Question:
Is this a craigslist job scam?
Shelby
2012-08-05 18:51:08 UTC
Dear Applicant,

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your information which you sunmitted to us for background check, you did pass our backgrund check and you have been hired as a Warehouse Worker/Assistant. You will be paid $1200 Bi-weekly for the next 3 weeks.

I do hope that you are versatile,diligent and honest as these are qualities expected of you. I do have a pile up of work and a number of unattended chores for you to work on, I hope we can meet up with the workload eventually. Permit me to use this week and next week to test your efficiency and diligence, also to work out your time schedule and fit it to mine.

This are the duties you will perform working part-time from home for the next 3 weeks :

Your duties are :
• Provide support to the Project Manager
• Perform official assignment on setting up new warehouse.
• Make Purchase of production Materials
• Receiving production Materials
• Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
• .

You will be working independently without much supervision, After 3 weeks this position will turn full time, then you will perform the full duties as Warehouse Worker/Assistant in the new warehouse we are setting up in your area, We want you to be part of this new warehouse from the start that why you have to work part-time on getting everything set up.

You are required to check your e-mails regularly for updates , task , Assignment and further information as may be directed.

Do acknowledge that you receive and understand the content. I..............................Confirm to have received this email and understand the content.

Endeavor to reply back as soon as possible.

Mark Lent.
Warehouse Manager.
Text (253) 235-0328
Citax Molding Inc.
www.cirmarkInc.sharepoint.com

it just seems wired to me and i really need a job so is this fake????
Eight answers:
Buffy Staffordshire
2012-08-06 18:41:34 UTC
100% scam.



There is no job.



There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.



The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.



Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.



You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.



Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.



Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.



6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:

1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.

2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.

3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.

4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.

5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.

6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.



Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.



If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "check mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
2016-02-25 05:26:40 UTC
Most craigslist job scams don't want your credit info. They just want you to do stuff that isn't very legit (i.e. pyramid scam kind of stuff). IF she has $10 a month to get a credit reporting service, that would be ideal. But doing the free check for the next several years is probably good enough. Is she hasn't done it yet this year, she should wait 8 weeks or so to see things start appearing on the report. It's highly unlikely that something will happen.
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2016-12-13 12:58:41 UTC
Craigslist Milton Jobs
Kittysue
2012-08-06 00:04:41 UTC
There is NO job - read Craigslist scam warnings

http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams

"DO NOT SUBMIT TO CREDIT CHECKS OR BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR A JOB OR FOR HOUSING UNTIL YOU HAVE MET THE INTERVIEWER OR LANDLORD/AGENT IN PERSON"

If you did not have an interview AT the warehouse before you had a background check you just gave your personal information to some random person. You just entered your info on an identity theft site



This is a fake check scam. NO warehouse in the world would ever employ anyone that they have never interviewed IN PERSON before offering them the job



http://cirmarkinc.sharepoint.com/Pages/ContactUsCirmarkAutomaticMolding.aspx is a fake company

The phone number they give IS NOT a UK business number, it's a Nigerian scam number

http://www.joewein.net/blog/2009/11/08/dial-44-70-uk-numbers-for-international-fraudsters/



There is NO such address in the UK - there is NO Gorey Road in New Milton. And Companies House, the UK government registry of all registered business in the UK has NO record of any such company



It's already been reported as a scam

http://flakelist.org/page/viewpub/tid/1/pid/6394

http://flakelist.org/forum/viewtopic/topic/267/start/0
bluebell
2012-08-05 19:08:36 UTC
Did you apply for the job? Do the name and phone number at the end of the page check out? Are the grammar and spelling errors typos of yours (if you typed it out) or were they there in what you received? Did you have an interview? Did you check the www address at the end? (I did and got a "bad request" error reply). Did they not know your name to reply to you personally rather than "Dear Applicant"? This type of addressing you might be appropriate if they were replying to hundreds of job seekers. They are offering you a job. Why don't they use your name? Have they sent out this job offer to hundreds of others too, offering THEM ALL the same job?



It looks very like a scam to me. I also wonder why if you are simply an untrained warehouse assistant, why you would also be responsible for purchasing materials and handling clients' money. Those would normally be the jobs of two separate individuals. Tread very cautiously. If you are out of work now, the last thing you need is to take on purchases on materials that will be left on your hands and that you will be responsible for the payment of. I think SCAM.
rtfm
2012-08-05 18:55:23 UTC
It's fake. The key is "receive payments from our customers or clients". They're going to use you for money laundering. You'll be receiving and depositing and cashing fake checks using your own personal bank account -- which means YOU will be in trouble with your bank AND the feds.



Don't do it. Ignore any further correspondence from these scammers.
?
2016-09-19 07:18:01 UTC
I'm interested in this as well
2016-09-16 23:23:40 UTC
Need more information before I can give an answer


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