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.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

PENTAGON PETROLEUM AND METALURGICAL COMPANY

Money mule scam: probably Nigerian, sending fake cheques, and wanting Western Union transfers back to Nigeria.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mark 01 <mark_stevev@hotmail.com>
Reply-to:
mark01_steven@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 11-Apr-2007 23:33
Subject: Representative Needed,(Job opportunity)
To:

    PENTAGON PETROLEUM AND METALURGICAL COMPANY (P.P.M.C.)
                                                     GENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT
                                                      Corporate Headquarters,
                                                      60 St James Street, London,
                                                            United Kingdom.
                      
                                                    To Whom It May Concern,
We are pleased to inform that vacancies exist in our company for the position of offshore payment and receiving agent/officer.
First and foremost let me start by introducing our company to you. We own a company in the United Kingdom, which is into import and export of materials, such as metallurgical products, machineries, metals, electrical machineries ferrous and Non-ferrous metals etc to other companies especially in Europe, America, Canada and Asia.
We are therefore pleased to inform you that vacancies exist in our foreign department as offshore representatives. We would be very glad if you accept to be appointed as our representative in your country and earn 10% of every payment made through you to us.
  
All you have to do is to send to us the following information, as stated below:
Full Names:...........................................................,
Company Name If Any:.............................................,
Address:..................................................................,
Sex:.........................................................................,
Age:.........................................................................,
Country.....................................................................,
Occupation:...............................................................,
Tel (Home).................................................................,
Tel:(Cell)....................................................................,
Tel (Office)..................................................................,
Fax:...........................................................................,
Email:.........................................................................,
Note that the information you shall provide shall be subject to final approval because we are skeptical of the high rate of Internet fraud going on these days.
In receipt of your mail we will inform you on the next step to follow as regards our approval for you to being our representative.
I await your response.
                            
Best regards,
Dr. mark steven (PhD, Mni, Psi).
Head Human Resources Dept.
PENTAGON PETROLEUM AND METALURGICAL COMPANY (P.P.M.C.)
GENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT
Corporate Headquarters,
60 St James Street, London,
United Kingdom.
Tel: 07017026684, 07017026434
Fax: 07092884774, 07092876256
Email:   mark01_steven@yahoo.com


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