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Yesterday, I received the following e-mail:


———- Forwarded message ———-
From: James Milner <jamesmilner_uk1@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Subject: Job Opportunity ………….. This is NO joke !
To:

A new job opening, If you are interested, kindly reply immediately. This space is opened till the 9th of April, 2008

NB: REPLY DIRECTLY TO ME HERE: - JAMESMILNER_UK@HOTMAIL.COM

Even though I have a lot of experience with job offers which come in to my e-mail account I was intrigued by this one. Obviously anyone looking for extra cash would be tempted to take a closer look at what is being offered. I didn’t want to let this go without knowing what is behind it, so I sent of a reply using my Crime-Online.info e-mail address.

I must admit I was not disappointed. Behind this e-mail is a typical Transfer Agent Scam. You will soon see what I mean because this morning I got the following answer:


———- Forwarded message ———-
From: James Milner &lt;jamesmilner_uk@hotmail.com&gt;
Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Subject: Job Details !
To:

Thanks so much for your prompt response.We make direct contact for sales of products. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to customers (usually through FEDEX or DHL). After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through US Certified Checks and Money orders based on the amount involved and it takes 14 days or more to clear outside USA .We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem.

Your tasks or duties are:

1. Receive payment from Customers
2. Cash Payment at your 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.(Payment is to be forwarded by Money Gram money transfer services OR Western Union Money Transfer).

This will give us a possibility to get customer’s payment almost immediately. For example,you’ve got 3000.00USD as payment for services from a customer, you take your income: 300.00 USDi.e 10%.Send to us: 2700.00 USD.First month,you will have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD so you may calculate your income.For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 4400.00 USD Plus your basic monthly salary is 2000.00 USD Total: 6400.00 USD per month. After establishing a close co-operation with us,you we will be able to operate with larger orders and you will be able to earn more.

Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed in your bank. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You will have a lot of free time doing another job, you will get good income and a regular job.But this job is very
challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be of an earnest assistant. We are glad to offer this job position to you.

Kindly email and answer the question below so we can get started.

** What is ur full name that will be on the payment.
** What is ur phone number? cell and home phone.
** What is ur full address where the check will be sent to.
** Do you have a bank account to cash Money Orders or Cashiers check?

I await your response.

Thank you.
James Milner
Director/CEO,
Arts and Crafts Inc.

It sounds easy doesn’t it?

The problem is, anyone taking up this “job offer” is an essential part of money laundering which the crooks need to get their hands on clean cash. Within a short time the “customers” who have sent checks or money orders will complain because they have not received the ordered goods. Who do they go to with their complaints? The Agent who received the check or money order, of course.

Usually, the agent tries to clear up any misunderstandings and tries to get clarification from Mr. Milner. He, of course, says the orders have been sent out. Which is not true because there are no products!

Eventually the customers will report the matter to the police. The Mr. Milners behind this scam are safe and sound as they hide behind false names and freemail accounts. They are usually located in other countries and they have no risk but get maximum profit at the expense of others.

It’s the local “Transfer Agent” who will be held liable by the law because he is the person who cashed in the checks. He is also the one who is immediately identifiable.

The “Agent” will receive criminal charges for fraud and money laundering and anything else the law can come up with.

There have been enough people who have been stung by this kind of scam and end up with a criminal record.

So my advice to you is to trash any message you may receive offering an easy job.

You will be better off if you do!

Tags: Amp, Clarification, Contact, Crooks, Email, Fedex, Heir, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Reply, Transfer Agent Scam, Western Union, Yahoo

ok. Just to put the record straight:

None of the Worldwide Express Companies (Fedex, DHL or UPS) transport money.

Apart from this fact, Fedex does not use Yahoo freemail accounts for their business.

So now you can instantly recognize this e-mail as being a scam

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Chinedu Watson <chinedu_watson1@myway.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2008 1:13 AM
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX COMPANY FOR YOUR PACKAGE
To:

Hello My Dear,
I want to inform you that the fee for your Cheque Draft has been Paid last week afternoon because the manager of Eco Bank Benin told me that before the acheck will get to you it will expire.So i told him to cash the $1.200,000.00,all the necessary arrangement of delivering of the $1.200,000.00 in cash was made with FEDEX COMPANY WORLD WIDE.
Contact person:Dr.Sani A.Isreal
Manager Gs FEDEX DELIVERY COMPANY BENIN
E-mail: fedexexpress_companybenin@yahoo.fr
Customer care: fedex_express_service@yahoo.fr
Contact phone 229-93 157 255
Contact Fax: 229 97 550 33833
Please send them your contacts information to enable them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with your BOX. This the information they need from in order to delivery your box to your address.
1.YOUR FULL NAME… ……….. …
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS …
3 YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER…..
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE…………… .
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE……………
Please make sure you send this needed info’s to the Director general Fedex Express Company world wide in Benin Dr Sani C Isreal.with the address given to you.Note. The fedex company here don’t know the contents of the Box. I registered it as a dameges of jeans returning to the retaler.They don’t know it contents money to avoid them delaying with the Box.Please don’t let them know the Box it’s contents money. I am waiting for your urgent response. Meanwhile the only fee you have to pay them is $185 USD it is for the security keeping fee ,they will use to obtain insurance certificate and claims of affadvite that will prove the box that consist total sum 1.2million us dollars belong to you
be rest assure that all other fees have been paid by me.I am waiting for your urgent response.
Thanks
Chinedu Watson

Tags: Contact, Current Office, Delivery Company, Email, Fedex, Fedex Express, Heir, Home Telephone, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Myway, Office Telephone, Urgent Response, Yahoo, Yahoo Fr

Be assured this is not from the Robert Kaufman company.

The crooks have have been very diligent with this one. The Robert Kaufmann company does exist and you will see that the crooks have used an official e-mail address in the sender ID.

Contrary to what these people say about the Robert Kaufman being a Japanese company, this is not true as the real Robert Kaufman is a US company.

It is a very risky job, if you decide to do it. You will be charged with money laundering as soon as the banks see what you are up to. They have to report all suspicious transactions to the FBI or authorities in other countries.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ROBERT KAUFMAN <onlinejobs@robertkaufmanfabrics.com>
Date: 22.11.2007 17:25
Subject: LEGITIMATE JOB OFFER**PART TIME**
To: undisclosed-recipients

Robert Kaufman Fabrics is a Japanese Cotton Quilting Fabrics and a reputable company in Japan looking for representatives in AMERICA and all over EUROPE . We Robert Kaufman Fabrics are into textiles, fabrics manufacturing and exportation. We pay well and you can earn up to $350 or more twice a week. The required job is easy and little to do online and little time is needed,and much money involved when finished (1-2hrs a week). Contact us for more details. limited offer while good money lasts,you have nothing to loose.

reply back to : robertkaufmanfabrics@yahoo.com

Regards
MD/CEO
Robert Kaufman
Robert Kaufman Fabrics

DETAILS

—————–
Robert Kaufman Fabrics needs someone to work for the company as a Representative/Manager in other countries. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the Europe and America. You dont need to have an Office and this certainly won’t disturb you from other work(s) you have going at the moment, Our integrated FABRIC manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world leading suppliers. Order processing, production monitoring and process flow are seamlessly integrated through a company-wide computer network .
* The average monthly income is  about 4000.00 Euro.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-2 hours per day This we need to get payments for our products as soon as it possible because customers can just “forget” to pay. Unfortunately we are unable to open bank accounts in  the United US without first registering the company name.

Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put the on hold. For fear of loosing the customers outrightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US soon enough as international Cheques take about 14 working days for cash to be made available. We lose about 75,000 Euro of net income each month because we have money transfer delays.
YOUR TASK is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process. You are not invloved in any sales. Our SALES manager sells products. Once he makes a sale we deliver the product to a customer (usually through USPS OR FEDEX).The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified Cheques and Money orders based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem and to create job for those seeking and it’s convinient.

JOB DESCRIPTION
——————————————————
1. Recieve payment from Customers
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment process
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to. (Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gramme or Western Union Money Transfer. Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer payment almost immediately. For example you ve got 3000.00Euro You take your income : 300.00 Euro Send to us: 2700.00 Euro - cost of sending, First month you will  have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 Euro So you may calculate your income. For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 Euro gives you 4410.00 Euro…..to signify your interest in this job,send us the following details; for more transactions made the higher your percentage……

FULL NAME ;
ADDRESS ;
STATE ;
CITY ;
ZIPCODE ;
PHONE NUMBER ;
AGE ;
OCCUPATION ;
AS ALL THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IN YOUR RECIEVING PAYMENTS……..THANKS

you can login into our website :
http://www.robertkaufman.com/fabrics/quilt_gate_fabric/

reply back to robertkaufmanfabrics@yahoo.com

Regards
MD/CEO
Robert Kaufman
Robert Kaufman Fabrics

Tags: Amp, Contact, Crooks, Fedex, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Occupation, Reply, Western Union, Yahoo

This is the same text that Billy Wood sent some days ago. Even the “three kids, two dogs and wife” are the same!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: EMPLOYMENT OFFER
Date: Oct 24, 2007 8:09 PM
Subject: EMPLOYMENT! EMPLOYMENT!! EMPLOYMENT!!!..
To: “employment_offer@orangemail.es”

SIMON SMITH ART AND CRAFT WORKS.

53 Langhorne Road, Leytonstone, E11 4HL, United Kingdom.

Mobile: 447024068845 or 447031908923

My name is Mr. Simon Smith, I am an Artist and a consultant. I live in UK, with my three kids and two of my dogs and my wife. It is definitely a full house and I have been doing Artworks ever since I was young. That made me heard about 18 years experience in the profession. I have a major in Art in high school and took a few College Art Courses. Most of my works are done in either pencil or airbrush mixed with color pencils, which I have recently added to make my work more presentable to world. I design and create artwork on the computer too. I have been selling my artworks for the past 4 years and have had my work featured on trading cards, prints, dallies, magazines and others. I have sold my artworks in galleries and to private collectors from all over the world. I am always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to Americans and British’s and people in some other countries of the world, they are always offering to pay with a US MONEY ORDER or CHEQUE and Other Forms of Negotiable Instruments, which is difficult to be cashed here in UK.

I am looking for a representative in the STATE or UK and other countries of the World who will be working for me as a per time worker and I will be willing to pay the person 15% for every transaction, which wouldn’t affect your present state of work. I mean someone who would help me receive payments from my customers. I need a person who is responsible, reliable and trustworthy. Because the cost of coming to the state and getting payments is very expensive for me and I am working on setting up a branch in some countries soon, so for now I need a representative in some countries who will be handling the payment aspect for me This payments will becoming from my clients and your name and address will be effected on any of the negotiable instruments my clients are paying you with. So all you need to do is to cash the PAYMENTS, deduct the said percentage and send the balance of the money back to us through Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram to any place I will have to instruct you. But the problem I have is Trust and Honesty, but I have my way of getting anyone that gets away with our money, I will contact the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS (FBI) branch in Washington to get that person tracked down before the next 48hours. These payments from my clients will be sent to you through FEDEX or UPS. If you are interested, please get back to me as soon as possible with the information’s below

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
COUNTRY:

CONTACT ME AT simon_smith21221@yahoo.com

Regards,
Mr. Simon Smith.

Tags: Blog, Contact, Email, Fedex, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, United Kingdom, Western Union, Yahoo

which is a Transfer Agent scam

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: micheal petit <mic.petit01@yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2007 5:35 AM
Subject: RE: Job offer
To:

USA (and) Canada Business Outlet
Assorted Foods Conglomerate Limited.

Dear Candidate,

This e-mail is a response to your Initial listing in the Job search
directory, we have decided to offer you a place in our Work from home
Job plan. We are an international trading company involved in the
sales and cultivationof assorted food types from across 36 countries
worldwide.

We act as a medium of goods and services exchange between sellers and
buyers (That is we help small businesses to sell their products abroad
as well as help buyers receive their goods and sellers get their money
in due course).

0.1. WHAT WE DO: We create a product and service exchange between
Customers and dealers, we deliver the goods to the buyer, he/she
checks and is satisfied with our product and then pays for the product
through us. We are Just a middle man company (similar to escrow).

1.0.YOUR WORK SCOPE: We discovered that since we started business in
the USA and CANADA,we have been having problems getting payments from
our customers as it was very uneasy for them to send payments to our
offices,supliers or farmers directly considering the time frame
required to process foreign Checks (30 Days and Above).We decided to
hire individuals over the internet who will help us receive and
process payments and then forward to any of our offices or farmers
which we designate.

2.1. FLEXIBLE PROGRAM: Two hours daily at your choice (Day or Evening Time).
2.2. WORK AT HOME: Check e-mails, going to the Bank-part time or full
time,professional contact team with very good support and
Communication Skills.
2.3. OTHER HIGHLIGHTS: No selling Involved, No Kits to Buy, No Advance
fees, we won\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t charge you anything,you
won\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t spend anything to start.
3.0. SALARY AND WAGES:
3.1. You are entitled to a $450:00 Payment which will come in every
two weeks, this amounts to a total of $900:00 Monthly.This payment is
Issued to you even if you are not sent any payments within the 2 weeks
time frame.
3.2. COMMISSION: 10% of every transaction successfully
processed-checks, money orders that is cashed instantly and forwarded
to our designated offices within and outside the USA and
Canada.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Cash In Hand\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" or
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Cash at counter\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" is what we request
this is to speed up our supply Rate,as well as satisfy our clients.

EXAMPLE: If you receive a check of $1,000:00 your net Income is
$100:00 and the balance of $900:00 is forwarded to the company.
4.0. HOW TO FORWARD PAYMENTS: Once you have received and processed
payments, we will send you an e-mail with instructions on how to forward
payments.
(I)YOU WILL PROCESS 2-3 ORDERS PER DAY.
(II)THE MORE ORDERS YOU PROCESS AT A FASTER RATE, THE HIGHER YOU STAND
TO EARN DAILY.
(III)THE MORE PAYMENTS YOU PROCESS ASAP-THE HIGHER YOUR FIXED EARNINGS
PER EVERY TWO WEEKS WILL GROW.
(IV)YOU MUST BE OVER 21 YEARS OF AGE, WITH A US,or CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP

5.0. WHAT WE ASK: Two free hours daily not including weekends,
Internet access for sending and receiving e-mails, available means of
cashing money orders/checks at your bank using your existing bank
account or a new account which you will make available.If you meet
these conditions all you have to do is make contact with us providing
the informations as listed below.

(I)Names,
(2)Age,
(3)Sex,
(4)Marital Status,
(5)Contact Address
(6)Phone numbers/fax numbers
(7)Previous or current annual income.

Note: P.O.Boxes are not accepted by the company considering the fact
that our partner courier company (FedEx does not allow P.O.Boxes) and
these information must be submitted currectly.

Using the contact informations as set below,we\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'ll
respond to you within
24-48 Hours with a confirmation if your space is still available and
if you will be allowed to continue working with us.

Payments Processing Unit
Contact Person: WALTER MOORE
E-mail:walt.moore01@yahoo.com
Time: 24 Hours daily by e-mail

We will never ask you for anything more then that, no bank names, no
bank account number, routing number, credit card, passwords, s.s.n #
etc.If anyone asks for those on our behalf please do not give out this
info. This is to ensure your security and non involvement in cases of
Identity Theft.

Thanks,
micheal petit (USA)
Hiring Coordinator, Human Resources
UATC USA.

Tags: Amp, Contact, Contact Address, Courier Company, Escrow, Fax Numbers, Fedex, Heir, Mail, Money, Transfer Agent Scam, Yahoo