i got an email today just in the nick of time to test out some scams. i was immediately skeptical when i read the email greeting:
Greetings! Our company is registred in the Monster company. We have reviewed your resume and are eager to inform you that we are ready to offer you a vacant position
If you are intrested in getting the job in our company please visit our web-site
We looked through your skills and became sure that you correspond to our requirements.MTc 5Yj
Job scheme will comprise the following:
1. You receive payments from our customers (By checks, Money orders e.t.c)
2. Than you fill forms with details of received payments in your Internet Office
3. Transfer money to our main office by requested methods.
Your earning will be 8 % of the amount of each completed payment please answer this message with your Сontact Infomation and Attach your Resume to e-mail.
Additionally we are going to effect you $ 1500 as your salary at the end of each month.YjZk YjUz
you better bet that i'm getting my contact *infomation* and resume ready to attach to e-mail!well, it certainly sounds too good to be true. i spent some time on their website, and surprisingly it is pretty professional looking, except for the typos. and, it didn't require any money for me to sign up. it did ask me to sign a contract, however, which i did online. the contact was pretty typical, but the ceo's name was shulrik holms!
haha, we'll see if anyone gets back to me. all of my info was fabricated, of course. i'm not going to put myself at risk to be a fraud victim.
29 comments:
I just received the same email today and googled them, getting your blog.
I've heard of scams where you take money from customers and forward it to a company, so I'm not biting.
Out of curiosity,
Did you ever hear back from them??
I got the same email today...Dude...don't do it!!! It's the same as the scam where someone sends you a check, you cash it through your bank then send the money to another address keeping a "transaction fee" as payment. Turns out the check is fake and you've overdrawn your account left holding the bag! If you want a job at home...check out www.liveops.com.
I received the exact same email today, too. I want to know if this is a scam. I couldn't find anything on BBB. Sure sounds like a fraud. Please keep us posted.
Thanks,
2aronic
Same e-mail. Definitely interested to hear your results.
-CK
I just got the same Email today. All the phone numbers are dead ends. (claim to be 24 hr lines) Tried to email one of the support email, It got thrown back. I'm gonna try the one posted on this blog. www.liveops.com see where that leads. And I didn't sign any contract online or off.
I registered and I got this today.
This is a scam!
Hello!
Thank you for the collaboration with us. Everything is all right. The
first check was send on your address, which was mentioned in contract
today. Check to the amount of $2954,35. You will get it during one or
three days. For the fast cashing, you may use such services like “cash
check” or “cashing offices” (the commission for the fast cashing you
pay from the sum of our money, they will not exceed more than 5) From
the cashed sum of money you will take 8 percent as your fee. And the
rest you should send to us by Western Union.
OUR COMPANY SUPPORT LINE NUMBER 814-806-2634.
HOW ARE YOU DOING WITH CHECK CASHING? WE WOULD LIKE TO REMIND YOU THAT
IN CASE YOU MANAGE TO CASH THE CHECK DURING 1-3 DAYS YOUR COMMISSION
WILL BE HIGHER. YOUR SHARE WILL BE 20 OF THE CHECK AMOUNT. YOU MAY
TAKE 20 OF THE CHECK AMOUNT IF YOU TRANSFER MONEY WITHIN THIS TIME.
IF CHECK CASHING TIME EXCEEDS THIS TIME PERIOD YOU WILL GET STANDARD
8 COMMISSION OF THE CHECK AMOUNT.
ALL COSTS OF TRANSFERRING MONEY BY WESTERN UNION A DEDUCTED FROM OUR
SUM OF MONEY.
Information for transferring money by Western Union:
1)First Name - MARINA
2)Last Name - FILIMONOVA
3)City - ST. PETERSBURG
4)Country - RUSSIA
Please use “money in minutes” service if available
After you have transferred money by Western Union you will be given
the MTCN (Money Control Transfer Number). It consists of 10 digits.
After you make the Transfer please send us the same day an email with
the following data
PLEASE, SPECIFY THE FOLLOWING DATA COMPLETELY
1) Your address (as you filled in the Western Union form):...........
2) Your full name (as you filled in the Western Union form):..........
3) Amount of the transfer:...............
4) Money Transfer Control Number [MTCN]:..........
After we will get money and be certain of your efficiency, the number
of checks on your name will be one in a day. We appreciate the quality
of our partners and hope to work for a long time.
Our company support line number 814-806-2634.
I did not sign their contract but I copied it.
AGREEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT
Financial Agent N 4068
THIS AGREEMENT made this Feb 13 2008 between Online Office Inc. ("Employer"), and , residing at ("Employee").
The rights and responsibilities of the participants
1. Employment. The Employer hereby employs the Employee, and the Employee hereby accepts employment as [FINANCIAL AGENT], upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
2. Duties. The Employee shall perform his duties as [Financial Agent]. The Employee shall be responsible for all the duties commensurate with his position of [Financial Agent], as directed, established and assigned by the Employer from time to time including without delay.
The employer should provide the Employee with the job within 5 (five) days after signing the contract, pay the monthly salary (1500 USD during the one month trial period, 2250 USD after the trial period) in time, using the following payments systems for transferring money: Western Union, Bank wire transfers.
Employer must provide the Employee with timely and detailed instructions and consultation.
Employee must execute the full amount of work qualitatively and timely, can not break the confidentiality of the documents, transactions and post mailings.
The Employee can not give the confidential information to the third persons and use confidential information for his own purposes.
Being the intermediary in financial operation the Employee must keep the terms of conducting the financial operations (notified in the individual instruction to the work task).
The Employee has the right to choose convenient kind of payments.
Employer has the right to impose a fine on the Employee if the Employee has destroyed or lost payments or has broken the agreement of the employment. As a fine employer may reduce payments . (Note that Employee is not responsible for the violation of the terms of the financial operations by the third persons).
3. Compensation. The Payments by the parts which are depending on the amount of the task made (the salary for different work activities is given in the enclosure to the agreement of employment. In some circumstances the salary may be changed but the rate of payments can't be less than indicated in the enclosure to the agreement of employment. If the employee transfers a payment with a delay our company claims damages from the employee. If the employee receives non-sufficient founds, canceled checks, or bad checks our company makes full refund.
4. Holidays; Vacation. The Employee shall be entitled to holidays and vacation in accordance with the prevailing policies of the Employer as in effect from time to time.
5. Termination. The Employee or the Employer may terminate this Agreement and the Employee's employment hereunder at any time, for any reason, or no reason, without cause. The employee must warn the employer about the decision of leaving the company and then the employee must continue working during two weeks. When this period is over the employee can termination the contract with the employer. The Employee shall have no right to receive any further compensation from the Employer. The Employer may terminate this Agreement and the Employee's employment hereunder at any time, without prior notice, for cause. This Agreement and the Employee's employment hereunder shall automatically terminate upon the Employees ceasing to be a Financial Agent.
6. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held or deemed to be invalid, such circumstance shall not have the effect of rendering any other provision of this Agreement invalid, inoperative or unenforceable, but such invalid provision shall, to the extent possible, be modified to render it valid, and if such provision is not capable of being so modified, this Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid, inoperative or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein so as to give full force and effect to the remaining such terms and provisions.
7. Entire Agreement; Amendment. This writing constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and may not be modified, amended or terminated except by written agreement specifically referring to this Agreement signed by all of the parties hereto.
8. Waiver. No waiver of any breach or default hereunder shall be considered valid unless in writing and signed by the party giving such waiver, and no such written waiver shall be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default of the same or similar nature.
9. Binding Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each party hereto, its successors and permitted assigns.
10. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one agreement.
11. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the USA without regard to the law of the conflicts of law of such state.
Employees signature
Name: Shulrik Holms
Title: President & CEO
I Agree with the agreement
These emails are scams, I had a similar job offer and was sent counterfiet money orders and travelers checks. They just want to see if you can get them cashed and once you send them the money you would be the one responsible for cashing a fake and owe the amount back should you find someone to cash it for you. I took the money orders I received to my bank to have them checked out and they were 100% FAKE although they looked pretty real. Watch Out for these SCAMS!!!!!!!!!
I actually got a check from them in the mail. What a crock!!! I work at a check cashing company and although they look real - they are clever counterfiets. Sorry everyone. It is a scam.
Dude did you actually get a check and what company was it written under
I have actually gotten 3 checks from them. $2875.61, $2854.90 and $3775.49. They all look pretty much the same...Never cash any of them...but they keep coming.. Anyone know what Can be done to these scammers?
I just want to answer your question by saying that this is a serious scam!!! Yesterday I took my check, which the bank registered through is "Citibank" and I took the check to a nearby Citibank location and informed them that I received this check from Online-Office, Ltd and I would like to find out whether or not this is a legitimate check. After the teller examined and researched the check in front of me for a good ten minutes or so. He was able to clearly say that this check isn't a real check. On top of that, he refused to give the check back to me and stated for security reasons and the protection for me, he was authorized to seized the check without returning it to me. The branch manager also informed me that there was a recent arrest in TX along with court cases for individuals that cashed these checks as well. The question to you is. Is it worth going through an arrest followed by a court case for a check you received and cashed??? Hmmmmm...
I have recieved 2 checks from these people. i was instantly wary. I took the first one to the bank it was drawn on and had them look at it. It was a real check, but the signatures didnt match and there wasnt enough funds in the account to cover it. The bank took the check and sent it to the fraud dept. i have recieved another chaecka nd am in the process of checking it out as well. This one is written on Citibank. But there are no citibank in this state. Be wary of anyone who sends you money for no reason. I cant even find their website now!!!
i have recieved a check for 3775.49 i called the number on the check which is 516-874-5135 and spoke to a man who said the check is for online services and i was a good check i also asked to speak to the orin s kramer ans the man said that he will be in tomorrow anyone have any ideas please let me know
They change who they are 'registered' with according to where you are. I was on CareerBuilder and just received one of these emails today! I was hesitant, but I'm glad I found your posts!
I got the same EM and rigfht away googled "Online Office Scam" and came here. Imagine how many folks who have just gotten a computer or are net newbies that are going to get taken. One would think that the banks would get together and set up a sting operation as I have been told that banks are loosing quite a bit of money from these very clever scammers...most likely Russians or Nigerians with a higher education...but who knows for sure.
The part I liked best is that they actually say they don't report any income to the IRS...and amazingly enough greedy dumb ass americans are going to fall for this like rotten apples from a tree.
Actually I don't blame whom ever is doing this...more power to them. The only folks who came up with the trem "Crime Never Pays" are only the ones who got caught. Actually CRIME DOES PAY! and it pays very well. If it did not...I would not be getting a dozen of these scams a day in a world where spamming is supposed to be illigal.
I am certain that what pisses off law enforcement off most is the fact that they are basically impotent when it comes to internet fraud...and they know it. So the best they can do is enact laws that are useless and ineffective but scary none the less hoping to snag one out of a thousand. In the mean time honest folks are being taken to the cleaners buy our own government, our own banks, our own insurance companies with LEGAL SCAMS like bate and switch credit cards, the high cost of gas, more taxes being enacted by local democrats ( especially in maryland) where our local government wants to tax small biz services.
So who is to blame? Ultimately it's US! We continue to vote into office CROOKS, GREEDY LAWYERS, lame incompetent and power hungry canditates for president ( HIL, OBO and MC LAME) and we keep doing the same things over and over again all the time expecting different results.
www.benmichalski.com
Good to know I receive this email today and I sign in. but no accept the aggrement(contract). I founded you first.
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Recivi este email hoy y hice sing up en la pagina ( la cual es muy bonita) pero no llegue aceptar el contrato por que el nombre de la firma me son un poco extrano . Y los encontre a ustedes Y es otro SCAM!!!
I yesterday received a check for $3571.25 from a Ion Oceanu and Costina Oceanu from SF, CA,,the phone number on the check ironically comes from PA, area code and is 814-806-2835,,anyone recognize those phone numbers??? I called the bank,wells Fargo and they were able to verify that the account was a valid account, would not verify funds,,they said it had a "Loss Hold" placed on the check,,when I asked what that meant they basically indicated it was up the bank to cash it or not,,I voided the check and will be taking it to my local police department along with Online Office LTD information I have,,although we all know the site does not exist any longer,,I'll get back to you all how I make out with the police,,not that they can help,,would make me feel beeter though,,Even if your checks may clear folks,,DON'T DO IT!!!!
i'm so glad that i googled the company because this site came up. the saying never fails "if it sounds to good to be true, then it is".
i'm so grateful that you all added this to the web.
thanks again for the heads up.
i rcvd the e-mail earlier this week, but held off and wanted to check up on it 1st... i'm glad i did... i sent them an e-mail letting them knw how i felt. this is what i wrote:
this is a scam... i read every inch of your website and even looked it up to make sure it wasn't a scam and it is... nothing adds up at all... if your going to trick and scam people, maybe you should change the President's name of the company. it's kind of sad how you can do this to people who make an honest living working hard for their money. imagine if this happened to one of your family members... shameful...
no thanks.
Have a blessed day!!
They got me.
I'm an idiot. I guess I'm too trusting. Now I need to deal with this crap. I hope I can convience the powers to be that I was a victim and not in on the plan.
gonna cost me about 2600 dollars.
It's a sick world.
i knew it sounded too good to be true!
I joined the site but didn't sign the contract, i googles the name Shurlick Holms (how dumb are these ppl??!?!) and this site came up... I'm going to try to alert authorities or the BBB about this crap.
does anyone know what the website is so i can check it out?
The website is http://www.abb-inc.org. I too received the same email. I am in no way going to sign the contract now that i found this blog! Thanks everyone
I just received the same e-mail and it sounds so funny. Thanks you guys for shinning the light. It get's frustating not finding a job and getting an email like that..I went to the website and also tried the phone numbers and nothing. I also googled them was the strangest thing was that when you try to search the company name you will get nothing..
Came up here in AZ. I signed up and got the first check $2,943.00.
Figured it was a scam, but went through with it. Got the check and as good as it looks (US Bank), it was not filled out correctly.
Took to US Bank (not to the check cashing places they direct you to) and asked if it was good. An hour with the Branch Manager was not fun, but they took the check (evidence)and knew about the scam.
I'm not out anything.
I emailed ABB-online and asked them to send me another check and the commission on the bogus check (I did my part) and that I expect the salary too.
Let's see if they pay me off to keep quiet.
I copied everything in case US Bank needs more info.
I have gone through your site information and it is the same opportunity that I was looking for. The facilities, the process that what you are offering are perfectly matched to my Expectation & very soon you will get Response from my side.
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