I received the following e-mail today. It didn’t have any company information or telephone numbers, just the text you see. It’s ringing alarm bells, and it’s not something I’d be terribly interested in, but I’m curious if it’s a scam.
What say you, dopers?
phishing scam…
Scam.
For one thing, if a company is responding to your résumé for an open position they have they would probably address you by name. There may be legitimate companies who solicit applications from everyone whose résumé offers skills that match their open positions, but in that case they’re not looking for you. They’re hoping for some responses from qualified applicants. But IMO most of the ‘We found your résumé on monster.com’ emails are scams.
I’m pretty sure that your specific email is for something like this: The ‘company’ sends you bank checks (like cashier’s checks), which you deposit into an account. You mail payments to a third party and keep a 10% commission. The bank checks are bogus, and you’re on the hook for the amount. Meanwhile you have already sent real money to the ‘third party’.
And have your full name, address, and phone number, also. You wouldn’t need to send it to them again.
Look at the money angle. $700 to $1300 a week to do a small amount of financial processing, plus 10% of every transaction. Maybe they would send you checks to process as the middle man in a scam that is traced back to you from the legal system investigating scams. The employer is safer, because the elctronic transfers were done by you. It might take you a week or two until the lack of the salary payment, has you alerted that something is wrong. It sounds like a bad deal to respond to. Total yearly salary to be upto $67,600 before the 10% bonus from every transaction.
We would like to suggest you a job of a Transfer Manager in our company.
We guarantee that you will get about 10% of each processed payment.
These two things alone clued me that this is suspicious at the very least.
On #1, it was the syntax; on #2 it was the approximate amount. Even if that changed for some reason, I don’t think it would be expressed this way.
Oh, yeah, like others have said; if they found your resume on monster.com, they would at least have your name, if not your address and phone number.
Thanks, everybody. I was naturally suspicious, but couldn’t put my finger on why. I suppse the next contact would ask for my bank account number.
StG
I have received the exact same email as well, addressed to me in a similar fashion. It’s a scam of some sort.
Why, you do want your lucrative commissions direct-deposited into your bank account don’t you? Of course!
It sounds like an overpayment scam to me.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/overpayalrt.htm
They would probably be asking you to receive checks, cash them, keep 10% and send them the rest. Of course, the checks would be bogus.