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scam?

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 3:47 pm
by Cochise
Some days ago I received an email message containing my surname and name in the subject field.
The message was from a certain julienne kinsey, a name that isn't between my contacts and I never heard about before.
Below is the content of the message
Hello (surname and name).
This is unique career opportunity.
Reputable agency is looking for enthusiastic people in Europe to help us start our business in the Italy sector.

Requirements:
- 18+ EU resident
- Only operational knowledge of Internet & computer.
- Free access to personal e-mail box
- 2-3 free hours per day
- Immediate replies on our written requests
- Excellent organizational skills.


You can easily connect our work with your primary work.
Brilliant income ability. easy study available.
Applicants must be intelligent and business oriented.
Operate only few hours per day.
Everyone residing in the Italy can become our agent.
operator will contact you within few hours if you attracted.
Thank you for your attention.
A message reporting my name, coming from an unknown sender inevitably arouse my wariness; nevertheless, being without job, I answered asking for further informations.
The day after I received a new mail containing my name in the subject field; the sender address this time was shirtzulimited at gmail and was containing the following
Good day.
We require representatives in Italy for customer service/administrative
job.
No special knowledge in computer/it required! No relocation from
Italy
required, you will operate from your current location. EU citizens are
also welcome to apply.
Job schedule is mostly in the morning or in the afternoon, 2-3 hours a
day.
Shirtz Unlimited Ltd. in USA and develops web-products
(databases, c++ applications, mysql) for customers from Italy. Our
clients have to pay with bank payments due to the contracts. We do not
have representative office in Italy. So, we cannot accept payments by
bank transfer inside the country.
Job duties are: to receive invoice payments from our Italy customers,
3 times a week, process it and resend to our main office.
You are paid 5 percent commission from each payment + 4500 EURO base
salary a month + all travel fees, bank charges and taxes.
You can use your own bank account for this job, or open new one. It
doesn't matter for us and is for your convenience.
We don't ask any secure details and never ask any money to start
job, we are serious company and the job is 100 percent legal.
You are paid commission instantly 3 times a week and based salary at
the end of every month.
No relocation required, you can do the job in your area.
Please, confirm if you accept the job, I will send you further details
and application form.
Send confirmation in format:
I, -name-, accept this job, -date-.
Thanks

Francesko Germane
Shirtz Unlimited Ltd.
66 E Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157-5008
I made some websearch.
The only Shirtz Unlimited I was able to found is located in Minnesota and, as it's possible to figure out becouse of the name, it operates in shirts printing field.
In Maryland instead, at that address is reported a company operating in banking automation(?) field.

Any opinion about?

Re: scam?

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 4:38 pm
by astroman
200% certified fraud with cash from fraud activities...
#1 it's complete bullsh*t that a company requires a local office to receive payment
#2 the 'nice' salary is (supposed to be...) paid AFTER 30 days... enough time to cash in and vanish
I'm sorry for your current job situation, but please take care and don't step into that trap.
Afterall it WILL be you facing court, seriously.

cheers, Tom

Re: scam?

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:35 pm
by siriusbliss
TOTAL BULLSH**

AVOID!!

NOW THEY HAVE YOUR NAME!

Re: scam?

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:36 pm
by spacef
4500 for a human mailbox ? too good to be true... and much more expensive than the most expensive bank transfer (+ if they ask you to transfer more than xxxxx (check max amount in your country, it is usually >10.000 ... which will lead EU banks to check for the origins of the funds , which will lead you to produce proformas, contracts, other papers for payments, customers adresses etc...

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 950AAUysLh

http://shirtz.com/ go to "contact us" button at the bottom-left, and contact them...

Re: scam?

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:24 pm
by garyb
unsolicited offers are usually scams. this almost certainly is one.

Re: scam?

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 4:26 am
by Cochise
...the shirt printing thing anyway reminds me to my 'no bozos' post in 'hijackthisthread'...
Coincidences?

Re: scam?

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 8:40 am
by garyb
there are no coincidences. :lol:

Re: scam?

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 12:46 pm
by Cochise
siriusbliss wrote:...NOW THEY HAVE YOUR NAME!
Recently I used that mail account for a transaction on Ebay.it.
I bought an Intel processor rated around 300 Euros for less than 170 shipment included.
I received the CPU 100% ok; it was described as new and looked like new (non boxed item though). Of course I gave my name and address for the shipment.
I checked all my activities and that's the only recent occasion I used my name associated to that mailbox...

Re: scam?

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 4:28 pm
by jksuperstar
All other things aside, that email wasn't written by an American. The language sounds like a European speaking english. Maybe French or Italian (my experience working for a european company...dropped "a" here and there, "Italy Customers", and other things an American wouldn't phrase in that particular way).

+1 for scam.

Re: scam?

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 4:31 pm
by garyb
scam.

Re: scam?

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 4:55 pm
by Cochise
Cochise wrote:
siriusbliss wrote:...NOW THEY HAVE YOUR NAME!
Recently I used that mail account for a transaction on Ebay.it.
I bought an Intel processor rated around 300 Euros for less than 170 shipment included.
I received the CPU 100% ok; it was described as new and looked like new (non boxed item though). Of course I gave my name and address for the shipment.
I checked all my activities and that's the only recent occasion I used my name associated to that mailbox...
Actually I had another Ebay.it transaction in the same period, for a motherboard (a refurbished item). There was no shipment since, surprisingly, the seller/Ebay store was here in town; the transaction was completed on Ebay, but payment and delivery had been in the store.
At now I don't remember exactly if my real name is associated to the Ebay nick to the seller in this case...



It's a worrying thing they have my name...

Re: scam?

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 5:18 pm
by Cochise
garyb wrote:scam.
Yes it is.
I talked to someone at the police station and he said they had similar issues. The money was from cloned credit cards, forced bank accounts or similar. He told about a guy from Romania that received this money on his bank account and then was tried for that. He also said they often can't do that much against the mainly involved people, since they operate abroad. The Romanian guy was transferring the money in Russia, the policeman said.

I think it's better I draft a formal charge, since someone have my name and maybe even the address, and I can't know how my data can be used... I heard about stolen identities issues but don't remember anything at now