419 Company Representative Scam / Job Offer Scam

PLEASE NOTE: The persons, companies or organisations mentioned in the example(s) below are not responsible for these e-mail scams. Organisations and individuals, pretending to act on behalf of these institutions/persons, initiate these scams and abuse the reputable names of these well-known institutions/persons, to add a false sense of security to these fraudulent e-mails. Also note that some scammers act on behalf of certain organisations that do not even exist.

Date: 8 October 2007
From: "Microsoft Promotion Award Team" <info@Microsoft.org>
Subject: Microsoft Award Team

With Due Respect,

It is my pleasure to write you in respect of our organization. We are
experts in the sale of Artworks and we export into Canada/America and some
parts of Europe.We are searching for reliable representatives who can help
us establish a medium of getting to our customers in the
Canada/America/Europe as well as legally receiving cash and all forms of
payment on our behalf from them as our Representative.

Please if interested in transacting business in view of helping us,so our
clients could be making payment to you as our representative, we will be
very glad. Compensations will be given and other benefits. Contact us for
more information, if this proposal is acceptable to you. Please get back
to us, so that remuneration can be worked out for your services as our
representative in Canada/America/Europe as your location shall determine.

Note: there is no financial obligation required from you and this
transaction is 100% risk free. If this proposal is accepted by you, A
swift acknowledgment on the receipt of this mail will be
appreciated,furnishing me with your:

FULL NAMES:........
ADDRESS:...........
ZIP CODE:..........
STATE/PROVINCE:....
PHONE/FAX .........
NUMBER:............
OCCUPATION:........
NATIONALITY: ......
AGE:...............

Forward details to my private E-mail: [DELETED]

We anticipate your earliest response in this regard.

Best Regards,
Mr. [DELETED] (PRESIDENT/CEO).
Graphic/ArtWorks Import & Export Corporation (GAIEC)
Tel/Fax: [DELETED]

Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Graphic/ArtWorks Import & Export
Corporation(GAIEC).**** All Rights reserved****

These idiots got mixed up between a Lottery Scam and a Company Representative Scam. We guess it is normal to make stupid errors like this if you send so many junk e-mails every day.

Date: 12 December 2006
From: Home!! Job <[DELETED]@yahoo.com>
Subject: Job Online Opportunity !!!

Hello,
[DELETED] Fabrics and Textiles need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper in other

country. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA.
You don't need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb anyform of work you have going at the moment,

Our integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use
state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world leading suppliers. Order processing, production monitoring and

process flow are seamlessly integrated through a company-wide
computer network .
* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 usd.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day This we need to get payments for our products as soon as it possible

because customers can just "forget" to pay. Unfortunately we are unable
to open bank accounts in the United US without first registering the company name. Presently with the amount of

Orders we have, we cannot put the on hold. For fear of loosing the
customers outrightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US soon enough as international Cheques

take about 14 working days for cash to be made available. We
lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays. YOUR TASK Your task is

to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the
payment process. You are not invloved in any sales. Our sales manager sells products. Once he makes a sale we

deliver the product to a customer (usually through USPS OR
FEDEX).The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the

products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through
Certified Cheques and Money orders based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job

position for solving this problem. Your tasks are;
1. Recieve payment from Customers
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment

to. (Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gramme or Western
Union Money Transfer. Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer

payment almost immediately. For example you ve got 3000.00USD You
take your income : 300.00 USD Send to us: 2700.00 USD - cost of sending, First month you will have 15-20

transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD So you may calculate your income.
For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 4410.00 USD

Nane:                 : [DELETED] Fabrics and Textiles
Addresses          :   Sandbeck Wetherby West Yorkshire,
                                 [DELETED] ENGLAND
Phone Number   :            [DELETED]
E-mail Addresses    :              [DELETED]@yahoo.co.uk

Pls send me your repy at ( [DELETED]@yahoo.co.uk )

APPLICATION FORM

FIRST NAME………………………… LAST NAME………………………………

ADDRESS……………………………………………………………………………..

CITY…………………………………….. STATE…………………………………..

ZIP CODE……………………………….. COUNTRY……………………………...

PHONE NUMBER (S) … ……………………………………

………………………………………

GENDER…………………………….. MARITAL STATUS……………………..

AGE………………………………….. NATIONALITY………………………….

ID NUMBER (optional)………………………….

ATTESTATION According to how you have been briefed earlier by me. You are required and mandated to receive

payment on behalf of the above mentioned firm. You are to deduct 10%
of all funds processed on a pa! rticular order and forward the balance payment via Western Union Money Transfer

and MONEYGRAM to any of our branch i would also be needing
some proof of Identity.so i have attached an Employment form for you to fill and send back to me via email. You

will notify me a week ahead if eventually you want to discontinue this job
so as to terminate all payment coming your way to avoid conflict.
Waiting to hear from you.
Thanks

This e-mail has scam written all over it. Once again you will notice the bad spelling, grammar and the funny formatting of the e-mail. These scammers register as employers on the web sites of Online Recruitment Agencies and trough this they gain access to thousands of e-mail addresses of possible victims.

The cashier cheques they send to their victims either bounce or the victim becomes an accomplice to money laundering if the funds eventually clear. Even if the bank clears the fraudulent cheques, they can always bounce later on and many people never take this into account. Victims transfer the amount owed to the scammers (normally 90%) once the cheque clears (and some victims do not even wait for the funds to clear). These cheques are drawn on the accounts of legitimate businesses and innocent individuals who fell victim of chequebook theft or chequebook counterfeiting. When the cheque is forwarded to the real drawer, who never wrote it in the first place, he/she dishonours the cheque and it bounces. Most of the times, this happens more than a month after the victim transferred the money to the scammer. The scammers prefer Western Union Money Transfer because of the difficulties tracing the money back to the scammer. Once they have your money you will never hear from them again and they will disappear into thin air.

Victims are threatened with numerous lawsuits and death threats when things do not work out as planned for the scammers. This is why it is so important that you do not reply to these e-mails. You don't want a hardened criminal to know where you live, what your telephone number or postal address is.

Visit Money Laundering Jobs Aplenty for a view on this type of scam from another angle.

Joe Wein also gives a very informative summary about the representative scam at FraudWatchers.Org.

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