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News/Alerts
JOINT
CONSUMER ALERT:
Office of Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna
Office
of Secretary of State Sam Reed
Better Business Bureau serving Alaska, Oregon and
Western Washington
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
We think these scammers have a lot of nerve on a couple counts:
1. They're attacking job seekers by pretending to send this garbage through the CareerBuilder system, which they didn't.
2. They're asking you to be a US...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Shipping/Re-shipping Offers
Looks to us like a re-shipping offer. Even though it's subtle, you *can* tell this is written by someone whose first language is NOT English. The basic purposes of work of the company? Don't they mean the job duties? Renders services on...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
We know you'll look at this one and not get it right away. The secret of the true nature of this offer doesn't appear until you get to the list of Accounting Job Duties.
For the scammers, the rest of the message is just window dressing....
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
In this money mule offer, they want to offer you 10% of nonexistent funds to do this "job."
The reason we say this is because the checks they mail you are manufactured and absolutely fake. You deposit them into your bank...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Online Shopping/Mystery Shopper Offers
The headers in this one were forged, so what more proof do you really need that it's fraudulent? If you're still not convinced, ask yourself why this "enterprise" doesn't provide a Web site address or use a corporate email account....
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to get a bad feeling about this listing, found on Craigslist. These guys, whoever they are, want you to have Versa check software. If you've been following along with PhishBucket for a while and have read...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
Textile companies are used in job scams a LOT. We think this is because so many of them *ARE* actually overseas that they believe we'll buy into their job offers. The problem is, they want you to break the law AND agree to have your own money...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Mystery Phish
The phrase "Receive My Mails" looked familiar, so we searched the exact phrase on PhishBucket.org and LO! -- we found a few:
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
Where do we begin? Here we have yet another bogus charity alleging to be collecting donations from people in the US and Canada and need YOUR help, O Noble Stranger, to process the funds. we always want to bitch-slap people who use charities to...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
Peter: Since they have customers ready to make payments, this looks like a money mule. I didn't realize that central LA was in NJ.
PhishBucket: Here's another offer where they tell you nothing about themselves. We also...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Shipping/Re-shipping Offers
Peter: This appears to be a spoof of a legitimate company. The scammer gives no details, but since the real company is a freight company, I thought originally that this was a reshipping scam, which it may still be, but I googled...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
Peter: The first phone number given appears to be an unpublished number in Atlanta. Per whitepages.com; the other number, 4470, is a number used by Nigerian scammers.
PhishBucket would just like to remind you that you should never...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Online Shopping/Mystery Shopper Offers
Peter: I usually don't even read the shopper postings, but the title intrigued me. If you get the position. do they give you a number and take away your name? (sorry, I couldn't resist saying that.) Anyway,at one point they say the...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
Peter: Buried in the middle of all this is something about managing cash flow, which probably means money mule, correct? Also in the compensation section they mention a 403B plan, which is for employees of non-profit organizations,...
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