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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Web Electronic Industry

 

What a pity I;'m not in USA, this sounds a great job.

It may do, but it's fraud.

Nought out of five as I'm in the UK.

International company Web Electronic Industry is taking the candidates in the USA for the position of Local Agent.
We are looking for the trustworthy person with excellent organizational and communicative skills.
Good knowledge of computer and business relations practice will be your advantage.
This is a part-time job which can be combined with any permanent or another part-time job.
Average workload is up to 8 hours a week.
No special experience is necessary. Excellent compensation package, the salary starts from $20,000 a year.
If you got interested in our vacancy and you have any questions, please contact us staff@w-ei.com The offer is for USA citizens only.

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14 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello, I received an e-mail that read the exact same way you have written, so I did a search and came to your web site. What makes this a fraud?

e-mail mr1derful1976@yahoo.com

Thank You.

Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:03:00 am  
Blogger James Miller said...

I got about six of them for a start. It was also topped and tailed with bits of news stories to get it through spam filters.

Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:15:00 am  
Blogger Unknown said...

im getting 100s of the same message.
helppp!!!

Friday, September 14, 2007 4:25:00 pm  
Blogger James Miller said...

They defeat themselves by sending so many. If I called you and asked you to join my company a hundred times in one day, would you come and work for me.

Friday, September 14, 2007 4:29:00 pm  
Blogger Unknown said...

how can we block this spam. its annoying me now. i am getting hundreds of them.

Friday, September 14, 2007 4:48:00 pm  
Blogger James Miller said...

The only thing you can do is create a rule in your e-mail program and delete them.

I've had 69 so far today.

Friday, September 14, 2007 5:02:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't think you got my post, but I talked to one the people doing this email and they want people to open a new account in a bank and they will send money and I would keep a percent and send the rest to them western union. I have a website manager-wei.com/index.htm let me know what you think

Friday, September 14, 2007 8:05:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm getting 100s of them as well! help!

Friday, September 14, 2007 8:55:00 pm  
Blogger James Miller said...

Michele.

If you sign up with these guys you are an idiot.

Don't sign up.

Friday, September 14, 2007 9:06:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I never said I was signing up with them. I was just giving you info about it. No Need for the idiot comment.

Friday, September 14, 2007 9:55:00 pm  
Blogger James Miller said...

Sorry I didn't mean to cause offence. I thought you had signed and was trying to strongly advise against it.

I've also been getting phone calls from people who think it's a good investment and have signed up.

So far today, I've had six new scams. They must be working.

Friday, September 14, 2007 10:08:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I suggest staying away from this. I just got an email from:

helmuth gardner with the apparent email address of shirley at navsys.com asking me to contact them because "We are Baltic company that offers a variety of services allowing you to make money."

Navsys is a real company in Colorado, but the fact that the email names don't match up is a red flag just by itself, not to mention that "Web Electronic Industry" somehow doesn't seem to be quite the same as "Navsys".

This is obviously a phishing expedition. Stay away!

Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:20:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just got another from locke sylvia with the apparent email address of ruben at borland.com.

Phishing, phishing, phishing.

STAY AWAY!

Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:28:00 am  
Blogger James Miller said...

Someone actually phoned me up to say he was investing on this one. I told him no.

Just ignore them. Eventually, if no-one gets stung they'll stop.

Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:48:00 am  

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