Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Liam Cowen Administrative Assistant Fake Job itzellmagic@hotmail.com

Hello everyone, welcome back to the blog. I received an email from a reader by the name of let's say, call him "Steve". He sent me fake job email he recieved and with his permission I wanted to share it below with you. Below is the verbatim email of course hiding "Steve's" actual email address. I also did modify the Career Builder id number shown on the email and the reference number toward the end of the fake email below to protect "Steve's" identity if those scammers are getting smarter. But I seriously doubt they are getting any more intelligent. They are still full of mispellings and use a hotmail email account and seem to pay far too much money than is realistic for the job itself.

Anyway, please read on...

-----Original Message-----
From: itzell_magic@hotmail.com [mailto:itzell_magic@hotmail.com] On Behalf Of Sequoia Delisi
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 2:57 PM
To: Xxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Subject: Position available CareerBuilder ID #6706295162224234323242345624

Hello,


We received your CV via Career Builder and after careful consideration of your knowledge and qualifications we have decided to offer you an Administrative Assistant position within our company on the three-weeks trial basis.


Position Title: Administrative Assistant;

Company: We are a real estate investment and development company focussing on the research, acquisition, management and development of real estate assets across the globe, with an objective to achieve the highest and best development potential of the land while protecting and maximizing returns for our investors worldwide.
Position type: Work from Home, Full Time, no traveling required;
Salary: $47,840 per year;
Work Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00-16.00, with 1 hour lunch break;
Requirements:
- A computer with Internet access;
- Accurate and efficient data entry;
- Strong computer skills, with sound knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite;
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail;
- Previous experience in real estate or property industry is not essential – full training will be provided;  Key Duties:
- Online Data Entry;
- Customer database management;
- Uploading property listings on company’s website;
- Providing assistance and support to other team members.
- Previous experience in real estate or property industry is not essential – full training will be provided;

This is a fantastic chance to get permanent employment after 3 weeks paid probation period if you are able to prove your skills and commitment to the job. During these three weeks you will be trained while working and being paid $800,00 p.w.

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to join our company for the three-week trial period, please reply to this email quoting your personal reference number: AS82363453453343771. Please note that you must be available to start within next two weeks.

Sincerely,


Liam Cowen

HR Department


Anyone else get this email? Respond back? Any fake job offers and applications to share? 

2 comments:

theBIGREDfox said...

Just got it today. Knew it was to good to be true but I thought "what the hell, their not asking for any money, yet!" Wish I would have seen this blog FIRST!

CBSiteSecurity said...

Thank you for helping spread a word of caution about these types of messages! Based on the information listed within your original post, the message in question does appear to be a payment processing (shipping) scam. It also appears to be a spoof message designed to appear as if it came from a legitimate source or 3rd party company in order to lend it credibility. This message did not come from CareerBuilder.com.

We recommend such messages be disregarded and any current or future correspondence attempts related to the message be ignored.

For more information about Online Fraud, we do offer a Fraud Page for Jobseekers:

http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Info/Fraud.aspx

Thank you.

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