New work from home scam?

MothballsWallet

Hi everyone,

had this in my inbox this morning, I think it's another "work from home and make loads of cash" scam:

Hello.

We have a vacant position for you.

Location : Australia, New Zealand

Salary: 1300 AUD per week.

Main requirements:

- Internet access
- adult age

If you are interested, please reply to: bahreinsrulevich (AT) gmail (DOT) com with subject "More Information" and kindly leave your contact number.

Thank you.

The giveaway (to me at any rate) was the use of Hotmail and Gmail addresses for a (supposed) business.

Enfieldian

Looks like the beginning of the old money laundering/payment clerk setup.

I would love a job that paid me just to have internet access and be of adult age though......

BFG_2

Here's a few simple rules that may stand you in good stead......

If it looks too good to be true, it isn't true.

No-one wants to give YOU money - they want you to give THEM money.

If the words money and home appear in the same email - bin it.

If you don't know the sender - bin it.

If you can't actually see what they are selling [usually 'opportunity' is used a lot] - bin it.

If you had a surefire way of making money, why on earth would you want to tell other people?? [unless you make money from telling them, oh hang on that's the scam...lol]

If it says $/dollars or has americanisms in it - bin it.

You CAN'T earn $5,000 for '3 hours work per month' - bin it.

PopeSock

Enfieldian wrote: »

Looks like the beginning of the old money laundering/payment clerk setup.

I would love a job that paid me just to have internet access and be of adult age though......

I believe the term for that is 'cam!!!!!'.

Dave101t

why would there be a location if it was on the internet?

BFG_2

MothballsWallet wrote: »

The giveaway (to me at any rate) was the use of Hotmail and Gmail addresses for a (supposed) business.

The giveaway to me would be that it arrived in my inbox....lol

After that the giveaway is every single solitary thing that it says!!!

dealer_wins

Was it addressed to you personally.
Was it from an employment company that you have joined.

If the answers are NO, then its a big scam that you will not only lose money from, but could get a year or 2 in the slammer for fraud.

CHR15

If you get any emails from a Pharmacy selling pills... or a Nigerian bloke asking you to help out with a financial transaction... or a hot Russian bird asking to be your bride...or a congratulations for winning a competition you didn't enter....

Don't even think it through..... it's a scam. Same as the millions of others sent everyday to multiple millions of recipients.

and please don't forward any emails which say "please forward this email!"

PopeSock

CHR15 wrote: »

If you get any emails from a Pharmacy selling pills... or a Nigerian bloke asking you to help out with a financial transaction... or a hot Russian bird asking to be your bride...or a congratulations for winning a competition you didn't enter....

Don't even think it through..... it's a scam. Same as the millions of others sent everyday to multiple millions of recipients.

and please don't forward any emails which say "please forward this email!"

Of course, should you reply and point the latter out to the person who sent it, they may well forward that to all the people they originally forwarded it to.

As for the more blatant scams - yes, most people won't fall for these, but even if 0.01% of all people messaged fall it, the scammers have made it worth their while.

MothballsWallet

And here was me just trying to get the word out...