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This is a Scam

By gregladen on November 14, 2007.

I know you know this, but does everybody? It is a new approach to getting your banking details. Please pass it around.

Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly?We are glad to offer you for a job position at our company. We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper in your country. This is in view of our not having an office presently in your country.

My name is Kachy Williams working as a Sales Consultant Manager for a fabric company in United Kingdom called Dhillon Fabrics. I found this medium an opportunity to contact you and like to know if you can work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly instantly. Dhillon is a Small textile and fabrics firm based in the UK. We have manufacturing office in Jakarta and in Italy. We need representatives in the World to work for the company as a representative/book keeper This Job serves as a Part-Time Job which will in no way affect your present Job,you only need to work within 1 hour anytime at your convinient time for our Company. We produce various clothing materials, batiks,assorted fabrics and traditional costumes, which, of course, we have various clients we make supplies to weekly in Nothern America,Europe and Africa respectively.

***YOUR TASK IS TO CO-ORDINATE PAYMENTS FROM CUSTOMERS AND HELP US WITH THE PAYMENT PROCESSING***
This is in view of our not having an office presently in various Countries.
You don't need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going on at the moment.

BENEFIT IS AS FOLLOWS:-

It is obviously a scam, but just to add credibility to this post, I checked it out here at scam central, verifying that it is a scam.

Someone should do a linguistic analysis of these scams. The adherence to common American English seems to be increasing. I wonder if they are hooked up to one of those on line services that will write your term paper for ten bucks.

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Now there's an idea (shudder).

"Hi, my term paper assignment is for write fifty email financial scam letters, and I am need help with write English proper and convincing. Please for to edit these drafts for me and return them to me promptly and I will pay you Monday ...."

By Hank Roberts (not verified) on 14 Nov 2007 #permalink

Interesting. I read this and immediately thought it was written by someone for whom English was a second language. It may be a little closer to standard American English than your average Nigerian scam, but don't you think they could hire a native English speaker to write the pitch for a mass-email scam campaign?

More info on this: Your job is to the recipient of the payments from Ebay scams and the like. You're deposit the checks you receive, take your cut, and send the money on.

Oh, and hope no pissed off would-be laptop buyer shows up at your house with gimp suit and a barrel. It happened(well, minus the bit about the gimp suit) to some poor mentally-impaired guy just last week.