Job Posting SCAMS
If you've received a fax (like
THIS
ONE, claiming to be from Flora Smith, Director of Information) or email
(from Laura Stevens IRS .Public Relations)
claiming to be from the IRS (or anyone for that matter) and requiring you to
complete a W-8BEN, or other such form, it is most likely a scam. If
the form asks for your bank information and your password like the above example
that we received, then it is definitely a scam. If any form, person, or
email ever asks you for your bank password or PIN, it is guaranteed to be a
scam. Also remember to guard your bank account # carefully as well. If a
scammer gets your bank account # and nothing else, he still has enough
information to empty out your bank account.
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If you have seen a job posting claiming to be from VALIS International Trade
& Invest, or VALIS Group Inc. or VALIS International Invest&Trade, offering to give you a
commission for handling their clients payments, you should know that it is a
scam. These guys have been defaming our good name like this for years now.
They are scammers and they will steal your identity and your money. Do not
tell them anything about yourself. Their emails claim to be from us, but their
email addresses are all free emails (like valisinvest@aol.com), which are often shut down fairly quickly.
Some of the job postings look like this (posted on Jobster by Jeffrey J
Winschel):
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We are an European company looking to extend in
the USA.We are recruiting collaborators to help us test the USA market.Our
company is specialized in large consumer goods sales.Minimum degree
required: High School diploma. There is no fixed age.We are offering a
chance to promote and accumulate an auxiliary income of US$4000-US$
10,000.00 per month.We are offering a great home employment plan, if you
already have a job and think that you still have time to carry our
commissions please feel free to reply at this email for more details.It will
take about half hour/day of your free time! There is no age or racial
restriction.
If you are interested contact us at csfopds@aol.com |
If you respond to the ad you get an email like this (someone emailed this to
us for verification):
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From: Carlos Valiente <mailto:valiente_online@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Part time job!Real Job for serious people!
Dear Job Applicant
We are glad you manifest an interest in our job offer!
You probably wonder what this job is all about so here are the details:
You will have the opportunity of working from home and earn
money...NO...you will not click on banners ...you will NOT stuff envelopes...you
will receive money in the form of money orders and bank wires from some of our
clients/sellers/resellers in your area and direct them where we instruct you to!
You will have a commission of every sale/resale that shall pass through you! You
will act as our local agent and you will receive full instructions so there is
no chance that you will "mess up".
You will NOT have to advertise online OR offline! All those things are already
been taken care of by other people! That is a totally differnt department. All
you will have to do is receive wire transfers/money orders and redistribute them
to other companyies or people that we will indicate to you!
Main Requirements: dynamic person = must be able to move around
locally(must be able to go to a bank to withdraw money/deposit money), must be
able to check his/her e-mail address daily - every 3 hours would be welcomed!
WHO WE ARE: We are an Italian company that recently registered in USA under the
name of VALIS GROUP, INC and we are looking for people to help us with our new
distribution chain in U.S. We sell/buy electronic and consumer
products (resellers) !Our main trading partners are www.ingrammicro.com and
www.techdata.com
HOW MUCH YOU EARN? 10% on each sale/resale we make! For instance: you receive a
$1000 U.S. wire transfer to your bank account!You will withdraw the money and
keep $100 (10% of $1000) for yourself !So it's an instant $100 earning!
IS THIS JOB LEGITIMATE: ABSOLUTELY YES! For the first few assignments you will
be considered as a part time employee based on a contract to hire.After
fullfilling a few successfull assignments your percentage of earnings will
increase and you will sign a new contract.
If you have read the above job explanation and you are willing to apply please
note we have a few questions for you and if you answer them with answers that
suit our needs then you may consider yourself hired!
1. How many days are you spending per month out of your town?
2. Are you checking your e-mail on a daily basis?If not how often?If YES how
many times a day?
3. Do you have a personal bank account?If the answer is NO can you open one with
a bank in your area?
NOTICE: You are welcomed to provide to us a newly created bank account, with 0
(zero) balance.
Online access (online banking option) to the bank account balance is NOT
required but highly recommended.
4. Are you able to go out of your home to a bank/post office nearby your area?
5. Upon notification from us that awire transfer/money order will reach you in
24 hrs or so will you be able to wait for it or go to the bank to cash it or
withdraw the money?(Please note: we shall never ask you to stay at home
24hrs/day but you should be aware that our clients can not wait for us days in
order to receive/cash checks/wire transfers/money orders/parcels).
Also please note that we need people that have some spare time during normal
business hours , so they may be able to go in time to the post office or bank or
any other institution.This is a very important issue for us.
6. Are you able to move around your area fast enough ?
(e.g. Go to your local bank and withdraw money from your account and/or
afterwards sending a wire to another person/company we will indicate to
you?Disabled persons are more than welcomed to apply for this job but in the
case that the person is not able to leave home for at least 1 hour ,more likely
his job application will be rejected )
7. Will you be able to supply to us a valid scanned copy of your I.D. (driver's
licence OR passport OR library I.D.) and a landline phone number in order to
verify your identity?
Best Regards
Ron Lafarge
Recruiting Manager
VALIS GROUP, INC 501 Silverside Rd Ste 105 Wilmington, DE
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What they'll do is send you a few small checks, which you deposit in your
account and then wire or western union the funds to them in Russia, or wherever
they happen to have accounts (sometimes they have people all over the world
passing around the money before it actually gets to them, so it is hard to
trace). Once you are comfortable with the situation they will send you a
large check, which you will deposit then wire the funds to them, then the bank
will find out that the check was forged and bounce the check, except that you've
already sent the money somewhere else so you are left holding the bag, and owing
the bank thousands of dollars.
If you come across a job posting where people want you to handle their money
for them, you are guaranteed it is a scam. No legitimate company has ever, in
the history of the world, had to do this to get their money. Transferring funds
for third parties is a highly regulated industry in the USA (Money Services
Business MSBs) and you are required to get a license to do it, and you have to
keep records and report suspicious activity (file SARs) to the government, so
you would be breaking the law and could go to jail for doing it anyway.
Remember, if it looks to good to be true, it probably is.
Finally, if you have already given out your SSN and bank details to these
scammers, close the accounts you gave them the details about and contact the
various credit reporting agencies to let them know that you have been the victim
of Identity Theft. They will make a note of it on your account and will be
more suspicious of any loan requests or account openings trying to be made in
your name.
Be careful out there!
This is our real information: Trust no one else!
VALIS Group Inc Corporate Site
Members of VALIS Group Inc.: VALIS International, VALIS Domain Management, Eden's Roses
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It seems these people never give up, they only change their names. This is
the latest Job Scam posting we've received. We've received many of these
scam emails and they all seem to have a different gmail address, a few of them
are: pointfocushiring@gmail.com, 4pointfocus@gmail.com, focusformat@gmail.com,
pointfocusjobs@gmail.com, yourfocus1@gmail.com,
infopointfocus@gmail.com.
The FROM part always contains 'no reply'', at least so far...
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Point Focus LLC is now expanding! |
To deal with the international payments processings we are now looking for
people willing to facilitate establishing of our all-round-the-globe
business connections and assist saving considerably by tax disbursing
reduction. This position of the Financial Assistant involves accepting
payments from our Australian, UK and US ( rarer Spanish) clients to your
account and resending to our partners.
You are getting paid right by the moment you cash the payment. It's the
commission in amount equal to 4% out the sum posted on your account. This
very amount you're deducting before sending anything out. So, estimated
roughly, you can make up to 2000$ extra monthly.
Plus, you get:
- flexi-time (usually 2-3 hours a day)
- Saturdays & Sundays off
Requirements:
- Have to be aged 21 or above
- No criminal record
- Regular Internet access
- Ability to accept payments using your bank account
- Ability to resend the money through Western Union
If feel qualified, please, attach the following info to start up with:
- Fist Name:
- Last Name:
- Age:
- Sex:
- Country
- State, City, Zip
- Phone number (home and cell)
- Valid email address
NOTE!!!! the email address you use to contact us for the first time is:
pointfocustry@gmail.com, in the subject field put "interested".
Please, use only mentioned email address, otherwise we'll fail to receive
your response. |
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