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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.com

Applied 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 98117

925-285-8660

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

Back in November of 2008, I was in a transitional period with my work.  I had applied for tons of jobs online and even posted my resume on the Monster.com’s of the net.  I then found a 30 hour week job at Seattle City Hall.  A few weeks later, I received in email from a possible employer.  It was job that involved proofreading emails for a dating service.  I figured I could do both doing my breaks at my real job.  More info after the jump.

Dear Job Seeker,

We are glad to inform you about new vacancy opening in the area of proofreading at Ran-De-Vou Co.

Part time job Description:

We provide you with business messages which require revision and your task is to make necessary corrections as an english speaking person, and e-mail them back to us.

Payment:

There is no fixed salary for this vacancy. We offer $5.00 per 1Kb of the text which you revise (the workload is about 4-5 Kb a day).
The salary is paid once a month, and begins with the date of the first revision you make.
(Example: by editing 5Kb of texts a day you earn $1000.00 a month)

Requirements:

-Applicant must be a US citizen
-Applicant must be of a legal age: 21+
-Applicant should be skilled in computer usage, and American English

Feel free to submit the application form which follows only to e-mail: ran.de.vou.empl@gmail.com
__________
FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE:
Phone number (home or cell, but SHOULD BE available any day time):
E-MAIL:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
EDUCATION:
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You will receive a response from us in 24 hours.

If you have any questions please reply only at our e-mail: ran.de.vou.empl@gmail.com

Sincerely, Ran-De-Vou Co. Team

I remember the day when I received phishing e-mails regarding the ol’ Nigerian Western Union Scam.  Those e-mails were always a simple fraud spot and quick delete.  I was looking for quick money and decided to take the chance of proof-reading company to client e-mails.  I recieved an email every day for about 9 days, and moved through the e-mails fast.  I ended making $120, according to my calculations of kb to  $5.

I didn’t see anything about this company or any scams online, figured it was a good legit job.  I’ve always known never to give my account/bank number to anyone, so that was never an issue.  I would simply not fill out that information when they asked for information.  I also even left out my personal physical address when asked.

After about a week or so, I begin to question what this company was.  It wasn’t like I was working crazy hard, but I would have still liked to have been paid.  I did a search on Ran-De-Vou Company and found Dynamoo’s Blog, in which I write a comment on.

Juice said…I just read your blog. I’ve been doing this proof reading thing for about a week or so. I haven’t gotten paid yet, because, like you read, you get paid once a month.

I’ve made $120 from them, yet, again, I haven’t actually gotten paid. And I didn’t give them any of my bank info. I just told them to pay me paypal.

It’s cool if you guys don’t believe it or whatnot, it means I get more kbs to edit anyways. If you have any questions, just email me at Juicehenderson@gmail.com. Or facebook me at Justin Juice Henderson or even myspace me at myspace.com/juicemann13.

See, I am a real person lol

Ugh, looking back on that – man, I was such a snob and a nerd for saying “…It’s cool if you guys don’t believe it or whatnot, it means I get more kbs to edit anyways….”  How lame is that?

Another site, Phishbucket.org has even more information about the so-called company.

WHOIS sender IP 189.18.4.52:
(Courtesy: http://whois.domaintools.com/189.18.4.52)
IP Information for 189.18.4.52
IP Location:     Brazil Brazil Comite Gestor Da Internet No Brasil
Resolve Host:     189-18-4-52.dsl.telesp.net.br
IP Address:     189.18.4.52

Anyways, I periodically get e-mails from other posters on Dynamoo’s Blog asking if I ever got paid, and then they tell me their story and such.  I usually do a quick reply and tell them no, and it wasn’t a big deal.  I even received an email this morning, and now, I think it’s time to set everyone straight.

I never got paid.  I never got paid.  I never got paid.

Ran-De-Vou kept e-mailing asking to finish providing the information they needed (bank account).  I kept saying Paypal.com is an okay method of payment.  After 3 e-mails of me shouting Paypal.com, I lost contact.

Never heard from them again.  I think they must have gone out of business because of the economy.

/juice