This one came in tonight, and I thought the URL was amusing enough to be worth posting. Here's the full email:
Hello,
We are USA electronics company.
We need cooperation with you.
You can earn some cash for the small help in one matter.
Please contact us only by this URL for more details: http://financial-corporation.com/
Thanks,
Alex Butheman
Manager.
What kind of corporation? A financial one! It's sort of surreal; like getting an email from esquire@legal-lawyers.com. Or something. So I
checked out their site, wondering what the scam was, and had some laughs at the mangled English.
We are happy to announce about the upcoming employee recruiting at the Financial Service Inc. Yes, the vital moment has come and Your chance of getting the top-rated financial manager position is as close as never before.
Wow! As close as never before! Actually, I think that's the truth, if only by accident.
They go on and on from there, spending an amazing amount of words to say nothing at all, before finally getting to a text entry box into which you are supposed to enter your resume and email. I wouldn't be surprised if the resume box isn't even hooked up, and all they really want are live emails from brain dead people, who will fall for their version of the Nigerian email scam. At least I assume that's what it is, with their mentions of bank account transfers and such. Either that or one of those things where they transfer you what appears to be real money, but that you can't touch for a week or so until it clears. During that time you send them your money, and when the week ends the advance they sent you vanishes since it never had any actual money backing it up at all.
I tried
googling part of the key phrase from their site and to no one's surprise, the top site results all have "scam" in their URL. I also checked the site registration, but it just points to an amateurish-looking
domain name buying service, one that exists exactly to facilitate anonymous scam websites like this one.
I'm left wondering what I always wonder in this sort of situation. Who falls for this? What human being with the ability to operate a computer and read email actually believes some random emailer is going to give them money for doing nothing? Or better yet, give them a job as a banker if you are just "well-motivated and diligent" enough? Does this sort of thing appeal to the uneducated, who have an ignorantly beligerant attitude? "I don't need no book larnin' to do what them fancy lawyers and bankers take mah money fer!" It puzzles me deeply.
