After emailing a resume to someone claiming to work for Petromin Oil I was contacted about becoming a billing representative for the company. After exchanging several emails it was agreed that I would accept this job, my first assignment being to accept a money order, deposit it, wait for it to clear and then wire it to a designated address.
By this time I smelled a rat, but wanted to see where it would lead. My first "assignment" arrived via FedEx on 6/26/08: a money order for over $800.00. One phone call to the postal inspector's automated system proved that the money order was a fake.
A copy of the money order as well as a unredacted transcript of the emails in question is available.
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