Applied Metal Technology – Scam Central
Aug13
I’m responding to these spam e-mails to demonstrate that they are false. I want people to google/bing some parts in the e-mail they receive and come up with my site to show what to expect from the scammers. It is incredibly dangerous to respond to these phishing e-mails, especially since it made it past your spam filter.
Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:36 AM from: J.Kaur@bradford.ac.uk
Applied Metal Technology
Unit 3, Ashfield Close,
Whitehall Industrial Estate,
Leeds, West Yorkshire,
LS12 5JB, UK.
Email: parttime-jobs@nl.rogers.comApplied Metal Technology was established to service the needs of the ever
increasingly competitive and demanding world of sub contract sheet metal work.
We recognize customers needs for: high levels of quality, competitive pricing,
responsive suppliers offering short lead-times, after Sales Service, committed
Business Partnerships the four founder members of Applied Metal Technology have
over 80 years of collective experience. This experience combined with the
advantages of: using modern CNC sheet metal working machinery, cad/cam systems,
computerized production control systems a policy of total commitment and
continuous improvement from everyone within the company allows us to deliver the
best possible service to all of our customers
We see ourselves as a solutions provider for our customers.
We need individuals from different regions to work with us as our agent in
his/her country to help us establish a medium of collecting payments from
customers that are far from us. This is a work at home job and it will not take
much of your usual time. The salary for this position is $2,500 monthly and a
usually bonus of $500 from any payment collected by customer. Contact us for
more information on this via e-mail parttime-jobs@nl.rogers.com. Do include your
full names, address, phone number, age and sex in your response.Signed,
James McGill,
Employment Officer.
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This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.brad.ac.uk
To report misuse from this email address forward the message
and full headers to misuse@bradford.ac.uk
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Hello,I am interested in a part time position of Applied Metal Technology. I’m looking for more information regarding the position. Below is the following information requested:
James Henderson
8563 21st AVE NW
Unit J
Seattle, WA 98117925-285-8660
Age – 22
Male
Thank you for your time,
James
I did some research while waiting for a response. They have created a website that looks like it could be real.
Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Applied Metal Technology
Unit 3, Ashfield Close,
Whitehall Industrial Estate,
Leeds, West Yorkshire,
LS12 5JB, UK.
Email: parttime-jobs@nl.rogers.com
Dear Applicant,
Thanks for contacting us; we are in correspondent of your mail in which you are willing to apply as our part-time worker. As you already know we are a very large company here in the United Kingdom, what we need you to do for us is to be our agent in your region who will be responsible for the collection of payment from our customers from your region. This job is easy and does not require much of your time, all you need to do is this. When customers are ready to make payment, they contact you via phone or E-mail and discuss their mode of payment, make payment the payment to you and then you report back to us with details of that transaction. We have record of only 2-3 customers that make payment from that region every month; this means your job will be less. One month from the day you receive a message from us, you will be given your monthly salary and your salary is 10% of any payment made to you.
To complete the process of this application, please do fill the application form attached to this mail. Do note that all information requested is highly required for secured reasons. You are also required to send us a copy of your Identification (either a copy of your driver’s license or international passport) via E-mail along with the required information on the application form.
As soon as we receive this information requested, it will be processed and we will get back to you whether your application has been granted or not.
Thanks for your co-operation. Please do revert back to us for any complaints.
Signed,
James McGill,
Employment Officer.
Applied Metal Technology
Attached was an application that looked legit too. NOTE: I published the application using Google Docs, which took away the lines to make it look clean.
After doing more research, I found out that the company is a real company, however, AMT doesn’t know scammers are using their name to profit. “Learntosucceed” wrote about this scam nearly a year ago. He brings up the same point about using a different e-mail account as well. He also has another good point about how employers don’t send out mass, unsolicited e-mails to strangers.
How did James McGill write the second e-mail? It was sent to a different e-mail address, on his accord. I decided to stop at this point because its to much trouble to fill out the application in a fake way and see where this goes. Granted, I don’t have a James Henderson ID to send a copy of via e-mail.
Moral – be careful. Think. A company isn’t going to send out e-mails to random people’s e-mail addresses, and if they do, is that a company you really want to work with. So, even though these are rough times, don’t jump right now. Research. Learn. Understand.
/juice
