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09-16-2007, 05:56 PM
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Cheap Textile Company
Hi I'm new and received the following job offer but believe it is a fraud. Has anyone heard of this. I am strongly suspect for although they have a website and use PayPal see no reason why they need me. Appreciate your input.
Hello friend, My name is Williams Wood from the Portland,i found this medium easier to contact you being a member of Washington.I work as a consultant for a fabric company in united Kingdom called (cheap Textile company) Fabric shop, Buy Fabric Online, Discount Fabric Supplier & Retailer - Cheap Fabrics UK I will like to know if you can work online from Home/ Temporarily and get paid weekly ? Your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment processing. we will be glad to offer you a job position in our company, Interface Fabrics and Textiles/We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper in the United states. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the US .You don't need to have an office and this certainly won't disturb any form of work you have doing at the moment. * The average monthly income is about $5000.00 usd. * No form of investments from you. * This job takes only 1-3 hours per day . Reply me as soon as possible if you are interested for more details. Email: cheaps_fabrics@yahoo.comWebsite:-www.cheapfabrics.co.uk Cheap Fabrics (Sales and Customer Service) Hopton Mills, Mirfield, West Yorkshire WF14 8HE Best Regards Williams Wood. Thanks for your help 
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09-21-2007, 06:10 PM
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To psenn:
I didn't find Cheap Textile Company in 419legal's database; however, this doesn't mean it's not a scam. The job offer sounds like similar e-scam letters posted by junior members in the Employment Scam Letter Archives. You might want to open and read links in that section. These type scammers collect email address then sell them to shady spammers. A yahoo email address is usually a warning sign. Read about it at Instant Human Resources Scam www.instanthumanresources.com www.myinstanthr.com USA Voice scam www.usavoice.org Ask America Survey scam www.ask-america.org www.askamerica.org good grade zone online tutoring scam www.goodgradezone.com www.goodgradeszon. To get the most from 419legal, I suggest you return to its home-page, scroll down to General Scam & Spam Discussions, open this forum and read Website Tips. Last edited by S. Tomas : 09-21-2007 at 06:45 PM.
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09-24-2007, 08:44 PM
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cheapfabrics.co.uk looks like a legitimate site, registered on 20-Dec-1999 to an individual in West London. The site refers to a business address in Windsor, and it's just a 12 mile drive between the two addresses which seems wholly reasonable.
The address you have been quoted is a 200 mile drive from the company's address, and there is nothing to connect the email with the website in any way, so it looks like someone has picked on an innocent company and is attempting to use their name to perform the scam. Quite apart from that - $60,000 a year for working 1-3 hours per day? That's about $120 per hour for a low level clerical job. Does that sound realistic?
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10-10-2007, 10:28 AM
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It's definitely a scam. See Tralboy's post in this forum "Question Money Order scam" to see what is likely to happen if you take up the 'offer'. They are banking on you not getting caught too quickly so that you can send them money before your bank picks up on the fake cheques leaving you either hopelessly overdrawn and/or prosecuted for passing fake cheques. Around 80 of these scammers were arrested a couple of days ago with thousands of fake money orders and cheques destined for the UK (nearly £8million) just waiting to be sent out to victims. Unfortunately 80 is just a drop in the ocean and there are plenty more just waiting to take their place.
As a rule of thumb I am suspicious of any email that does not have my name e.g "Hello friend" (if they were my friend they'd know my name). There are of course other signs such as poor spelling and grammar (as this one has) free webmail accounts like yahoo or gmail being used by companies (again like this one) and of course any unsolicited job offers. Stay safe Watchman
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10-11-2007, 12:50 AM
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On top of that is the fact that companies have no problem that requires someone in another country cashing checks for them. Any legit business will be perfectly able to process payments by themselves without your help. Businesses do so all the time. It's a typical check mule scam.
I once responded to a job offer like this with the worst resume possible. It said I dropped out of school in the 7th grade and spent fifteen years in federal prison for embezzlement and was currently unemployed because of a drug, alcohol and gambling addiction. Etc. Guess what? I got the job. 
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03-26-2008, 07:01 PM
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Yet another one...
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. Last edited by TestaRossa : 03-26-2008 at 07:12 PM. Reason: add info
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03-26-2008, 07:16 PM
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Dear TestaRossa
Welcome to this forum. Is good to see that posts in this forum help other people avoid being scammed. The problem with Craiglist is not the 75$ every ad costs (anyone can pay it) but they do not check who is making a post just they are looking for their fees.
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05-03-2008, 10:23 PM
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Cheapfrabrics of Windsor Uk is a ''Scam"
I received the same thing from CheapFabrics Ltd. I was actually looking in the newspaper for a job and came across this ad ” Part time company Rep” you must have a computer so I left a message to their email stating that I was interested in the job I even gave my information to them. She sent me a email saying her name was Brandy Bliss they sent me to money orders “So Say” from a client in the mail through UPS for 1000.00 for me to cash and take 10% I would get 100.00 and they would get 900.00 of it and western union them the rest of the money or money-gram so it was a money order from the united states post office, so I went to my local post office to cash it and they told me that the two money order were counterfeits so I went back home Pissed and I replied to their company and told them what happen she replied back to me to open up a bank account with Wells Fargo and to give her my account details so that their client can tranfer the money into my account!!! I’m like yeah right if y’all going to send me some counterfeit money orders there is no way in hell i would give out my bank account info and it was 100.00 to open up the account I know if I would of give that info to her my 100.00 dollar would have been gone and I would probably have so many NSF charges behind some fake checks and fake money orders so I would advise everyone not to fall for this Scam like I did.
  
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05-04-2008, 04:12 AM
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Thank you for the post
Dear shaquanna
Thank you very much for telling us of your tough experience regarding the scam. And it is good for you not falling for the scam. It could have happened that you got suspected in the ring of the fraudulence, if you should succeed to cash it and later it turned out counterfait. Anyway we need to beware of such easy money.
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