Orchid Job Scam

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.

I know these posts are terribly boring for regular readers here but I hope you won’t mind – it is for a great cause.

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As one of the most prospective international distributing companies, Orchid delivers different kinds of sale, shipping and logistic service to private persons as well as to companies all over the world. Today we are glad to announce part-time and full-time positions in Orchid. If you are willing to join our friendly and creative team in Australia please do not hesitate to apply.

Attention please!

We can accept applications from Australian citizens or from the candidates with valid work permit only!

Your future tasks:

– communication with our customers in the USA as well as East European and Asian countries;

– maintenance of the orders and purchase data;

– distribution and sales support.

Your salary:

1. 4300$ per month if you work on a full-time basis.

2. Up to 7800$ monthly if you prefer the part-time option.

Your salary can be completed with some bonuses according to the rules of our bonus system. You will have to withstand a payed test period prior to being chosen as a long-term employee.

Our expectations:

You have a computer (laptop) at your disposal with stable Internet access. We expect that you also have Microsoft Excel installed and you are able to work with it. Communicative skills and good writing are crucial for this position. It is a big plus if you are able to keep positive mood in most situations.

We are looking forward to receiving a reply from you if you are determined to start your career in a friendly team under the guidance of a strong leader.

Kind regards,

KRISTIE GARCIA
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They are using the email address – acerogbgmurielpsj@outlook.com

Keep in mind the golden rule –

NO MONEY IS COMING TO YOU AS A SURPRISE VIA YOUR EMAIL INBOX.

I may update this post with further emails when I receive them. :)

What Should People Do Now?

If you are in contact with this company, stop emailing them. If they will not stop emailing you, try sending them this – just copy and paste it from here –

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I am now aware that this is not a legitimate job and that you are trying to scam me.
Do not email me anymore – I have reported your emails to the local police and I will send any further emails directly to them. Do not mail me anything – I will not accept any deliveries that you send to me.

Leave me alone!
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Be aware they may pass your email address onto other scammers, so you may see other scams coming to you via your inbox. There are so many different and varied scams, there is no way I can warn you about all the possibilities.

Just remember that golden rule above, and hit delete. If you think something might be legit, you can forward it on to me at snoskred {at} gmail {dot} com and I will check into it for you. If you receive too many scams, it might be worth changing your email account.

What If I Receive A Fake Check?

DO NOT BANK IT.

Please contact me in the event that this occurs, and I will advise you further. If possible I will ask you to send me a photo of the check so I can try and warn the company or people named on it, and I will contact the bank involved as well.

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SILVER INC Job Scam

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.

I know these posts are terribly boring for regular readers here but I hope you won’t mind – it is for a great cause.

Thank you to Michael, Diane and Maurice who sent me this email via my contact form, and to Monica, Alice & Michelle who commented with this email on the Platinum LLC post – these scammers are now using SILVER INC as their new name.

IF YOU RECEIVED THIS EMAIL – post a copy of it in the comments, with the email address you received it from, to help others who might be searching the web for words and text contained within the email. Thank you!
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Good morning,

After saw your profile we found it quite impressive and would like to offer you to take this role and be a part of innovative group.

This is Ricardo A Christian and I am HR Manager at organization named SILVER INC. At this time have a position for Part-time client assistant.

Salary: $2,500.00; $30,000 Annual Salary;
Bonuses: Available;
Career growth: Available;
Probation period: Yes, 30-Day;
Post schedule: 5 days a week on standard tasks; 3-4 hours a day;
Work type: based at home;

Please see below main job duties:
– Data entry and project research as needed using the Internet;
– Assist with corporate gifting including ideas, purchasing and delivering as needed;
– Do arrangements for VIP or out-of-town guests with research, scheduling, booking, communication and follow-up.

For you to fill this role you have to be at least 18 years old. We prefer you to have an experience in office equipment handling.

We expect you to start work shortly. Please reply to us back and we will get in touch with you shortly for a conversation.

Thank you for attention and have a bless day!

They are using the email addresses – pojha64@yahoo.com – josie_myra@yahoo.com – thyschauhan@yahoo.com – but there may be others they are using as well.
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Keep in mind the golden rule –

NO MONEY IS COMING TO YOU AS A SURPRISE VIA YOUR EMAIL INBOX.

I may update this post with further emails when I receive them. :)

What Should People Do Now?

If you are in contact with this company, stop emailing them. If they will not stop emailing you, try sending them this – just copy and paste it from here –

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I am now aware that this is not a legitimate job and that you are trying to scam me.
Do not email me anymore – I have reported your emails to the local police and I will send any further emails directly to them. Do not mail me anything – I will not accept any deliveries that you send to me.

Leave me alone!
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Be aware they may pass your email address onto other scammers, so you may see other scams coming to you via your inbox. There are so many different and varied scams, there is no way I can warn you about all the possibilities.

Just remember that golden rule above, and hit delete. If you think something might be legit, you can forward it on to me at snoskred {at} gmail {dot} com and I will check into it for you. If you receive too many scams, it might be worth changing your email account.

What If I Receive A Fake Check?

DO NOT BANK IT.

Please contact me in the event that this occurs, and I will advise you further. If possible I will ask you to send me a photo of the check so I can try and warn the company or people named on it, and I will contact the bank involved as well.

There are other versions of the email which look like this –

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Good morning,

After saw your information we found it perfect and offer you to be a part of innovative group.

I am Ricardo A Christian and I am HR Manager at organization named SILVER INC. At this time have a post for Virtual Assistant.

Payment: $2,500.00; $30K/Year;
Extra bonuses: Yes, available;
Career growth: Yes;
Test period: Yes, one month;
Job schedule: 5 days a week on standard tasks; few hours per day;
Type of job: home-based;

Please see below key job responsibilities:
– Research for projects as needed using the Internet;
– Assist with corporate gifting including gift ideas, purchasing, wrapping and delivering as needed;
– Do arrangements for VIP or out-of-town guests with research, scheduling, booking, communication and follow-up.

For you to fill this position you have to be at least 18 y.o.. We prefer you to be experienced in office equipment handling.

We expect you to be ready to work immediately Please email us back and we will reach you shortly for a brief conversation.

Thank you and have a wonderful day!
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Hi,

After reviewing your resume we found it perfect and would like to offer you to take this role and be a part of professional group.

I am Ricardo Christian and I work as a HR Manager at agency named SILVER INC. At this time have a position for Personal Virtual Assistant.

Pay rate: $2,500.00; $30,000 Annual Salary;
Extra bonuses: Yes;
Career opportunity: Yes;
Test period: Yes, 30-Day;
Work schedule: 5 days a week on standard tasks; few hours per day;
Work type: based at home;

Please see below basic job duties:
– Research for projects as needed using the Internet;
– Assist with corporate gifting including providing thoughtful ideas, locating and purchasing, wrapping and delivering as needed;
– Making arrangements for VIP or out-of-town guests with research, scheduling, booking, communication and follow-up.

To take this role you have to be at least 18 years old. It is a plus to be experienced in office equipment handling.

We expect you to be ready to work shortly. Please reply to us back and we will reach you shortly for a brief conversation.

Thank you for attention and have a great day!
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Hello,

After reviewing your data we found it perfect and offer you to take this role and be a part of professional team.

My name is Ricardo A Christian and I am HR Manager at agency named SILVER INC. Now we have vacancy for Virtual Assistant.

Pay rate: $2,500.00; $30,000 Annual Salary;
Bonuses: Yes, available;
Career growth: Yes, available;
Probation period: Yes, one month;
Post schedule: 5 days a week on regular tasks; few hours a day;
Work type: mostly from home;

Please look below at main job duties:
– Data entry and project research as needed using the Internet;
– Assist with corporate gifting including gift ideas, purchasing, wrapping and delivering as needed;
– Do meetings for VIP or out-of-town customers with research, scheduling, booking, collaboration and follow-up.

For you to fill this role you need to be at least 18 y.o.. We prefer you to have an experience in office equipment handling.

We expect you to be ready to work ASAP. Please reply to us back and we will reach you shortly for a brief conversation.

Thank you and have a great day!
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Scam Warning – Nocturne

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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If You Need A Hacker

Amyhacker

Sometimes I get some brilliant spam. The reason this one stood out to me, though, was the email address. It was quite similar to one The Other Half used to use when I first met him.

I have removed the email address obviously, because spamming that to the world was their entire reason for posting the comment. It turned out when I searched for the IP address it tracked back to Nigeria – so this is another new scam format.

I did leave in the fact that it is a gmail address – for the most part, real hackers would probably steer clear of gmail, I suspect. I could of course be wrong!

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LKT Company Job Scam


With thanks to Reg and Dayton Ohio who posted these details on the RNT Company Scam post – these scammers have now changed their name, again! It appears that one of the email address being used is julie.mills@lktwork.com, there is also juliemills@lkt-career.com – I am sure there will be more.

With the usual apologies to my regular readers however over 20,000 people have viewed these job scam posts in the past 5 months and many of them have not been scammed as a result of these posts. These posts are important!

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

LKT 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 LKT(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 +1-832-584-0420. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thank you,
Julie Mill

PLEASE Don’t Tell Them!

It seems these scammers were using a template from LMP Company and they have switched names because the very first result for LMP Company now leads to scamwarners. Now, LCN Company leads to my post that it is a scam. So then they changed their name to RNT Company, and now after a couple of months using that name, they have changed it to to LKT Company.

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.

A Note From The Legit LKT Consulting

LKT Consulting (not the company in this email) is actually fielding calls and emails for this now. We’ve had a small number of calls and a lot of emails that have been forwarded. The original emails that we have been forwarded are coming from free email addresses rather than the domains listed above. Unfortunately (or fortunately, whichever way you look at it) they are Googling “LKT” and coming up with us. We’re having to tell them it’s a scam as we would not be hiring in this fashion. One of the recipients forwarded us this link. Thanks again for posting it.

Mega Important Note!!

If you got this email from a different name and email address, please leave a comment asap, you can use a fake name and email address to post the comment if you like. I’ll regularly add in other names, email addresses, website addresses, and any other info you can provide in to the post. It will help other people who are searching for the names. Thanks everyone who leaves a comment, it WILL stop people from getting scammed. :)

If your email was slightly different, or you have further emails from these scammers, please post them in the comments. Your comment will go to moderation and I will double check before it is posted to make sure there is no identifying information eg your email address or your details.

I expect they will be spamming their scam posts out to a multitude of email addresses over coming days, so please help out and give us the email address they are using, so that other people searching for that email address can find this post.

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.

The LCN Post –

Since it was posted on June 4th 2015, almost 9,000 people arrived at my website specifically by searching for words and email addresses that appeared in the LCN Company Team Scam post. That post received nearly 300 comments and I personally received and replied to hundreds of emails and contact forms with email addresses, URLs, further emails, and other important information which helped people find out that was a scam.

The RNT Post

Since it was posted on September 16, 2015, over 11,500 people have viewed the RNT Company Scam post. It has received over 200 comments plus many people have contacted me privately in regard to that scam.

Thank You

For reading this post. Thank you for leaving a comment if you have any further information which will help other potential scam victims to find this post as well. :) You can contact me privately via this page if you like, I will reply – usually within 24 hours – if you provide a valid email address.

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Platinum LLC Job Scam

Got an email from SILVER INC? There is a separate post for that “company” here.

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.

I know these posts are terribly boring for regular readers here but I hope you won’t mind – it is for a great cause.

From: Penelope Barry eldalamanda1@alice.it
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2015
Subject: Home-based vacancy

Good morning My name is Ricardo Christian and I work as a HR Manager} at an company named Platinum, LLC. We now have vacancy for Part-time assistant, can work from home.So we are looking. After reviewing your profile we found it quite impressive and would offer you to be a part of professional group.

So, I am going to explain you all about Personal&Virtual Assistant. We want you to maintain the best quality of the work you will be doing as a Virtual Assistant.Below mentioned are your job responsibilities while you will be working with us:

– preparing, arranging or assembling and analysing or inquiring
– Research for projects as needed using the Internet ex:
– Find top 3 money managers that have written books with contact phone numbers and addresses
– Shopping and acquisitions includes providing thoughtful ideas, locating and purchasing, wrapping and delivering as needed
– Arrangements for VIP or out-of-town guests includes ideas, research, scheduling and booking, communication and follow-up as needed
– Entertainment arrangements includes ideas, research, scheduling and booking, communication and follow-up as needed see also Event Management

You will be working for 5 days a week on regular tasks, mostly from home, you earn $2,750.00 as your monthly salary, $33K/Year , bonuses from clients and paid One month test period. In order for you to get this oppertunity you need to work approximately 3-4 hours a day.email: platinumllc@mail.com We expect you to be ready to work shortly. Other than that please DO NOT REPLY to this email if you are not looking for a job anymore. Thank you and have a wonderful day!

He is also using : richardomchristian8@mail.com

Thanks to Sephyroth for forwarding this scam email on to me.

UPDATE 19 MAY 2015 – Seems like these scammers are mailing out these scams to people again. Thanks for contacting me and letting me know. They have changed the “format” slightly, it now looks like this –

Hi,

After reviewing your data we found it perfect and would like to offer you to take this role and be a part of innovative team.

My name is Ricardo M. Christian and I am HR Manager at organization named Platinum, LLC. At this time have a position for Personal Virtual Assistant.

Payment: $2,500.00; $33K/Year;
Bonus system: Yes, available;
Career growth: Yes, available;
Test period: Yes, 30-Day;
Post schedule: 5 days a week on standard tasks; few hours a day;
Job type: based at home;

Please see below basic job responsibilities:
– Research for projects as needed using the Internet;
– Assist with corporate gifting including ideas, purchasing and delivering as needed;
– Do arrangements for VIP or out-of-town clients with scheduling, booking, collaboration and follow-up.

For you to fill this role you have to be at least 18 years old. It is a plus to have an experience in office equipment operation.

We expect you to start work ASAP. Please email us back and we will reach you shortly for a conversation.

Thank you for attention and have a wonderful day!

If you receive any job scam emails, please do not hesitate to pass them on to me – you can find my email address on my contact page – by doing so, you may prevent someone from getting scammed!

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Hackers – How To Protect Yourself Online

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Rami Malek plays a hacker in Mr Robot

These days, you probably give out your personal information to websites on a regular basis and feel comfortable doing so. Anything you register for requires at minimum an email address and a password. Once you have given out that information to a website, you have zero control over it. If that website gets hacked, what information have you provided to the hackers simply by registering there?

Consider the users of that terrible website Ashley Madison. A lot of data was compromised. Some of the site members had used work email addresses, a lot of those email addresses had their full names clearly visible.. Now you might say – those people deserved what they got. I could argue both sides of that case.

Just recently a British phone provider was hacked, and British Gas customer login info was put online. Here in Australia recently, David Jones, Kmart and Patagonia were hacked. And these are only the companies we *know* about.

The Bigger Point Is –

What will happen if a website that you use regularly gets hacked? What information of yours will suddenly be available to the dark web?

In years gone by, I spent some time in email inboxes of the Nigerian Scammers. Law enforcement would hand over seized email accounts so that we could contact and warn the scam victims contained inside. I learned how to use the information provided inside those accounts to identify other email accounts the scammers were using so those accounts could also be seized. I learned to search the web for phone numbers, fax numbers, names, phrases used.

I can tell you how easy it is to follow the breadcrumbs that people leave online because I have done it many times myself. Sometimes it seemed to me to be like unpicking a thread sewn into the web – this email account leads to that email account which leads to that online dating profile which leads to this Facebook profile which gave me their mobile phone number and searching for that gave me 5 other email addresses that scammer is using.

Below you will find my top 10 tips for protecting yourself from hackers online.

You will absolutely be doing at least one of these things I mention below right now. I’m not saying quit doing that, or go and undo everything you have ever done. I’m saying going forward from now on- for your own safety – you might want to reconsider doing these things.

1. Do Not Use Your Real Last Name

Never. Not ever. Not on Facebook. Not on Linked In. Not on any website. Not on your blog. Keep your real life separated from your online life. There are a lot of great reasons to do this and they far outweigh any reasons you might want to use your real last name online.

You might pick a last name from a favourite character in a book or TV show. You might choose a colour, a word in another language, the name of an animal – but not a pet name! I recommend you avoid using your pets names online, not even for secret questions and especially not for passwords!

It is easy for people to ask you – what is the name of your pet – and if you have used it as your secret question they might have everything they need to get into your email account, depending on what email service you are using.

If you have used your real last name on Facebook, you can change it and I suggest you do so as a matter of urgency. Their “name standards” might say “The name you use should be your authentic identity” – that is all very well but not especially realistic given the world we now live in. You can add a hyphen and another word to the end of your name if you prefer. EG Sipowicz-Simone

Alternatively, if you do want to use your real last name on Facebook – let that be the ONLY place that you use it. Some people use their middle name as their last name – I frown on that concept a little but if it suits you, to each their own. :) How to change your name on Facebook.

2. Avoid Using Your Real First Name

This one I am a little more relaxed about – if you want to go by your first name online, on your blog, Facebook and Linked in, that is cool. But when you are signing up for mailing lists on websites, I usually do not recommend using your first name in that venue.

First up, the company is going to use your supplied first name mercilessly in their mailings to you. It is a lot more fun to go into your inbox and see “Hi Tiger, blah blah” “Hello Snake, blah blah” “Good Morning Bat, blah blah”

Secondly, if a hacker hacks in to the company, they can’t do a lot with Tiger Sipowicz or Snake Morgan or Bat Sorenson. Especially if you are not using that name on Facebook, Linked In, etc.

Thirdly, this is the chance you have been waiting for! You can give yourself that first name you always wanted, like Veronica, Natasha, or Beyonce. Using an Alias or a Pseudonym online is perfectly fine and sensible.

3. Do Not Use Your Real Address

Your first and last names, your home address and your birthdate are four key pieces of information that identity thieves need to steal your identity.

If you can, use a PO box for your mailing address. This means nobody can steal your mail, and you have a non-street address you can use for the web. Nobody is going to rock up at your PO Box as a surprise to yourself unless you have done something truly terrible to them. If you’ve given out your street address, people know where you *live*.

4. Do Not Use An Email With Identifying Info

Workplaces tend to use firstname.lastname for email addresses which if you think about it, that is a very stupid concept. They’ve given people more information than they need about you when you simply send them an email. If you have a Facebook account with that same name, you have a linked-in account or use your name on your blog, people can find out more about you just by searching.

For email online, you want to use a name that has nothing at all to do with you personally. I’m going to give you a new option for firstname.lastname which you can try if you like. Animal Name, Colour, Number. So you might have an email address like TigerBlue99 or SnakePink888.

NEVER use your work email address to register for a website. Some people found that out the hard way with the Ashley Madison hack. BE CAREFUL which email address you use on Facebook – do not use the same one you used for signing up on websites.

5. Choose Good Passwords

The better your password, the more protected you are. Never use pet names, birth dates, names of your family or partner, or any piece of personal information that someone could gather from your Facebook or other accounts online.

I recommend similar to the email name, you choose two different words and at least 3 numbers. Always make the first letter of each word a capital. But how will I remember that, Snoskred? Me personally I suggest a small paper notebook that you can keep somewhere safe and write them down, or use a spreadsheet or text file which you also password protect.

NEVER, EVER, NOT EVER, use the password for the email account you sign up with as the password on that website. Take for example the British Gas customers – if one of them used one password for every site on the web, the hackers can now get into their email account.

My advise is to use a two layer password system – use one password for your email account ONLY, and use another passwords for every other site. Whether that is one password for all the other sign ups you use, or a new password for every single site, that is up to you.

If you do use just one password for all other sites, I would suggest using different usernames, so that if a hacker got your password for Kmart, they can’t go to Woolworths and type in the same username and password. You could make the usernames different by just one number – eg TigerBlue87, TigerBlue88, TigerBlue89.

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Rami Malek plays a hacker in Mr Robot

6. Be Careful With Your Birthdate

I personally use a fake birth date online. Your birth date is one of the key pieces of information identity thieves need to pretend to be you. Change at least one of the details – whether it be year, month, or day.

7. Be Careful With Your Bank Info

All that a scammer needs to create a fake cheque – also known as check or bank draft – is your name, BSB and account number. If you have the funds in your account, the payment WILL clear. It won’t be until you notice the money missing that you will know your details are being used in this way.

All that a scammer needs to deposit stolen or fraudulent funds into your bank account is your BSB and account number.

8. Remove Or Falsify Facebook Info

Just because Facebook asks for information from you does not mean you should provide it. Information I would not want to list on my Facebook would include – my phone number – my real full name – my real address – my postcode – which school I went to – where I am originally from – my current relationship status – where I was born.

Go and take a look at your profile and think – does this need to be here, or does it make it easy for people to know TOO much about me? Also consider this – do you have any of these things set as answers to secret questions somewhere on the web? EG the name of your primary school, your postcode, pet names, etc. Then do the same thing for other “profiles” you have on the web.

9. Search Yourself

Search engines can show you exactly what other people could find out about you online. I suggest you regularly search for your real name, address, email address and phone numbers. In fact you might want to set up google alerts for these things.

10. Use Prepaid Credit Cards Online

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Screenshot from the Australia Post Load & Go Prepaid Visa

There are a lot of very good reasons to use prepaid credit cards online, but here are just a few –

– they do not require you to provide your name or address in most situations – thus making it easier to use a fake name and PO Box with websites.

– you control how much money is on them, so if your card number is stolen the damage will be limited to the amount you have prepaid onto it

– If the website is hacked, all the hackers will have is “Valued Cardholder” and a card number, plus the fake details you may have provided. This means only limited damage can be done. If you have given a website your name and your visa card with a $10,000 limit – and that website is hacked – criminals could run up a huge sum on your card before you can blink an eyelid. Plus you’ll have to cancel that credit card and get a new one.

There are plenty of different prepaid cards available in Australia now, you can likely pick one up when you do your grocery shopping. The Australia Post Load and Go one is pretty decent if you have any travel plans coming up. All of them will have some kind of costs involved but those costs are worth it when you consider the risks of using your own personal card online.

Guidelines

As I said at the start of this post, these are just some general guidelines I would recommend for consideration. Everyone has to live their life their own way, to each their own. Nobody wants to have their identity stolen – you may not know this but identity theft can be an enormous problem for years upon years if that happens to you.

One thing is very clear – we can no longer trust companies and websites to protect our information, so our only option is to be more careful with it.

Over to you –

what steps do you take to protect your identity online? :)

anonymity, Internet Safety

RNT Company Scam

With thanks to Mary Villahermosa who posted this email on the LCN Company Scam post – as I suspected these scammers have now changed their name.

Hello,

At this moment we have full-time and partial position.

RNT Company is a worldwide goods retailer so your central tasks will include sales support for deals held in Australia: keep the data of all the purchases and payments; communicate with our clients in America, Eastern Europe and Asia; do all the necessary service and support to our sales office.

You will have up to 3500 AUD monthly plus benefits for the part-time vacancy and for full-time post – 5500 AUD monthly plus benefits. We have a probation period, during which you will be trained and guided. This period is also paid.

Conditions are easy. You just need to have computer with access to the Internet, also basic Excel skills (the software must be pre-installed), negotiation experience.

Please respond to us back. CV will be a great plus for our HR team.

Have a great day!

PLEASE Don’t Tell Them!

It seems these scammers were using a template from LMP Company and they have switched names because the very first result for LMP Company now leads to scamwarners. Now, LCN Company leads to my post that it is a scam. So they are now changing their name to RNT Company.

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.

Mega Important Note!!

If you got this email from a different name and email address, please leave a comment asap, you can use a fake name and email address to post the comment if you like. I’ll regularly add in other names, email addresses, website addresses, and any other info you can provide in to the post. It will help other people who are searching for the names. Thanks everyone who leaves a comment, it WILL stop people from getting scammed. :)

If your email was slightly different, or you have further emails from these scammers, please post them in the comments. Your comment will go to moderation and I will double check before it is posted to make sure there is no identifying information eg your email address or your details.

I expect they will be spamming their scam posts out to a multitude of email addresses over coming days, so please help out and give us the email address they are using, so that other people searching for that email address can find this post.

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.

The LCN Post –

Since it was posted on June 4th 2015, almost 9,000 people arrived at my website specifically by searching for words and email addresses that appeared in the LCN Company Team Scam post. That post received nearly 300 comments and I personally received and replied to hundreds of emails and contact forms with email addresses, URLs, further emails, and other important information which helped people find out that was a scam.

Thank You

For reading this post. Thank you for leaving a comment if you have any further information which will help other potential scam victims to find this post as well. :) You can contact me privately via this page if you like, I will reply – usually within 24 hours – if you provide a valid email address.

Further Emails –

Dear NAME,

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

RNT 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 RNT(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 +1-832-248-2766. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thank you,
Sarah Robson

Names & Email Addresses being used –

Sarah Robson – sarahrobson@rnt-hr.com – Jayne Womble – womble.jayne27h4@hotmail.com – boyd.paulitanp@hotmail.com – seguin.vickey650@hotmail.com – reimann.ashleyt44@hotmail.com – herman.goughj928@hotmail.com – dirk.cortez0hk@hotmail.com – solorio.leonej8e7@hotmail.com – branden.farrand76@hotmail.com = fawn.gainer237@hotmail.com

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Angry Snoskred, job scams, www safety

Peak Perks Travel Scam

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Via this scam post I have been informed of a new scam. Here are the emails received by Srihari.

Email One –

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Dear

SEEK determined you as an appropriate candidate for our vacancy and forwarded us your resume.
Attached you can find brief description and job responsibilities for offered position.
In case you are interested, please fill in the application form and send it to sean.talley@peakperkstravel.com:

First name:
Last name:
Age:
Postal code:
Day-time tel.:
Mobile tel.:

Best time to call you:

Are you currently employed or studying:
If yes, please provide your current workday schedule:

Have you ever been convicted of a crime since the age of 18:
If yes, please provide date(s) and details:
(Answering “Yes” to those questions doesn’t constitute an automatic bar to employment)

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APPLICANT STATEMENT.

I certify that answers given herein are true and complete to the best of my knowledge.

I authorize investigation of all statements contained in this application for employment as may be
necessary in arriving at an employment decision.

This application for employment shall be considered active for a period of time not to exceed 45 days.
Any applicant wishing to be considered for employment beyond this time period should inquire as to
whether or not applications are being accepted at that time.

I hereby understand and acknowledge that, unless otherwise defined by applicable law, any employment
relationship with this organization is of an “at will” nature, which means that the Employee may resign
at any time and the Employer may discharge Employee at any tune with or without cause. It is further
understood that this “at will” employment relationship may not be change by any written document or
by conduct unless such change is specifically acknowledged in writing by an authorized executive of
this organization.

In the event of employment, I understand that false or misleading information given in my application or
interviews may result in discharge. I understand, also, that I am required to abide by all rules and regulations
of the employer.

I also understand that if I am hired, I will be required to provide proof of identity.

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By filling above form, I certify that I have read, fully understand and accept
all terms of the foregoing Applicant Statement.

In some cases, it may take some time to verify your application.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any further information.
—————-

Sincerely,
Sean Talley
sean.talley@peakperkstravel.com
sean-talley@outlook.com
Peak Perks Travel and Tours, Inc.
http://www.peakperkstravel.com
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Email Two –

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Hello

We have received and reviewed your application.
I am glad to inform you that you meet our requirements and we are ready to hire you for Processing Assistant position.

Now we have to conclude the agreement with you.
Please find “Employment Agreement” in attached files.
Read all sections so you will have a clear understanding of your responsibilities and rights.

If you agree with the terms and conditions and you are ready to proceed, please follow these steps:

(1) Print out the attached Agreement, sign and send it via email or fax to +61363019535

(2) For security and identification purposes, please send us a scanned copy or photo of your ID (driver license, passport or student card etc.).

(3) Print out attached payroll form(Adobe PDF file), fill it out clearly in block letters, sign and send it back via e-mail or fax.

We will be able to start within 2 business days after we receive signed agreement.
We provide training on-the-fly, so our probationary period plan will include:
* 1st-10th day – Payments management, preparing reports, general paperwork, simple bookkeeping
* 11th-20th day – Customer support & typical problems solving course, extended workgroup communications.
* 21st-30th day – Independent work with other team members and customers in constant contact.
* 25th day-… – signing of permanent employment contract.

Sincerely,
Sean Talley
sean.talley@peakperkstravel.com
sean-talley@outlook.com
Peak Perks Travel and Tours, Inc.
http://www.peakperkstravel.com
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Email Three –

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Congratulations with your first order!
Our client has already remitted AU$10209.95 to your bank account at 3-40p.m. Sydney time on 29/05.
Transfer should appear on your account tomorrow morning (30/05).

It will be great if you will be able to handle it before 11:50a.m.

Please deduct your sales commission 5%(AU$511) and cost of transfer,
and remit the remaining amount via Western Union to our accountant and her assistant in Philippines:

AU$4821(incl. WesternUnion fee $28)
first name: Ritchell
last name: Mahinay
Manila, Philippines

AU$4821(incl. WesternUnion fee $28)
first name: Ritchell
last name: Mahinay
Manila, Philippines

Please send it in PHP(Philippines Peso).

Use our office address as receiver address:
Peak Perks Travel and Tours, Inc.
M/F Dumrique Building, 209 A. Bonifacio Avenue,
Tanong, Marikina City, Metro Manila, 2000

Your nearest Western Union locations:

NSW CONVENIENCE STORE
119a Macquarie St.
Parramatta, Nsw 2150
+61-1800501500

DALLAS NEWSAGENCY
Shop 6 Connection Arcade
162 172 Church Street
Parramatta, Nsw 2150
+61-1-800501500

PARRAMATTA CBD NEWSAGENCY
Shop16 272 Church Street
Parramatta, Nsw 2150
+61-1-800501500

Please send me email with Western Union money transfer control number (MTCN).

You may indicate “Peak Perks Travel”, “Peak Travel” or “Travel” as purpose of payment.
Please save all documents regarding all transactions you have made.

IMPORTANT! Don’t use Western Union Online transfer to send money.
Bring cash or use a debit card to send money at a Western Union Agent location.

Please confirm that you have received this email.

If your bank branch isn’t open on Saturday then you can try to find other branch on your bank website.

Sincerely,
Sean Talley
sean.talley@peakperkstravel.com
sean-talley@outlook.com
Peak Perks Travel and Tours, Inc.
http://www.peakperkstravel.com
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Snoskred Says –

If this scam is successful, the scam victim will be out just under $10,000. :( And they may do it more than once before the victim finds out the funds transferred in are stolen or fraudulent.

Banks should hold some responsibility here. They do not make it clear enough to people that these scams can happen, and that fund transfers or cheques can be reversed at a later time if the transaction is found to be fraudulent.

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

I would also place a complaint with Seek, and if they had my resume and information, I would remove my details from there if at all possible.

Angry Snoskred, job scams, what not to do

LCN Company Team Scam

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I received a new scam email today – I’m posting it here because when I search for LCN Company and LCN Team, the search results do not mention anything about scams. Hopefully this post will bullet to the front page for those particular terms and help people contacted by this company to know this is a scam.

Administrative Assistant is available today for full and partial position.

LCN Company is a worldwide goods retailer that is why your general tasks will be connected with sales customer support for operations held in Australia: keep the data of all the deals and orders payment; cope with customers in USA, Eastern Europe and Asia; give all the necessary service and support to our selling department.

You will be paid up to 3800 AUD per month plus bonuses for the part-time position and for full-time position – 5800 AUD per month plus addition.
We have a trial period, during this period you will be trained and guided. This period is also paid.

Minimum Requirements are easy. You just need to have computer with access to the Internet, also Excel skills (the software must be pre-installed), interpersonal and communication skills.

Interested prospects should respond directly to this email address. Our company will certainly contact you at our earliest convenience.

Have a great day!
Hawn Ferne
LCN Team.

They are using many different names with @outlook.com email addresses – anyone can sign up for free email at outlook.com – Also they seem to have a couple of urls now – lcnwork.com and email addresses used for further emails are using that domain name – lcn-premium.com, lcnjob.com, lcnrecruit.com and now lcn-hr.com are also being used by these same scammers.

Update 21/08/15 –

They are now using gmx.com email addresses. This is another place anyone can sign up for free email addresses.

Update 16/09/2015

They are now using the name RNT as well as LCN.

Mega Important Note!!

If you got this email from a different name and email address, please leave a comment asap, you can use a fake name and email address to post the comment if you like. I’ll regularly add in other names and emails used in to the post. It will help other people who are searching for the names. Thanks everyone who leaves a comment, it WILL stop people from getting scammed. :)

Second Mega Important Note –

DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT if you replied and they send you a second email with an attachment! If you did open an attachment, you must run a virus scanner and malware scanner ASAP. There are many different virus scanning programs out there, you probably have one you like to use, just make sure it is the LATEST version!!! and that it is up to date.

If you do not have a favourite, you could try AVG which has a free version.

Update – I’ve had two different people look at the files (safely because that is hugely important!) and it looks like they do not contain any nasties. Even so, you want to run antivirus and malware scanners, just to be on the safe side.

Keep Yourself Safe –

It is hugely important in future to remember – *never* open an attachment from someone you do not personally know. For me that means people I have actually met in the flesh.

Also, keeping internet browsers and phone apps up to date, using an anti-virus program, and keeping your anti-virus program up to date is important as well.

Using things like SMS verification for internet banking can be a good thing, too. ;)

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. It may take some time – in some cases 6 months to a year – but it *will* happen eventually and you will have to repay that amount of money to the bank.

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. The scam victim may be able to sort out a deal with the bank where the bank pays some – or all – of the losses.

Don’t Tell Them!

It seems these scammers are using a template from LMP Company and they have switched names because the very first result for LMP Company now leads to scamwarners.

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.

All you have to say is that you know this is a scam – you do not have to tell them how you know.

Wait! I think I’m being scammed!

Did you receive this email and reply to it? This is a fake job scam. There is no job. Most likely, you will be sent a fraudulent check, and they will want you to send them money because your bank will clear the check at first.

Check? – Cheque? – Bank Draft?

These are all names for the same thing – the name used depends on which country you live in. I use the term check here on the blog because check is the most commonly used spelling in the USA, and people in the USA are the most targeted for these job scams.

If you have banked a check from them –

but you still have the money and have not sent it anywhere – PUT THAT MONEY BACK IN YOUR BANK RIGHT NOW. Do not send any money via Western Union or Moneygram.

If you have banked a check from them –

And you have sent the money via Western Union or Moneygram, then you may wish to seek legal advice. I strongly suggest that you do so as a matter of urgency, because..

In the USA, scam victims can be arrested for banking a fraudulent check.

See this article – Check from a scammer bounces victim into jail – Even the FTC in the US gives out incorrect information re check scams – they say “The bottom line is that until the bank confirms that the funds from the check have been deposited into your account, you are responsible for any funds you withdraw against that check.”

This is UNTRUE –

even if the bank confirms the funds have been deposited, the bank can undo the transaction at any time when they discover the check was stolen or fraudulent – even up to a year after they “cleared” it. But you did not know this, and nobody ever tells anyone this.

This is not your fault – it is the fault of the banks, who hide this fact deep within the terms and conditions booklet that you receive when you open an account – these terms and conditions you have agreed to abide by when you opened your account.

If you are not willing to seek legal advice, the only advice I can personally provide to you is to print out all the emails you received and the emails you sent, print out that page from the Federal Trade Commission and keep it somewhere safe for if/when the police eventually turn up on your doorstep.

but be aware –

and I want to make this very clear –

You will have to pay this money back to the bank eventually. The sooner you make arrangements to do this, the better.

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Update – The Next Email They Send –

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

LCN 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 LCN(you can find it attached to this email). You can find full job description in the brochure(pages: 5,6,7). Please read it carefully, complete and send it back to me via email or by fax +1-832-218-1671. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thank you,
Amy Lane

Update – Another Email –

From: adelino gonçalves
Subject: Job Offer(8609H1208e1)

Location: AU
Citizenship or Work permit: AU
Required Education: High Diploma/College Diploma
Type of Employment: Part-Time
Pay rate: 4,250 AUD/month
Bonus: Available

Main information:
I have seen your CV on job board site and we think that you are perfect candidate for us. Our advertising company, which carries out the orders for international company’s agents, regional business and government organisations, would like to offer you post of Service Manager. If you are interested in collaboration with a strong leadership team, evolving our products and a group that looks more like close friends than colleagues, then this employment is just for you! Adaptable timing is possible.

Requirements are:
High School education necessary. Must have Computer and Internet
access, Microsoft Office or compatible. Must have proper writing and social skills.

If you are interested, please write to us at: nkigae1971@mail.com .
Thank you for your attention!

And Another Email –

Work Location: AU
Citizenship or Work permit: AU
Education required: High Diploma/College
Type of Employment: Partial
Base Payment: 4,250 AUD/month
Bonus: Available

Main information:
I found your Summury on job board site and we think that you are perfect candidate for us. Our advertising company, which carries out the orders for international company’s agents, regional business and government organisations, would like to offer you the position of Service Manager. If you are interested in cooperation with a strong leadership team, evolving our products and a group that looks more like close friends than colleagues, then this employment is just for you! Adaptable timing is possible.

Conditions:
High School education necessary. Must have Computer and Internet, Microsoft Office or compatible. Must have proper writing and social skills.

If you are interested, please reach us at: sorelyhotchar@hotmail.com .

And Another Email –

Important message for (your email address would be here)

Bill Pay transfer: 59N2YRHG4
Total Amount: 4669.87 Australian Dollars
Status: Processing

Please click the statement provided with this email to get more info about this transfer.

There is a .doc file attached which contains nasties, so if you opened that .doc file you will need to run a full virus and malware scan.

Update – names they are using –

– Wagner Etha – LCN company administrative assistant – Hardesty Shella haelrdestecyvashella@outlook.com – Danna Maire – Singh Kecia – diamond arie – ariojedociamuhond@outlook.com – Damon Jenna -jaocJhoennaDamon@outlook.com – Snelling Krystyna – Kwon Nanette – KfuwonomNandeette@outlook.com – Runkle Cristin – CrisihuftiornRunkle@outlook.com – Dickey Bernice – Carbaugh Freeda – FreednuziaCayprbaugh@outlook.com – Levy Delsie – LeimvyDelresulie@outlook.com

– Jump Lettie – JumuzpLilenettie@outlook.com – Mollie Bracken – etMollieBoxracbyken@outlook.com – beales reina – Luedtke Alyssa – wuLueerdtsukeAlyssa@outlook.com – Gober Kali – KaliGgoedoboner@outlook.com – Nakano Virginia – Lussier Jenelle – JneerineinlleLussier@outlook.com – Peer Linn – juzePwueerLinn@outlook.com – Macedo Marjory – MaceelmodixoMarjory@outlook.com – Roseberry Lessie – lessioveefruroseberry@outlook.com – Hanlon Jan –

HafunlneonbaJan@outlook.com – Rico Iona – ykRicxeoIoivna@outlook.com – fortner catrice – CatriceFixorartuvner@outlook.com – Donner Sharee – SharzeeeDookninner@outlook.com – Ake Gisele, erAkeGisehiible@outlook.com – Lasater Tess – LlaastyateutrTess@outlook.com – CordiaogPinoultyiot@outlook.com – Dunkle Meribel – Satchell Ingrid – Donohoe Aleen – DoavirnohoeAleyven@outlook.com – Corwin Benita –

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– Mccera francie – qiMccrreeaFrwoancie@outlook.com – Driggers Laurette – LauusreyktekteDriggers@outlook.com – Gillenwater Delphine – Overby Lisandra LisandapraOvemeanrby@outlook.com – Mceachern Marva McaxeachernMcyaryhva@outlook.com – BrittnfieyWruhpyitted@outlook.com – Bardwell Justine – Aceves Mayra – ujAytcevesMbiayra@outlook.com – Cantwell Blanca – BlanexcapiCantucwell@outlook.com – Hesson Nerissa – daNeriuxsejsaHesson@outlook.com – Rush Kiesha – Nicolas Stephany – NicolasSohtepoghobany@outlook.com –

Catlett Vanda – heCatlefuttfiVanda@outlook.com – Hermann Carmon – CewarmceonHermaasnn@outlook.com – qeDsoeleybnaBono@outlook.com – Duke Kaila – ziKorakoilaDuke@outlook.com – BroaigdusysMinlaerva@outlook.com – Wendel Emmaline – yfEmmalineegWeezndel@outlook.com – Taliaferrygo Leutoniuwda – Kendricks Drusilla – KendrictiksydDrusapilla@outlook.com – Guston Allison – Hardesty Erna – mailto:ErnsiudaHardesiqty@outlook.com –

Hinkle Agripina – xiHabinkleAgripibina@outlook.com – Boland Audrie – AudajrarieBycoland@outlook.com – Loehr Luis – Stout Tijuana – Roush Dalila – oxDalilaRoyzuugsh@outlook.com – Johnson Karlyn – KarlevynJoxovyhnson@outlook.com – Sturges Meredith – izMeogredithSturgbyes@outlook.com – McKenney Luella – LuwoellaMcwakennsoey@outlook.com – Oswalt Ela – ElaOgesfiwyqalt@outlook.com – Gracia Charleen – Bejarano Erline – Candy Kobb – KifanvedmoyCobb@outlook –

Leopold Valene – VaeqleneLyceopoibld@outlook.com – Jenny Graham – Kerrigan Joycelyn – Alanis Loreen – Kershner Ami – Laskowski Maranda – MarandaLkeaskowsypemki@outlook.com – EdytjehBerogotin@outlook.com – Brim Debby – jyBrepimDebygby@outlook.com – Reed Rozella – Marotta Tisha – TyhekishaMarotjuta@outlook.com – Edmondson Margorie – AsvazehbeleyCindi@outlook.com – Ashley Cindi – OlimavaKelowumal@outlook.com – Lucero Sharmaine –

ShukarmaineLurucimero@outlook.com – Dreyer Nina – igNiwibunaDreyer@outlook.com – Dicopiveelutro@outlook.com – Morello Lea – MormeellsoogyLea@outlook.com – Lillie Chappell – LemillubisueChappell@outlook.com – YbarpiratoojMitsuko@outlook.com – Labrie Ashleigh – ovAwyshleighLabrbeie@outlook.com – Lockman Matilde – Dorsett Ouida – DorsdyetestfiOuida@outlook.com – Mcdaniels Carisa – CaxirisujaMcdaijniels@outlook.com – Sullins Refugio –

sullinsrexeiffugurio@outlook.com – Campuzano Diamond – Redmon Caprice – CilaprgyiceexRedmon@outlook.com – Rangel Alexa – Stubbs Sonia – Lauderdale Katheleen – LypaudehordaecleKatheleen@outlook.com – Cruse Jeanmarie – Michels Cecil – Lefler Camelia – Spitz Ardis – SeqpitikzArdowis@outlook.com – Lear Franchesca – LejeawpyarFranchesca@outlook.com – Hundley Luana opkyHundleweyLuana@outlook.com – Helmick Royce –

wiRounycaseHelmick@outlook.com – Curiel Johnsie – Mohamed Farik Kreslins – Denis Ranae –
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CanirhieyGuaunrdado@outlook.com OdiluwikinoaCisco@outlook.com – Bee Mary – BduexisueMary@outlook.com

– Cribbs Selma – seqaunimaugCribbs@outlook.com – Petrillo Cheyenne- ezPetrilloChekeikeyenn@outlook.com – Jennings Petronila JhuenniejngsPetronevila@outlook.com – Wiener Audra – Espino Hallie – HalliebyheEspodino@outlook.com – Dansby Bee – Hermes Leisha – GiycnderyjPaulepene@outlook.com – Ginder Paulene – Lerner Cecil – Franzen Patience – Stringer Christal – ceStringexorChrdeistal@outlook.com – boBilodeauqamyInocencia@outlook.com –

WoodsonChralujijystiane@outlook.com – Primm Shalonda – SjyhaijlonebdaPrimm@outlook.com – Duplessis Katharine – odKatharuvineDuplesessis@outlook.com – Leslie Carleen – LadeslixuepaCarleen@outlook.com – efHectygorLaveojra@outlook.com – Haggerty Vada – VadaHagpigsaerojty@outlook.com – Mccomb Marianna – MemariusannaMccoitmb@outlook.com – Orosco Melonie – MkyelowynieOroydsco@outlook.com –

Amy Lane – amy.lane@lcnwork.com – Kauffman Octavia – KehauniffmwoanOctavia@outlook.com – Lanham Syreeta – SyreekutaazLanhlyam@outlook.com – Toms Casey – arTomeksCvuasey@outlook.com – Putman Arlyne – Vannessa Moores – VannessatuMoadorhees@outlook.com – Zink Chastity – ChastoleriketyZink@outlook.com – Straka Thuy -StkyrtyakaTmohuy@outlook.com – Chesley Tenisha – TenisvohqaaChziesley@outlook.com – Dickinson Yaeko –

DehickisunsweonYaeko@outlook.com – Ogilvie Kelley – naimOgiemlvieKelley@outlook.com – Bocanegra Aleshia – AleshiayrBocanxoesegra@outlook.com – alacantra Eleanore – Global National Company – McpheruxsonCdyarmcuen@outlook.com – Michael Francene – MimychaeniyblFrancene@outlook.com – Towle Eunice – Dole Lavenia – Chun Jolyn – ysJoafcilynChun@outlook.com – Osborn Jama – CacerekokesYiqesenia@outlook.com –

beKehirkseheyRosy@outlook.com – Foxworth Thanh – Germain Shery – GeoxrmaelinycShery@outlook.com – Benz Tamica – Mize Zenia – ZenisoayderMize@outlook.com – Forsyth Marguerita – yfForsythMarydgueriexta@outlook.com – Oxley Essey – Kittrell Ruby – KiujttrellhuRuluby@outlook.com – Fulford Ilse – IlgyseFneulfolord@outlook.com – Futrell Karma – FudytrellKarrekoma@outlook.com – Dear Colene – deaarrxucoublene@outlook.com –

Hoppe Krysten – ebKrystmuenHoamppe@outlook.com – Paz Juliana – PreazyhJeculiana@outlook.com – tveomesbeizrnicoece@outlook.com – LavyngevedinGeoroxgene@outlook.com – Escobar Caitlyn – Leslie Breann – Claytor Paul – viugClinaytorPaul@outlook.com – amy.lane@lcnjob.com – koedachi1979@mail.com – ashika.raj@hotmail.com – daniellemarietaylor@hotmail.com – Alanna Simmons – kaishin1986@mail.com – Atatoa Viqasi – a.viqasi@hotmail.com –

nkigae1971@mail.com – Doss Katheleen – reggieronnie1@hotmail.co.uk – Lucien DENIS – denis13140@hotmail.com – amylane@lcncareer.com – Gerard Ferrigno – ferrignogerard@hotmail.com – jase.calvert@hotmail.com – yomiiki1971@mail.com – nicolebaker395+mbu@indeedemail.com – kochiiga1975@mail.com – estebantejeda10@hotmail.com – panteranegra2780@hotmail.com – mimonoko1982@mail.com – guchiana1985@ mail.com – bebo_911_2@hotmail.com –

ruiai1981@mail.com – ngorika1973@mail.com – tekiseyu1984@mail.com – gorjus_bella86@hotmail.com – Nicola.Goad@outlook.com – anum_i55@live.com – Trisha.Forney@outlook.com – Assunta.Brink@outlook.com – Higgins.King@outlook.com – f_linette@hotmail.com – Lukens.Ouida@outlook.com – menchie_o@hotmail.com – jewels-elisabeth@outlook.com – Bordelon.Jade@outlook.com – Herbert.Petterson@outlook.com – yinotoon_45@hotmail.com –

luis Leonardo – eln0ble@hotmail.com – Langford.Brigitte@outlook.com – lorena Gonzalez – lorena4948@hotmail.com – marykate345@outlook.com – Blossom.Mueller@outlook.com – sjwheatley1@hotmail.com – katheryn.barfield@outlook.com – kaufjm19@hotmail.com – neesiepeices84@live.com – purbeckmark@outlook.com – paulina.kowal@hotmail.com – Langford.Brigitte@outlook.com – Tonya wilkinson – McCauley.Berna@outlook.com – tcrockett1963@hotmail.com –

phil-j-latham@hotmail.co.uk – Katheryn.Barfield@outlook.com – Lukens.Ouida@outlook.com – Jeri.Gamble@outlook.com – Alicia Martinez – smiley.xd@live.com – keefer122450@hotmail.com – Herbert.Petterson@outlook.com – Tasha Crump – beautifulfaith@hotmail.co.uk – juliahaworth@live.com – Katheryn.Barfield@outlook.com – Mecham.Chia@outlook.com – terramadre1950@msn.com – Janene.Hamer@outlook.com – teefaa-02@hotmail.com – janetmoran2015janet@outlook.com –

Rebecca Fisher – dannynmai@hotmail.com – Goetsch.Dortha@outlook.com – Jeffrey Grant – Leal.Cyrus@outlook.com –
Briggs.Harold@outlook.com – babyblu3_1016@msn.com – Alicia Threlkeld – pedrosami213@live.fr – Bordelon.Jade@outlook.com – Lukens.Ouida@outlook.com – red_rubie@live.com – barisanjali@hotmail.com – Leal.Cyrus@outlook.com – Goetsch.Dortha@outlook.com – am111213@hotmail.com – McDermott.Shayne@outlook.com –

Higgins.King@outlook.com – amylane@lcnrecruit.com – mmforddy2121@hotmail.com – am111213@hotmail.com – McDermott.Shayne@outlook.com johnorchard87@hotmail.com – Lukens.Ouida@outlook.com – amylane@lcnrecruit.com – porekstad@hotmail.com – guchiana1985@mail.com – joel_engwall@hotmail.com – TigevhjyomasonTana@outlook.com – Jarrah Smith – Hearne.Federico@outlook.com – Trisha.Forney@outlook.com – care470@hotmail.com – jeri.gamble@outlook.com –

McCauley.Berna@outlook.com – julfen@msn.com – gabrielle_hosein@hotmail.com – Katheryn.Barfield@outlook.com – delmy_marroquin11@hotmail.com – Langford.Brigitte@outlook.com – msunshine70@outlook.com – maeking3@live.com – Herbert.Petterson@outlook.com – dianelawson@hotmail.com – chaserockcole@aol.com – coreyngtopperngza4989@yahoo.com – cnewtonchr@aol.com – veronalegaiettolexy3561@yahoo.com – dennisgoretic@aol.com – kingnewman30@aol.com –

chanohrichinsohab7437@yahoo.com – anthimecommare@aol.com – oliviagzheroldgzst7101@yahoo.com – frivolloserendo@hotmail.com – maeibconaryibuv5340@yahoo.com – jinaslflatteryslef4601@yahoo.com – jerilynkdkroellskdwx7307@yahoo.com – caridadkdmaineskdwx9711@yahoo.com – furnmaker2@aol.com – amylane@lcn-career.com – maryellenfyforneyfyrs4453@yahoo.com – kolekjohnson@aol.com – floridafyquinterfyrs9607@yahoo.com –

margartatgroetkenatmn1956@yahoo.com – arianneibclaaribuv1282@yahoo.com – mathildaqjmoberleyqjcd9912@yahoo.com – lillianqjlishmanqjcd6914@yahoo.com – astatinebfidn@hotmail.com – rebbeccaibfilipiakibuv4576@yahoo.com – nohemilefennylexy5477@yahoo.com – jacindatmreinsteintmfg6008@yahoo.com – arianneibclaaribuv1282@yahoo.com – nicoleaffi@aol.com – mcravn@aol.com – margartatgroetkenatmn1956@yahoo.com –

lintershirkfrag@hotmail.com – arianneibclaaribuv1282@yahoo.com – mrswwwclarkjr@aol.com – jasmincarson@outlook.com – coreyngtopperngza4989@yahoo.com – busterdou@aol.com – hienwpseelyewpij8542@yahoo.com – risk463@aol.com – ostbyjr@aol.com – jerilynkdkroellskdwx7307@yahoo.com – oliviagzheroldgzst7101@yahoo.com – Vylesj@aol.com – risk463@aol.com – weezie1119@aol.com – cirmensyversion@gmx.com – sadiemareanu@gmx.com – raymondmatloff65@gmx.com

catalinosagan53@gmx.com – berylgarganosj@gmx.com – dezellaalbanesea@gmx.com – tennesselorenzo87@gmx.com – tressaariosto42@gmx.com – cereliawomackyu@gmx.com – raymondmatloff65@gmx.com – tanyaetzkornlk@gmx.com – makedalivingstone02@gmx.com – jacouelynclark25@gmx.com – amylane78@lcn-hr.com – evapritzut@gmx.com – sadiemareanu@gmx.com – floridafyquinterfyrs9607@yahoo.com – raylynnbuck@aol.com – rachelecnduemmelos0877@hotmail.com

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