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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

Is this a scam? I am disabled and would love to work at home, but the "processing payments" part raised a red flag for me.

I tried looking up the IP address at various sites, but nothing gave me a clue as to where this is from. Even gmail complained about the from address in the header.

I also see where they are using gmail as their address. I've seen on this site that this is a 'gotcha', too.

Thanks for any help.

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X-Originating-IP: 89.40.190.99

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Dear Candidate,

This is Mrs. Lana Winter, assistant staff manager from Medical Parts
Delivery.

I had the pleasure of reviewing your recent resume posted on the Internet.

Today Medical Parts Delivery has a vacancy in your state. We are a company
based in England.

We receive orders from US and we need a representative to process the
payments due to the delays in clearing checks here.

-Flexible program: two hours/business day at your choice

-Work at home: checking e-mail and going to the bank

-Part time or full time

-Professional contact team with very good support and communication skills

-Other highlights: no selling involved, no kit to buy, we won't charge you
anything

-Monthly salary: $1,000 per month plus commission: 10% of every check,
instantly cash in hand

Condition:

You must be over twenty one years old

You must have U.S. citizenship

If you do not meet these conditions no reply if necessary.

You do not have to pay anything to work for us like other internet companies
are asking.

No costs, nothing to buy. No membership to pay. No accounts to purchase.
Nothing to sell.

Top Medical Parts Delivery 5 earnings for the last month:

David J. Andersen,NY - $16,190.00
Brian L. Bones,VA - $15,040.00
John Rockefeler,IL - $14,320.00
Jenny Mc Kinley, CA - $13,870.00
Rosa Liles,NY - $12,200.00

If you meet these conditions please contact us by replying at this e-mail
address and ask for:

Representative Contract and information about this job.

Lana Winter

Administrative Director

Medical Parts Delivery

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Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

outofline wrote:

We are a company based in England.

Yes, it's a scam, they claim to be from England, but they are actually emailing you from a scam hotspot known as, Romania, their IP address is:

89.40.190.99 = Romania

outofline wrote:

We receive orders from US and we need a representative to process the payments due to the delays in clearing checks here.

This is what's known as a representative scam, they are very common scams and often seen from the career builder site, it works like this, they send you cheques to cash, saying they are from clients overseas, they tell you to keep 10% as your commission and send 90% back to them.

The way banks work, when you deposit a cheque, the amount of the cheque will go on your balance, banks are duty bound to make funds available to customers before the cheques actually clear, so some time later (it can be months, or up to a year later in some cases) after you have withdrawn the money from your account and sent it to the scammer, your bank will call you in to explain that the cheque you deposited was a fake one, you are now left to pay your bank back the full value of the cheque you deposited and the money withdrew, you face having your account frozen, probably facing arrest and questioning about money laundering and passing fake cheques, some victims have been jailed due to this type of scam.

Take a look at this page and the diagram on it, it explains the scam and other mule scams similar to it:

http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/moneymule_explained.html