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DisOriental
Canada89 Posts
If these people are reputable you should be able to find information on the company you've signed a contract with. There are checks in place for insurance brokers. (read: you can't be some random guy) Contacting the BBB might also be an easy way to solve this mystery. | ||
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silentreality
Korea (South)222 Posts
On May 11 2012 11:04 DisOriental wrote: 419 sounds like he's on the right track here... an insurance broker has little need for his/her assistant's paypal account whatsoever. Moreover unless you ran the contract or any attachment you've downloaded from them in a Sandbox I suspect a keylogger being hidden within it, as it is rather peculiar they asked for you to change your account information on your paypal. If these people are reputable you should be able to find information on the company you've signed a contract with. There are checks in place for insurance brokers. (read: you can't be some random guy) Contacting the BBB might also be an easy way to solve this mystery. Agree with the above. You should check for a keylogger on whatever you downloaded. There have been similar instances of keylogging here in Korea. Nothing is ever really "free". ㅠㅠ | ||
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Misanthrope
United States924 Posts
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phiinix
United States1169 Posts
On May 11 2012 09:37 419 wrote: probably they will attempt to use your paypal account for money laundering. For example, money from a phished bank account will be transferred to you, and then they will ask you to transfer the money somewhere else, minus your $1600 "salary". any paper trail comes squarely to your doorstep. The actions would also make you an accessory to criminal activity. Tread carefully sir. See: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-07-10-cyber-mules-cover_x.htm tbh I would contact the police or something about the free stuff, there is .000000000001% chance that it was acquired legitimately, and I would not be surprised if it was obtained via a stolen credit card number. PS Do you want to prove that they are not legitimate? From a separate email address, email them the shittiest possible resume you can compose (if you want I can make one). Something so bad that any sane person would never hire you. Odds are they will happily "hire" you. Thanks for the concern, I'm still very skeptic about this whole thing. When things start to get uncomfortably strange, I'll bail, and score one free kindle (: On May 11 2012 10:24 iSometric wrote: Nice road bike. Thanks it's a fixie :D | ||
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SadSatyr
United States77 Posts
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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Funnytoss
Taiwan1471 Posts
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
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419
Russian Federation3631 Posts
Thanks for the concern, I'm still very skeptic about this whole thing. When things start to get uncomfortably strange, I'll bail, and score one free kindle (: ??????? There is no legitimate use for your paypal account that they could have. Any competent organization would use their own accounts for transferring fairly large sums of money. I think things have already passed the 'uncomfortably strange' point. Could you post the email exchanges (or the contact email a prospective employee was supposed to contact)? They are probably rife with red flags. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
On May 11 2012 09:25 MysteryMeat1 wrote: free kindle 5/5 potential to fuck up your life 5/5 overall blog rating 5/5 lol well said | ||
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HyperionDreamer
Canada1528 Posts
Not going to lie, this reeks of scammery. I'd get out now while you maybe can still salvage it. | ||
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phiinix
United States1169 Posts
I downloaded the contract and everything on a different computer (that I'll never use again and didn't have any of my personal info on it) so hopefully I'm not getting keylogged? x.x Here's the email about the "delays" Dear x, Thank you for your patience. I want inform you that this is the first time in my experience when there have been such long delays from our customers. In owning this matter I has sent the request yesterday to our Financial Team and they agreed (in owning delays) to add to your salary a bonus in amount $350.00. To avoid the further misunderstandings I guess it will be fine for you. Just await my message concerning the 1st assignment. Once again, the delays will not be reflected on your salary. Your Employment has been successfully started on 26th April. So the 1st salary will be paid on 26th May. ATT: Please confirm reception of this email. Thank you for your time. Sincerely yours, Andrew King And this is the most recent one after I had some troubles with getting the package (front office sent out a text but I didn't get it) Dear x, Thank you for your message and enjoy the gift. In the meantime please await for further instructions within the next 24 hours. Thank you for your time. Sincerely yours, Andrew King I feel like I haven't been breathing properly at least the past hour because I've been so caught in this, but I mean I can just back out at any time right? I haven't committed to anything, and haven't even been assigned any job duty. Appreciate all the concern numbers. | ||
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HaRuHi
1220 Posts
so you can keep us updated from jail. | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
On May 11 2012 10:17 Antimatterz wrote: Haha wtf, I was waiting for the "I lost all my money and now I feel stupid" line. Yeah,me to  But now i wana get some free stuff to...  | ||
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Rinny
United States616 Posts
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419
Russian Federation3631 Posts
Thank you for your patience. I want inform you that this is the first time in my experience when there have been such long delays from our customers. In owning this matter I has sent the request yesterday to our Financial Team and they agreed (in owning delays) to add to your salary a bonus in amount $350.00. To avoid the further misunderstandings I guess it will be fine for you. Just await my message concerning the 1st assignment. Once again, the delays will not be reflected on your salary. Your Employment has been successfully started on 26th April. So the 1st salary will be paid on 26th May. Lots of grammatical/spelling errors, and some REALLY odd phrasing. They are not the sort of errors a native English speaker would ever make, in my opinion. I am betting the writer is Western African in origin. In scambaiting terms, you've off-scripted him by having this delay come up (its not something he would have a prewritten message -- hence, 'script' -- ready to send to you). Generally this means their grammar / phrasing get progressively worse, as they have to improvise. can you post the email headers? -- If it makes you feel better, generally they use the "fill out this form and send back to me" thing as a test to see how serious you are, and further invests you into the fantasy they are trying to generate. The more invested you are, the more unlikely you are to back out. TL;DR Its unlikely they would send you malicious software through the attachment. But no guarantees. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9104 Posts
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phiinix
United States1169 Posts
from: Andrew King a.king1970@live.com to: *my email* date: Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:00 PM subject: "Apps Finder" mailed-by: live.com | ||
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419
Russian Federation3631 Posts
if he uses live.com its likely his true IP will be in them | ||
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