Thursday, June 24, 2010

Finnish 419 scam...

Fortunately, this is not a very clever or sophisticated scam. But it is disconcerting for another reason. That being that I received this in my email and they, as stated, found my resume on CareerBuilder. Well, I guess it's time to cancel that one out for real this time since all I seem to get from them is scams. So here is the poorly written (translated) mail. Check it out, it's fairly obvious that this is bogus.


Dear **********,
Our Organization have found your resume in CareerBuilder,www.careerbuilder.com resume base reviewed it and think that you to be a great candidate for this job which we propose.
We are now looking for a few qualified persons for a vacant position "Account Coordinator".

The main task of this position is to collect payments bank transfers and checks from our customers in USA.
If you haven’t bank account our manager will help you to open a new one.

Average salary is $600-$800 per week.

Basic Requirements:

- Computer skills MS Word personal e-mail address
- US Citizenship
- Age: 21+
- Ability to work at home
- Responsibility


NO FEE IS REQUIRED FOR ENTERING THE JOB

If you want to join our company please apply here


I left the last link intact so that it is still possible to go look at their atrocious site. It's bare, it's ugly and if you click through to the "about us" page it gets worse. They use a cropped up Declaration of Independence in their header and WARNING they have bad new-jazz set to autoplay. Overall, this is not very impressive and what's worse is that the "name" of their company doesn't even mean anything. Apparently according to Artists Against 419 it could mean "about international". At any rate, this is the thing that finally pushed me to get as far away from the ass-hats at CB.com. What a bunch of fuckers.

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