Auction Express
One out of five.
Hello,
Auction Express, a Sweden luxury goods company, is currently seeking administrative assistants/sales support representatives within United Kingdom to work from home, to contribute to the sales force and add convenience to our service dedicated to individuals, businesses, and organizations worldwide.
This position focuses on the management of daily, weekly and monthly tasks and special projects pertaining to the sales support for sales in United Kingdom.
Primary duties include:
- Assists the Sales Department in a support role performing special projects, data entry and other duties as assigned
- Maintains tracking spreadsheet for purchases and payments
- Provides general administrative support including drafting of correspondence, processing purchase orders and expense reports etc.
- Emails correspondence daily
Hours: You can work full time or part time. Your schedule can be flexible.
For part time - you will need to spend on average 3 hours per day, Monday-Friday.
Salary: Base pay for part time is 1,800GBP plus 5% commission from each successfully completed transaction with a client.
Location: This is a work at home position. All communication will be online. During training/trial period assistance may be provided by phone.
Requirements: You need to have a PC, Internet access, Excel, and motivation.
Costs and Fees: There are NO costs at any time for our employees. All fees related to this employment are covered by the company.
Further Hiring Process: Please send your resume to: Catherine.Adams.ukjob@gmail.com . In your email please state if you are interested in a part-time or a full-time position. After reviewing the submitted applications we respond to successful applicants only. We then offer the successful applicants a position within our company on a trial period for one month. During this trial period you will be receiving training and online support while working and being paid. At the completion of the trial period, the supervisor can recommend continued employment, extension of trial period, or termination. After the trial period your base pay will increase.
Send any questions and your resume to Catherine.Adams.ukjob@gmail.com
Thank You,
Auction Express Team
Labels: fraud
posted by James Miller | 4:02 pm
49 Comments:
This one nearly got me! I should've known when the spam arrived in my inbox.
how do you know that this is a fraud? Ive spoken to these people on the phone and they are a company.
1. I got seven of these all from different e-mail addresses. They were sent by spammers.
2. There is no website mentioned, only a gmail e-mail address.
3. No address of the company.
4. There is a web site at Auction Express, but they do not claim to be a Swedish luxury goods manufacturer.
5. Remember the old adage. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and smells like a duck, then it is a duck. Or in this case spam.
If you want to waste your money, if would be a better idea to draw it from the bank and burn it on a bonfire. You'll get more pleasure.
I got a return email from Catherine Adams, it read as follows:
We would like to consider you for the position of administrative assistant/sales support within Auctions Express. In the attachments you will find the agreement with a detailed job description. If you are interested in this trial period, which will last for one month, during which you will receive training, salary, and commission, please see the attached agreement. Upon successful completion of the trial period you may receive a contract and continue working with Auctions Express, change from part-time to full-time or continue working part-time.
Please read carefully the trial period agreement, complete it and forward back to us either via email. If you have any questions email us.
Thank You,
Catherine Adams
complete it and forward back t us either via email (then it stops). They actually want you to sign a document, which means they have your signature & request your bank details, don't be fooled.
I have also just received an email ffrom Catherine considering me for the position as above today. I sent my CV to them yesterday. I will not provide any banking details until I have checked them thoroughly.
I'm not sure how they could scam anyone this way, but I'll be aware now, many thanks, James
I also recieved this email through my works email address!!! it was sent to the whole company so this really needs to be adressed weather its a real email or just spam. I forwarded a copy of my CV with the private details removed eg phone number and adress.
I have taken your advice and sent a reply email back to this so clled Catherine Adams asking to verify a few details
1. A website for the company that i can navigate around and get more info on the company
2. An adress of the company that i can check via a 3rd party to see if it does actually exist
4. A web site that I can check
5. mobile and land line numbers that i can call and speak to someone.
6. why are they asking for Bank Details over a non secure email?
I will forward the reply if I do actually get one!
I've checked through their reply and they attached their T&C's. This looks to me like they're money laundering and want to use our bank accounts to do this, but I could be wrong. I think the Tax man would love this lot, very strange!!
Glad I look around firs, I have recently been sent this email from a friend who was forwarded it via a PR company, so it was a paid advertisement.
I've now emailed for the company address and website showing the Luxury Products.
I'll blog my results.
Thanks
I received this scam email distributed by our school manager somehow. I was looking for a Job recently and sent out my CV and the conspiracy agreement with all the personal and bank details back to the fraundster named Catherine Adams, catherine.adams.ae@gmail.com.
As soon as I receive this job might be fraud, I reject to receive her fund transfer to my account. however, she did not listen to me and said you have signed the agreement and you have to enforce the liability for this job. at last, The fucking dirty money 2000 pounds reach my account this morning. she called me on the phone with Private Number while I was still on bed and instruct me to send the money via Western Union. I refuse to do so again and she start annoying me with full day calling me with persuasion and scam thread even though I said I will definitely transfer the money back to where it come from. I have an appointment to speak to my bank personnel tomorrow I wish who can help me out to put the things right. the fucking criminals are wasting my precious time.........God blesses anyone who are being tempted by these criminals.
You should go to the Police as well. If they won't take action, then go to BBC or your local paper.
Let me know how you get on at the bank.
By the way I had another e-mail from them today and now they are a Finnish company.
Your e-mail and that last fact, proves they are fraudsters up to no good.
If they are using it to Launder money why not just play along and let them transfer the money to your account. There's nothing they can legally do to get it back.
Having said that I wouldnt want them to have my address.
Oh no, after looking into this more and actually searching for the website after being sceptical i have come across this site. I have given all my personal bank details and address details actually thinking it was genuine. The agreement seemed so professional. I dont know what to do now??? Should i inform my bank?
Inform your bank now!
James
I just received this email from a concerned friend. My immediate thought was why they would need a CV giving all your details for a job working from home and using only a computer. Very iffy and should be distanced. It would be nice if a computer nerd could find out from where these monkeys operate from.
Unknown
Glad I foun this site I recieved the emial at my work address and thought it would be good for my wife to do part time. I would nt of given bank details but at least I wont waste any more of my time on it.
I had some people similar to them. Dav Furniture limited This was done very well because they even had a job advert placed on Reed recruitment on or around the 1st of July 2008. One would think a company like Reed would check out the fellows before they advertise for them. I ended up thinking it's a good Idea I even sent them my CV and other details. In short they turned out to be using stolen cheques and getting you to present them to your bank. This caused me alot of problems with my bank Barclays. I had to prove the source of all my other funds dating over an year ago as the froze the account due to this cheque. I tried to explain what had happened and even produce emails from this cons, but in the end barclays closed down my account and gave me the money I had before the cheque, and I guess that's harsh on me given that was the only thing ever gone wrong in the account and it was done innocently.
What I would advise anyone is not to even think about this kind of Jobs.
I learnt and I can tell you they are a bunch of criminals.
That is awful. I bet Barclays and the police weren't really interested.
I would write to your MP about this story and also suggest that if you don't get an apology from Reed, that you write the whole story up and give it to a sensible journalist. If you want any help with this, send me an e-mail of phone 01440-783789.
Hi,
I received this job offer via a friend who asked me to check it out. I sent my CV to them and got a response saying that I had been considered for a part time role and was sent a 5 page terms and consditions /agreement to sign. I wrote back saying I would take my time to read through it but in the meantime had 3 questions to ask as follows:
1> I am very comfortable with collections as this was a norm within my last position but just want to know whether you will provide me with ID in addition to whatever I have myself.
2> On assumption that you will provide me with an ID will you not have to meet up with me to confirm my own identity since you seem to be trusting a total stranger with potentially huge sums of money?
3> What will be the extent of the geogrphical area I will be covering?
I still haven't had a response and that got me thinking. I had already signed the agreement but was reluctant to send it off until I received a response to my query. Meanwhile my quest for further info brought me to this page and boy am I glad.
I have just received this email too. And, being a bit of a Net Nerd.. I have discovered these scammers are operating from Turkey.
Details:
General Information
Hostname: 88.244.43.250
ISP: Turk Telekom
Organization: Turk Telekom
Proxy: None detected
Type: Cable/DSL
Geo-Location Information
Country: Turkey
State/Region: 35
City: Izmir
Latitude: 38.4072
Longitude: 27.1503
Area Code:
Make of that as you will, but clearly it shows there are not where and who they say they are. I shall not be forwarding any information to them whatsoever. But, I will be having some fun with their email and IP ;)
if they are from turkey then this reminds me of a similar scam i have recently been the victim of- they go by the name of city apex recruitment.
WATCH OUT GUYS.
this catherine adams just emailed this job application and agreement stating they had seen my resume via guadian jobs. i am scared that they have my address and do not know what to do.
Im am so pleased you guys have posted on here. Thanks so much. I got the job offer email, and alarm bells rung as i read it, so i googled it and found this. I am horified that they have my address, d.o.b etc, but thank God, not bank details. This job is being advertised by well established companies! I have contacted the police, who advised me to contact trading standards, who i will contact tomo.
I just received one of these today. Like so many scams, the English isn't quite right (perhaps because it's translated from the Finnish??!), although better than most. I didn't think it was maney-laundering until I read this site: my guess was that it was a sophisticated way of getting their hands on loads of resumes for ID fraud.
I'm getting sick of this sort of scum. If it isn't rubbish like this, it's the slime that try to get your bank account details.
I have been scammed by AUCTION EXPRESS...I wished I looked more into it. I had 4 transfers into my account and my bank at this very moment have stopped any movement on my account!!I explained what it was and thinking it was ligit. Then found out that is was money laundering!! My bank at this moment is going through all the emails that I received from Catherine Adms if that is even the persons name. I don't know what is going to happen and is very worried at the thought of it. This is going to affect the rest of my life now. I will probably never get credit and knowing that these people have my address is also worrying. I have learn't a big lesson. Theses people should be caught.
Received an initial email from them today and Googled Auction Express to find out more. Thank goodness I did - have now deleted. Thanks to you guys that first blogged this to alert others. My sympathy to those who were caught out.
I'm very gratefull to this blog.
I recieve a scam, pfishing and other sort of harmfull e-mails every week.
But thanks to you and your blogs i can really know for sure what exactly it is.
If there is any way that i could support such helpfull sites i wuold definately do.
Hi
I got one of these today. I have actually started looking for work again very recently after a long illness and a struggle to get my confidence up again. This crap is something I don't need. I will cut and paste it here.
From Kris Raines aagjw@adlantia.com
Subject Part time work
Hello,
Auction Express, a Finland luxury goods company, is currently seeking virtual assistants/sales support representatives within United Kingdom to work from home, to contribute to the sales force and add convenience to our service dedicated to individuals, businesses, and organizations worldwide.
This position focuses on the management of daily, weekly and monthly tasks and special projects pertaining to the sales support for sales in United Kingdom.
Primary duties include:
- Assists the Sales Department in a support role performing special projects, data entry and other duties as assigned
- Maintains tracking spreadsheet for purchases and payments
- Provides general administrative support including drafting of correspondence, processing purchase orders and expense reports etc.
- Emails correspondence daily
Hours: You can work on full time or part time position. Your schedule can be flexible.
For part time - you will need to spend on average 3 hours per day, Monday-Friday.
Salary: Base pay for part time is 1,800GBP per month plus 5% commission from each successfully completed transaction with a client.
Location: This is a work at home position. All communication will be online. During training/trial period assistance may be provided by phone.
Requirements: You need to have a PC, Internet access, Excel, and motivation.
Costs and Fees: There are NO costs at any time for our employees. All fees related to this employment are covered by the company.
Further Hiring Process: Please send your resume to: Ñatherine.Adams.aexpress@gmail.com . In your email please state if you are interested in a part-time or a full-time position. After reviewing the submitted applications we respond to successful applicants only. We then offer the successful applicants a position within our company on a trial period for one month. During this trial period you will be receiving training and online support while working and being paid. At the completion of the trial period, the supervisor can recommend continued employment, extension of trial period, or termination. After the trial period your base pay will increase.
Send any questions and your resume to our e-mail: Ñatherine.Adams.aexpress@gmail.com
Thank You,
Auction Express Team
The email address to reply to is actually atherine.Adams.aexpress@gmail.com and that is what made me look twice and google this. Forewarned is forearmed. Thanks all.
Oh, and from the message headers
Received: from 82.193.88.185 (EHLO maryjane) (82.193.88.185)
by mta136.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:41:12 +0000
Received: from [82.193.88.185] by mail.adlantia.com; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:41:11 +0200
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:41:11 +0200
Thank you everyone for posting your experiences and opinion about auction express. I too tried to check them out to no avail except a website from the states.
Being a single mum working full time I thought it sounded like a good idea to earn some extra cash for my kids. The awful thing is... my 15 year old son would have gone for this and probably asked me for my bank details so he could earn a bit of cash for himself. Its the vulnerable that seem to get caught out, the bastards.
I don't know the solution, but I hope someone comes up with one soon.
Thanks to everyone who has posted advice on here! I was very close to making a massive mistake. I am desperate for work and these arse holes prey on people like me to do thier dirty work. I am sure I have heard of a site that has been set up to investigate on-line frauds. I will search for it and post details as and when i find them!
Damn...nearly fell for this shit! but at the same time i knew there was something wrong woth this e-mail sent by catherine adams. thank god for this blog i realised it was a fuckign scam. i was actually half way to completing this stupid form aswel. i feel for those who have fell for this. they've got my address details but what the hell am i suppose to do now?
Oh my God.. I fell 4 this nd they have all my details. I ve done just 1 transaction for them. I just got details of the 2nd one and something just told me this cant be real and i decided to google it and found this site. I lied to them today that i haven't recieved any money when i was contacted.The money is in my account and i dont know wat to do. I cant go to the police cos im illegal nd i cant contact the bank they might involve the police is there away to return the money bk into their account.
I don't know if you can return the money, anon.
Where are you living?
Dublin, Ireland. I just want a way to get out of this, i dont need this trouble. I searched for the company and it seemed legit at first. i just decided to search again with fraud included and found all of this.
You have a real problem. I think though you'll have to go to your bank and come clean. But I'm not sure what I would do.
I checked my account today. that money has been taking away my online statement says 'funds in dispute' even the money i had there b4 is gone my account says 0.00. Im so scared the bank will send me a letter or the police will just show up at my door.
I received 4 of these mails, but as soon as I saw the gmail account, as opposed to a company related address I was suspicious, though I did a search as I need the work. Thanks to everyone for sharing their comments and good luck to those who have been stung.
Cheers
Ewan :)
www.sleddog.info
yet another scam........... i guess that they are becoming so frequent, that we are actually checking scam sites for info before jumping to join the company!!!
big thanks to all who report the scams for hopefully "saving" more gullible people.....
j
Got the new version here too... it says from Finland. I would sugest we all post a complain to the Originating ISP about abuse of the net. That way force them to make safety upgrades. Roule of thumb on the net.. dont belive any u hear not see.
regards
ajk
All this makes me laugh.
Yes I am pleased that we can rely on people who care to set up forums like this to enable others to see this scam for what it is, but what's wrong with everyone being scared that they know your name and address!! What are they gonna do? come round and beat you up?
Did anyone notice the second earliest comment from some geek saying he has spoken to these people and that they are a company, obviously them trying to put us off the scent.
Good job us Brits believe that there is no such thing as a free lunch and that any sh*t like this is always too good to be true.
I received the same email from Catherine Adams, and she also called and I was asked to go for an interview. But she didn't give me any details of the place by phone or email, so she just sent me that agreement, which I will not send back. I am sure it is a scam.
Wow...im so glad i found this site...i was sent that email from Catherine yesterday but i wasnt comfortable with the idea that they asked for my bank details...no letter head or logo...i applied for the job via totaljobs.com and I have now emailed them informing them of the scam.
thanks guys!
Bless everyone on this site!!1 i just lost my job and desperately in search of another. I posted my CV on total jobs, a well know job site in the uk and got the advert. i applied and was immeditely sent confirmation by catherine it was too good to be true. But when i read the agreement and saw the bank detail bit, i smelt a rat and decided to google the comapnyy address and found this! this is really a shame that job websites now accept scam jobs! this should be reported to the police if they will care to investigate.
They have my address on my cv.. but they can go to hell with that.
i really thank everyone who has written on here
Its so annoying that these people now have all my personal details, name address tel no, previous jobs, date of birth etc theres a lot that can be done with this bank accounts credit cards sh&t sh&t. If you cant trust big websites like totaljobs.com who can you trust.
they got my details from total jobs too...
is this allowed?
has somebody contacted total jobs yet?
oh my god...i just have been offered the job by auction express an i have signed the contract and given them my bank details..what should i do..the money is meant to come in today..
egba mi, oku di e,kin fall mugu.
thank god oooooooooo, i almost sign and send,Thank God my wordprocessing is not wurk, my sympathy to those dat it affect.but what can we do to the address that we send.
good luck.
Hi,
I received an email from this company and I presumed it was company that got my details through Total Jobs as this is where I posted my CV.
As soon as I read the email, I was dubious about it as the starting salary was ridiculous for part time work. I looked up the company, and surprise, surprise, no such company! I then found this blog and I'm totally astonished that so many people have been conned by them.
I'm fuming that they now have details such as my address and phone number, through what I presumed was a secure, well policed recruitment website.
I have written to Total Jobs highlighting the problem, for them to block this company and to monitor their website more closely for con merchants.
Hopefully Total Jobs are noe aware of the situation and if more of you email them too, then it will make it more emphasised, hopefully making them act on it quickly so nobody else falls for this terrible scam.
Thanks to all of you who have posted these comments about ur individual experience.
Like most of u I have uploaded my CV on total jobs and recieved this email from Catherine. I have been job hunting for two months now without success, so when i saw this I gave god thanks for finally finding me something. Then when I started reading especially when I saw they were offering £1,800 plus commission a month for just working 3hrs per day I thought this is too good to be true, but i'll fill out the form anyway and see how it goes (cant hurt right), until I got to the part asking for my bank details straight away without any personal contact.
Thats when I thought I would look up the company on the web and came up with this site.
I am really sorry for the people who did not have the common sence to look into the company before providing thier details.
god blees u all in your job search
I got this too!! Definitely fishy!!
I would stay away!!!!!!
##############
Hello,
Auction Express, a Finland luxury goods company, is currently seeking Administrative Assistants/Sales support representatives within United Kingdom to work from home, to contribute to the sales force and add convenience to our service dedicated to individuals, businesses, and organizations worldwide.
This position focuses on the management of daily, weekly and monthly tasks and special projects pertaining to the sales support for sales in United Kingdom.
Primary duties include:
- Assists the Sales Department in a support role performing special projects, data entry and other duties as assigned
- Maintains tracking spreadsheet for purchases and payments
- Provides general administrative support including drafting of correspondence, processing purchase orders and expense reports etc.
- Emails correspondence daily
Hours: You can work on full time or part time position. Your schedule can be flexible.
For part time - you will need to spend on average 3 hours per day, Monday-Friday.
Salary: Base pay for part time is 1,800GBP per month plus 5% commission from each successfully completed transaction with a client.
Location: This is a work at home position. All communication will be online. During training/trial period assistance may be provided by phone.
Requirements: You need to have a PC, Internet access, Excel, and motivation.
Costs and Fees: There are NO costs at any time for our employees. All fees related to this employment are covered by the company.
Further Hiring Process: Please send your resume to: CatherineAdams.UKwork@gmail.com . In your email please state if you are interested in a part-time or a full-time position. After reviewing the submitted applications we respond to successful applicants only. We then offer the successful applicants a position within our company on a trial period for one month. During this trial period you will be receiving training and online support while working and being paid. At the completion of the trial period, the supervisor can recommend continued employment, extension of trial period, or termination. After the trial period your base pay will increase.
Send any questions and your resume only to our e-mail: CatherineAdams.UKwork@gmail.com
Thank You,
Auction Express Team
Glad I read up first - I applied through Total Jobs too - the problem there is that they now have my CV which contains far more information than I'd want crooks like this getting their hands on - thank god not my account details.
I reckon it might be worth keeping an eye on your credit file (like through Experian?) so you can keep an eye to see if the scum bags try ID theft too....
What a con. Bad enough looking for another job without this happening too!!
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