Does this seem like a legit job offer?

• detectivegibbles

  Dear ~~~~~~~,
  
  We've found your resume and would like to offer you a Payment Processing Agent position.
  
  This is Steven McNeil and I represent Westend Group Inc. After carefully reviewing your resume I'm glad to inform you that your skills meet our basic requirements.
  
  Our company is a well known worldwide. We offer our customers Information Technology ser-vices through outsourcing best candidates from all around the world.
  
  Working schedule is a really flexible and can be made convenient to both you and us.
  NOTE: Internet and e-mail are required.
  
  There is no participation or any other fees. The company covers all fees in connection with the hire process.
  
  It's possible to work from home and keep in touch using the INTERNET & phone.
  
  After the first 20 days we evaluate whether an employee is ready to work with us permanently. Supervisor can recommend Contract termination after the Probationary Period is over.
  
  The salary for the first 30 days is $2,300 + 8% commission for every completed transaction. Working with a number of permanent customers your end-result could amount to $4500/month. After the Probationary Period monthly wage will be raised to up to $3,000 plus 8% commission. NOTE: After your Probationary Period is over you may ask for additional hours or a full-time employment.
  
  If you are interested in knowing more about this Payment Processing Agent position please fill in a form below with your updated contact information and send it to: [email protected]
  
  We will contact you within next 48 hours after reviewing your form.
  
  ------------------------------------------------FORM-------------------------------------
  Full name ______________________
  Residence country _____________________
  Contact phone ______________________
  Availability time _______________________
  ------------------------------------------------FORM-------------------------------------
  We've found your resume at www.hotjobs.com. This letter confirms that your resume has been duly processed and your skills and past employment meet our basic requirements for the Payment Processing vacancy.
  
  Sincerely yours,
  
  Steven McNeil
  Westend Group Inc.
  
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  
  
  
  I just received this email about 30 minutes ago. I am in search of a job down here in Huntington, WV and put my resume up on Yahoo Hotjobs. I know there are hundreds of scams, but I was just trying to get some insight since I am still an undergrad.
  
  So Scam or not?
• Fab1b

  

  Sounds like one of those pyramid scam type deals. Are you selling Amway??
• j_crazy

  

  contact the company and ask them:
  
  http://www.weg-inc.com/frameset.html
• gorocks99

  

  It's a legit company from what I can tell, based out of CT, IT recruiting and search firm. So, you wouldn't be working for them, you'd be outsourced to another company through these guys. Personally, I'd rather not go through a firm like this looking for a job, but maybe that's just me.
• krambman

  

  Our company is a well known worldwide.

  Working schedule is a really flexible and can be made convenient to both you and us.

  With the horrendous grammar used in both of those sentences, I would highly doubt it's legitimacy.
• UA5straightin2008

  

  http://www.bobbear.com/westend-group-inc.html
  
  scam
• Sage

  

  You can't be this dumb, can you?
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I would let this one pass me by.
• Upper90

  The fact that there are at LEAST 2 errors in the email (if this is exactly how it was presented....and I didn't even read much of it), should be a giveaway.
  
  I would also let this pass me by.
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  Any company that would offer a position without ever speaking to you, let alone interviewing you, is not a company I would want to work for. This has pyramid scam written all over it, they probably cast a big net trying to land cheap labor, and do this often with a high turnover rate.
• 4cards

  

  ^^^^
  agree 100%
• detectivegibbles

  Just making sure. Thanks all.
• cbus4life

  Pass.
  
  But, don't ignore these sorts of things entirely or without even looking into them, as you've put your resume out on Yahoo, and legitimate offers could come through.
• Chesapeake

  

  People seem to like working For Amazon in the Huntington area.
  
  It's on the corner of 7th Avenue and 10th Street above the police department.
• enigmaax

  Dear detectivegibbles,
  
  I noticed you were looking for a job on freehuddle.com. You seem really smart and enthusiastic and me thinks you'll be the perfect fit for our company.
  
  I can offer you an opportunity as a web surfer and you'll be given weekly assignments to surf and report back on potential new business.
  
  We may offer a direct deposit cash advance of $100 if you accept this opportunity. Please respond with your account and routing information to be eligible for our cash advance. We will respond within 24 hours with your first assignment.
  
  Thanks!
• detectivegibbles

  ^^^Almost funny. Thanks for playing.
• O-Trap

  

  Where did you find this job? Craigslist?
  
  If so, it's not a pyramid scheme. It's actually worse.
• detectivegibbles

  O-Trap wrote: Where did you find this job? Craigslist?
  
  If so, it's not a pyramid scheme. It's actually worse.

  
  I didn't find it. It was an email I received about my resume that I posted on Yahoo hotjobs.
• eersandbeers

  It's a common internet scam.
  
  The Nigerians commonly recruit people from job sites in these work from home scams. What will happen is you'll get a fraudulent check in the mail for about $4,500 in a week or so. They will tell you to keep $500 and forward the rest to another money mule in the US.
  
  The problem is most banks won't catch good fraudulent checks until after it clears. Which means you owe them $4,000 once that check bounces. It usually takes a week for it to bounce and that money is long gone.
  
  The Nigerians are getting smarter with their scams. This is actually one of the older ones.
• just_a_swimmer

  

  I can't believe people actually fall for this stuff.
• eersandbeers

  just_a_swimmer wrote: I can't believe people actually fall for this stuff.

  
  You'd be surprised. People are still falling for the Love scams, the hitman scams, and pretty much any scam you can think of.
  
  The Hitman scams are the best. They say "we have your cousin, wire $4,000 to Nigeria or we will kill him." So instead of calling a family member, they wire money to Nigeria.
• Flash

  

  The other day they had this website that would take you to any address. http://www.vpike.com/ . So I did it to the address of this company and its hard to tell, but all I see is a Suzuki car dealer and some small offices.
• dwccrew

  

  The fact that you had to ask about its legitimacy should give you the answer.
  
  You are going to have a hard time finding a job if you can't tell this was a scam and then having to ask people on here instead of researching it yourself. Good luck though.
• O-Trap

  

  detectivegibbles wrote:

  O-Trap wrote: Where did you find this job? Craigslist?
  
  If so, it's not a pyramid scheme. It's actually worse.

  
  I didn't find it. It was an email I received about my resume that I posted on Yahoo hotjobs.

  Yeah, it was sent via autoresponder. Same as Craigslist. Yahoo Hotjobs is unfortunately as susceptible to scams as any job board.
  
  It could be anything from getting you to sign up for an affiliate offer (for which they get paid) to getting personal info from you to getting you to sign something up and verify it before handing access of it over to them.
  
  Reason I ask about Craigslist is because the latter scenario I just mentioned is something I came across on Craigslist.
  
  This "company" wanted me to sign up for a Craigslist account, SMS verify it (which they didn't want to do because they want to stay anonymous), and then hand over the logins of it to them. Odds are, accounts they've had have been banned, so they want others to sign up accounts for them. Now that was just that scenario. Another wanted me to get a credit report and send it to them. Within that E-mail, they recommended a certain website (which turned out to be an affiliate link ... something I could find out) for getting the report.
  
  I instantly knew this was a lame attempt.
  
  1. Any serious employer has the capacity for doing their own credit checks. My landlord wanted me to do the same. I pretty much told him to do it himself. Anyone who needs to know another person's credit info can get it if it's a contractual obligation, and the other party has agreed to allow it.
  
  2. I found their affiliate link. This is a dead giveaway. They were fishing for people to use their affiliate link, and they'll get paid each time a person does.
  
  So what'd I do? I found the network they were using for their affiliate account, contacted the network, told them they were deceptive Craigslist posters, and got their affiliate account banned.
  
  If you are a Blackhat affiliate marketer, don't fuck with an unemployed SPAM hunter.