I received the following email from a so called "Hiring Manager" named Mark Smith, who claims to be from the Starbucks Coffee Company and reachable at 206-350-1860. The email address "Mr. Smith" used was
[email protected]. They were allegedly seeking 'Accounts Receivable Officers' to work from home. As was the case with Donald, they wanted my name, address, and home/cell-phone numbers asap. I called 206-350-1860 out of curiosity and it went straight to voice-mail without identifying any specific company or corporation. I was suspicious so I Googled the Starbucks Coffee Company, called their headquarters and discovered that this email was a total scam. Starbucks has received numerous complaints about this misrepresentation of them. Take a look at the following email that the con-artists sent to me; If you got one like this, it's not legitimate, they are fishing for your personal information:
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Dear Applicant,
We have a job opening for the position of Accounts receivable officer. Would you like to work from your home and get paid weekly? We are offering this
position to all interested applicants. Please carefully read through.
ABOUT US:
Welcome to Starbucks! If you’re visiting for the first time, allow us to tell you a little bit about who we are. Starbucks Coffee Company is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world, with more than 15,000 retail locations in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim - wherever there is a demand for great coffee.
We’re committed to offering our customers the world’s best coffee and the finest coffee experience – while also conducting our business in ways that produce social, environmental and economic benefits for the communities in which we do business. We believe it’s possible to do well and do good at the same time
We serve the entire United States and a growing export market,Your primary task for now , as a representative of the company is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process.You are not involved in any sales. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products but in most cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items they order for . About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified Checks or Money Orders drawn from the United State based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new contract -to-hire job position for solving this problem.
Your First Primary task(Collection of Payments):
1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
2. Cash Payment at your Bank or any cashing facilities near you.
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, You'll have a lot of free time doing another job, because this job is part time, you'll get good income .But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are considering your application because you satisfy our requirements and we are sure you will be an earnest assistant till we start running our branch office in your state.
Get back to us with information below information , so that we can add your mailing address to our Regional database and forward it to our customers for them to send payments.
First name...................
Middle name..................
Last name....................
Address Line 1....(NO PO BOX PLS...........
City.........................
State........................
Zipcode..........................
Home phone...................
Cell phone...................
D.O.B................................
Occupation......................
Your response to this email is needed , so that we can reconfirm your mailing address details we have in our database.
We will be updating you as soon as the payment is being sent to you and you will be directed as to where to have the remaining 90% of the money sent to, after the deduction of your 10% pay on any payments received and processed by you.
A swift acknowledgement of the receipt of this email will be appreciated.
Thanks For Your Total Understanding and Moral Cooperation.
Regards
Mark Smith
Hiring Manager.
Starbucks Coffee Company
2401 Utah Avenue South,
Suite 800.
Seattle, WA 98134
206-350-1860__