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Q&A: nsbalian@mspa-worlwide.org scam?
I received this E-mail and I’ve even received a check for close to ,000 saying to send 00 to the address I still can’t find any info on this company..But that’s quite a bit of money to just Western Union someone E-mail is inclosed here: From: “Secret Shopper®” Add sender to Contacts
To: undisclosed-recipients
Message contains attachments1 File (4KB)Dear Candidate,

We have a job offer available for you that will not disturb your present occupation. Currently we have available position for you to work for us. See below description.

“We have a mystery shopping assignment in your area and we would like you to participate” Secret Shopper® is accepting applications for qualified individuals to become mystery shoppers. It’s fun and rewarding, and you choose when and where you want to shop. You are never obligated to accept an assignment. There is no charge to become a shopper and you do not need previous experience. After you sign up, you will have access to training materials via e-mail, fax or postal mail.

ABOUT US

Secret Shopper® is the premier mystery shopping company, serving clients across America and Canada with over 500,000 shoppers available and ready to help businesses better serve their customers. Continual investment in the latest internet and communication technologies coupled with over 16 years of know-how means working with Secret Shopper® is a satisfying and rewarding experience. Secret shopping as seen on ABC NEWS, NBC NEWS, L.A.TIMES. Stores and organizations such as The Gap, Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, and Banks. One amongst many others pay for Secret Shoppers to shop in their establishments and report their experiences. On top of being paid for shopping you are also allowed to keep purchases for free. Secret Shopper® NEVER charge fees to the shopper. Training, tips for improvement, and shopping opportunities are provided free to registered shoppers. Mystery shoppers are either paid a pre-arranged fee for a particular shop, a reimbursement for a purchase or a combination of both. Secret Shopper® has availabl

You will be required to interact with the shop clerk.

You may conduct the shop alone or as a couple.

The assignment will pay 0.00 or more per duty

Kindly Fill Out the application form below and we will get back to you shortly with the assignment:

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

First Name:

Last Name:

Street Address (No Po Box Acceptable) :

City, State, Zip Code:

Cell Phone Number/Home Phone Number:

Age:

Current Occupation:

Alternate Email Address:

AVAILABILITY:

Days/Hours Available

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:

Hours Available: from _______ to ______

Assignment: We have had complaints on some western union and money gram location in the services they render and we want you to investigate it personally as our new Evaluator in your area By Going there to send funds. We will be sending you Payment in form of Money Orders to carry out this assignment. So please take note of these instructions below.

We will send you Money Order which you will take to your Bank for Instant Cashing then you are to proceed to the location we are going to allocate to you for investigation and you are to carry out every instructions we will be sending to you via email to investigate this location.

We will want for you to email us as soon as you have carried out the comprehensive investigation and let us understand what you found out about your survey.

I hope you do understand what we have requested for you to do as our new

Evaluator, Please confirm you do understand so we can approve your application and your new assignment will kick off immediately.

This is a very exciting job and is very rewarding. So please get back to us confirming your interest and we await your response for us to go ahead and approve you.

We await your urgent response.

Thank you for your help.

We look forward working with you.

Sincerely,

Neshan Balian.

Recruiting Department,

Secret Shopper®

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Q&A: Midwest Consulting LLC – Is it a SCAM??!?
I applied for and was offered a position as an at-home data processor for Midwest Consulting LLC. If this job is for real then it would be kickass, but I have my doubts. The first of which is that they have an training fee. Does anyone know anything about this company and if it’s for real?

Here’s the ad:
Job Description:

Desired Skills/Duties:
Growing company in need of order processors for online/e-commerce invoicing. We offer home-based data entry opportunities for people who would like to work from the comfort of their own home. You decide the hours that you work and the amount of money you earn. Pay will average – / hour. You are paid immediately upon completion of order. We require that you have reliable internet access and be available to check your email at least once per day for incoming orders. You will need a valid email address (yahoo, hotmail, etc. are fine and are acceptable). No experience is necessary; however, you must have basic computer knowledge in order to download current forms. If you are ready to start earning money today, email your resume or letter of interest to us. Someone from our team will review your review your information and respond to you within 48 hours. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you. HOW TO APPLY: Email your resume or letter of interest to: midwestconsulting.llc@gmail.com.

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Q&A: Is this another scam? Thanks a lot!?
JOB OPPORTUNITY
My name is Leslie Miller, CEO of Dav Trading Stores.An establishment that deals in the Import and export of high carbon content charcoal (100% carbonised).We are fast developing/growing company having long experience in the business. We are looking for a trustworthy representative in the united states that will aid as a link between us and our customers in the USA and Canada.
I would like to know if you are interested. Respond only if you will like to work from home part-time and get paid weekly without leaving or it affecting your present job.Retired or Unemployed Person can also benefit. (PAY IS GOOD)

Actually we need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper in the USA. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA and Canada.The average monthly income is about 4000.00 USD.* No form of investments from you.Only required 1-2 hrs to update us online/phone on the payment sent to you by our sales partners/ customer in usa and canada.More About the Job: We have some people selling for us in the state . You know, that it’s not easy to start a business in a new market (being the US and Canada ). There are hundreds of competitors, close direct contacts between suppliers and customers and other difficulties, which impede our sales promotion. We have decided to deliver the goods upfront, it’s very risky but it should push up sales on 25 percent. We need to get payments for the goods supplied as soon as possible. Unfortunately we are unable to open Bank Accounts in the United US without first registering the company name. Presently with the
amount of Orders we have, we cannot put them on hold. For fear of loosing the customers out rightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US soon enough, as international Checks take about 21 working days for cash to be made available.We lose about 45,000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified Cheque and Money orders based on the amount involved. YOUR TASK ARE:

1. Receive payment from Customers
2. Cash Payment at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be instructed to send payment to.

Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed in your bank or other Cashing Services.Deduct your weekly salary and forward the balance to the company via western union money transfer .We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You’ll have a lot of free time doing another job.
This are the information that will be required from you if you are interested…

(A) Your FULL NAMES…….
(B) FULL ADDRESS DETAILS,PLEASE NO P.O BOXES…..
(C) HOME AND WORK PHONE NUMBERS (INCLUDING CELL PHONE NUMBER)…..
(D) AGREEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF THIS REQUEST.It wouldn’t cost you any amount,you are to receive payments which will be sent to you by fedex or usps from our business patners,
(E)Age and Gender Thanks…..
(F)Occupation,,,,,,,

WHAT IS YOUR BEST MEANS OF COMMUNICATION? E-mail or phone Please I would be expecting your email as soon as possible.

You can also send a fax to: 44-136-1310104.

YES! It is legal (article 15.3) Employment Opportunity Act. Our lawyer checked all legal provisions concerning any domestic or international law against businesses or deals of domestic monetary trade. Doing this business is 100% safe and legal. ADVANTAGES
You do not have to go out as you will work as an independent contractor right from your home office.

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Q&A: Krutomer International email job offer scam? legit?
Received following email. Email address to is not company name so did google search which showed it was #14 in today’s searches within last hour. Anyone else receive or know about this company? Will 10 point winner!

Use the unique opportunity of additional earnings!

Our organization hires editors and proof-readers for work at home.

The clients of our organization exchange large quantity of important information, therefore our company as an intermediate link in correspondence regards orthography of extreme importance. For this purpose we need people able to check grammatical, syntactic and stylistic peculiarities of the documents.
This work provides for 3-4 hours of employment daily, at your convenience.
It is ideally suited for those who have the possibility to combine this activity with primary job and for those who has not job for one reason or another (students, pensioners etc.).

Your salary will be formed of the quantity of processed data.
Thus you will form your salary yourself, depending on your desire and possibilities.
E.g. in case of daily processing of 6-7 Kb of texts your total fee will make up USD 540-630.
You will get 3 conventional units per each complete 1 Kb of data.
The final pay takes place on the 30th of each month.

Main requirements to seekers:
Age: 22+ (no upper limit)
Citizen of the USA
Attentiveness, diligence, literacy
Advanced PC user (e-mail programs, Internet)
No record of convictions
If you are interested in the offered position we kindly request you to send your mail to the address as follows with brief indication of data which you will also find below:

FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE:
Phone number (home or cell, it is desirable that it should be available any day time):
E-MAIL:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
EDUCATION:
AVAILABLE TIME TO WORK WITH US:

We guarantee that your e-mail will be processed within 24 hours, and you will receive the answer in any event. Our staff will contact you to clarify all details of joint cooperation. If you have additional questions we are always happy to answer them.

Best regards,
Krutomer International
Will keep this question open until we find out for sure. Please keep sharing what happens so the rest know whether to apply. Also, if anyone gets a paycheck, and it is good, let us know.
Was everyone who got this posted on job board? I was on careerbuilder.

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Hi,my name is Anne,I did the following:
Q&A: Is This A scam or just what is this?
Platinum Exports
553 East Trent Blvd.,
London,SE1 7TJ
Tel.+447031899812
Rc:122132

My name is Thomas Cyril and I’m the C.E.O of Platinum Exports Company. We are
into general shipping, importing and exporting of automobile and motor vehicle
parts. We’d like to offer you additional earnings 00 – 00 per month.
It’s easy and will not take a lot of time. No costs, No Investments, Work Part
Time or Full Time . Up to 00 Part Time and 00 Full Time. Work from Home
with a Business Opportunity that no job could ever offer. Use your own
computer
to make money and make a CAREER as your own boss. I would like to know if you
are interested. Work will consist of receiving of the payments from our
clients in USA and Canada .
All you would be doing is receiving these payments that would come to you via
the mail system in your country, have them cashed and remit the rest to the
company as i will instructed you. I would be willing to pay you 10% of
whatever
payment you process. These payments would come in different forms.
We are always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling our
products
to Americans; they are always offering to pay with different Modes, which are
difficult for us to cash here in the UK. Because of a hold of almost three
weeks that would be placed on them before they clears the banks here
in the UK.
Unfortunately we can’t open the bank accounts in all the countries we
work with
and because of that we seek for a representative / bookkeeper in USA and
Canada .
Respond only if you will like to work from home part-time/full time and get
paid weekly without leaving or it affecting your present job. (PAY IS GOOD).
If interested please reply with the information below to
email:thomascyril00@aol.com

1). FULL NAMES:
2). GENDER/ AGE
3). RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (including, city, state and zip code):
P.O BOXES ARE NOT ALLOWED
4). HOME/CELL PHONE NUMBER:
5).EMAIL ADDRESS:
6) OCCUPATION
7). BANK NAME (OPTIONAL)

Best Regards
Thomas Cyril

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Question: Is this a real job or a scam?
I received this letter from a employer about data entry position work from home. Please read the content of the position and advice.

Thank you for requesting more information about the Home Based Data Entry
Work Opportunity.
Our home-based data entry work is a great opportunity for stay at home
moms, dads or anyone
who wants to work in the comfort of their own home. You will be processing
applications and
requests from your computer according to instructions that will be given to
you in our training manual.

With this system anyone can do it. There is no calling of strangers or
stuffing envelopes.
No taking surveys or anything like that, just a legit way to make money
using your computer at home.
With our home-based data entry work you can earn from US0.00 to 0.00
this week.

REQUIREMENTS

To perform the Home-Based Data Entry Work only requires that you have a
reliable computer,
a good Internet connection, a valid E-mail address, basic Internet
knowledge and minimal typing skills.
You can choose to work full time or part time. You will be working with
clients from all over UNITED STATES
and you can choose to work the hours you would like to work.

The preferred applicants should be at least 18 years old. You will not need
to submit a resume
or do an interview. No experience or special qualifications are needed
however
the following skills are desirable:

· Must be computer literate
· Have basic typing skills
· Be able to spell and print neatly
· Be able to follow instructions properly

You will need a new E-mail account just for the work as that is where all
your applications
will be sent and you will need this to keep in touch with clients. You do
not have to initiate
contact with anyone. All contacts will be made to you via your E-mail. You
will be processing
applications from your own computer via your E-mail. There is no contract
to sign and the
amount of requests you choose to process is entirely up to you. As with any
work you must
be willing to work hard and try to respond to the applicants in a timely
manner.
Printers are not at all required but can be helpful for you to print out
important documents
and cash revenue. You can begin working full time or part time, the choice
is up to you.
To work full time simply put more hours into your data entry work and you
will have a greater success.
You will need minimal typing skills for creating ads and entering data via
web forms at certain websites.

This whole data entry work program is something that everyone will become
very interested in when
they come across your ads and will definitely want to sign up for the
revolution account to continue
and receive the data entry work you will be offering. Everyone is always in
search of a work that pays
very well so they will definitely take a sharp interest in what you are
offering them. Considering that there
are no sign up fees. Just like you were interested in the data entry work
offer when we sent you the initial message
or you viewed an ad that we posted, others will become interested when they
view your ads. That’s how everyone
involved in this home-based data entry work program can make you money. How
successful you are with this
work depends on how many persons you can reach with the ads you created and
get interested enough
so that they sign up for the free Revolution account then you’ll send them
the traning materials after
you recieve a copy of their welcome E-mail from the Revolution account.

To start today visit our blog at http://workfromhomenocost.blogspot.com and
simply follow the directions at the bottom of the page.

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Q&A: Is Web Action Limited a scam?
Here is the email below that I recieved from a job poster on Careerbuilder.

Thank you for your interest in the position of an account manager with Webaction Limited. Our company offers a wide range of IT services, such as web development, web design, Internet marketing, iPhone application development, SEO, etc. We have been on a dynamic and rapidly developing IT market for more than 7 years, we have more than 100 professionals working with us in Europe and in the USA, and we are looking for new members of our team. Please note that neither our company, nor any of our partners ever ask for any investments or entry fees from candidates! Also, this is a work-from-home opportunity, no travel or relocation is required.

As an account manager, you will not promote or sell any of our services/products; neither you will be responsible for searching new customers. This is a customer support position, and the responsibilities include the following:

- working on the projects with project managers and team members
- establishing contacts with new and existing customers
- organizing the billing process for new customers
- processing customer requests and answering questions on the projects
- distributing initial payments for the projects among programmer teams
- preparing reports on the project status for customers.

This is a full-time position, and you will be working Monday through Friday, 9 am to 4 pm (according to your time zone). Your typical working day will look like the following:

1. Logging into your webdesk account, checking for new assignments.
2. Phone briefing with a project manager, learning current news and updates.
3. Working on today’s assignments according to the schedule.
4. Responding to customers, getting updates from them.
5. Filling in the daily time-table, reporting your daily activity.

Along with a base salary of ,500, which is paid once a month, we offer a flexible bonus system based on indvidual performance. Account managers receive bonuses for each project they support; once a new project is assigned to you, the bonus for it is paid instantly. According to the company’s statistics, the average monthly income for experienced account managers supporting multiple projects is above ,000.

You can find additional information about Webaction Limited at our website or forward your questions to your contact manager. Please reply to this message, in order to receive the employment form and arrange the time for a phone interview.

Webaction HR Department

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Q&A: Could this be a possible job scam?
Hey. I need some good advice about a possibility of a job being a possible scam just to get money out of me.

I’ve been unemployed for six months now and am desperately seeking a job.

I’ve googled jobs and come across many types of ‘home-based’ jobs which look very good for me. They are data entry jobs with typist required skills.

I applied for three of them, and they each got back to me with the same response, reasonably similar. I was just a bit peeved when I realized that they were asking for money!?

I emailed one of them about confirmation that they are a real company, but didn’t get anything but a ‘you have my word’

Please tell me whether you reckon this is a scam. It would help me very much.

Here’s one of the emails I got back (remember the other two were practically the same, even though they were from 3 different email addresses)

Thank you for your interest in this part-time, work from home position.
We are seeking self-motivated individuals to carry out administrative duties, predominantly managing and processing applications via E-mail.
You will be required to complete database forms online for prospective clients and process applications received from clients via E-mail. Each database form and E-mail application takes only a few minutes to complete and respond to.
You must be able to conduct yourself in a professional manner, have minimal typing skills and a good understanding of the English language. All correspondence with clients will be via E-mail; therefore telecommunication skills are not a prerequisite.
You will receive 10.00 GBP on completion of each E-mail application, with no limit on the number applications you may process.
For example:
Completing 3 E-mail applications each day, will earn 210 GBP per week, for as little as 2 hours work per day.
There is no minimum or maximum required number of E-mail applications to process. How many you receive will depend upon the amount of time and effort you are willing to work.
Training material will detail required tasks and procedures, step-by-step, to ensure the accurate and efficient completion of applications and that you receive a constant flow of work to process.
There are no third parties or commission involved; all payments will be paid direct to you.
Payments may be credited via PayPal, E-cheque, wire transfer or any other suitable online payment portal.
You can read about the security and privacy policies at www.paypal.com.
No personal details are required and you may work whichever hours you choose, be it days, nights or weekends.
Most individuals choose to work part time hours which suit around their current daily routines. However, you may work as many hours as you wish (potentially full time hours if you so desire).
TAX:
After you receive the training, you become an independent contractor working for yourself. This means that you will have to declare your own taxes.
*** THIS IS ENTIRELY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY ***
Start-up:
There is a one-time only, non-refundable fee of 10 GBP.
This is a one-time fee covering the training material, processing fee and to ensure that only serious individuals apply to handle prospective clients professionally. There will not be any additional charges.
The fee is non-refundable, so please be sure that you understand this before proceeding.
The training material will be sent to you via E-mail on receipt of payment and the training can typically be completed within 24 hours at your leisure. After which you may begin immediately.
If you are serious about this opportunity, meet the above requirements and are responsible to work from home:
Please send a reply E-mail with the subject TRAINING
You will then receive instructions for payment of the training material.
If this work from home opportunity is not suitable for you, then thank you for your time and good luck with future endeavours.

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