5/24/2011

Tips And Tricks: Is This A Scam Or Is It Real?!?

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Is This A Scam Or Is It Real?!?Hey guys! I have been ebaying for about a year now, only selling some stuff in my house, and have built up 36 positive feedbacks. While I know that is very little, a "company" says they are interested in me working for them, and that they got my email through ebay. At first, I thought it was a scam, but after reading more about it, I saw that I do not need to put in any real information of mine. Here is the actual email.
Good morning,

We've found your e-mail at www.ebay.com web site and we have business proposal

for you. As I see

you have high positive feedback rating and have good experience in online

business, so I think we can

do business together.

Our company "Sigmacomputers",resell computers,digital cameras,elecronics and

other goods in Russian Federation,

You can check our web site to familiraze with our company - www.sigmacomputers.ru

We offer for our customers to buy goods directly from US stores it more

cheaper then buy in Russian Local dealers.

Also we prepare goods from USA after we receive them in our warehouse. Custom

clearance and localithation( install

Software symbols on keyboard), so our customers recieve ready

for use products and price cheaper

then buy from local dealers.



Quantity of orders from USA stores grows every day. So we need more partners in

USA for order processing.

You are selling goods on ebay and you have good experience with shipping

procedure



Requirements:

- Home Computer with e-mail account and ability to check your e-mail

box at least twice a day;

- Adults only accepted (we cannot hire underage people);

- Contact phone;

- Ability to handle packages weight up to 20 pounds(get them to the post

office).



Duty:

- Receive packages

- Check content for damages and missing parts (to avoid international returns)

- Ship packages



Salary:

30$ for each shipped package;

10$ for cheking content of package;

10$ for each repacking procedure;



This work will take about 1-2 h day, you not need invest any your money, all

postage fees pays our company.



If you interested in this partnership please email me :





Best wishes

So I answered them with the reply of, "I would like you to go into more depth with what I would be doing." I got this email in return.

Thank you for you reply,
BENEFITS:
- Part-time job
- About 20 real working hours a week
- 5 working days (Monday-Friday)
- Saturday and Sunday, the US State holidays - days off
DUTIES:
- To accept packages and the correspondence from delivery services
- To repack the goods if necessary
- To check package content
- To send packages and correspondence to clients in terms specified by the Company

Job description:
Correspondence manager regional agent
1. Receiving the correspondence from our partners (US sellers) to you residential address or alternative address (office and etc) ;
Correspondence will be delivered from 9:30 am - 17:00 pm Via UPS FEDEX or DHL you have to sign for packages.
2. Check package content for missing parts. Report to manager if something is wrong.(To Avoid international returns)
3. If you received 2 or more boxes you have to repack boxoes into 1 package and reposrt to our manager package weight.
4. Our manager will calculate shipping cost and sent via email prepaid shipping label
5. You have to print shipping label and go to USPS post office (you can check office location on http://USPS.COM) and ship package.
6. Report to your personal manager that package(s) are shipped and email tracking number(s).
We pays for you $ 30 for each shipped out box, 10$ for content check, 10$ for each shipped letter and 10$ for packages repacking
At example you received 2 boxes -> repacked to 1 package -> shipped You earning will be 40+40+10 = 90$
We pay you salary each 2 weeks(western union or bank transfer)
If you are interested and want start working with our company please fill form below and email it to me:
Full name:
Agewe cannot hire underage people)
Addressfor package delivery po box not accepted)
Alternative address: (if you have alternative address)
City:
State:
Zip code:
Country: United States
Contact telephone number:
Contact Email:
Yahoo or MSN messenger ID:
Do you have scanner ? -
What type of transfers you able accept for payouts/shipping :
western union (y/n) -
bank transfer (y/n) -
paypal (y/n) -

Hope to hear you soon.

Thanks guys and let me know if this is a scam or not!
Thanks guys. My problem now is that I responded to the email. My dad told me that they now have my IP adress and can steal my computer information. Is this true?

dk
SCAM!

Frank N. Stein
Total scam. It has all of the "scam features" like Russia, bad English, having you ship stuff, etc.
Stay away from that crap.

vern
It's a scam. Don't bother waste your time.

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