I got this email after replying to an employment ad posted on Craigslist.org:

Good Day,
We are glad to offer you a job position at our company,
International Textile Industries. We need someone to work for the company as a
Representative/Book keeper in USA and EUROPE. This is in view of our
not having an office presently in the USA and some countries in
EUROPE. You don't need to have an Office and this certainly wont
disturb any form of work you have going at the moment. Providing
service and support to the textile finishing and carpet manufacturing
industries for over 70 years. Order processing, production monitoring
and process flow are seamlessly integrated through a company-wide
computer network.
* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 USD/EURO.
* 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's 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's very risky but it should push up sales on 25 percent.
Thus we need to get payments for our products as soon as it possible.
Unfortunately we are unable to open Bank Accounts in the United US
without first registering the company's name. 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 Checks take about 28 working days for cash to be made
available here. We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month
because we have money transfer delays*.Your task is to coordinate
payments from customers and help us with the payment process. You are
not involved in any sales.
You can check our web site to get more info on what we manufacture and
supply and if you wish to know more about us.
We makes direct contact for sales of products. Once orders are
received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer (usually
through FEDEX).The customer receives and checks the products. After
this has been done the customer has to pay for the products. We
recommend payment to be made through OFFICIAL CHEQUE and Money orders
based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job
position for solving this problem.
Your tasks are:
1. Receive payment from Customers
2. Cash Payment at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the
offices you will be contacted to send payment to.(Payment is to be
forwarded by Money Gram or western union ).Local
Money transfers take barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to
get customer's payment almost immediately. For example you've got
3000.00USD, you take your income: 300.00 USD Send to us: 2700.00 USD,
We embark on security check up on our payment agents, for any criminal
records, so payment might not come to you as fast as you think, First
month you will have 15-20 transactions after checking your background
records, 3000.00-4000.00 USD so you may calculate your income. For
example 18 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 4410.00 USD Plus your
basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD Total: 5410.00 USD per month After
establishing a close co-operation with us you'll be able to operate
with larger orders and you'll be able to earn more.
Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them
cashed in your bank or other Cashing Services. Deduct your Percentage
and forward the balance to the company attorney manager via western
union money transfer or money gram money transfer, the name will be
giving to you in later We understand it is an unusual and incredible
job position. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week.
You'll have a lot of free time doing another job, you'll get good
income and regular job.But 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 assistant.
We are glad to offer this job position to you. If you feel that you
are a serious and earnest worker and you want to work for International Textile Industries, kindly Fill the form below so we can comence working with
you
EMPLOYMENT FORM

*What is your full name, residential address and valid contact number?
*What do you do for a living?
*What is the name of your bank?
*What is your age?
*How long would a check of $2500 get cleared in your account?
*Have you ever made use of western union money transfer ?


ATTESTATION
I _____________________hereby accept the job as a representative of International Textile Industries here in the United State, to receive payments on behalf of the company. Payment received by me shall be processed, make deduction of 10% as agreed and forward the balance payment via western union to any of the company's regional warehouses that will given to me later. I shall also inform the company a week ahead if eventually l want to discontinue this job, so as to terminate all payments coming my way to avoid conflict.
Signed by me.

Meanwhile .Pls Just Send Me your reply if you will like to take up the offer.


Kindest Regards,
Ms. Harriet Domino
International Textile Industries
Welcome to International Textile Industries


I did not reply to it because now I know it's a scam. However they seem to be getting scary because it costs $75 to post an employment ad on craigslist.org and her email address is a Gmail email which here is the states requires someone to invite you to register an email with gmail (I have one).

I just went on Craigslist again today and there was another posting for the same thing with a different contact name and email address, so I flagged the posting for removal.

I have gotten a few legitmate jobs from Craigslist.org as an Admin Assistant and Bookkeeper and have also used it to buy and sell things. I have used it to sell my car, by my current car, sell my old bed etc. Right now I am unemlpoyed and looking for work which is why I have been on craigslist so often these days.

Apparently they are all over the place here, I'm editing this after posting it because I checked my email again and found a response to an Accounts Receivable position I applied for on Craigslist which looked like a legitimate job posting and got this email:

Re: Account Receivable Clerk (santa cruz)
...
"solatronent11@aol.com" <solatronent11@aol.com>
...
AddWednesday, March 26, 2008 2:47:48 AM
To:

Dear Applicant,

We received your resume in response to the Job Posting we placed online via Craigs list. Find below your duties as regards this job placement, this is a part time job and it will not take much of your time.

Duties Include:
* Receive and co-ordinate payments in form of Money Order or Checks from our customers .
* Cash And Processing Payments Immediately.
* Deduction of 12.5% which will be your percentage/pay on any payment processed
* Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of our Regional Offices via instant transfers.

Get back to me with the following information as we will like to include you in our Regional representative database and also send the information to our clients for payment processing.

First Name:
Last Name:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
Phone:
Email:
Age:
Gender:

Thanks and we look forward to having you contribute your best to the development of the Company. Your response to this email is needed, so that we can confirm your mailing address details we have in our database.

Regards
Mahmood Izadi
President, Owner
Solatron Enterprises.