Since: Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Email Address: jobopportunity32hotmail.com

Post Title: Need More Assistance

Location: lancaster, PA

States affected: PA - pennsylvania    

Notes:
I sent my resume for this job posting on Craigslist. Here are the emails I received from this contact calling himself Mark James.

First email after submitting resume.

Good Day!

Hope you're having a pleasant day? You contacted me applying for the position which I advertised on Craigslist.

Do take time to go through this introductory mail and feel free to pass any questions on.

Mark James is my name. I am a Senior Project Manager and my responsibilities include the day-to-day

oversight for the planning, design, pre-construction and construction process through project completion. My

responsibilities also includes preparing responses for proposal requests from various outside sources.

Mark James’s Specialties:

I have experience in office building construction including government projects (both Tenant Improvement and

Base Building design and construction), and commercial clients (Starbucks, Lockheed Martin, SiloSmashers,

Starbucks). In addition I have been the Project Manager for third party parking garages located at the University

of Maryland and St. Joseph Medical Center. I also have little knowledge about photography and i often hold

lectures on construction as a subject as it is the rudiment of civil engineering and it's an aspect that is of great

importance to civil engineering which is my profession. I have been into civil engineering for over 30 years and at

the moment, I am in a work right now in Japan As nuclear Engineering authorities to avert a nuclear meltdown,

so i will be here for a month because we are working aggressively to support our Japanese ally at this time of

extraordinary challenge after which I will fly down to our Headquarters in Pennsylvania for a report and series of

lectures with some students. I bring a unique teaching style to students which will guarantee creative and fun

learning by all civil engineering students while elevating them to new, exciting engineering heights that they have

only dreamed of.

YOUR DUTIES AS MY OFFICE ASSISTNACE/ PERSONAL ASSISTANT.

While I am out of the states, I need some one who can stand in the gap for me. His/her duties will be the following.

1.To receive letters and mails on my behalf.
2.Receive checks and money orders from clients who want to attend the forth coming workshops or Live shows.
3.Schedule appointments for me.
4.Book my flight tickets.
5.Send letters and mails from my clients.


This position is home-based and flexible part time job,you can be in any location to carry out any of the activities.

All you need do is to check your emails twice daily and keep your phone on most times in case i might need to call

you from anywhere i may be.I do have a number of things you could help me with this week if you will be

available to start.This can act as a stable foundation to our working relationship.Let me know if you have any of

the office equipment (If not, I will make arrangements to send them to your address)

Printer:
Personal Laptop/Desktop:
Internet Access:
Scanner:
Fax machine:
Laminator:
Paper Cutter:

For proper review(since i am not available now to set up a face-to-face interview) supply out correctly the

information below:

Why did you apply for this job?

Do you have any knowledge of Receptionist/Admin Personal Assistance job because it involves money

management?

Can you check your email messages at least 3 times daily?

Do you have a Yahoo messenger or MSN messenger for chatting Online?

Do you have a chatting email address and can you chat online with customers?

what is your current job?

FIRST NAME ...................... SURNAME...................
ADDRESS Not P.O.BOX Address .................
CITY ............STATE............................
ZIP CODE............COUNTRY..................
PHONE NUMBER (S) ........................
Email....................

Scanned copy of your ID:(You can provide that later when you are employed)

Note: It will be of added advantage if you can provide 2 references from your past employment.

Qualification:
1.Educational background is not a criteria.
2.You must be Organized and able to take instructions well Dependable, Reliable, Trustworthy a must
3.Must have excellent English language skills (both spoken and written)
4.Have great work ethic and attitude, as well as people skills, pay-attention to detail, capable of multi-tasking, and

works well under stress at times.

Benefits:
- Yearly performance bonus
- Paid vacation/sick/personal days
- Medical benefits
- Salary: $400 weekly($1,600 monthly)
Also,there will be compensation for efficiency and hard working.

Thanks
Mark James
Email:jobopportunity32@hotmail.com

I received a check yesterday in the mail for the sum of $2,800. I found this strange because there was no letter or anything to go with it just a check. I check my emails this morning and I found out where the check came from. Here is the second email I received.

Good Morning,

How are you doing today? I hope you are having a splendid time.
After going through your information again and further research, I am glad to inform you that you have been fully employed to take up the position. As a seasoned Assistant, I hope you will not underestimate my need to trust, rely and depend upon your ability to represent me at any given moment. With a great attitude and work ethic, I want you to make evident all of these traits as my employee.

You have been sent a payment which will be delivered to your resident House address today. The payment was sent via FedEz courier service and it will be delivered to your residential address today . I need you to stay at home so that you can receive the payment and sign for the delivery or if you are not going to be home today you can put a note to your door as receiver of the package.
As soon as you receive the check, have it deposited into your account, deduct your pay for the week, {$250} for the purchases of the office supplies you do not have and have the rest of the funds sent to my Secretary in Merced CA.

Here are the tasks to complete.

Please, i want you to send out the rest of the funds to my secretary in CA. We will be needing the funds to plan for our next photo exhibition and Organize our next teachings on construction coming up in San Diego California. This will be coming up in two weeks. So i will need you to send out the rest of the funds through Western Union Money transfer. I would prefer you wire the funds through bank account But since its urgent and using Western Union Money transfer is instant which he can get the funds as soon as you sent it.

Below is the information you are to send the rest of the funds:

RECEIVER'S NAME: Cathleen Wertheimer
ADDRESS: 5200 North Lake Road
CITY: Merced
STATE: CA
ZIP CODE : 95341
COUNTRY : USA

Below you will find your expenditures breakdown:-

Bank Name: JP Morgan Chase Bank,

Money To Receive ....$2800.00


Money To send to Cathleen Wertheimer .......$2000

Deduct Your Weekly Salary wage Payment.

Money To Transfer At Western Union outlet.... $2000

Transfer costs ..........$$$ (must be deducted from the Rest Money)

NB: You can easily found Western Union agent Service Location outlet in your city Online via http://www.westernunion.com/WUCOMWEB/staticMid.do?pagename=agentLocator&countryCode=US&languageCode=en&pid=usMenuAgentLocator&method=load

Once again you are to get back to me with the details below as soon as the funds as been sent through western union:

SENDERS NAME (As used when sending funds at Western Union office)

SENDERS ADDRESS

AMOUNT SENT

MTCN (Money Transfer Control Numbers 10 digit in Number)

Test Question and Answer (e.g. Favourty Colour! White )

Note: Deduct the western union transfer fee from the payment and make sure you use "Money in Minutes" option. Kindly make sure that you have the assignment completed as soon as possible today.

Please get back to me as soon as possible to confirm the receipt of this email, I will be waiting patiently to read from you...
Best Regards,
Mark James

I looked on the web for the company name and there was not one I could find they were not listed with the BBB. I figured this was a scam I confirmed it was a scam when I took the check to the bank and asked them if it was a scam so I could report this scammer!! They confirmed it was. I hope others will see this posting and help them to avoid being scammed by this person and his so called secretary Cathleen Wertheimer. I did not provide any banking info but I did give my other info no SS# though. I am going to check my credit report and make sure everything is ok. I don't want someone to steal my identity.

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