Scam Warning – Nocturne

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Here is yet another scam job email. It should be noted that these posts help thousands of people each week who arrive here on the blog after searching the web for email addresses, phone numbers, or text from these emails.

Thank you to JP who sent this new scam to me via a contact form. I know these posts are somewhat boring for regular readers here but I hope you won’t mind – it is for a great cause.

We would like to offer position of Administrative Assistant at our company. Please, find more information about us and this position below.

Nocturne is a leading distributor of finest designer goods. Currently it is one of the most important specializing in online sales. With more than 5 years of experience in the designer goods industry. We offer a continuous renovation in our collections, following the latest trends in each country and season, thus satisfying the demand of clients. We always keep in mind that prices are an important factor when it comes to sales.

We are looking for a responsible person in Australia who will be ready to incur all necessary activities. Our candidate should be highly motivated. We believe that the experience is not the most important thing. The key to success is a fresh look and bold ideas!

The main duties of Administrative Assistant:

– Helping Entity’s Sales Department as a special projects support
– Data entry and other functions as specified in the instruction
– Running reports for all completed deals and wire transfers
– Providing overall administrative maintenance such as making of letters, processing purchase orders and transaction reports etc.
– Emailing correspondence every day

Hours: Full-time or part-time schedule possible. Your schedule can be irregular. For a part time variant – you will spend 3 hours per day average, from Monday to Friday.

Salary: Essential pay for a part time job is 840AUD on a weekly basis
plus 5 percent commission. Full-time job pay is 1300AUD on a weekly basis plus commission.

You will be on Probation period for your first month.

I’m sending you Application Form and short presentation of Nocturne(you can
find it attached to this email). You can find full job description in
the brochure(pages: 9-18). Please read it carefully, complete and send
it back to me via email or by fax +1-832-524-7454. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thank you,
Paula Hanson

This is 100% a job scam.

PLEASE Don’t Tell Them!

When the scammers find out their scam company name is listed here, they will simply change the company name. Thousands of people find these posts and find out that the job is a scam via my site and others that warn people of these scams.

So – please – do not tell scammers that their company name is listed here or anywhere else on the web as a scam – it will take them mere seconds to change their fake details and their new details will not be easily searchable for any future victims to find.

How Do You Know This Job Is A Scam?

This is a fake job scam. You can read more about how these scams work at Scamwatch.

In this case it seems they are direct depositing stolen or fraudulent funds into the bank accounts of scam victims. The money will appear to be legit to begin with. They will ask you to transfer funds to them via Western Union or Moneygram. It may take up to a year for the transaction to be reversed but it WILL be reversed and when it is, you will be required to pay the money back to the bank.

I gave them my bank account details?

If you gave them the account name, BSB and account number, they can easily print fake cheques with that information. You definitely need to speak to your bank about this ASAP.

In this particular instance, you may find they deposit a sum into your account – or they may send your account a payment from a stolen credit card. If that happens, DO NOT touch that money, because eventually the bank will reverse that payment.

If it were my bank details, I would close that account as a matter of great urgency. Speak to your bank as soon as you can, and they will likely advise you to do that.

I would advise anyone caught out by this scam to make a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman and also to Scamwatch via this form. The scam victim may be able to sort out a deal with the bank where the bank pays some – or all – of the losses.

More About Scams

You can see my collection of fake cheques collected from fake job scams here – Snoskred made 5 MILLION DOLLARS online this year!

You can read more about internet safety and scams here – Internet Safety & Scams – What You Need To Know.

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15 thoughts on “Scam Warning – Nocturne”

  1. I’ll keep a look out for it, but most things like this go straight to my spam folder anyway and I never check in there, just delete the contents without opening it.

  2. I was not seeing the harm in the job, until towards the end where you explained how it all works, and as you have before and I had forgotten. Good work by you.

  3. Hi everyone,

    Hi everyone, I also received the above letter, and then received brochure of the company and an application form which I filled in and sent back to Paula Hanson thinking it was all legit.

    I then received a contract agreement to sign and send back to this Paula Hanson.
    Meanwhile, I was getting calls from individuals with foreign accents urging me to send the filled in docs urgently because positions were being filled fast.
    I remember on chap (Jack – no surname) had a South American accent and the other (Kate – no surname) had a Scandinavian accent.

    Unfortunately, I had already filled in the application form and included my name, address phone number and email address, as well as some career related questions like education and previous employers, and they wanted 3 work references.
    I filled in some of these details but did not give any references, and after sending it in I though that they would have come back to me telling me that the application was incomplete.
    Instead I received a contract agreement to sign.

    The contract agreement looked suspect because the address of the company was a random address in Houston Texas (namely: 2470 Smith St, Houston, TX 77019 ).
    Suspecting this address because it was inappropriately written, I Google Earthed the address to see if it was legit. The address shows a section of Smith Street in Houston, with a U-Haul Warehouse facility on the one side of the road and a SPECS Shopping Centre on the other side.
    This triggered me off in thinking I was scammed.

    And then I researched (which I should have done in the first place originally before even getting involved with them).

    So, please take care and do your research about these internet scams before you even think of getting involved with them.

    I can post / attach all these documents here so that you all know what they look like, but I don’t know how to do this on this website/blog. If somebody can explain how to do this I will add these docs here.

  4. Hi Everyone, I sent my message via the email me contact form of this website. I hope somebody posts it here. I could not post it here because my message was too long and the’Post Comment’ button below disappeared of the screen.

  5. Hi Everyone,

    I got following email today. I realised it was a scam so I google it and found this site. My advise is not to reply.

    Our Company, Nocturne, is an international fast-growing distributing company. Our main goal is to offer various sales, logistic and delivery services to both, individuals and companies, through the world. At this time we have open vacancies in Australia for full-time and part-time.

    Please pay attention!

    Our employment offer is only for people with AU citizenship or work permission.

    Basic tasks for this new posts are:

    – customer sales support;

    – collaboration with our clients in America, Eastern Europe and Asia;

    – keep the data of all the purchases and orders;

    – help to our distribution department.

    You will have up to 3500 AUD per month for the part-time and 6500 AUD monthly for full-time. Also we offer bonus system.

    We have a probation period of time, during which you will be guided and paid.

    Conditions are:

    – computer or laptop with Internet access,

    – basic Excel (the software must be pre-installed),

    – perfect writing and social skills,

    – positive mood.

    If you are interested in working with a strong leadership team, please reply.

    Best regards,

    Recruiting Specialist

    KIRSTEN REEVES

  8. I got the exact same email from a Melba Coleman – Staffing Executive.

    I think one give away is the poor wording, mid typing and grammer

  9. Thanks a lot for the info. I too received an email from – ” ABBY COMPTON ” offering $3500 per month part time work. looks like a scam. I will not reply back to them.

  11. Hi everyone I just got this email today but thought hmmm will look up the company name make sure its a registered company and found this forum … Thanks for making this forum to give everyone the heads up x
    Brenda

  12. Hi to all, seems this email is being sent to all around Australia !! Mine was from a Rachelle Greer, Staffing Specialist. As they say, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! Thanks for the heads up, I thought it was a scam ….
    Allan, Adelaide S.A.

  13. Hi everyone! I have also just realised about the company I applied for was a scam!
    Is there anything I can do to make me feel safe? I just dont want them to use my personal information to hack anything. How can I provent this from happening?

    Here is the email they sent me:
    “Hello,

    We would like to offer position of Administrative Assistant at our company. Please, find more information about us and this position below.

    Orchid is a leading distributor of finest designer goods. Currently it is one of the most important specializing in online sales. With more than 5 years of experience in the designer goods industry. We offer a continuous renovation in our collections, following the latest trends in each country and season, thus satisfying the demand of clients. We always keep in mind that prices are an important factor when it comes to sales.

    We are looking for a responsible person in Australia who will be ready to incur all necessary activities. Our candidate should be highly motivated. We believe that the experience is not the most important thing. The key to success is a fresh look and bold ideas!

    The main duties of Administrative Assistant:

    – Helping Entity’s Sales Department as a special projects support
    – Data entry and other functions as specified in the instruction
    – Running reports for all completed deals and wire transfers
    – Providing overall administrative maintenance such as making of letters, processing purchase orders and transaction reports etc.
    – Emailing correspondence every day

    Hours: Full-time or part-time schedule possible. Your schedule can be irregular. For a part time variant – you will spend 3 hours per day average, from Monday to Friday.

    Salary: Essential pay for a part time job is 950AUD on a weekly basis
    plus 5 percent commission. Full-time job pay is 2000AUD on a weekly basis plus commission.

    You will be on Probation period for your first month.

    I’m sending you Application Form and short presentation of Orchid(you can
    find it attached to this email). You can find full job description in
    the brochure(pages: 9-18). Please read it carefully, complete and send
    it back to me via email or by fax +1-832-379-2869. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

    Thank you,
    Brooke Walton ”

    Unfortunality I have sent them a form with all my current personal details on it; phone number, address, parental information, past job history information.

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