Category: scammed

Job Scams that seem too good to be true

Paul

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I received this Text

(270)900-7242

Hi, my name is Nyla Lucas and I am a Recruiter at Conill Advertising & Media.
Our company is looking for online part-time employees, job certification is easy and free
Can be done with any schedule you have, even on the weekends
Can I send you job details?

I can only guess what the purpose of this part-time job or Full Time Job is. After saying I would like more information this is what this number sent me. I won’t say this isn’t too original to say the least.

Requirements: Age 22 and above. We offer part-time ($80-300/hour) and full-time ($1800-3800/month) positions. All you need to do is help them optimize the hotel, increase occupancy rate, exposure and ranking, and attract more Many locals and tourists stay here. Flexible application options are available that can be adjusted to fit your schedule. No contract or investment is required; free training is also provided. Part-time and full-time flexible jobs available, with the option to work from home. If you’re interested, I’ll give you more information, okay?

If it’s Too good to be true?

Let me say this once and for all after this text, I started getting red flags everywhere.   At the most I haven’t even could imagine making 80 to 300 dollars an hour.   Let alone for a part time position and we are to optimize and increase occupancy rate, and even raking.   How would that even work.   So I went on the web and started to deep dive into this type of job.   I however am sure it is just a scam but let’s first understand that they are trying to get me to use WhatsApp and draw me away from sending text messages.   That’s my first question, the next questions is who is “Conill Advertising & Media” and why would they want to increase the revenue of these hotels.   I found some more examples of this company on Reddit.  I don’t know if this is just an AI putting in random people’s name or if they are real people.   After deep diving into the name of the person who it claims to be, I am a bit concerned.  Nyla Lucas which has a felony and ther such things on her record was the first person to show up in Google.  Now let’s not go saying this Nyla Lucas is the same one but I suspect that if it was a different one then I wouldn’t be using that exact name while trying to recruit people.   I went to the Reddit post and checked out other users name that claimed to be doing the same thing and I found these are high profile people, so I must conclude that most of these are people are just using these name to guile people into this scam. Either way, let me remind people if it is too good to be true, then any usually isn’t something you want.

Thanks to another Reddit Post, this does seem to be a scam.   Please be careful and don’t fall for these types of scam, because you need your money to survive.  If they ever require you to pay for something and promising to pay you back than that is another red flag and don’t accept anything that might be Crypto Currency such as USDT which one person from the Reddit Post comments is how they will pay you.   I am not sure why people try these sort of things but I do know they aren’t going to get me on this type of scam.  I usually ask a lot of questions about this and try to find my answer way before they can get any money from me.   Remember the old scam I got years ago which came in as a check.  That one I will never forget because it was truly one of those that almost got me until I read what they wanted me to do.   I blog about this stuff so you don’t have to loose your money and get caught loosing money.

How not to be scammed by online dating sites!

Paul

 

It isn’t always Simpler!

I’m not saying that it is impossible to find out for sure but there will always be times when you are going to ask yourself “Is this person for real or are they fake?” I’m here to at least try to show you how you can tell and how you can verify they are who they are.  I will show you some great tips and tricks on how you can do just that!  

How was it received?

Having seen so much trouble with getting scammed, I thought we should at least look at how it is received and try to show you some great techniques to know if they are really who they are saying they are, or if they are just trying to get money from you.  These are what I call the Nigerian Dating Scams but some call them also the Russian Dating scams, which to me are the same!

 

  • Check the Headers — There is an example but your main questions is how do I do that?  The Mxtoolbox blog has a great tutorial on how to do that!
  • Are they from Nigeria? — Anytime you get an email with an Nigeria then they are most likely a Nigerian Scam but I’ve seen this in many  ways but recently I’ve heard from friends who were scammed while they were trying to find romance on dating sites.
  • Check the “X-Originating-IP:” or “Recieved: by” fields in headers! — Finding the IP of the sender can be first step determining if they are legit or fake emails.  You can find out about an IP by going to Whois.net and putting in all the IP’s that you find and seeing where that IP is in the world.
  • Syntax and Grammar — Having seen this in emails past, some scammers seem to need translation services and thus the grammar and syntax on emails are off for your location.  This is a great indicator that there is something wrong.  You should always have a red flag go off in your mind when you see those types of emails.
  • Good looking females or Males — Depending on who you are trying to meet on an online dating service, then you will receive hits with these good looking people to try to show you how lucky you were to be found.  This is another way they lure you into sending them money.  (See an Example up at top)

Identify some Keywords!

Just because you got an email, doesn’t mean that you can’t read between the lines.  Whenever I get emails about some of the stuff like this you have to read the emails carefully.  Some of the most common word to look for are:

 

  • Relocate — If the email promises talks about relocations, then you should be weary of the person.  
  • You’ve Won — This is also a great way to know that you may be scammed, because how were you entered in the contest in the first place.
  • Someone is hurt — compassion is something that the scammers, although you never know who they will saying is hurt you can expect them to want you to send money.  You should never send money to anyone to anywhere because you don’t know what they will do with the money once they received it!

 

I could go on and on about all the scams that are being used in emails but if I do that you’d be bored to tears.  So I am just trying to help you recognize how and what to look for when you are dealing with email correspondence with another person.  One thing I always remember is “Never assume the person is real, until you can verify their identity”.  

Paul Sylvester


 

Apple get scammed out of 9,000 Ipods

Paul

This is an unusual report, Apple return policy seems to be flawed.

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Apple replaces faulty iPods automatically once the serial number of the device has been given. If the customer does not return the faulty device then the company charges their credit card for the replacement cost.

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It seems even Apple didn’t even notice the high amount of returns from a single user.  It just proves that there are more and more.  Some things Apple will like do is change the return policy and come up with more stricter return policies.  Although if this doesn’t show how scammers are trying to make money because of the recession.  Apple has a long road ahead of it to be security minded.