Job Scam: "Mercury Industries" also at mercuryindustries.org

The job scammers calling themselves "Mercury Industries" have started using the domain name "mercuryindustries.org" in addition to the "mercuryindustries.com" we've already seen. I sent them a request for additional information, and someone using the name "Mike White" and address "m.white@mercuryindustries.org" responded to it. The "additional information" they sent contained no additional information -- the job description is still terribly vague, including the nebulous catch-all phrase "will have to process sales and follow our instructions" which reeks of money laundering.

Even though the text isn't very informative, I'll post it below for the benefit of the search engines.

Dear,

Thank you for your interest in working for our great company. To better
understand the model of our business and what we do please visit 
www.mercuryindustries.com

My name is Mike White, I am responsible for business development in
Australia.  Let me explain you briefly about what our company does and
your responsibilities:

Mercury Industries Inc. was launched in early 2000, and continues to
establish itself as one of the leading US Internet supplier to digital
equipment market. The large range of electronic goods on offer our 
company
is growing to become one of the leading international players in 
digital
equipment market. The large range of electronics products already on
offer, have been complimented by the many other new products that have
been added since that time. We are looking for employees who would 
provide
customer support and work as sales support specialist from the comfort 
of
their own home. We need at least 10 business hours per week from you, 
if
you want to work with us. Successful sales support specialist will be
offered salesman position.  For more information, please visit our
website.


  Now more about your responsibilities:
  Persons who will be accepted for this job:
   1. Will have to answer customers questions and requests via e-mail 
or
phone (verbal skills a plus). Training will be given.
   2. Will have to keep in touch with a manager and be able to answer
calls and e-mail communications from the manager promptly.
   3. Will have to process sales and follow our instructions

You will be hired based on how well you will follow management 
directions
and answer inquiries from our customers.

After you will pass training we will let you sell our electronic goods 
on
your own. We will provide more information after you will pass training 
if
you will be interested in this position. However, if you would like to
provide just customer support that is fine.

After approval of your application a short phone interview will be
conducted if needed. You will receive wages of AUD $ 20 per hour plus a
commission of  % 8 (after paid training) from every sale that you will
service, after you will complete the training the contract will be 
signed
between you and our company.

   You will not have to spend any of your money at any time. We 
appreciate
the loyalty and trust from our employees. Please be advised that we
will not deduct any taxes from your commission, it will be your
responsibility to report your earnings to the government at the end of
the year.
   This opportunity is great for anyone who is looking for an extra 
income!
   Our employees usually make anywhere from AUD $400 to $800 a week!

   If you are interested or have some more questions please let us know 
so
we could get started with your application immediately.


Mike White
General Manager

Job Scam: jobeurobiz@aol.com pretending to be "Eurobiz Tour Inc."

This particular spammer doesn't describe the job as "financial manager", and there may be more to it than just plain money laundering. It's hard to tell when the job description is so vague. I think that the gist of it is that a bunch of crooks need a willing sucker to do stuff on their behalf to make the crooks themselves harder to trace.

Subject: Have 2-3 hours a day
Date: Wen, 7 Jun 2006 20:28:31 +0800

Hello [name]


International company "Eurobiz Tour Inc." is well known all over the world in international tours business.
We are searching for people,who want to work in our company and reach success fast, using modern life type.
Our company wants to become First place in touristic business, i hope you too.
This letter is to inform you about our TODAY BEST WORK PROPOSITION in this field of market.


You can become our manager and promote our company in your area.
The salary is 1000 EUR-3000 EUR per week, your duties are to execute tasks from Sirenis Inc. head office.Poland ,Spain, Slovakia, Germany, France business map.
Candidates: 21-60 years old, internet access every day, mobile phone, to be anxious for success.

No matter you country and city, send us your mail and get a reply next day!
Please send your CV, profiles according this e-mail: jobeurobiz@aol.com


++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Lyle Wesley
Wen, 7 Jun 2006 20:28:31 +0800

If I can obtain further information, I'll post it here.

Update on 2006-06-13. They responded as follows to my email request for further information. The description makes it fairly clear that money laundering is involved.

  Eurobiztour Inc. has a team of more than 1500 professionals, who work hard to provide a high quality service for our guests.
Thanks to our human resources, Sirenis Hotels is an expanding company with a strong position amongst the most important hotel
chains in Spain.

» Every day, we make an effort to give our best
The high scores obtained from the hotel satisfaction questionnaires outline the path we need to take in order to offer a high
quality, distinctive service to our guests.
» New ways of improving our service
We are currently changing our way of working, by implementing a new system based on the ICHE plan (Institute for Quality in
Spanish Hotels). Our first hotel to be given the distinctive "Q" rating denoting a quality establishment was the Sirenis
Seaview Country Club, and we now have a further two Q-rated hotels the Sirenis Hotel Club Aura and the Sirenis Hotel Club
Tres Carabelas.
» We are continually renovating our hotels
For many years, we have been making great economic efforts to renovate our establishments. This ongoing renovation make us
more competitive and in a position to offer improved employment positions.
» Sirenis Hotels and its commitment to the environment
MMinimising the impact on the environment and encouraging an economic use of water and energy resources are essential in
order to preserve the environment. Therefore, we must "use, re-use and preserve".

The Sirenis Hotels job vacancies option on the Internet is the most reliable, effective and speedy way of accessing job
opportunities offered by Sirenis Hotels, both in Spain and other countries.
» Applications
The system has been devised to allow candidates to fill in their details on the Sirenis Hotels Job applications option, thus
guaranteeing receipt of their CV.
 
JOB OFFER:
At this moment, it is necessary for us to increase our potential for our further development, and we declared a competitive
set for the post of the order processing manager. The manager performs the job connected with processing payments from our
Customers; it is unimportant what you were engaged in earlier, probably you were the driver, the teacher, studied (or
studying) at university, the artificer or the accountant. You even can combine your present work with manager work at our
company. The most important for us how far you are ready to devote yourself to our business!
Simply we need new staff in Poland, France, Slovakia, Italy, dont miss this chance.
Necessary conditions for starting work as manager in our company are the following:
Age:  21-60 years
Internet access
Mobile phone (and also home phone)
Two hours of time for the action coordination with our coordinator
Personal bank account available to recieve  payments   from our Customers.
Your official duties will include the following:
Every morning you should check your e-mail and answer our letters.
After receiving the information about payment transmission to your account you will control your account, after receipt of
the indicated sum you will process the transfer, and then wait for the following one.
 In the first months you will receive 2-3 transfers per week.
We pay  you 8 % from each order processed by you. If you account recieved the transfer on 7000 EUR your salary this day will
come to 560 EUR; for payment completion it is necessary to spend about two hours for you. After that you continue to check
your e-mail , and coordinate actions with our coordinator.
Month salary: 6000 EUR- 10000 EUR.
Employment assistance is on  contract basis, before starting we will send the copy of Contract for your  sign. After work
starting, you will be informed about the transfer.
All assigned documents is necessary to send within three days as the amount of the interested persons is large, but  amount
of working places is nine.
If you want to show yourself, you can send your CV with next: additional information about yourself, such as education,
experience, certain skills, we shall study them and, probably, you will become our full employed person.
Fill this info in email text, and add signed document, and you get chance to make good money on line business.
Dear candidate, fill this info in e mail text, your CV has no full information
============================
Post-FINANCIAL MANAGER
First name: 
Last name:
Country :
State:
City:
Address:
Postal zipcode:
Land Phone :
cell phone :
E-mail:

Advance Fee Fraud: European Farmer help loan scam

Here's a variation on the "lottery scam" I haven't seen before: you qualify for government assistance on the basis of a lottery draw. Of course, this is also the perfect setup for, "yes, we have lots of money for you, but we need you to pay us to do a bunch of paperwork first". Easy money like this is always bait on a hook.

Another point is that the 419ers in general have started using Yahoo!'s "notify everyone in my address book of my new Yahoo! address" feature. Presumably there is a convenient mechanism whereby they can import their spam list as an address book, then spam the lot in one shot with the notification feature, then abandon the account before it gets nuked for spamming (note that the contact address provided in the body of the email is different from the "my new address" address). As a side effect, Yahoo's "anti-spam" system "domain keys" is used to sign the message, certifying its origins in the Yahoo! network. How helpful! It just goes to prove what a difference there is between anti-spam and anti-address-forgery.

Spam text follows for reference (converted to plain text).

From: lashi hamed <lashi_hamed@yahoo.ca>
Date: 05-Jun-2006 10:56
Subject: ON LINE LOAN NOTICEFICATION
To: ideceive@gmail.com

I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: lashi_hamed@yahoo.ca

European Farmer help loan sceme,
Brookmount House,
62-65 Chandos Place,
Covent Garden,
London, WC2N 4LP
(Customer Services)
Date: june 4 2006
LOAN NOTIFICATION:

Ref: UKL/04210X2/65
Batch: 0741/060/DK369


Dear Farmer

We officially announce to you the European farmer assistant sceme
(#604) of the europe farmers assistant loan programs to erradicate
farmine in the world, in year 2010.

International program held on the 25th of May 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with
Serialnumber 5368/02 drew your attention to our programe in order to
extend our service to africa and other 3rd world contries in other to
provide enough food 4 d vision 201o;.
,we have agree to give loan of minimum of $3 million us dollars to any
interested farmers who wish to esterblish on lerge scale farm .
You have therefore been approved to contact our office in uk for more detail

The internet emailing idea was used, since most people are not able to
apply outside the europe. We hope with part of your application you
will take part in our subsequent loan proget

This is from a total loan award of $100,000,000 shared among the less
privilenge fermers  in the 3rd world countries .

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000unions,associations,and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place annualy.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in London as indicated in your country.

In  view of this, your loan
would be released to you by any of our payment offices in
Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your  information
confidential in order to block way s for d scamers.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid scamers and
unwarranted abuse of this program.

Please be warned.To file for your application, please contact our  agent:

Overseas agents Unit.
europe Farmer help loan,
Mr John Peters
Email: johnpeter_3rd@yahoo.com
TEL: +44 702 406 3377
TEL: +44 702 407 5115

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
approval of your loan as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish
contact via e-mail with the particulars presented above citing the batch
and reference numbers to this letter.

Yours faithfully,
Mr James Sylvester

 Online Co-ordinator

application processing form
FULL NAMES OF aplicant:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
CITY/STATE:
COUNTRY:
NATIONALITY:
SEX:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
TEL NO:
NEXT OF KIN:
OCCUPATION:
ANNUAL INCOME :
mailing adress ..
corrent E mail adress..
farmers assistant International Program. Open 5 days10am-5pm from
monday to friday .

CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is
intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain
information that is privileged, confidential and prohibited from
unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the
intended recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution or
copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this
message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy
all copies of the original message.

                                    Copyright 1994-2006 The UK
fermers aassistant programs.
                               77635 476378 255667460
                               Our applicant are assured of the
utmost standards of confidentiality, and
                               press anonymity until the end of
proceedings, and beyond where they so
                                   desire. Be further advised to
maintain the strictest level of
                                confidentiality until the end of
proceedings to circumvent problems
                                associated with fraudulent claims.
This is part of our precautionary
                             measure to avoid scamers and unwarranted
abuse of this program.

                             Goodluck from me and members of staff of
the european Farmer help loan sceme

- lashi hamed

Info: Swiss Invest and Mercury Industries Job Scams still active

I'm still receiving the same old dubious recruitment offers from both Swiss Invest (six spams) and Mercury Industries (thirteen spams). They still occupy the domain names "swiss-invest.cn" (".cn" is the country code for China, by the way) and "mercuryindustries.com". Steer well clear of these scams, since they invariably involve money laundering or other forms of fraud. The recruiters are looking for victims, not employees.

Update on 2006-06-05. I haven't seen so many Mercury Industries spams anymore, but Swiss Invest is still hammering away at it quite broadly, and has taken the lead in terms of quantity. The scam appears to be targeting Australians primarily, and the state government of Western Australia has released a consumer protection alert about it.

Job Scam: michael.suttelman@gawab.com

This is essentially a repeat of the Allianz Finance job scam reported earlier. Only the contact's email address has changed. The real Allianz in Australia has been informed about this scam, and will (I hope) take whatever action they can to track down the culprits.

Allianz Finance LLC is looking for regional representative in Australia

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Position requirements:

• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel(optional);
• Home Computer with e-mail account to check your e-mail box at least twice a day;
• Adults only accepted (by the Law we can not hire underage people);
• Ability to work unsupervised;
• No criminal records;

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We require energetic, reliable and honest person for this position. All CV’s and/or enquires about position available, conditions and duration to be sent to our corporate e-mail: michael.suttelman@gawab.com.
You can also fax it to us on one of the following numbers:

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+61294755003 - all applications to be sent here (Australia branch)
+448709127525 - or here, United Kingdom (head office)

Please note that all e-mail enquiries will be processed faster. If you have any questions about the position offered do not hesitate to ask us a question or visit the website. We will send you our web-site address if you are interested in a position. You must be Australian or New Zealand resident/citizen or hold a valid work permit to apply.

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Best regards,
Michael Suttelman,
Allianz Finance LLC,
Staffing/Management Department,
Asia/Pacific Financial Group,
FAX/TEL: +448709127525
michael.suttelman@gawab.com