Suckers Wanted: Advertising International Company

Job scam quick guide: it's a scam if...

they want you to collect and forward money in any way (a "money mule" job). You'll wind up engaged in money laundering, personally defrauded via expertly forged cheques, money orders, etc, or defrauding someone else who pays for goods that never arrive.
they want you to receive packages and reship them somewhere else. The goods will have been obtained fraudulently, and they're just using you to make the shipping address appear local. You will be aiding fraud.
they want up-front payment (either to them or someone else) of any sort for anything before you can get the job. This is advance fee fraud: there is no job -- it's just a big con to extract money from you.
they want you to buy any kind of "membership" or "kit" in order to start. Forget it -- it's not a real job at all: they're trying to sell you something, and they're probably making a bunch of other false claims about it if they're pitching it as a "job".
it's a job offer, and it's spam. There are LOTS of these scams about, as you can see.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Advertising International Company

Summary

This is a fairly blatant money mule job. The associated website explains that the job is targeted at Australians, involves having or opening a bank account, and transferring money via Western Union.

The Spam

The spam is HTML formatted text. The copy below does not include the original HTML formatting; just the text.

GET A JOB!

For online work in largest Advertising group are require managers with minimal computer knowledge.
Work with e-mail, MS Office, Internet etc.
- Excellent ability to problem solve.
- Flexible hours
- No financial risk, you do not need pay money for start work!
Just honest hard working people that are willing to earn an extra income!
Best regards,
Bratello Mancini

Check up our site for the further information

Subjects encountered

[name], GET A JOB!

Sender names encountered

Job Offer in Australia !

Links encountered

http://www.piar-company.com//

Website snapshot

Domain information (for experts)

piar-company.com

WHOIS query at Tue Oct 10 14:08:41 UTC 2006

Connecting to whois.crsnic.net.

   Domain Name: PIAR-COMPANY.COM
   Registrar: NEW DREAM NETWORK, LLC
   Whois Server: whois.dreamhost.com
   Referral URL: http://www.dreamhost.com
   Name Server: NS2.MSG44HIM.COM
   Name Server: NS1.MSG44HIM.COM
   Status: ACTIVE
   EPP Status: ok
   Updated Date: 08-Oct-2006
   Creation Date: 25-Sep-2006
   Expiration Date: 25-Sep-2007

DNS query

Trying "www.piar-company.com"
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.msg44him.com
Address: 24.176.5.233#53
Aliases:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19499
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.piar-company.com.          IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.piar-company.com.   300     IN      A       88.134.38.164
www.piar-company.com.   300     IN      A       213.209.66.180
www.piar-company.com.   300     IN      A       89.228.223.161

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
www.piar-company.com.   300     IN      NS      ns1.msg44him.com.
www.piar-company.com.   300     IN      NS      ns2.msg44him.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.msg44him.com.       300     IN      A       24.176.5.233
ns2.msg44him.com.       300     IN      A       204.191.146.95

Received 178 bytes from 24.176.5.233#53 in 54 ms

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This blog is an offshoot of iDeceive, which documents deceptive Internet activity. For more general information, please go to that blog. All entries posted here are employment scams. If you've received an email that resembles anything posted here, you'd be well advised to assume that the sender wants to exploit you, not employ you. Scammers often impersonate real companies. Where real company names are mentioned here, you should assume that a scammer is using that identity fraudulently unless you have strong evidence to the contrary.

What is a money mule?

The vast majority of job scams seek to recruit money mules, usually under titles like "financial manager", "payment processor", "transaction specialist", or just plain "representative" or even "partner". The job of a money mule is to be a financial middle-man, accepting payment in one form, and forwarding it (minus a fee) to another party, usually via Western Union. Scammers employ money mules to launder money on their behalf: the mule is responsible for converting a fraudulent transaction of some kind into quick, anonymous cash, usually transferred via Western Union or some similar scheme. Scammers send out a lot of job ads for money mule positions and never refuse an applicant because they are disposable: money mules either get ripped off directly (as when they are persuaded to bank a forged cheque or money order which is later dishonoured by the bank), or take the blame for defrauding someone else (as with most payments involving direct bank transfer, PayPal, or similar). Don't make an ass of yourself: don't be a money mule.

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