Sydney Car Centre - 3
I had 156 e-mails offering me a job. Yes, that's one hundred and fifty six e-mails. At least they weren't all the same, as that would be boring.
Either they are desperate to fill their worthless positions or they just could be good guys trying to warn everybody of the dangers of this type of scam.
Labels: fraud
posted by James Miller | 7:56 am
38 Comments:
I've had an average of 30 emails per day from this place every day for almost a week now.
In case no one is paying attention, the emails scream SCAM. They are offering you 10% net to deposit money into YOUR bank account, after which you are required to send THEM money via Western Union. If they are such a major company as their emails claim, then why can't they process payments through their own bank accounts? Most reputable banks will process deposits from foreign banks as well, following the standard banking procedures for them, of course.
This is just a twist on the other familiar scams out there involving depositing money (their fake checks and money orders) into your bank account, and leaving you holding the bag when you've cashed them and sent money back via Western Union. Don't fall for it!!!
I, too, am being plagued with these e-mails. Has anyone figured out how to block them? Since they all come from different senders I have not figured out how to put a rule in my outlook to block them.
You can put a filter in Outlook which says they are junk and dumps them to your junk mail folder. But they are so obviously rubbish they are easy to delete.
Isn't there anything else that could be done to get these "buggers" out of mailboxes?
If they follow the normal pattern, they'll stop in a week or so.
But then something else will start.
See my post today on Nick Lathoukis. That's the next one just starting.
Oh my goodness I put a filer in has any words Sydney Car Centre, Sydney to delete it. I go to my trash bin and find this crap sitting. I think I signed up for World Voice talking about a job opportunity as a automotive consultant and it's been scam and email spam hell since I signed up for their promotions I can't believe I fell for that and it's my private email too where I been bragging on not having no spam get here. I wish I can unsubscribe to them and they be so kind to stop spamming me. If you get a better way or way to have it stopped I and many others would appreciate it.
has anyone else that gets these e-mails ever used monster.com or careerbuilder.com? I get the Sydney and some from Aegis both claiming they were jobs...I'm thinking that's where they might have gotten my e-mail but am looking for validation.
I have been using careerbuilder.com for about a year now and I have been getting these things. I don't know if that's how they got my address, or if it is just a coincidence, Kimberly.
I;m going to delete both my Career builder and Monster accounts and see if this craziness stops, it's like once the Aegis e-mails stopped the Sydney ones began, but because they act as if they are potential jobs it would make total sense that they got my e-mail address from those sites because it would increase their chances to have me open it since I was a potential job seeker. (Luckily I have a job now and am not in meed of their services so deleting my account is easy).
I got 363 of them today.
Many were to were e-mails that have never existed as I check all of the dross that turns up on daisy.co.uk. In fact perhaps only 20 were to valid e-mail addresses.
So your Career Builder and Monster accounts are unlikely to be responsible. If they were then as they are legitimate companies, then they would have been hammered.
As you say Aegis stopped and Sydney Car started. I suspect that the latter has been more successful than any other scam, as it has gone on for so long.
I've just found another, so go to the home of this blog and look at it.
As Baden Powell used to say Be Prepared.
I got one of these emails today here in the UK. Has anyone checked out the business at all? It may exist in reality and no one has told them they are being used for a scam.
It's a scam.
The web site of the Stratford Car Centre got ripped off to create the site and all the e-mails come from made up addresses.
You're being very naive to think it might be genuine.
It wouldn't be a normal day without a few dozen e-mails from these bozos.
I'm getting used to it but how is this crap passing through spam filters?
every morning I wake up with at least 17 messages from these people, how can I make it stop???
Put a filter in Outlook or your e-mail program that puts every e-mail containing "Sydney Car Centre" into the Junk Mail folder.
I too, have been getting multiple emails from these rip off artists. I had my email on careerbuilder.com and nowhere else, so I know that's where it came from. I contacted my ISP about it and they said that because it comes from a different location each time they have to way to block it. I'm sick and tired of getting emails from these people. I get at least 10 a day and it's been going on for over a month now. I don't know what to do at this point; I guess I'll have to change my email address. I've learned a hard lesson not to post my email address on careerbuilder. If any of you reading this have figured out a way to block them, rather than doing an auto dump into the junk mail folder, please let the rest of us know!!
it's got to be careerbuilder. i've been on monster for years, and this didn't start happen for me until i join careerbuilder.
great professional site there.
I hope you were referring to me.
Thanks, if you were.
Much research has already been done on the m.o. and constant morphing of these fraudster scammers !
"Full details courtesy of bobbear.net"> http://www.bobbear.net/index3.aspbr/>
Sydney Car Centre is the replacement money laundering/transfer fraud site for the Lux Capital money laundering fraud - exactly the same Serenitynet / Infinitie.net / Eonix Corporation hosted nameserver/botnet controller, exactly the same modus operandi, i.e. a stolen website offering an illegal 'Regional Assistant' so-called 'job' as a money laundering mule/transfer fraud victim and generally hosting the stolen site using a zombie botnet, (some domains use the Yahoo/Geocities 'small business' network as seen before).
with apologies for the borken html !
Link should be http://www.bobbear.net/index3.asp
Is it possible to report the SCC for their spamming? Can the IP addresses be checked by someone? I'm not a techie, so any advice on this would be appreciated greatly! SCC is driving me round the bend...
You have to live with it.
It's from somewhere like China or Russia and they don't care as it helps the balance of payments, when they catch a sucker and empty their bank account.
Like Kimberly, I only started getting these emails once I registered at Monster.com.
Have you complained to monster.com?
Does you e-mail appear on their site? So that someone can harvest it.
I have Outlook Express and also receive repeated e-mails from this outfit - among others. The "block"option provided is quite useless since they simply change addresses like most change socks. What I can't figure out ism why doesn't Outlook Express change their block option to allow US to identify those addresses from which we want to receive e-mail? That way, if any sender is not in that list, they are automatically rejected. Or is that toom simple.
I use Outlook, which enables me to dump the message if the subject or body contains "Sydney Car Centre". Can you not do that in Outlook Express?
I too only started receiving these messages recently and have been on monster.com for the last 6 months, and am no other website, so it must be from Monster.
I have also been getting about 10 e-mails a day from Royal Bank of Scotland phishing.
I wonder if Monster can be scraped for e-mail addresses.
I have never used Careerbuilder or monster but still get them. I only get them on my Freeserve/Orange accounts, never on Yahoo.
I was initially tempted to open one because I have friends in Sydney and thought one of them might have signed me up as they want me to move over there, but I checked with them first.
As a general rule, if I don't recognise the sender, I bin the mail.
I've set up a test on Monster.
I use a free program called Mail Washer, after receidving one "scam" I enter the info and never see it again, It automatically bounces the email back to the sending address.
Yes, I have resumes on both Monster and Careerbuilder. They do not just stop in a week or so. I have been getting them every day for over a month. I have set up filters, but as I see this doesn't really help. I saw Dateline the other night setting up scammers on the internet. Maybe we should inform them of this one.
I give-away that this is a scam site and they have stolen it from the Stratford Car Centre is that if you look at the "finance" part of the bogus site you will see mention of "£"s when talking about prices of cars. Of course dollars are used in Australia
Also they talk about miles when talking about warranties . I'm pretty sure that they now use kilometers down under.
Bouncing an email will have no effect whatsover as the sender address will either not exist, or be a botnet controlled zombie. Also, if the sender address were real, it would just confirm that your email was valid and open you up to even more junk!
I just received my first one today....and I am not a member of either monster.com or careerbuilder...for that matter I am not seeking employmet anywhre, either online or in person. Not sure where they got the addy from but I doubt it is any of the legitimate sites connecting employers with potential employees.
re-"Sydney Car Centre".
http://www.phishfighting.com
post the link into there (after choosing a nationality and then "fill in application form")
which will fill in random details and send them every 20 seconds
;-)
For me it is probably Monster as I let a friend use my computer to access her account and then I might have gone in on my own. I also am just a total novice so it could be somthing else. The only other "junk" I get is a stream of "health" ads, mostly geared to making men more "capable".
Anyway, good chance it is Monster.
I think it is either Monster or Careerbuilder, as well. I used my gmail account on both of those and have been getting this junk from SCC ever since then. However, I haven't received anything from them in my other email accounts. Luckily with Gmail, it goes right into the Spam folder without having to filter. I saw a posting about contacting Monster.com or Careerbuilder. Has anyone followed up on that?
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