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    John Terry, Extra Textiles Company

    JOB OFFER................................ PT/FT
    Thursday, November 6, 2008 10:46 AM
    From: "Extra Textiles Company" <john_terry288@yahoo.com>


    This fake job offer was sent by email (ANYTHING RED IS A RED FLAG):

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    How are you today? I hope you are doing great, I have an offer for you,Would you like to work from home/temporarily and get paid weekly? If you are interested get back to me promptly. We are glad to offer you a job position at our company: Extra Textiles Company. Our Human Resources department got your contact from the Internet directory. We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper in the USA. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA.

    Extra Textiles Company is a custom manufacturer of roll goods, laminates and substrates, as well as turtle skin safety gloves, protective hunting and water jetting clothing and also spin skins bike tire liners. You will find john's materials where rugged performance and durability matter most. john specializes in taking engineered products from concept, through prototypes, into production.

    Our engineering and manufacturing operations include extensive lab testing, R&D, material production, and final assembly. Using advanced fibers such as Kevlar, Vectran, Nome x, Con ex, Teflon, and Spectra, we specialize in engineering new materials to solve difficult problems. * The average monthly income is about 4000.00 USD. * No form of investments from you. * This job takes only 1-3 hours per day

    ABOUT THE JOB: We have sales representatives all over the world to distribute our products. You know that it is not easy to start a business in a new market (being the US). There are hundreds of competitors, close direct contacts between suppliers and customers and other difficulties, which impede our sales promotion.We have decided to deliver the products upfront, it is very risky but it should push up sales by 25 percent.We need to get payments for our products as soon as possible.

    Presently with the amount of orders we have, we cannot put them on hold for fear of loosing the customers out rightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US soon enough, as international Check take about 14 working days for cash to be made available. We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays. You are not involved in any sales. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer (usually through FEDEX/UPS).

    The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay with Certified Check, Money Orders or Cashiers Check depending on the amount involved.

    YOUR TASK ARE: 1. Receive payment from Client. 2. Cash Payment at your Bank. 3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on each Payment processed. 4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of our offices or locations you will be instructed to send payment to.

    Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed at your Bank or other Cashing Services. Deduct your weekly salary and forward the balance to the company via Western Union Money Transfer or money gram. We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week.

    You will have a lot of free time doing another job and you will get good income regularly. This job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest and reliable assistant. We are glad to offer this job position to you.

    If you feel that you are a serious and honest individual and you want to work for JOHN TERRY. Kindly fill your information below and send to me promptly.

    First Name:.............Middle Name:........Last Name:.............. Address Line............................................ Address Line........................................ City.......................................... State.....................Zip................ Home Phone.......................Cell Phone......................... Gender.............Marital Status........................Age................. Nation of Origin.............

    Mr. JOHN TERRY EMPLOYMENT CO-ORDINATOR

    Their directions on how to send money after it's cashed:


    Here are the details you will use in sending the money after you must have cashed the checks and deducted your 10% salary via Western Union Money Transfer to our Raw Materials Agents. I will advise you split the remaining balance into tow equal halves, and proceed to two difference grocery store that operate Western Union and get the balance wire to this detail's below.

    RECEIVER'S NAME IS AS GIVEN BELOW:

    Name: HUGH DAVID SCHELL
    Address: 18 SO QUINCE ST
    DENVER, CO 80247

    TEST QUESTION AND ANSWER FOR WESTERN UNION TRANSFER:
    TEST QUESTION: WRIST WATCH
    ANSWER: ROLEX

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED COMPETENCE AND BE BLESSED.

    NOTE: GET BACK TO ME WITH ALL MONEY TRANSFER DETAILS, I.E

    1. MTCN NUMBERS AS GIVEN IN THE WESTERN UNION RECEIPT.

    2. TOTAL AMOUNT SENT OUT

    3. TEST QUESTION AND ANSWER AS GIVEN ABOVE.

    Make sure you deduct your 10% out of the whole money before you get it wired and Note: that all WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER charges will be paid from mine 90% and as soon as you get the wired done from WESTERN UNION, please do email me so that I will inform my agent to pick the money up for the supplying of raw material.

    Please reply ASAP.

    Mr. John Terry

    ***Do not cash any of their checks-they are almost certainly forged or stolen and even though they may initially clear your account, they will bounce several weeks later and you will be held responsible and could even face criminal charges. You may want to visit other pages or sites to learn more.***
    Lissette

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    Thank you Lissette and welcome. Lissette's point is a good one: acheck can be returned to you at any time within 6 months (in the U.S.) and since your name is on the check you are known as "the holder in due recourse". It means that the check belongs to you.

    And Lissette is also correct that what you would receive is either a forged (fake) check or a stolen one. The bes thing you can do is make certain that you never get yourself in a postition to get one of their checks. That means don't answer their emails.
    Silence is the scammer's best friend; knowledge is the scammer's worst enemy. 沈黙は詐欺師のよき友達、知識は詐欺師の天敵。Think globally, act globally.

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    Unfortunately my mom fell for this job offer. She received a check yesterday with very specific rules on what to do with the money, which I thought was very strange.

    The number "John Terry" was calling from was not in service when we tried to call him, but he would call us from that number. I got on the net and started to research this company. Found many textiles company's with this "job offer".

    My mom went to the bank and deposited the check in her account before I found out all of this information. She went to the bank again this morning and explained what happened and they explained to her that these scams happen a lot around the holidays because they know people don't have money and this seems like a way to get it.

    The money is in her account, but they put a hold on it so it can't be used or touched and she won't face any troubles later down the line.

    If it sounds to good to be true online, then it is! Google a company or an offer and see what comes up. If you don't find a lagit company address or website then it's not a real company.
    Lissette

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    Well, football is immensely popular in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. Scammers have been using the names and identities of a number of British football players, including David Beckham and Wayne Rooney (one scam email was sent by a 'Rooney Beckham'). Now it is John Terry's (a Chelsea FC centre back) turn.
    Yahoozee = lielie man wey dey come talk lie lie for internet

    "This is a big mess and high level character deformation." - Clem Iyke, in the Canadian parts of Nigeria

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    To add some information to this, my good friend sent her address in response to this exact same email, just to a different email address, in which she received a cashiers check for $2850. I'm in the process of tracking multiple things, one being the email it was sent from (kkelvindaviddec@gmail.com) as well as the validity of the return address on the over-nighted FedEx package that was received. I've attached pictures of the front and back of the check so people know what to look for in the event they do receive a check.



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    Thanks for posting that. It's good to know what those look like since we've been hearing so much about them.

    Sorry but we need to mutilate those checks a little more so that scammers can't recycle them.
    "If the law can do nothing we must take the risk ourselves...I am not the law but I represent justice..."- Sherlock Holmes

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    No worries, I'm all about making sure it doesn't happen to someone else haha so yea. Unfortunately I've yet to get a response from that address but maybe I'll get one in a few days. We shall see.

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