Below is the email I received from them on September 23rd, 2008. The first thing I noticed was that I did not repond to their ad through Craigslist like they mentioned. Instead, I found their ad in the NY Times Newspaper on Sunday Spetmber 21st, 2008. I wish I had kept the ad they posted.
Read the 2 emails I received from them below. They contacted me both times with this email address (
resumesversa694@yahoo.com).
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Dear Candidate,
We got your resume and your application for our ad on Craigslist. We
are sincerely sorry to inform you that the position for the Customer
Service Rep has been occupied. Our manager went through your resume
and you have been picked for an alternative Job which is the Payment
Personnel. The Customer Service position has been occupied and now
what we need is a representative and payment processing manager for
the company on financial issues.
About US
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(Liberal Art works) is a China Company and well established, leaders
in innovative Art Works Technology, providing art materials worldwide.
We serve the entire United States and a growing export market. Your
primary task for now, as a representative of the company is to
coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment
process. You are not involved in any sales. Once orders are received
and sorted we deliver the product to a customer. After this has been
done the customer has to pay for the products but in most cases we
make our clients prepay for orders or items they ordered for. About 90
percent of our customers prefer to pay through Cashiers Check ,
Certified Checks or Money Orders drawn from the United State based on
the amount involved. We have decided to open this new contract to hire
job position for solving this problem. Your First Primary task
(Collection of Payments)
WHAT YOUR NEED TO DO FOR US
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1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
2. Cash Payment at your Bank or Deposit payment and let us know how
long its going to take before it clear the Bank
3. Deduct 10 % which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the
offices you will be instructed to send payment to, You'll have a lot
of free time doing another job, because this is a part time job,
you'll get good income. But this job is very challenging and you
should understand it. We are considering your application because you
satisfy our requirements and we are sure you will be an earnest
assistant till we start running our branch office in your state. For
example if you recieve 4000.00 USD and your 10% should be 400.00 USD
Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD here are the information
you are to provide then we will get back to you after we must have
gone through it all. Get back to us with information below
information, so that we can add your mailing address to our Regional
database and forward it to our customers for them to send payments.
Please Apply by filling the Requirements Below:
* Full Names_______________
* Address__________________
* City_____________________
* State____________________
* Zip Code_______________
* Phone___________________
* Email___________________
* Age_____________________
* Present Occupation_______________
* Marital Status_____________
* Sex_____________________
* Bank Name________________
Thanks for your anticipated action. And we hope to hear back from you.
Regards,
Robert mowan
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What came to my attention with this email:
1) Why do they need my banks name? Also if you are a legitimate business, why should I deposit money INTO MY BANK? They should have their own bank.
2) Most of the things they are asking for is listed on my resume. Asking for your marrital status and gender is completely ridiculous.
Below is the second email that I received from them.
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we checked your Resume and you fit into the Job which was been checked by our Recruiter . You are to dispatch checks for the company . By creating checks and filling in account information's into the check Software and dispatching to the Clients via Our DHL Account.Here are the Tools you will be needing Kindly find out how much they are and where you can get them.
M300.v8 Special (Printer)
VersaCheck Gold 2008 (Software)
Form #3000 Business Check(Check
All this tools can also be gotten at
http://www.g7ps.comOur Company Website is :
http://www.premiumart.co.uk If you re interested In the Job please get back to me as soon as possible
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What came to my attention in this email:
1) Why would I need to buy these things? They should be provided.
2) Some grammatical errors in the way these email was typed. Noticed that the email did not end with a legitimate name, business address and phone number.
That is when I decided to look this company up. I always check with the better business bureau before I commit to a company. If nothing comes up in the better business bureau, my mom told me to always google the company instead.
I am grateful that I came upon this website. If there are anymore employment scams, I certainly know where to come.
Camille