There is no job.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money and maybe your freedom.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "assistant" and will supply you with stock photos of merchandise. You are suppose to open an ebay, paypal and craigslists accounts in YOUR name, advertise the merchandise, collect money in YOUR name and send the cash onto the scammer via Western Union or moneygram.
The scammer will NEVER ship anything to the buyers, so you get the real life job of paying them all back, plus pay fees to ebay and paypal. Then you are ip banned from ebay, paypal and craigslists. Your paypal-linked bank account or credit card could be permenantly closed and now you are blacklisted from ever opening another account at your bank. Being ip banned for scamming is the real reason that scammer can't post on ebay or craigslist or any other auction/selling site.
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.
Any "paycheck" you receive will be fake and will bounce. In fact the scammer might try to steal more of your money by saying he "accidentally" sent a check made out for "too much money". Then he will demand you cash that 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. 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.
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 partial 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.
7 "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.
7) Job asks you to post ads on ebay/craigslist or on forums advertising merchandise, programs or other websites
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 job posting ads scam", "selling on ebay fraud Western Union" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
It's a scam that will land you in jail. Oh, and you will never be paid
You know all the people on Y!A who come on wondering how to get back the money they lost through a scam on Kijiji - fake job scam, fake apartment scam, fake car scam, fake puppy scam, etc. Who do you think places those ads? It's not the people running the scam. They look for suckers desperate for a job to post these fake ads for them. Then when the victim who loses money files a police report the investigation ONLY leads to one place - YOU. You are the one who placed the ads and you are the one who goes to prison
There is NO reason why anyone would ask another person to place ads for them if they were not involved in illegal activity and wanted someone to take the fall
Think about it -- if this were at all real nobody would pay $400/week. They would just hire a temp through an agency for $15/hour for 2-3 hours who could place hundreds of ads if they were not doing anything illegal
Report this ad ASAP to Kijiji to get it removed
You will be involved in a scam in some way.
I believe the scammer's plan is to distance himself from the scam. When the same unravels, law enforcement officials will be able to trace the IP address of the person posting the scam. That person would be you.
The scammer is most likely in West Africa. For whatever reason, West Africans have trouble with western names and they tend to reverse the first and last names of the name they choose to run the scam under. So, "Mr. Fred Wright" becomes "Mr. Wright Fred."
Also, the scammers tend to post their ads directly from online English translators so they tend to be very poorly worded like this ad.
I believe this is a scam.
1.There is no descripiton on his own business.
2. Mr Wright Fred---the signature is abnormal.
3. What kind of ads will need to be posts?
Not believe it. Earn money from the regular method is much better. Too much online scammer now. We should be more careful.
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Hope everything I going on fine????? ...as I will love to introduce... ...the more you earn big??????
Wow! You actually have to ask if this is legit? My nine year old could write. More convincing email!
Hello Applicant,
My name is Wright Fred. How are you doing? Hope everything is really going on fine? Thanks so much for the prompt email as I will love to introduce you to the easy job paying offer which I have for you. A trustworthy, honest, dependable and a reliable applicant is needed for this job offer.
This is how it works:
This is a work from home job which i think you will love to take as a part-time job along with your other job(if you have any) and if you don't have any, you can also take it as a full-time job. All you have to do is to have a MOBILE PHONE or A COMPUTER to be posting differnt ADS on www.kijiji.ca and you will be earning $400 every week for work done. Note that the more you post ADS, the more you earn big. The description and other detailed information needed by you to post each ADS will be sent to you. You don't have to stress yourself much on this work, you will just be posting the ADS as i will be sending them to you. Your payment will be made via any of the following OR kindly select the easiest way to transfer your payment to you :
-Western union
-Money gram
-Money transfer
-Paypal
-Emailing your payment
-Paycheck
-Money order
I wish to hear from you soon so I can be rest assured if you are really interested in the job offer and also ready to start work immediately. Kindly get back to me in a timely manner and don't forget to always check your email at least thrice(3) in a day so as to hear updates.
Mr Wright Fred
