Here is a highly obvious example of a Scam or Spam email:
Good time of the day <Recipient Redacted>
Altair Investment Management reviewed your resume and would like to offer you a home-based position with our company as Customer Service Representative. We stongly believe that your knowledge, skills and experience will be an asset to our business. We offer a fixed salary of 3,500.00 dollars per month plus additional bonuses and benefits.
Duties:
– Completes and submits reports to Accounting Department
– Set up and support productive business relationships with consumers
– Provide service to both potential and existing clients
– Making an environment of great customer service through ensuring client transactions are processed accurately and efficiently
– Processes transactions and currency orders
– Ensures that all transfers are processed in accordance to policy and procedure as well as in a timely manner
If you are looking for ways of obtaining more information about this job, if you are available and searching for a new professional lunch, then contact our HR Dept
Yours truly, Drahcir Shiltz
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sent by: tan2003@stofanet.dk
Notice the job title, usually reserved for low pay positions–offense unintended–the unusually high dollar amount, and the offer of a fixed salary. All of this without an interview having taken place, sight unseen, as a ‘blind’ email. Wow! When are we ready to start?
A good place to start:
- Beware sight-unseen offers of any kind.
- Be especially aware of high responsibility job offers.
- Be suspicious of unusual dollar amounts offered.
- Consider Remote Job offers suspect until the company is proven legitimate. Everyone wants to work remote.
- Notice job duties. Typically, Customer Service jobs do not pay well for the work involved.
- Jobs that process currency transactions of any kind are highly vetted, and require thorough background checks prior to an employment offer.
- Policy and Procedure-heavy jobs require a proven track record of consistency, prior to an employment offer.
Also note the unusual name: combined with the high dollar amount, fixed salary, and job offer, this is a glaringly obvious scam. Unfortunately, these factors are likely intentional. Scammers prey on ‘weaker’ people; those in financial trouble, accomplished but retired folks on fixed incomes with lots of bills, bright college students with very little life experience, people with substance dependencies, people who distracted with life, responsibilities, families, and troubles we all face.
Or, a response could simply be a thoughtless reply from someone applying in volume to scores of jobs. Attach your resume, and the scammer now has more to work with to continue the scam.
Scammers prey on people who need help but do not have the resources to obtain it, who may view their scam message as a boon, as someone looking out for them in their time of need.
We at NT, and presumably the reader, think this is deeply wrong, and perpetuated by sick individuals who need help themselves, but choose instead to hurt the people they prey upon.