Checking In After A Small Hiatus

Hello everyone...I just wanted to check in.  I have a reader who has emailed me a job scam that I will post later today so since using my smart phone to receive emails for comments to post regarding feedback from my readers, I have deleted two posted comments in error. I apologize for that.If you do not see your comment posted and you do not see yours posted, please email it to me again and I will approve it to post.

Thanks for stopping by!!

As always, if you'd like to comment or have job scams you've received you wish to let others know about, please email me at jobscams6069@gmail.com.

Please let me know if you wish to have your first name used or if you wish to remain anonymous.  I typically never publish the email addresses of people who write me unless they specifically grant me permission to do so.

Have a good weekend and happy job searching!!

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Liam Cowen Administrative Assistant Fake Job itzellmagic@hotmail.com

Hello everyone, welcome back to the blog. I received an email from a reader by the name of let's say, call him "Steve". He sent me fake job email he recieved and with his permission I wanted to share it below with you. Below is the verbatim email of course hiding "Steve's" actual email address. I also did modify the Career Builder id number shown on the email and the reference number toward the end of the fake email below to protect "Steve's" identity if those scammers are getting smarter. But I seriously doubt they are getting any more intelligent. They are still full of mispellings and use a hotmail email account and seem to pay far too much money than is realistic for the job itself.

Anyway, please read on...

-----Original Message-----
From: itzell_magic@hotmail.com [mailto:itzell_magic@hotmail.com] On Behalf Of Sequoia Delisi
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 2:57 PM
To: Xxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Subject: Position available CareerBuilder ID #6706295162224234323242345624

Hello,

We received your CV via Career Builder and after careful consideration of your knowledge and qualifications we have decided to offer you an Administrative Assistant position within our company on the three-weeks trial basis.

Position Title: Administrative Assistant;
Company: We are a real estate investment and development company focussing on the research, acquisition, management and development of real estate assets across the globe, with an objective to achieve the highest and best development potential of the land while protecting and maximizing returns for our investors worldwide.
Position type: Work from Home, Full Time, no traveling required;
Salary: $47,840 per year;
Work Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00-16.00, with 1 hour lunch break;
Requirements:
- A computer with Internet access;
- Accurate and efficient data entry;
- Strong computer skills, with sound knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite;
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail;
- Previous experience in real estate or property industry is not essential – full training will be provided;  Key Duties:
- Online Data Entry;
- Customer database management;
- Uploading property listings on company’s website;
- Providing assistance and support to other team members.
- Previous experience in real estate or property industry is not essential – full training will be provided;

This is a fantastic chance to get permanent employment after 3 weeks paid probation period if you are able to prove your skills and commitment to the job. During these three weeks you will be trained while working and being paid $800,00 p.w.
If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to join our company for the three-week trial period, please reply to this email quoting your personal reference number: AS82363453453343771. Please note that you must be available to start within next two weeks.

Sincerely,

Liam Cowen
HR Department

Anyone else get this email? Respond back? Any fake job offers and applications to share? 

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Hey Everyone...Just Checking In

Well, I started this blog originally to expose fake email jobs that seemed to come into my email box on a regular basis. I've started back to work again and just wondered to my readers...do you still get fake job offers or emails that look very suspiciously fake because of a high salary for few hours of work? Or does it involve check handling or re-shipping merchandise? I haven't seen those in a while. Drop me a line sometime if you wish to talk or have something for the blog itself. My email address is jobscams6069@gmail.com.

Have a good week everyone!!

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Purchasing Specialist Launa Radcliff

Here's another fake job I received in my email box. Anyone else get it? I'll post more over this upcoming weekend. Have a safe and relaxing weekend everyone!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good morning Organization: Procurement and Customer service Company Vacancy Title: Purchasing Specialist Employment Type: Full Time and Part Time Wage Range: USD52,500.00-70,800.00 plus conformable with experience Field: Import-Export, Customer Service, Accounting Relocation Offered: No The employer's business is growing in internal market and universally carrying many new opportunities providing ones for individual clients. They are searching for person to take responsibility for all buying operations within their logistics section of the firm working for exclusive retail consumers. This vacancy will be responsible for administrating the process of collaborating the appropriate concerned parties with prospective providers. Obligations: - Maintain strategy on ensuring customer wishes on all sales transactions - Provide team development to make better sales ways - Monitoring of managers' results to detect and take action on both positive and negative performance - Analyzing internal records - Coordinate the work of the special assignments - Set up relationships with business followers and manufacturers - Maintain and perform purchasing operations, policies, and processes - Organize the purchasing assignments; take care of daily activities including major purchases associated with materials; confer terms with vendors - Represent organization in negotiating contracts and working out procurement forms with vendors - Assist in the arrangement of shipping materials for consumer - Collaborate closely with National Account Managers in assessing new purchase opportunities - Collect information on such things as procurement backlog. Once the task is finished, make daily reports, based on assignment sheet Personal Attributes: The position needs an appreciation for accuracy and detail as well as high organizational skills. As a company's employee, you must be equally comfortable with store negotiations as you are with market analysis. You should work well independently and as part of a team. You must also have strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. Another requirements include: - Experience in planning development and team building; Project Management; Business Development within uncommercial sector; Relevant work experience - Ability to bring about positive change - Good human relationship and presentation skills; Knowledge of OMS software - Strong financial perspicacity with wide abilities in Finance - Must be a multi-tasker, who can take extra projects and run with them - The candidate is required to hold a Valid Driver's license - The candidate should be a USA Lawful Permanent Resident - The candidate should be over 21 To find out more, please respond to present email address with or without your resume and salary queries.

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Convergentcare.com Email Scam...Anyone Seen This??

One of my readers, I'll call her Susan" emailed me recently to ask a question regarding a strange email she received. I have changed the account number below to protect her identity. I've never seen an email scam like this so I'm throwing this out to the group to see what anyone thinks. Your comments are welcomed and appreciated and to "Susan" thanks for emailing me. I apologize it took this long to post your email. Anyway to those who are interested...Below is her email: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was doing a google search after coming across a fishy email I received, and I can across your blog. Although this email doesn't relate to a job offer, it still seems fake to me. But my biggest concern is that something worse than just a generic email scam has happened to me. Like I said, I recieved this email, but have NO IDEA as to what it could be for. The email doesn't list who the provider they are billing for IS, nor does it give ANY contact info. Is this just a standard scam?? or could someone have stolen my identity and started an account somewhere in my name?? Any thoughts you could send my way would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you!! Sincerely, Susan ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "noreply@Internet-Billing.com" To: XXXXXXXXX Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 8:51 AM Subject: Your Statement is Ready for Viewing PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL. THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS IS NOT MONITORED. Your Apr 19, 2012 billing statement for account 8137300080022638832382821281 is now ready for viewing. To view your bill, go to: https://jabwi.convergentcare.com/jabwi/validateSelfCareCustomer.do?action=initialize Enter your Login ID and Password, and from the next screen select "View Statement". We appreciate your business and realize you have a choice in providers. Thank you for selecting us as your Internet and voice service provider. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You received this e-mail because you enrolled in our online account management system. If you no longer wish to receive these e-mails, you will need to unregister your enrollment. To unregister your enrollment, please log in to your account and from the "Customer Information" screen, select the "Unregister" link from the bottom of the page. 6 older messages Michelle Bailey May 2 I've been thinking....... 1~ the email doesn't have my name on it. Most bill ... Internet Job Scams

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Stepanie East Procurement Manager Job Scam

I just received the email below from Stepanie East and when you reply, it supposedly goes to qyEastyvSteucpanie@hotmail.com. This email address mixture is enough to know 100% this job is a scam. Notice the name she (he, it) goes by is Stepanie, not Stephanie. Funny when I typed it originally I typed in "Stephanie" and then noticed the spelling and corrected it when I updated the title. Below is the verbatim email: From: Stepanie East [mailto:qyEastyvSteucpanie@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:17 AM To: xxxxx@gmail.com Subject: Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Good morning Company: Procurement and Trading Company Position Title: Procurement Manager Employment Type: Full-Time, Part-Time or Contractor Wage Range: USD53,600.00-72,600.00 plus corresponding with experience Career Sector: Transportation Relocation Offered: No If you are a degreed, energetic, acute, driven candidate who wants to join a progressive company, please apply! Procurement and Trading Company is searching for a full time and part time managers to assist their growing solid and friendly team. Briefly, you will be responsible to expand the company profitability. The role involves liaising with clients and managing processes in a fast paced environment, reacting to customers. orders swiftly and skillfully. Responsibilities will contain research of new clients, mutual budget analysis, and general dedicated duties throughout the department. This position will be responsible for administrating the process of collaborating with the appropriate interested parties and supporting the Procurement business processes, and defining the purposes and responsibilities associated with the Sourcing and Procurement processes. This vacancy coordinates the procurement and management of items, elements, merchandise for the company by performing the following primary duties: - Review bids and request for proposals - Organize relationships with suppliers for the purchase of equipment for company's business - Follow up and report on vendor on-time shipping; working through any issues that could impact the company's business and resolving concerns as required - Collaborate with supply planning staff to evaluate customer orders versus available materials to support a monthly ship plan and meet on-time delivery - Communicate with different other departments to approve product packaging You should bring: - Ability to control multiple assignments and work well under supervision and other tensity - Ability to be successful identify fashion trends - Ability to work in fast paced environment and set priorities - Strong attention to detail in purchasing procedures, methods of portage and handling - Strong negotiation skills - Strong service orientation to internal and external clients - Extensive knowledge of MS Office Suite The person is required to have a Valid Driver's license. Get more information, you should reply back to current letter and might send resume with brief cover letter including wage level. Please do not contact unless you are 21 years old. Please do not respond if you are not a USA Lawful Permanent Resident.

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Here's a new job scam I just discovered by email recently. The interesting thing I've started doing is emailing the company back but this one came in without a reply to email address. Almost like you were blind carbon copied in the email. I don't quite get it. But it's so non descript it's almost a give a way of the scam or at least the fake job. Handle Trouble Tickets in the form of Calls/Online Requisitions/ Emails / Voice Mails Maintain a high degree of customer service for all support queries and adhere to all service management principles Take ownership of user problems and be proactive when dealing with user issues Troubleshoot operating system issues & errors (Windows OS Family) Internet errors and troubleshooting Network drivers and Printers installation Basic Peripherals troubleshooting Provide support for standard Microsoft applications VPN connection issues Remote Desktop Support Basic troubleshooting of ERP (SAP, PeopleSoft) Email Client troubleshooting (MS Exchange) Provide basic \ standard \ advanced problem resolutions - User account Management Maintenance of network printers and installation & troubleshooting Answer Basic "How to" user questions leveraging a knowledge base, job aides etc EDUCATION/SKILLS: Desired: 2-3 years in Call Center Industry, Help Desk / Service Desk Graduate in IT background with specialized courses in IT Working knowledge in ITIL environment Critical: Excellent Communication skills. (Written / Spoken English) Experience in Call Center Industry, Technical Help Desk / Service Desk Graduate in IT background with specialized courses in IT Required: Desktop/hardware Troubleshooting Skills/ Conceptual knowledge of Networking Knowledge of Standard Microsoft applications Internet troubleshooting Need some bi-lingual candidates - fluent in English and Spanish Nice to have: VPN/Wireless/Lotus notes/Active Directory Management Remote Desktop MS Exchange

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