Just had this, is it a scam?

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 51

Just had this in my inbox, not had one before, so was wondering if it is a scam of some sort?

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Subject: Online Company Representative
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Dear Sir/Madam,

A unique offer on the labor market! We offer a vacancy that does
not require any special skills or many years of experience. This
job is designed in such a way that it suits an average person with
regular skills and habits. We invite you to work for us as regional
representatives. Flexible work conditions, high income and career
growth is what we offer.

The minimal requirements for candidates:
- Resident of United Kingdom.
- Legal age.
- Clear credit line.
- Ability to work for 10 hours a week.

At first you need to send us your resume to our email [email protected]
We promise to process each resume within three days. In any case you
will be informed about the decision made about your candidacy.

Our company holds on to the strict privacy policy, and nondisclosure
of private information to the third parties is guaranteed except cases
regulated by legislation.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:19 am

Nothing there to prove it, but more than likely a cheque scam will follow - you will be reciving cheques from 'customers' and sending on the balance after your commision, before the cheque is found to be fake or stolen of course.

The fact it comes from South Africa is a clue. I pulled youtr tiscali adress from line 3, BTW. Smile

Not quite a Newb Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 51

Our company holds on to the strict privacy policy, and nondisclosure
of private information to the third parties is guaranteed except cases
regulated by legislation.

Sounds like a way to spam your email address?

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:51 am

Quote:

Sounds like a way to spam your email address?

Sounds like bullshit to make it sound official.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:03 am

Typical fake site set up only for the email address.

Quote:

Domain Name: RDNETS.COM
Registrar: TODAYNIC.COM INC.
Whois Server: whois.todaynic.com
Referral URL: http://www.NOW.CN
Name Server: NS1.RDNETS.COM
Name Server: NS2.RDNETS.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 10-feb-2010
Creation Date: 10-feb-2010
Expiration Date: 10-feb-2011

Quote:

The website you have requested is temporarily unavailable.

We are currently working to resolve the problem.

Please try again later.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused

Web Help

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:51 pm

Utter bollocks - think about it...

A high-paid, easy job requiring no skill - yet they have to SPAM people in order to get roles filled? Surely people would be jumping at the chance...

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:32 pm

Quote:

A unique offer on the labor market!

Quote:

- Resident of United Kingdom.

Hate being the spelling Nazi, but 'labor' in the UK is spelt 'labour'
A company sending out mass mailing such as this wouldn't make such a school boy error

..well I hope not anyway

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:45 pm

As someone with a lot of experience looking for work, I can tell you that it's not wise to jump at job offers that don't clearly describe the position. If they're not scams, they're still shady because they don't tell you up front what you'll be expected to do. Even though I've been looking for some time now, I'm not going to get involved with an employer I haven't checked out thoroughly.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 51

I noticed the spelling mistake lol!!!

Even if I was looking for a job, which I am not as have been at my present employer for 13 years now and still enjoy it, I too would do thorough research on the company I was looking for work from!!

Dread to think what they would do with your resume they asked for in the message, spamming/scamming purposes is what I think!!

Wonder if they would be baitable for anyone lol!!

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:22 am

@ 419ers are scum - they most certainly are scum. Feel free to slap them often. Very Happy

A quick googley on the domain (rdnets.com) found it is a well known scamming site plus it has the same letter. Go figure.

We attract lots of casual readers so this is mostly for them.

Scammers use very powerful applied psychology techniques (social engineering) to manipulate ordinary people (victims) into doing things that are against their better judgment. Nothing is sacred to them. They demonstrate a perverse capacity to exploit any and all human foible, fetish, fear, motive, desire or need. All tragedies (such as the recent Haitian earthquake) are opportunities to be exploited so far as they are concerned. This disturbing behaviour creates many ongoing problems. Near miss victims become hardened to legitimate efforts to raise assistance for those genuinely in need. Real victims of tragedies are doubly victimised through no fault of their own. And scam victims are often exploited time and again (repeat / chronic) because it is more cost effective to work a victim known to be vulnerable than it is to locate new victims.

Anyone, me included, will fall victim to a scam given the right situation and trigger events. There are no innocent scammers.

The domain seems Russian / Eastern European (not unusual) so at a guess we might be dealing with technically competent vlads.

Scams like this yield several highly valued payoffs for scammers. CV's / resumes are particularly rich primary sources of legends (backgrounds / stories), cultural language nuances (slight idiosyncratic styles / expressions), names, addresses, schools, phone numbers, more email addresses, photos, qualifications, schools etc etc. Lads continually adapt and craft their scams to yield more money from more victims.

Anyone who sends something to a lad, even an innocent "Who are you?" email, has proven themselves vulnerable to scammers and will find themselves hit again and again. If they do send a CV then they has just passed the threshold event for being a victim. Email addresses contained in their documents will be used citing the original victim as the referrer to lower the resistance of associated victims. It's distressing but effective. Our resistance to a scam is lowered when it comes to us via a known source like a friend.

Once a victim sends money (anything) then they risk being hit by scammers until they are bled white. Some scams are not revealed until many months after the initial bite. Sometimes victims are hit by 'officials' (FBI / Interpol etc) who claim to be there to help them recover money ... all part of the same scam.

You might want to change your email address.

Now returning to this site ...

rdnets.com - IP block: wrote:

188.130.250.248
rdnets.com
Host reachable, 382 ms. average

188.130.250.0 - 188.130.251.255

FASTMEDIA - Internet Service Provider
Latvia
Abuse reports -- mailto:[email protected]

Viktors Lihochevs
FASTMEDIA SRL
O.Kalpaka 68/70
LV3400, Latvia
phone: +371 28212172

Viktors Lihochevs
FASTMEDIA SRL
O.Kalpaka 68/70
LV3400, Latvia
phone: +371 28212172

FASTMEDIA-NET
Source: whois.ripe.net
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188.0.0.0 - 188.255.255.255

European Regional Registry
Europe
EU # Country is really world wide

RIPE NCC Registration Services Department
RIPE Network Coordination Centre
P.O. Box 10096
1001 EB Amsterdam
the Netherlands
phone: +31 20 535 4444
fax: +31 20 535 4445

RIPE NCC Operations
Singel 258
1016 AB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 20 535 4444
fax: +31 20 535 4445

EU-ZZ-188
Source: whois.ripe.net
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188.130.128.0 - 188.130.255.255

NetArt Group s.r.o.
Russian Federation

NetArt Group hostmasters team
Radimovicka 1416/8
Prague
149 00 Czech Republic
phone: +420 246 080317
fax: +420 227 203638

NetArt Group hostmasters team
Radimovicka 1416/8
Prague
149 00 Czech Republic
phone: +420 246 080317
fax: +420 227 203638

CZ-NETART-20090331
Source: whois.ripe.net
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188.130.250.0 - 188.130.251.255

FASTMEDIA - Internet Service Provider
Latvia
Abuse reports -- mailto:[email protected]

Viktors Lihochevs
FASTMEDIA SRL
O.Kalpaka 68/70
LV3400, Latvia
phone: +371 28212172

Viktors Lihochevs
FASTMEDIA SRL
O.Kalpaka 68/70
LV3400, Latvia
phone: +371 28212172

FASTMEDIA-NET
Source: whois.ripe.net

Seems this site is not here for anything other than bad things ... how do we close it down? Twisted Evil

Not quite a Newb Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 51

My main email address is a Yahoo one, and I am very careful who I send emails to with it, this one I use for general things, and just delete the spam!!

I once was nearly scammed before, with a vlad saying they loved me and wanted to see me, they had money for one flight, but not to the UK, they wanted me to send them money, by Western Union of all surprises (lol), then I dropped them like a stone, had a reply asking why I had stopped writing, and just ignored and eventually blocked their email address, never heard from them again!!

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