipod{any nice classic ipod} for my son. You will hold the Ipod you bought for my son for the main time till I tell you what to do with it then send the balance{$3350} to another part time worker of mine in the States who is working for me like you are Via Western Union and wait for the next instruction on when the package would get to you.

Here is the information of your colleague working for me in the States.

Name.......: Jan Brooks
City..........: Birmingham
State.........: Alabama

Send the balance Via Western Union Money Transfer and email me the following Information so that I can email it to my worker in Alabama to pick the money Up and help me in getting some errands done there in that City.

Sender's name..:
City..................:
State................:
Amount Sent After Western Union Charges...:
MTCN{10 Digit Number Known As Money Transfer Control Number}..:

I know I can trust you but please still confirm to me that you can be trusted by me. Have a nice day.
Thanks for your time and God bless.

Regards..
Reynolds.

One more thing.... I checked the return address listed on the envelope that contained the money orders... And a really nice picture came up of a home that had been foreclosed and was now being listed and sold by Fannie Mae. Nice, huh?!

The return address is nothing more than a ruse, and is designed to (a) confuse an investigation and (b) make the letter and mo's appear more legitimate. The scammer will have simply chosen something at random from the internet.

Let me know if its worth troubling the police with.

I'm from the UK, and my first reaction would be to say yes, hand them over to the cops. However, in the US I would reckon the United States Postal Inspectors would be the first port of call, as the 'Forged Instrument' has been transferred through the postal system. I'm sure a US member will clarify.

I also got this job offer in my e-mail after answering an ad online. My first tip-off to this scam was that this job is offered in at least 30 other states in two or three cities. I sent a reply e-mail asking for an address and a phone number and received the e-mail with the subject ***you've been shortlisted***. I then decided to copy and paste the entire e-mail in the google search engine just to see what would happen and I found this. So thank you for posting this up! I then replied to his e-mail with this,

"Hello Dennis,

I just copy and pasted your email into google and found that you are in fact a scammer. That and, the fact that you are offering this job in at least 30 states and two or three different cities per state."

i am currently based in uk and i am a god fearing civill contractor WORKING UNDER THE PARASOL CONTRACT COMPANY and my wife a business woman who deals with oil contracts all payment will be made from me and I want it shipped to my wife who LEFT UK AND went for a contract in West Africa,Nigeria for a oil business with her colleques i will add the shipping fee from uk in my payment so it will be ship to her currently at Lagos,Nigeria.

Receivers Name: George Tuatimi
Address: no 4 abolade Street Ijeshatedo Surulere.
CityL:Lagos
Country:Nigeria
Postal Code:23401

I want it shipped by USPS Express Mail International which takes 3-5 days and send me your paypal request to this add. [email protected]

Then go ahead and open an acct with paypal or better still i can also wire you the money Via Western Union Money Transfer Instant Cash if this means is okay by you then i will need your details to Western you the money asp now the details are as follows ........................................PLS I AM REDY TO MAKE PAYMENT AS SOON AS U TELL ME WHAT TYPE OF PAYMENT U LIKE PLS...............................................- ..............
WESTERN UNION DETAILS PLS
Receivers Name:
City:
State:
Postal Code:
Phone Number:

And i will also need your email address so that once i make the4 payment i will scan and email you my payment Invoice to your email address for your proper documentation..thx
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Don't be fooled guys...Beware..