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Does this sound fishy to you? I got this today in my E-mail, made sure it was safe to open, read it and laughed. It's too bad it wasn't legit!
What time cycle is payment made? How? What is stuff? In time salary? I'm surprised they didn't ask for my bank account #. Please, I could go on. This is funny!

"Hi
For the purpose of expending our business in USA we are looking for a manager, a person living in USA,
who will receive parcel and forward them following the internal company instructions to our clients.

The stuff you will receive is already prepaid as well as labels,
so your job will consist mostly in receiving and sending goods and for this you will get stable
and in time salary that will start from 3000 USD and can be
increased in two month up to 4000 depending of you personal skills and motivation.

The company will pay all job expenses taxes and mailing fees during your job

Your responsibilities
- Receiving the parcels.
- Printing out prepaid labels and company instructions.
- Unpacking, repacking.
- Sending a parcel to a recipient specified in the label.

Requirements:
- Trusted and responsible.
- Should have computer, mobile phone and Internet connection.
- Should always be in touch with a personal manager via phone and email.
- Should be accurate with the time frames and limits.

If you are interested in this proposal, we suggest you should go through the trial period.
For this purpose we will need your personal information.

As following:
- Your full name:
- Your Age:
- Contact phone number in international format:
- Contact email address:

Let us know if you are interested in this position and we will send you more details regarding
this vacancy along with our corporate agreement and application form.

This is our corporate email address: [email protected]
and if you will make your mind write us here.

HR Dep.
Thank you for choosing us."

Sorry, I didn't choose you, you chose me!
 
Of course it does. I haven't gotten this particular email.....yet, but it smells exactly like the 3000 or so that have drifted my way. Red flags went up everywhere.
 
Pssst. Hey buddy, you wanna just carry this bag across the street?
 
They're looking for suckers. The next step will be cashing a check and wiring them the money, or some-such scam which will end up with you having your bank account emptied.
 
WOW!!!

That's just...too good to be true!!!!

Turn around and look. Do you see the tail lights of a turnip truck?
 
Actually Dateline or one of the regular cable tv shows aired a show on this very topic.
It happened to someone in Potter or Penn Yan ( don't recall which), NY; Right down the road from the site of LDRS 28 and 31.
It had a different angle but, looks very much the same thing as this e-mail describes....

The mark or victim thought they had a girlfriend online that sent him packages that were to be sent to somewhere in Africa
(A bordering country to Nigeria). He never received a dime for his involvement.
As it turns out: the items being forwarded to Africa were purchased with stolen credit card numbers that were bought off of a hacking site.
The news team traced the source ( from the arranged stolen CC #) then, arranged a "business meeting" with these punks.


JD
 
The other au courant scam is the "secret shopper" deal.

There are real "secret shoppers," but they don't contact random people by email.
 
It has to be legit, just look at the really professional corporate e-mail address!
 
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Needs phone number in international format.... Want's you to do something anyone can do..... Right...... A Nigerian or Liberian scam.....

Bob
 
Actually Dateline or one of the regular cable tv shows aired a show on this very topic.
It happened to someone in Potter or Penn Yan ( don't recall which), NY; Right down the road from the site of LDRS 28 and 31.
It had a different angle but, looks very much the same thing as this e-mail describes....

The mark or victim thought they had a girlfriend online that sent him packages that were to be sent to somewhere in Africa
(A bordering country to Nigeria). He never received a dime for his involvement.
As it turns out: the items being forwarded to Africa were purchased with stolen credit card numbers that were bought off of a hacking site.
The news team traced the source ( from the arranged stolen CC #) then, arranged a "business meeting" with these punks.


JD

Same thought here... Fencing stolen goods.
 
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