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Scam Victims

If you have been a victim of a scam, send me your story and I will add it to the Scam Victims page. I won't include any personally identifiable information.

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ALL of the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, payment agent jobs, mystery shopper jobs and business proposals involving large sums of money that you receive by email ARE SCAMS. NO ORGANISATION ANYWHERE EVER holds random email draws. They are ALL SCAMS. You CANNOT WIN a lottery or prize draw that you HAVE NOT ENTERED.
Please don't post comments asking me if the scams you have received are real. I can't answer them all and you KNOW they are scams!

New Employees Wanted

What a rubbish scam.  This scammer can’t even be bothered to make up a fictitious company or a fictitious job description.

There is no job – this scammer isn’t looking for employees –  he’s looking for victims to take money from.  Ignore him.

Hi,

We are happy to offer you a part time vacancy.

Location : United Kingdom

The minimum requirements for candidates: – UK mainland [Continue reading New Employees Wanted]

WORK WITH US TO EARN EXTRAL MONEY

Kraft Foods don’t send out random emails to employ random people.  They certainly don’t need any “receiving payments agents”.  They are a large company and well able to handle payments by themselves, without your help or mine.

This scammer tells me I can earn “extral money”.  I’m still wondering what “extral money” is.

If you make the mistake of replying, you will find a scammer asking you for money.  To see how these payment [Continue reading WORK WITH US TO EARN EXTRAL MONEY]

A job for You!

“John Taylor” has written to tell me has a “part time vacant position”.  He doesn’t say what the position is – nor does he say why he has had to send out thousands of spam emails just to fill a part time vacancy.

What Mr “Taylor” is really looking for is victims.  People who will fall for his scam and reply.  Then he will start asking you to send money.  There is no job [Continue reading A job for You!]

Recruiting Agent/Job

If you look at the website that “David Moore” claims to represent you will see that it is a (legitimate) directory of wholesalers.  It doesn’t sell anything.

“David Moore” isn’t looking for representatives to handle payments – he is a scammer who is looking for a victim to steal money from.

To see how these payment processing scams work, take a look at the Scam Victims page of this website.

Meanwhile – ignore this [Continue reading Recruiting Agent/Job]

2010/2011 OMNI HOTEL EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME:

This load of drivel was forwarded to me by a reader.  It’s total rubbish, poor spelling, bad grammar and absolutely no the type of email that a top class hotel would send.

There are no job vacancies.  This is a scammer who is hoping to take money from you by charging you fees.

If you are in any doubt that this is a scam, check out this page from the Omni Hotels website http://www.omnihotels.com/AboutOmniHotels/Employment/InternetFraudAlert.aspx

[Continue reading 2010/2011 OMNI HOTEL EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME:]

MYSTERY SHOPPER POSITION AVAILABLE

It’s been a while since I’ve heard from “Frank James” (or yet another scammer using that name).  He tells me that he has an assignment “in your area” but as he has no idea who I am he clearly has no idea what my “area” is.

To see how these scam mystery shopping assignments work, take a look at the scam victims page of this site.

Ignore this scammer.  There is no mystery shopping [Continue reading MYSTERY SHOPPER POSITION AVAILABLE]

Job Offer Work From Home

This was forwarded to me by a reader.  I’m not sure that the writer of this bit of rubbish has any idea where the UK is.  They refer to the EU as “Entire Europe”.  Nice try sunshine.

There is no job.  Just a scammer wanting to take money from you.  To see how these fake job scams work, take a look at the Scam Victims page on this site. Just ignore this scammer and [Continue reading Job Offer Work From Home]