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by jn5318 Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:24 am
Don,t know about this one?// :o

RE: URGENT JOB VACANCY.......{IMMEDIATE RESPONSE REQUIRED}

Gray Barry Electric Co. Inc.
34 North Meramec Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105
[email protected]



Sir/madam,

We have a job opening for the position of Accounts receivable officer. Would you
like to work from your home and get paid weekly? We are offering this position
to all interested applicants. Please carefully read through.This employment
opportunity is targeted at providing part/full time job seekers, and also people
who would like to working from home, and get paid weekly.

Gray barry Electric Co. Inc is a well established provider of Electrical and
Telecommunications service solutions, Established in 1925, Gray barry procures,
warehouses, and delivers just about any kind of electrical or communications and
data product, component, or related service to its customers. It stocks and
sells hundreds of thousands of items from thousands of manufacturers. We deliver
high quality precision products to some of the largest and best known companies
in far back Asia, Europe, the Regions of America and Rest of The world. You will
find our high quality Electronics in the BEST products on the market today.

We serve the entire Europe, United States/Canada and a growing export market,
particularly in the supplies of Electrical and Telecommunications products.

Your primary task as a representative of the company would be to coordinate
payments from customers and help us with the payment process. You are not
involved in any sales. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the
product to the customer, after this has been done, the customer has to pay for
the products but in most cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items
they order for. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through
Certified Checks or Money Orders drawn from the United States/Canada based on
the amount involved. We then decided to throw open this new contract -to-hire
job position as a way of giving back to the Nation in form of extra job creation
and as a way of corporate social responsibility to the populace and ultimately
to fill up this position.

Your First Primary task (Collection of Payments):

1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
2. Cash Payment at your Local Bank.
3. Deduct 10 % which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you
will be contacted to send payment to.

You will have a lot of free time doing another job, because this job is part
time, you also will get good income, but this job is very challenging and you
should understand it. We are sure you will be a diligent and timely worker; you
do not need any form of data entry experience to perform the job duties. Get
back to us with information below information, so that we can add your mailing
address to our Regional database and forward it to our customers for them to
start sending payments.

First name:
Middle name:
Last name:
Address Line 1:
Address Line 2:
City:
State:
Zip/Postal code:
Home phone:
Cell phone:
Email:

YOUR PREFERRED MODE OF COMMUNICATION EITHER BY PHONE OR BY EMAIL
Your response to this email is needed, so that we can reconfirm your
mailing/residential address details we have in our database.

We will be updating you as soon as a payment is being sent to you, and you will
be directed as to where to have the remaining 90% of the money sent to, after
the deduction of your 10% wage on any payments received and processed by you.

A swift acknowledgment of the receipt of this email will be appreciated.
Thanks for Your Total Understanding.

NB: PLEASE KINDLY SEND THE REQUIRED INFORMATION TO MY EMAIL:[email protected]



Barry Gray, Jr.
Chairman, President and CEO,
Gray barry Electric Co. Inc.
34 North Meramec Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105
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by Arnold Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:06 am
A typical fake job scam. They send you fake checks, and ask you to send 90% back to them by WU before the checks bounce.
Gray Barry does exist (http://www.graybar.com/) but scammers often use the names of genuine businesses with a fake gmail etc email account.

by GomerPyle Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:07 am
Not sure ?

It's 100% scam.

It tells you what a large international company it is with thousands of suppliers and many more customers with a global market and yet no website is mentioned and they use a free e-mail provider - gmail. That pretty well condemns it as a scam without looking further, but it is a typical fake job scam where anyone who believes they have been employed will be sent counterfeit cheques by an accomplice. You will be expected to the bank the cheque and forward 90% by Western Union and keep 10% for yourself.

Tell me how long it is before you can legally rely on a cheque having cleared and that money being considered as properly yours - immediately ? - 3 days ? - 7 days ? - a month ? The fact is that if it's a counterfeit, it could be returned unpaid six months or more later. If it's a good forgery the company account it's drawn on may not notice it at first, and you will be charged back and you have no protection, indeed you could face prison for handling and passing forged cheques.

Think about it. If you can transfer money to the company by Western Union - why can't their customers ? The fact is that Western Union isn't for use by companies. Any Western Union payment you send will be to a private individual, which gives away the fact that you aren't dealing with any company at all. Companies accept payment by credit card, debit card, paypal or bank transfers. Western Union is the payment method loved by scammers because any funds transferred cannot be traced or recovered.

They don't mention Western Union in this first mail - but I assure you that's what they'll want. Such a large company would have many bank accounts but you won't be given details of one, and in the remote chance you are given one, it won't be in the name of the company.

I love this part

We then decided to throw open this new contract -to-hire job position as a way of giving back to the Nation in form of extra job creation and as a way of corporate social responsibility to the populace and ultimately to fill up this position.


:laugh-s: This scammer thinks trying to offer it as a charitable enterprise makes it more believable - it just makes it more sick.

The scammer is a poorly educated fraudster who would rather scam money from the internet than work for a living.

Non-EU citizens should go here to find out about obtaining a visa to work as an au pair in the UK
http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/doineedvisa/
Whenever payment is requested by Western Union you're dealing with a scammer

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