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This email arrived in my inbox. I'm beginning to wonder if they are any "real" jobs out there and how I'm going to get one. I've run into so many scams. Crazy . . . someone needs to put a stop to this . . . and certainly stop wasting my time!!!

It's long and boring, but skim it. You'll get the just of it . . . S*C*A*M!!! And the letter read:

Mrs. Cook,

Your resume have been received at CareerBuilder and we would like to offer you an Administrative Assistant position in our company.Our company specializes on purchase and resale of products in such spheres of industry as: Electronics, Chemical Products, Expensive Construction Materials and Manufactured Goods. The market of our activity includes the distributed networks consisting of the international auctions as on the Internet and locally. Through our networks we constantly receive new orders both for purchase and for sale. At present we require Administrative Assistant of our company in the countries where we conduct our business through our networks.

Assistant's work consists of receiving company's financial assets to the assistant's account and forwarding of funds according to our instructions. It will be receiving payments for the items from our customers and forwarding such payments to our representatives or to the seller directly.

We have 2 reasons that made us start the hiring program of the Administrative Assistants:

1. Due to elite position of services given by the Swiss banks and a great demand for these services in the field of storage of financial assets, Switzerland has very exacting and inconvenient rules and high commission fees for bank transfer services. It is highly appreciated for the purposes of safety of financial assets but it is very inconvenient for conducting trading business.

Our Legal colleagues International Financial and Law Consulting House:Price Water House Coopers suggested us to use as a variant of tax and financial planning the following scheme: the Agency agreements with representatives in the countries of business dealing for cooperation on the basis of the commission rate.

2. As said above, our activity includes constant financial streams in connection with conducting the international business transactions so the second reason of starting our hiring program is the expediency of acceptance of payments for our services to the bank accounts of our Assistants in the country of the buyer, then as a rule funds should be forwarded to our other partners as payment for the services or in order to purchase the necessary items. The given program helps us to operate quickly with streams of funds and to send them in a direction necessary for us avoiding HIGH COMMISSION FEES and LONG TIME TRANSFER EXPENSES of the SWISS BANKS.

Also your assistance is required because if we had used international bank transfer it could take more than 3-5 days, but if the payment is sent to an account within the same country it takes no more than a single business day.

Such scheme allows us to accelerate the whole payment process also giving us an opportunity to ship the items to the customers faster than any other competitive companies because speed and customers' satisfaction are vital for our business.

Assistant receives 10 from the amount that has been successfully forwarded to the receiver. The 10 commission can be retrieved immediately after the amount has been received by Assistant. Usually there are 2-3 payments being sent during a week.

Cooperation in such form does not mean constant and regular transactions through your bank account. The given action is directed to find and check an executive, fair and responsible person for further cooperation with our company.

First of all we suggest a trial period to become acquainted with us and the given kind of business.The given scheme of cooperation is simple enough, and we are ready to pay well for this work.First month your income will be about $3,000, then it will be increasing for about $500 each month up to $8,000 per month. There is a trial period of time for you in our company (first 2 years). After that you'll be offered a new position of Project Manager (salary from $2,5k/week).

You do not need any special education or experience to be hired. But please notice that only honest, responsible and punctual people are required for this work. You will have to forward the funds you will receive within 12 hours since the moment the funds are available for withdrawing. Payment inquires and notifications will be sent before each payment is sent and the payment is always sent only after Assistant's readiness confirmation. If payment is delayed for more than 12 business hours the Assistant's commission will be cancelled and the funds should be sent without any revenue for Assistant. If the payment is delayed for more than 24 business hours the contract with Assistant will be terminated also and if the payment is not sent within 48 business hours police and authorities will be involved.

All the information provided to us will be used for our cooperation only and will not be ever disclosed to 3rd parties or companies with the exception of your account number (it will be sent to our customers for issuing payments to it). You can either open new account or use an existing one for receiving the payments.

If you are interested and wish to test your abilities in this occupation feel free to send us an email to . . . blah, blah, blah . . .

Sincerely,
Eric L.
G***** Financial Trading Group
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