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, May 02, 2007

Rev. Peter Yang

No company name is given. The choice of the title "Reverend" gives this scam a thoroughly West African scent. It's always "Reverend This", "Barrister That", and "Doctor The-Other" with them, just to make them sound more trustworthy. The sender domain name is not registered at all, and thus forged. The scam is the usual "money mule" fare.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rev. Peter Yang. <info@yangpp.com>
Reply-to:
peteryang_private@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 2 May 2007 10:43:18 -0000
Subject: NEEDS A REPRESENTATIVE AND PAYMENT COORDINATOR!
To: ideceive@gmail.com

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Dear Sir/Madam,



I am Rev.Peter Yang,Our company supply and export Pharmaceutics,Agricultural, Textile and Chemical Engineering Products for world trade.We are searching for individuals or a company who can act as our representative/payment coordinator in your country and earn 10% of  every  payment made through you to us.





However my fundings were by my foreign counterparts which sent me the bunch of payments mostly by wire transfer and cheques.Getting an accountant in your country or opening an account would have been my best choice but I have a deadline to meet and taking any of those choices would cost me time and a whole lot of other requirements I am not ready to deal with as I would be travelling a lot in the meantime.



So presently, assuming you would be able to deal with cash, I would be willing to employ you on contract and commission basis to be my representative and payment coordinator back in your country, this way I could instruct my clients to make these payment to you through cheques or wire transfer,you will withdraw 10% of the total amount on these Payments as your commission and then send the rest balance back to me.



Bear it in mind that we would be dealing with quite a handful of cash and you could be making handful of money working with me in a short period of time.In this case,I need to also know if I can TRUST you as the job I am offering you is based strictly on trust. For more information and details Kindly furnish me with the following informations:







NAME: ................... ...........



COMPANY NAME:  ................... ..



ADDRESS: ................... ........



CITY:  ..............................



STATE:  .............................



COUNTRY:  ...........................



TEL:  ...............................



FAX:  ...............................



AGE: ................................





I look forwards to receive these informations from you as soon as possible.



Very Respectfully,

Rev.Peter Yang.

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