Is this job that i applied for a scam or legit?

so i got this in the mail because i replied off a job posting on kijiji i dont know if this is real or fake. what do you think? let me know thanks alot! and is there anywhere that this can be something bad?



I am in neaed of a personal assistant,I would love to meet up with you

to talk about this job but I am currently away on business. I am presently out

for a short business trip so there will be no interview. I will

pre-pay you in advance to do my shopping. I will also have my mails and letter

forwarded to any post office close to you. If you will be unable to

stay at your house to get my mails, so that you can pick it up at

your convenience. if you have to, When you get my mails; you are

required to mail them to where I want them mailed to. You don't have to

put money out of your pocket, all you have to do is have mails mailed

to your house and do my shopping. You are allowed to open the letters

to reveal its content. The content of the and some i do some

shopping which you will help me do





All expenses and taxes will be covered by me. You will work between

15 and 20hrs

a month. How much will you charge per week? I will pay 300

weekly for this

position. That is not a bad offer is it? I need your service because I am

constantly out of town. I work in Oil and Gas and I own an Art

Gallery in Italy. I will return by SEP Ending , 2011 so this

process will be going- on

till i get back If you don't mind, I will meet up with you when I

return and then we can talk about the possibility of making this long term.



Well, let me know if you are able to handle the position. Hope to hear I will

email you the list and pictures of what to shop for when I am ready. No heavy

packages is involved! You can do the shopping at any nearest stores. You will

be shopping for Electronics and clothings. I will provide you my personal UPS

account number for Shipping. All you have to do is provide my account number to

UPS and shipping charges will be applied to the account. I will provide clear

set of instructions for each task I need done as well as the funds to

cover them.

If I were to mail you payment to do my shopping plus upfront payment for your

service, where would you want it mailed to? Kindly fill the Short form

below and send

it back to me.



Full Name:

Full Address:

City:

Zip Code:

Country:

mobile Phone:

Age:

Do you have a Bank account

Bank Name?



Get back to me with the required details above , So that the

travelers check payment can be forward to you as soon as possible and

I will

appreciate quick response from you. Thanks and please get back to me asap and

confirm this mail asap.



Your Sincerely,Is this job that i applied for a scam or legit?
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", "money mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
Scam, Sam.Is this job that i applied for a scam or legit?
DO NOT respond to this person for any reason or send any info - that's all anyone needs to steal your identity



This is a reshipping scam that will land you in prison for fencing stolen goods. These criminals use fake checks, hacked paypal acounts and stolen credit card numbers to buy electronics and clothing online, both from online retailers and sellers on Craigslist and Kijiji, then have those items sent to your house. Then they want YOU to ship to them overseas. When the check bounces or the credit card/paypal holder reports the scam, they report it to the police who investigate to see the items were sent to YOUR home and you get arrested



A friend's credit card number was stolen and someone charged $3000 worth of electronics to it. She reported it, the credit card company investigated and the police arrested the guy whose home the electronics were sent to. He didn't have them as he had already reshipped them and claimed he was only doing his "job" and even had emails from his "employer' asking him to do EXACTLY what you were asked to do. He is now serving 18 months in prison as the jury did not believe anyone could be so naive that they didn't know they were doing something illegal and that no responsible person would ever agree to work or accept deliveries from a person they had never even met



If you live in the US forward this email to the FBIs IC3 division for investigation http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx and DO NOT respond



You never give your home address, age, bank name, etc to anyone you have not met. And there is NO real job that hires people without a face to face interview. All online job offers are scamsIs this job that i applied for a scam or legit?
SO creepy and a total scam! I am a personal concierge so I do handle services like this and have actually received emails like this. There is absolutely no reason they should be asking your age or anything about your bank account, let alone that no one would ask you for your name, address, and cell phone before establishing an actual relationship with you.

Also - why would you do any shopping for someone who isn't in the country? Doesn't make sense. And if shopping is a service they actually want you to provide then you can probably say you'll wait to meet the person and discuss this job in person!

But to be straight, I wouldn't go down this path if I were you. Don't respond at all or send a "thanks but no thanks email" and mark their email address as spam. Good luck.