General Discussions

**Minaki** · 02-25-2005, 08:16 AM

I jsut received a spam e-mail from a company advertising for aob, titled Payment Processing Manager. Their website is transfergate dot com (don't want to give them a link!)

I'm sure this must be some sort of scam, but it's a bit confusing cos the website looks fairly professional (unlike most scams I've seen) and I can'tfind a thing on Google.

This isn't the first time I've received something like this. Does anyone know anything about it?

- Mina

Quote:

Hi, Moshe!
*** WHO WE ARE? ***
TransferGate was founded in 2001 by an international group of experts in the sphere of finance and marketing to solve currency exchange problem. Our cooperation with large Internet companies includes rendering their clients convenient payment services.
*** WHAT DO WE SUGGEST? ***
We suggest simple, and at the same time perspective and well paid work! As TransferGate develops very rapidly, we permanently need new people to occupy the position of Processing Manager, able to receive and send payments. This part-time job does not require any special skills. You do not have to spend much time to earn sufficient money to be added to your main salary.
*** JOB DESCRIPTION ***
The task of the Processing Manager is to process payments between our partners' clients and our company. Every payment will be accompanied by detailed instruction. The brief training course is enclosed.
*** CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS ***
- Honesty, responsibility and promptness in operations;
- PC with Internet and e-mail access;
- We don't work with persons under 21;
- One or several bank accounts.
*** HOW MUCH WILL YOU EARN? ***
You will earn 5-7% from each processing you make! For instance: you receive a 5000 EUR wire transfer to your bank account. You withdraw the money and keep 250 EUR (5%) for yourself. The rest of the money you should transfer to our company authorized agent.. As you see, all operations are very easy.
*** HOW TO APPLY? ***
Please, visit our website and fill in the candidate questionnaire. After posting your resume, our Employment Department will review it and reply within 24 hours.
*** VISIT OUR WEBSITE ***
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Please, visit our corporate website to get more information about our company and the job offered. If you have any questions, feel free to get in contact with me using contact methods, described on the Contact Us page.Thank you for attention.Have a nice day.Respectfully,Reece KING
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**ParasHaria** · 02-25-2005, 05:36 PM

It looks very ominous!! i've been getting quite a few emails recently about banks and processing departments - and they've all looked pretty realistic!! they are getting v.clever these days and producing sites that make u look!

seem to be getting quite a few paypal account verification emails these days too!!

**Minaki** · 02-27-2005, 08:13 AM

Yeah. I never get even slightly tempted by these things. Any e-mails asking me to verify anything go straight in the bin. I was just interested in this one cos ther's no info on it... I like to read up on scams so I can advise others if they ask me.

It's a shame there are so many uneducated people out there who blindly go and follow these things...

**xoomcity** · 02-27-2005, 11:07 AM

Wow, you actually have time to go thru your spam....?

Nowadays, we know that such scams come in very professional-looking emails - very easy for scammers to acquire such templates. A few which don't can be easily picked out with their poor structure and grammatical errors.

Anyway, do you have a compiled list on scams like this?

**Minaki** · 02-27-2005, 01:46 PM

Only the spam that doesn't get caught first time round...
And no, I don't have a list.. I just remember them.

**DaveMo~** · 02-28-2005, 08:53 AM

Yesterday, I received two emails (one in Hotmail and one in Gmail) about a company depositing $1160 in my eGold account. They wanted me to verify it and they even had a scanned image of the check attached to my email. Wonderful! The attachment was scanned_image.jpg.exe. Hmm, I wonder why a jpg must be executable! I deleted 'em both.

Just a reminder, be careful with your email because of all the scams and "junk" (like Trojans)!

Dave

**xoomcity** · 02-28-2005, 10:57 AM

It is amazing but there are still many gullible and greedy people in this world who do not hesitate to ask why "money would simply fall down from the sky onto their laps...." or "what's the catch?".

And these "uneducated" people hold diplomas and degrees..

I don't know whether to laugh or sympathize with the victims here... some of them lawyers hoping for a huge profit/reward by loaning their bank accounts for some fund transfers scams..