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.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Sheng Hu Metallurgical Export Co.Ltd

This is just another typical payment processing job scam. In this case, it looks like the "fraudulent cheques" variety, in which the "employee" is sent forged cheques to cash and forward via Western Union on the pretext that he's forwarding payments from customers. The cheques eventually bounce, leaving the "employee" the status of "scam victim". Note that in this particular case, the spammer seems to have placed the entire text of his email in his "signature" block to save himself from pasting it in repeatedly.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Wang Liu Shun (Sheng Hu Metallurgical Export Co.Ltd) <info_shenghuEXport@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-to: shenghu_metals001@yahoo.com.hk
Date: 2009/3/25 UTC
Subject: JOB PROPOSAL.no money required from you.
To:





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SHENG HU METALLURGICAL EXPORT COMPANY LIMITED.
4f-6,313,Chi Hsien 2nd Rd.,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

We are exporters based in the Taiwan. We export raw materials into Asia
and into Europe, America and Australia. Our company, Sheng Hu
Metallurgical Export Co.Ltd was established in 1999. We are interested in
employing your services,to work with us as our foreign payment receiving
officer, who can help us establish a medium of receiving payment on our
behalf for Goods and raw materials we supply to our clients in Europe,
America or Australia.

Subject to your satisfaction with this proposal, you will be made our
foreign payment receiving officer in your region. If you decide to work
for us, please forward to us immediately:

1,YOUR COMPLETE NAMES:
2,YOUR PHONE NUMBERS/FAX:
3,YOUR FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:
4,YOUR AGE:
5,YOUR OCCUPATION:
6,YOUR POSITION IN PLACE OF WORK;

We anxiously await your response.

Sincerely,
Wang Liu Shun,
General Manager;
Sheng Hu Metallurgical Export Co.Ltd.
Taiwan.
Reply to : shenghu_metals001@yahoo.com.hk

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