I received the same exact SCAM FRAUD e-mail above from Daniel Moore Imports and Exports on Tue 2 Nov after applying for a job on Careerbuilder for a Data Entry Supervisor position for Indianapolis, Indiana. The reply I got back was for a personal assistant executive assistant position, which I thought it odd. Then, he could not answer any of my questions which I thought were routine questions for an established business-owner who said he had a assistant for 6 months. He replied he was busy so I pressed him to answer but he deleted his e-mail address [email protected]. Here is the additional e-mail he sent to evade my questions:
FromDaniel Moore
To
DateTue, Nov 2 at 3:32 AM
SubjectRead Carefully & Advise
Mailed-bydanielmooreimportsandexports.com
Nov 2 (6 days ago)
Hello,
I received your e-mail. I'm sure you'll understand I tend to have a very busy schedule at this point. When i arrive in the States which will be in 2 weeks time, we would make arrangement for a formal meeting so we can both sign all necessary employment contract documents.
Please note that this position is not office based for now because of my frequent travels and tight schedules, it's a part-time, work from home basis and the flexibility means that there will be busier weeks than others, so it's a little difficult judging the exact number of hours you'll be doing per week. If you can manage your time properly, this job may even give you some extra while you do something else on the side.
As I have said, I'd want us to get a head start with things as soon as possible. I do have a pile up of work and a number of unattended chores which you can immediately assist me with, I hope we can meet up with the workload eventually.
Permit me to use the this coming week to test your efficiency and diligence towards all this, also to work out your time schedule and fit it to mine. I really need to find the perfect person for this job, I'm confident you can take up the challenge and on the long run we should have a relatively sound working relationship between us.
I am glad you are willing to work with me and i promise to be a good boss. I am also glad on the commitment in working.
I have been checking my files and what i would want you to do for me this week is to run some errands out to some of the orphanage home, I do that every month.
The funds will be in form of Cashiers Check and it will be sent over to you from one of my clients and i have some list to email you once you received the funds, You will make some arrangements by buying some stuff for the kids in the nearest store around you so you can mail them out Or transfer the fund to them.
I will get you more information on that, Please kindly confirm your contact details once again if not different from what you have on your resume.
Full Name:
Full Contact Address:
City, State, Zip code
Phone Number:
Once i received your contact information i will get back to you with the task for this week, Understand you will also be paid as well as its important for me to make the necessary steps before i get to the States.
Hope i am clear with that.
Get back as soon as possible..
I suspected this was a SCAM. I pressed him to answer my questions on my second reply. On the 2nd day. When I didn't hear back from him, I sent him a 3rd e-mail and discovered he had deleted his e-mail address. I suspect that he didn't expect me to e-mail him that soon to determine that he had deleted his account discreetly. I think he got scared because of what I said in my 2nd reply. That I was an expert at fraud correspondence and I am.
After the e-mail returned undeliverable I went on Yahoo and typed in Daniel Moore Imports and Exports Assistant and searched, it returned job listings all over the united states. Which makes it look like this business is legit and flourishing. When you add SCAM or FRAUD to the end of the same search string, nothing returns. Also making this appear legit. I wasn't giving up that easily, so I researched the owner of the website domain danielmooreimportsandexports.com and it showed it was registered out of Melbourne, AUS using this internet-registrar-domain-website:
Http://www.melbourneit.com.Au/cc/emailmanagement/
So I logged onto the melbourne website and completed a complaint form/inquiry as follows:
Hello Domain Administrator-
If this is a legitimate domain and a contact, someone will need to contact
Me to confirm asap since attempting to find someone has gone to no avail.
This whole experience seems fraudulent and if no one contacts me asap, i
Will be reporting all of the information below to the U.S. Attorney
General's office, the mayors action center as well as to the f.B.I. If no
Contact by this time 4-nov, expect me to have completed my terms.
Deleting an e-mail account to hide behind fraud isn't enough hiding.
I replied to a job posted on a legitimate website in the United States
Called Careerbuilder. It is a premiere and widely used job seeker website.
I replied with my resume for employer Daniel Moore Imports and Exports. This
Week, I promptly received a reply from a man that indicated he was Daniel. He
Tried pursuading me that he needed an executive assistant and that he was going
To pay me after a week of trail work but upon asking him a series of questions related
To the job he failed to clarify - which should have been easy for someone who confirmed
He has had an assistant for 6 months.instead of answering my questions with easy
Answers from his experience, he sent me an e-mail confirming how busy he was, instead.
A long e-mail with explainations that lacked detail but he couldn't clarify. He
Furthered that we couldn't formalize our working relationship for 2 weeks and
Once he arrived to the United States. He also said he was a fledging entrepreneur.
In that second reply, he aggressively tried to get me to commit to working for him
For a week and in my reply, I confirmed to him how skeptical I was and that I
Needed him to try to clarify answers to my questions. I also told him that I am
Specialized in correspondence fraud. Last night, I researched this domain to be
Located out of Australia but it has a listed contact in California. When I attempted
To contact the California contact, no one phoned me back. I left my phone number
On a pager. Then I researched to find this webform for the domain registrar. This
Morning, I found the e-mail address for this Daniel person disabled. As a professional
E-mail administrator, I can tell you that the e-mail account was deleted.
I returned to my search and this time, I went back to the 1st e-mail reply he sent me. I copied word for word the 1st line out of the job description and put SCAM at the end of it. Thats when I found a huge bulletin board of SCAMS related to the Angel Network SCAM. So basically, the same cookie-cutter job description was being used but the contact and work affiliations were changing in the body of the e-mails but overall, the e-mails were the same. So I knew it was a SCAM.
I then reported it to career builder and to the Indiana Attorney General's office. Career builder responded that they delisted all of the jobs but if you did the 1st search I said on YAHOO for daniel moore imports and exports assistant, you will see there are a billion jobs listed in NYC, ATL, NJ, everywhere. This team is cleaning up.
Last, I went on the networksolutions website and looked up the contact details of the owner of the danielmooreimportsandexports.com website and this is what was returned:
Http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/danielmooreimportsandexports.com
Danielmooreimportsandexports.com
Is this your domain name? Renew it now.
Current registrar: melbourne it, ltd. D/b/a internet names worldwide
Lock Status: clientTransferProhibited
Domain Name... Danielmooreimportsandexports.com
Creation Date... 07-26
Registration Date... 07-26
Expiry Date... 07-26
Organisation Name... Kathleen Mealia
Organisation Address. PO Box 61359
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Sunnyvale
Organisation Address. 94088
Organisation Address.ca
Organisation Address.US
Admin Name... Admin PrivateRegContact
Admin Address... PO Box 61359
Admin Address... Registered post accepted only
Admin Address... Sunnyvale
Admin Address... 94088
Admin Address... ca
Admin Address... US
Admin Email... [email protected]
Admin Phone... 1.5105952002
Admin Fax...
Tech Name... TECH PrivateRegContact
Tech Address... PO Box 61359
Tech Address... Registered post accepted only
Tech Address... Sunnyvale
Tech Address... 94088
Tech Address... ca
Tech Address... US
Tech Email... [email protected]
Tech Phone... 1.5105952002
Tech Fax...
Name Server... Ns1. Officelive.com
Name Server... Ns2. Officelive.com
Btw here is the initial reply i received:
FromDaniel Moore
DateMon, Nov 1 at 2:18 AM
SubjectRe: CareerBuilder Job Application: Data Entry Supervisor
Hello,
I received your resume in response to the ad as posted for an
Executive Assistant/Data Entry, I will deeply appreciate all genuine
Efforts to help me monitor and keep up to date with all my
Activities. I have had a previous PA who has been very commendable in
Her activities and who has been part of my life for the past 6 months,
She has since returned to her country. I sincerely hope I will be able
To find someone again who will be as efficient as she has been. I'm
Daniel, 52, originally from Australia, but I have spent a whole lot
Here in United States. I'm a busy businessman by profession and I have
Been pretty successful in a handful of ventures I get involved in;
From the AFS Intercultural Programs in Canada and United States to
Various welfare and community service programs, I most very often get
My hands occupied, so it is imperative for me to have a worthy
Assistant who can monitor and keep me up to date with my activities.
As my assistant, your activities amongst other things will include;
* Running personal errands, supervisions and monitoring.
* Scheduling programmes, flights and keeping me up to date with them.
* Acting as an alternative telephone correspondence when I'm away.
* Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf.
* Handling and monitoring some of my financial activities.
* Basic wage is $550 a week
This position is home-based and flexible, working with me is basically
About instructions and following them, my only fear is I may come at
You impromptu sometimes, so I need someone who can be able to meet up
With my irregular timings. There is also a very sensitive issue on
Trust and accountability which I believe will resolve itself as time
Goes on. This is only an introductory e-mail, as time goes on we
Should be able to arrange a proper meeting to get things started
Officially. I'm currently in the Queensland Australia now for a
Summit, however, I do have a number of things you could help me with
This week if you will be available for me. This can act as a stable
Foundation to our working relationship. Hope to hear from you
Again.
Cheers.
If you want more details on the history of this scam, you can find it right here on this same website but under angel network scam:
Http://usashameboard.com/complaints/angel-investment-network-c296384.html? Sort=datea&page=1
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