Since: Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Email Address: blair.bill007gmail.com

Phone number: Not Applicable

Post Title: Administrative Assistant

Location: tampa bay area

States affected: FL - florida    

Notes:
As usual, when replying to a job posting on Craig's List I DO NOT send my resume, I send a request asking if the job is legit or not. The following is what I received.

CL Ad as posted:


Seeking a sharp aggressive Administrative Assistant to manage our national and international customer service efforts.

Must Have strong leadership and public speaking background. If interested please respond to this ad with a resume and best time to contact you.

Skills / Requirements

Qualified candidates will have:
• 2 years exceptional customer service experience.
• Knowledgeable with Windows & MS Office.

Send resumes to
blair.bill007@gmail.com


Me Replying to CL Job Ad:

Please let me know that this job posting is not a scam, so that I may feel more comfortable in sending my personal information which is contained on my resume.

Thank you for your time!

(name removed)<----Me



Email received:

From: Blair bill <blair.bill007@gmail.com>

To: (email removed)


hello..
Thanks for applying for the post, I quite appreciate it? am mark daniels by name ....I received and

read your e-mail and it's reasonable and acceptable. So I will give this a go" I'm looking for

someone that can be trusted and reliable to work very well and good understanding person..


This position is home-based and flexible, working with me is basically about instructions
and following them, my only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, so I
need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings. As my assistant,
your activities amongst other things will include;


*Running personal errands, supervisions and monitoring. Scheduling programmes,
flights and keeping me up to date with them, Acting as an alternative telephone
correspondence while I'm away.


Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf. Handling and monitoring some of
my financial activities..

Basic wage is $500 a week .

I'm sure you'll understand I tend to have a very busy schedule at this point, as I am
presently in new york so you will be working for me from your house till i get back to the state

okay


I think you're the right person for this post , Please note that this position is not office
based for now because of my frequent travels and tight schedules, it's a part-time, work
from home basis and the flexibility means that there will be busier weeks than others, so
it's a little difficult judging the exact number of hours you'll be doing per week.

If you can manage your time properly, this job may even give you some extra while you
do something else on the side. As I have said, I'd want us to get a head start with things
as soon as possible. I do have a pile up of work and a number of unattended chores
which you can immediately assist me with, I hope we can meet up with the workload
eventually.


Permit me to use the coming week to test your efficiency and diligence towards all this,
also to work out your time schedule and fit it to mine. I really need to find the perfect
person for this job, I'm confident you can take up the challenge and on the long run we
should have a relatively sound working relationship between us.. I'm online most of the
time as I am hard of hearing so I prefer to we contact each other through E-mails, but if
there is need for me to call, I will be glad to do that.
and my yahoo IM is (markdaniels191)


I am glad you are willing to work with me and i promise to be a good boss. I am also
glad on the commitment in working. I have been checking my files and what i would want
you to do for me this week is to run some errands out to some of the orphanage home, I
do that every month . The funds will be in form of check and it will be sent over to you
from one of my clients and i have some list to email you once you received the funds,You
will make some arrangements by buying some stuff for the kids in the nearest store
around you so you can mail them out. I will get you more information on that,I will like
you to get back to me with your Contact Details such as:

Full Name:
Contact Address
City:
State:
Zip-Code:
Phone Numbers:
Occupation:
Sex:
Martial:
Age:
mark

I replied to the email stating that I appreciated this idiot for letting me know it was a scam. About 2 minutes later I received the exact same email back. BUT...when replying to this 'scam email' the address that came up was crystal5500@hotmail.com.

Email addresses used in this scam are: crystal5500@hotmail.com, blair.bill007@gmail.com, markdaniels191@yahoo.com, blair.bill7@gmail.com

After checking the IP of these addresses I found that they're originating out of Mountain View California and have been extremely high in out-going message activity (600%) from 6-24-10 to present. So they've definitely been busy.

Report to the FTC at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/