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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 0

Hello to everybody.

I've just received (on my business e-mail) an offer of new job. Thunderbird said it was spam (but I had taught him that...), now I think maybe it is a scam. As I for the first am new and for the second don't have so much time, perhaps someone could check it?
My doubt came from the fact, that e-mail was sent from a Spanish e-mail account in the name of Ukhrainian company (with address of director at gmail...) and the origin is, as far as I know, Ankara, Turkey.
I wonder if I should apply (no, I don't need a new job) and probably pay some money for preparing the necessary documents...
Here is the e-mail:

Quote:

I represent a company seeking for part-time financial contractors. I will describe the offer in a few words below:
Our company =SoftLineCo= is a team of professionals working together from 1998.
We have got extensive experience in developing a wide range of applications from simple desktop programs to complex corporate systems,designing web-sites, portals and creating/supporting internet commerce solutions.

Requirements:

- basic knowledge of computer (email),
- free time (approx 1 hour per day, non-business hours),
- good communication skills

To be our representative on the full-time/part-time basis,either one of the following options is required :

- bank account to withdraw/receive funds,

We are an international trading company.Our main office is located in Kiev, Ukraine. The policy of our business is similar to a multi-
level telemarketing company, except for our correspondence managers do not sell anything, they are in charge of delivering the financial communication from our customers to our company main office.

Money turnover of our company already reached the certain heights
and we are in search of regional managers, who are willing to manage
our customers database.

Salary schedule is contract-based, our employee will receive
payments based on their work load. Usually it is about PLN100,000/PLN300,000 per year, tax applied. This is a part-time job, our contract worker needs
to prove his ability to manage correspondence in order to qualify for
higher rates and full-time job status.

Our regional employees have good perspectives of increasing their
work-load and salary, depending on their efforts.

We need 4 representatives in Poland and Europe so please respond fast if you would like to start immediately.

Please contact me for more information via e-mail: [email protected]

and send us the following information about yourself:

1. Your Full Name as it appears on your resume.
2. Education. 3. Your Contact Address.
4. Telephone/Fax number.
5. Your present Occupation and Position currently held.
6. Your Age.

Sincerely,
Piotr Tretiakov
Team manager
SoftLine Company

OK. As you can deduct from above, I'am from Poland; the salary mentioned in e-mail is about 2-8 times bigger than average (but not for manager, of course).

What else? Ah! The header! Here you are:

Quote:

From - Fri Sep 26 10:36:26 2008
X-Account-Key: account1
X-UIDL: 1120208791.17368
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from XXX ([unix socket])
by XXX (Cyrus v2.1.13) with LMTP; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:20 +0200
X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
Received: from localhost (XXX [127.0.0.1])
by XXX (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E76254091
for <XXX@XXX>; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:20 +0200 (CEST)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at XXX
X-Spam-Score: 0.539
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.539 tagged_above=0.1 required=1.81
tests=[BAYES_00=-2.312, DOS_OE_TO_MX=2.75, RDNS_NONE=0.1,
STOX_REPLY_TYPE=0.001]
Received: from XXX ([XXX])
by localhost (XXX [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
with ESMTP id 111mKp7LIfQc for <XXX@XXX>;
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:20 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from dsl85-98-46614.ttnet.net.tr (unknown [85.98.182.22])
by XXX (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2395025407D
for <XXX@XXX>; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:19 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <01c91fc3$26fd7b80$16b66255@teele>
From: "Alissa Mckenna" <[email protected]>
To: <XXX@XXX>
Subject: job
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:19 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="iso-8859-2";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670
X-Spam: Not detected
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080925-0, 2008-09-25), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

I've tried to replace all the infos about the receiver (i.e. me) from the header with XXX.

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:08 pm

Anyone heard of this before? Does he want me to actually launder his goods?

Quote:

I will also have my mails and packages forwarded to your address. If you will be unable to stay at your house to get my mails, I can have it shipped to a post office near you and then you can pick it up at your convenience. When you get my mails/packages; you are required to mail them to where I want them mailed to. You don't have to put money out of your pocket, all you have to do is have packages shipped to your house and do my shopping. You are allowed to open the packages to reveal its content. The content of the packages are computer and electronics, clothings business and personal letters

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:32 pm

SCAM!

Probably typical money laundering/fake check.

As far as the package request--scammers have been known to use stolen credit card numbers to buy expensive electronics, etc., ship them to a third party (many times this is the unpaid victim of a romance scam), and have the third party forward the packages. This makes the scammer more untraceable, and depending on where the scammer is located, may be necessary to get the merchandise, as some companies have wised up and refuse to ship packages to known scammer-infested areas.

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:35 pm

Great! I'm all in! Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:23 pm

Definitely a scam. our friends at softline turned up on phishbucket as well

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:29 pm

Ralph,

Your reshipping scam gets a nice mention right at the top here:

http://www.hotscams.com/categories/Job-Scams/

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:52 pm

Well good thing I just so happen to be available to work!

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 0

Thank you, Lobo.
I have to say, regretfully, I neglected to make even basic research in Internet. From what I saw at phishbucket, softline has more to do with money laundering than with wangling money from people. What means also, it is more dangerous to respond and it's more likely to be under eventual investigation.
For I have already checked that company (just found web site... : http://www.softline.kiev.ua/control/en/index ) I have now one more impression: the criminals use the real (and innocent) company name to make some fraud.