Is this a scam?
I got an odd email that I am certain must be a scam, but I can’t figure out what the angle is. The email has all the earmarks of a scam. It is not addressed to me personally and among the things they ask for is my email address, which they obviously already have. They only describe themselves as a large French company.
The letter talks about me being able to work at some IT job for $4,000 per month working 3 to 4 hours a day having something to do with payments involving an agent in Turkey. Here is the description. Note the broken English (I am guessing from an Eastern European) another sign of a scam.
If you are interested in the prospect of a possible employment is presented below the job description.
- Receive payments from our customers all over the world and treat them with banking schemes and cash transfers
- When processing each payment you receive an instant bonus of 4% of the payment amount
- Maintain reporting and any necessary preparations to receive payments
- Be confident in the correctness of the accuracy of payments and delivering them on time.
At the end they request name, address, email address and copy of resume.
There is no way that I would respond, but I am curious what the angle is. Have you heard of such a scheme or have any idea what they are after?
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I believe they are phishing for your bank account info. You seem to be a magnet for scams: I just read a question of yours about a West African pen pal from 2009.
Yeah, they probably just want to access your account, ostensibly to deliver that “instant bonus of 4%.”
Your personal data. They might want to also steal your resume.
Weird things you shouldn’t even open. Don’t think twice about them or what they are – it’s a waste of time to even consider it. Assume they’re scams.
Nice sleuthing. That first one is nearly identical to what I received.
I was the target of a similar scam. The guy asked if I would tutor his son, which seemed innocent enough. Then he sent a check for a few thousand dollars from which I was supposed to extract my payment and wire back the remainder.
No I do not as a rule respond to these. I was suspicious of the tutoring one, but I did not initially see what harm could come from it.
When perfect strangers want your personal information it’s a scam and they think it’s hilarious. I often reply using profanity and insults even though you’re not supposed to.
I was getting a phone call daily for 2 solid months offering to give me a loan. Near the end i was so frustrated I told the guy off. First of all , he did not use my real name. I told him in no uncertain terms: “IF I WANT A LOAN I’LL GET ONE FROM AMERICA . YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME. I WILL NEVER, EVER DO ANY KIND OF BUSINESS WITH YOU. YOU NEED A REAL JOB. WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME WHEN YOU KNOW YOU WILL NEVER GET ONE CENT FROM ME? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD, “NO” MEANS? DO YOU NEED MEDICATION?” He giggled. He really did. And after that I got maybe two more calls then it stopped. With those I just hung up.
I wouldn’t give them my email address. They will send thousands of these emails out and getting a reply identifies a possible victim for this or other scams.
This is a scam message. Please don’t respond to it. As soon as you give your information they will ask for some more details and sometimes they’ll ask for your bank details also. So be careful in responding those message or it is better to neglect that message.
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