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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Mystery Phish
The recipient's spam filter figured out this was bogus, and indicates that the message was forged. It appears to have originated from the Philippines, but we can't be sure. A mail server doesn't have to be local to a scammer for it to be...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
Here's a winner: this guy misses the capital letter in the very first word of the very first sentence. David Jackson...very ENGLISH sounding name, don't you agree? He's carefully reviewed someone's CV (which we tend to call resumes), and has...
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News/Alerts
We didn't get full headers on this one, but it looks to us like someone is trying to pose as a representative of NASA. If we did have headers, we're pretty sure we'd see that the sender hijacked a vulnerable email server to send this dirty...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
If you take a look at the headers (read from bottom to top if you're new at it), you'll see that someone hijacked an email server to send this message to the recipient. In reality, the mail originated from Russia (look for IP
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
So, let's walk you through this mess so it makes sense, shall we?
Job seeker gets message that appears to be from CareerBuilder, complete with Employer ID number at the bottom. Company says they need someone to, among other things,...
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News/Alerts
Well, we can say with certainty that the FBI would NEVER send a message like this to anyone. Why? It's simply unprofessional. Look at the From line! Look at the contents of the message? Does anything about this strike you as really being from...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Career Services Offers
Here's a tidbit of information you should keep at the front of your mind every time you check your email: No opt-out = SPAM! This bogus offer is a perfect example of one of those.
It's illegal to send bulk email without providing...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Mystery Phish
Not only are they trying to recruit people for bogus jobs, but they apparently don't want anyone from Alaska. What...aren't people from Alaska honest and bright too? C'mon!
Seriously, although it doesn't specify the duties, we're...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Online Shopping/Mystery Shopper Offers
Sorry to disappoint the scammers, but we caught 'em red-handed. We thought some of the phrases in this message sounded kind of familiar, and sure enough, we were right. Look at what we found when we
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
Some observations from the person who reported this offer:
"I received this email supposedly from a potential employer, but I'm smart enough to know better. Whilst they did use my name in the salutation, no mention of where my...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Mystery Phish
Let's add up the oddness, shall we? The message is sent from an email address in the UK, but there's no name except "Six Figure Yearly." At the bottom of the message, it's signed by a Michelle Campbell. "She" quotes a Web...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Mystery Phish
We don't know of a single legitimate employer who'd be stupid enough to shorten the URL to their site in an email to a prospective job candidate. We also noticed the email was relayed through several mail servers before reaching its...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Online Shopping/Mystery Shopper Offers
Nothing professional about this mystery shopper offer, which comes from a foreign land. You might not realize it at the outset though, because the sender forged the headers (illegal) to make it look like it was sent from Gmail, when it was...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Career Services Offers
As observed by the person who reported this offer:
"Unsolicited commercial e-mail, no postal mailing address, deceptive subject line that does not clearly state that the e-mail is an advertisement. Violates CAN-SPAM."...
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Suspicious/Fraudulent Offers/Money Transfer/Mule Offers
We just can't stress this enough: you SHOULDN'T be depositing money orders into your bank account or otherwise cashing them so you can wire transfer the money to some foreigner. Unless you LIKE being ripped off. We just heard from a visitor...
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