I recieved the follow Job offer by email:
Good day!
My name is Alex Bitterman, manager of the Customer Assistance Department of the Trade-Trans-Group. Our company is engaged in correspondence managing, distributing different goods worldwide, buying and reselling these goods.
Our company is involved in correspondence managing, distributing different goods worldwide and buying and reselling these goods.
Description of Goods:
- Consumer electronics of different kinds;
- Sport equipment;
- Luxuries;
- Home computers and computer components for desktop systems, notebooks, PDAs;
- Office equipment;
- Mobile equipment (cellular phones, pagers, GPSs etc.);
- Car parts (small car parts);
- Clothes;
We don? T operate with goods which contain materials and technologies restricted for export/import. We plan to expand our activities and we are looking for smart people to train for an assistant/manager position. Thank you for your application.
Job description:
People who get this job will have to follow these instructions:
1. Receive the correspondence from our company to his/her home address.
2. Report to our manager (every candidate will be included on the manager list)
3. Repack received items following the instructions which our manager will send to you.
4. Receive money from our company for shipping and payment for each shipped out package. The Money transfer method is described below.
We offer:
$24 for each shipped out box. We'll sign a contract for a long-term partnership (6 or 12 months), by mail. You will receive prepaid USPS labels so you are not responsible for s/h fees.
5. Fill in the forms and papers which will be shown in our managers instructions (you will receive an e-mail instruction for each box).
6. Ship the package out using the specified shipping method (at this time we use mainly EMS. Every USPS office can ship it with EMS Global Express.
7. Check your e-mail 5-6 times per day (every hour is welcome)
Please advise:
The source of the information about this open position (a person, ane-mail letter, a newspaper, an ICQ message)
Could you describe educational background and professional experience, and your current position.
Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have.
Thank you,
Alex Bitterman,
Trade-Trans-Group.
I replied that I was interested and mailed my resume to which I recieved the following reply:
Hello!
Thank you for your apply. I am quite prepared to offer you a job with us. You will start on $24 per box and if you do well we'll review your salary after 2 month of co-operation.
First time we will start with not expensive goods.
Do you have a fax machine? Some documents must be signed and faxed before we start.
You should fax a copy of your ID to verify provided postal information.
Also we'll sign the contract for a long-term partnership (for 12 months).
Here is the contract: www.tradetransgroup.com/contract. Doc
Please read, print, sign it and fax with your DL at:
1- (510)-291-9907
As soon as your signed contract is received, you'll be added to our postal database within 3 days and one of our managers will contact you.
Thank you,
Alex Bitterman,
Trade-Trans-Group.
I looked up the contract and read it. I started to do extensive research on the company via the Internet and library. I searched country, address, reverse fax search and any free searches I could do. I even did a scam search and could not find this particular scam. I discovered the fax was located in Oakland, Ca somewhere. Since I could not find any legitamate information on the company I began to get supicious and decided this was probably a scam. I emailed them back asking what to do if I did not have a drivers license (of course I did). I was informed to send a copy of utility bill to verify address.instead I wanted to expose them and protect others form this scam. So I sent the following email I have not heard from them since.
Hello Alex,
I do have a few questions.
How do we aquire the shipping and handling supplies?
Boxes, shipping tape, etc...
Where is the fax number located?
Do you have offices in the US? Missouri?
If so could you please tell me where?
The links at your web site were not working for me to bring up the information.
Thank you again,
Deborah
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