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.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

CHARITY AFFILIATE PROGRAM

This looks like a money mule scam to me, but the cover story is "charity work". Presumably this is a way of getting more honest "employees" for the mule work: you wouldn't want to steal from a charity, would you? It's not a very convincing scam as far as I'm concerned: it's badly made up, and the contact address is a Yahoo! freemail account.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CHARITY AFFILIATE PROGRAM <contact_programofficer@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: contact_programofficer@yahoo.com
Date: 01-Dec-2006 02:20
Subject: BE A PART OF THE CHARITY AFFILIATE PROGRAM
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Dear Sir/ Ma,

We are Humanitarian Organization on the verge of Facilitating global
Charity Enhancement, our work is to get donation across to Affected
people
in need of donations Worldwide, we are enlisting Agents worldwide to
help
get Donations to People in every part of the world.

Your work is simple, Donations will be made to people who are
desperately
in need through you, and you will also receive a fee for helping people
get help. You will be allowed to negotiate your mode of payment once
you
are enlisted. Note that you will be directed on how funds and relief
materials will be disbursed.

Please if you are interested or know anybody, group of persons who are
desperately in need or you want to change the world around you for the
better, do contact our Agents recruitment James Allen
contact_programofficer@yahoo.com
With the following information
Your Full name.--------------------------

Phone Number----------------------------

Contact Address--------------------------

Age-----------------------------------------

Nationality---------------------------------

AFFILIATE PROGRAMME

Posted by Spotter at 15:32

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