SCAM?

[Aspen]

Hey Aspen_wi!!
WestPay Incorporated is a well-known Company which provides services to American citizens living in Europe.



WestPay Incorporated now announces new job openings.
The available position is: Delivery Agent.
The obligations of Delivery Agent are:

1) Receive a package by one of American postal services, i.e. UPS, FedEx (as soon as you receive a package we provide you with address where you need to resend the package together with the lable which allows you not to pay for resending the package).


2)Resend the package to the address which WestPay provides after receiving the package.
What is important if you want to work for us:
- you should provide us with following information:
+++++++++++++++
Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
Phone number (or mobile number):
Date of birth(optional):
Social Security Number(Optional):
++++++++++++++++++++++++++

- we should be able to reach you by the phone when needed
-you should be able to receive the packages during the day and check your e-mail anytime.



What you earn: Receiving and sending one package you will earn 30-50$ (depending on size).
So you may earn up to 2000$ per week if you prove to be an active Agent



Submit your application to our e-mail: application@westernpay-inc.net if you wish to work for us.
If you have additional questions fill free to e-mail: support@westernpay-inc.net


With Best Regards, your WestPay Inc. team.



Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:49:02 +0100
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No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 6/30/2006

My guess is yes it is..

[breccia]

Hi Aspen and welcome to Fraudwatchers. :welcome:

Yes, your guess is correct. This is 100% a scam. Odds are that it was sent by Eastern European scammers.

The scammers will be scamming sellers on various trading sites (eg ebay) or online sales outlets by paying for goods with stolen or generated credit cards. The scammers need an intermediary to receive their stolen goods and send them off to Romania, or Russia somewhere where most US-based online sellers will not send goods. So when police come looking for the stolen goods, they end up finding the victim who responded to this scam email.

The website was registered 2006-05-28 and is hosted on a Russian server.

[Daneel]

Seems the scammer posted on the forum here:
http://www.scamdex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1838&sid=3081b799101450397d91dcd2290e1d44

It's always interesting when they are stupid enough to do that... :)

[enforcnthelaw]

Aspen:

This email you received is definately a scam. The exact email was listed in a weblog, written about on June 2, 2006, by Work At Home Business Opportunites (I have included the link below).

For what it is worth, I received an email today from another police officer asking the area police departments if this same letter was a scam. It appears that you made it to a mailing list (as did this other officer). Don't be fooled into sending any information and/or money to these people.

The link for the article I mentioned is:

http://work-at-home.business-opportunities.biz/2006/06/02/work-at-home-employment-offers-new-face-of-identity-theft/

[Miyuki]

When you see a message with strange workds at the bottom:

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it is cleary from a scammer. This is some kind of message they send to each other which makes no sense to anyone else.

[John Fairheart]

Actually I think that is the non-html portion of the email. Typically this is used by spammers to fool spam filters. It is gobbledy-gook (nonesense), and means absolutely nothing. Joe would be able to claify that point I think.

[Frazzle]

What John said...

Spam filters look for patterns. If there's more than some percentage of matching patterns, it's classified as spam. Adding random words reduces the percentage of pattern, so the spam filter decides it's not spam.