i live in Australia, and "Futron software" called me to tell me to fix my windows 7. instantly realised it was a scam, did not give my home number out and he dodged questions when i asked about how he got my number, and if he worked for microsoft.
Applied for a job on Craigslist for a receptionist job and this is what they replied to me :
Hello,
I am replying back to your message concerning the job posted on Craigslist in which you're interested in,your application was received, unfortunately the position already been filled, but there's another position to be filled, if you will be interested.
I have gone through your Resume/email and am quite impressed, i think you are the right person for this job. I have had a previous Personal assistant who has been very commendable in her activities and who has been part of my life for the past 6 months, she has since moved on with her personal life and it has affected me in a way. I found her previously on the Craigslist website and I sincerely hope I will be able to find someone again who will be as efficient as she has been. I need your service because I am constantly out of town. I will return back to the state real soon so this process will be on going till then. If you don't mind, I will meet up with you when I return and then we can talk about the possibility of making this long term.
JOB DESCRIPTION
You will be a Personal Assistant,you will walk in to any warehouse which we will be disclosed to you soon and you would be expected to inspect,test, sample, and sorting of products or Golfview Pl Apt B goods being Purchased. The Purchased products can include a large range of items, including food, Art-Materials, machinery, equipment or pharmaceuticals. Depending the type of manufacturing environment, When you get my mails / packages; you are required to mail them to where ever i want them mailed to. You don't have to put money out of your pocket, all you have to do is have packages shipped to your house and do my shopping. You are allowed to open the packages to reveal its content. All expenses and taxes will be paid by me including your weekly salaries.
No heavy packages is involved! You can do the shopping at any nearest stores. You will be shopping for Art Materials and clothing sorting out my delivers and packages. I will provide you my personal UPS account number for Shipping. All you have to do is provide my account number to UPS and shipping charges will be applied into the account. I will provide clear set of instructions for each task I need done as well the funds to cover them.You will be working 3 days in a week and you're to choose any 3 days of the week from Monday to Saturday that will be preferable to you and you will be working 4hrs in these 3 days and that will be from 9am-1pm and we will be offering you $400.00 per week.
Type: Part-Time
Hours: 15 Hours per week
Days: 3 days per week
Weekly Pay: $400.00
BENEFITS:
• AD & D Insurance
• 401(k)
If you're interested kindly get back to me with the following information:-
Full Name:...
Full Address:...
Apartment number.......
City:...
State:...
Zip Code:...
Sex:...
Phone Number:..
Age:..
Email..........
I will be looking forward hearing from you and then proceed on the next step forward.
Regards.
Thank you!
NB:You can give me a call on my US number which is roam to australia
I got the exact same email applying for the exact same job. If I may ask, what city are you in? It's fishy enough that we got the same email, but I'm in Nashville, so if you're in a different city then there's the big clue.