American Red Cross Donation Department (employment scam)

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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:58 pm

A friend received this work offer. Is this an employment scam?

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From: "American Red Cross '07 refnum-95" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Unemployed are most welcome here. Id: 7660
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:39:41 +0200
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American Red Cross Donation Department is looking for new employees in
European region.

Our International Donate Now Program includes 5 different donate now
programs and together we do our best to focus on maximum support and
assistance to people in need free of charge.

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=3Dntld_main

Thousands donate often in different ways and their efforts result in
our happy future with no need and suffering for thousands of people in
the world.
With over 60 million US dollars offered as charity funds for European
Projects, American Red Cross Charity Department offers honourable
career opportunity to more employees in European Union.
The position available at this very moment is "Donation Collector"
Since we receive regular financial contributions for our Organisation
in checks, money orders, bank wire transfers and even in gifts, be
aware that "Donation Collector's duties would include regular
assistance of our Financial Department. Daily we receive a great deal
of contribution from thousands of people, but to our great misfortune
do not have enough physical resource to guarantee that these donations
are contributed to the purpose they were meant for in the very
beginning of our program.

"Donation Collector" together with our payroll commissionaires in
different regions of EU accepts and delivers donations to the people
in need and furthermore is committed to prevent any illegal use of
these funds by any other third party.

The vacancy is not a non-profit employment.
Regular monthly salary of 2500 EUR is paid in the end of every working
month.
Only minor EU citizens over 21 y.o can apply for the full-time
employment.

Please get back if you wish to receive more facts about the vacancy
and the registration.

Thank you for your time

If you have what it takes to be successful in this position, and are
interested in the employment with real progression, promotion future
perspectives, then forward your CV to HR DEPARTMENT .

American Red Cross Donation Department
"Donation Collector" recruitment office

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American Red Cross Donation Department is looking for new employees in European region.

Our International Donate Now Program includes 5 different donate now programs and together we do our best to focus on maximum support and assistance
to people in need free of charge.

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=3Dntld_main

Thousands donate often in different ways and their efforts result in our happy future with no need and suffering for thousands of people in the
world.

With over 60 million US dollars offered as charity funds for European Projects, American Red Cross Charity Department offers honourable career
opportunity to more employees in European Union.

The position available at this very moment is "Donation Collector"

Since we receive regular financial contributions for our Organisation in checks, money orders, bank wire transfers and even in gifts, be aware that
"Donation Collector's duties would include regular assistance of our Financial Department. Daily we receive a great deal of contribution from
thousands of people, but to our great misfortune do not have enough physical resource to guarantee that these donations are contributed to the
purpose they were meant for in the very beginning of our program.

"Donation Collector" together with our payroll commissionaires in different regions of EU accepts and delivers donations to the people in need and
furthermore is committed to prevent any illegal use of these funds by any other third party.

The vacancy is not a non-profit employment.

Regular monthly salary of 2500 EUR is paid in the end of every working month.

Only minor EU citizens over 21 y.o can apply for the full-time employment.

Please get back if you wish to receive more facts about the vacancy and the registration.

Thank you for your time

If you have what it takes to be successful in this position, and are interested in the employment with real progression, promotion future
perspectives, then forward your CV to HR DEPARTMENT .

American Red Cross Donation Department

"Donation Collector" recruitment office

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WHOIS record wrote:

Domain Name.......... yihuazhuangshi.com
Creation Date........ 2002-04-12
Registration Date.... 2002-04-12
Expiry Date.......... 2012-04-12
Organisation Name.... Qingdao Yihua Decoration and Construction Co.,Ltd.
Organisation Address. 13-15 Jinan Road Qingdao City
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Qingdao
Organisation Address. qd
Organisation Address. Shandong
Organisation Address. CHINA

Admin Name........... Qiumei Zeng
Admin Address........ Address 3F.,2nd Building Section A, No.1 Disheng north street
Admin Address........ Beijing Yizhuang Development Area
Admin Address........ Beijing
Admin Address........ Beijing
Admin Address........ 100176
Admin Address........ CHINA
Admin Email..........
Admin Phone.......... +86.1058022266
Admin Fax............ +86.1058022126

Tech Name............ Jingliang Huang
Tech Address......... 3F. 2nd Building Section A No.1 Disheng north street
Tech Address......... Yizhuang Development Area
Tech Address......... Beijing
Tech Address......... 100176
Tech Address......... -
Tech Address......... CHINA
Tech Email...........
Tech Phone........... +86.1058022266
Tech Fax............. +86.1058022126
Name Server.......... ns3.china-enterprise.com
Name Server.......... ns4.china-enterprise.com

The chinese From / Reply-to lines look suspicious. The grammar is better than what I'm used to, but there are occasional mistakes.

Urgentmessage search didn't return any matches, neither did googling for the email addresses or the subject line. The url in the mail is missing % from the %3F. The correct Red Cross donation page is here.

AboutUS's report about the yihuazhuangshi.com domain is here.

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:54 pm

It sure looks suspicious to me as this is not how the Red Cross recruits people. The scammer may just be using the real site to make it more believable.

Moderator Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 14513

I agree with Lotta. My guess is this is a classic "check mule scam". The lad is using the name of a charity to disguise his intentions. They have done this in the names of a few other charities before.

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