Disturbing Spam

April 28, 2008

I got this in my inbox yesterday:

Grandy’s Epack Corporation is announcing about a job opening in the company. The software developer now having their clients in different globe spots located needs Financial Representatives to help handle money flow and save both time and efforts of their clients. No upfront paying, you will never be asked for a dime out of your pocket. You get paid instantly in amount of 5% out every transaction operation.

Benefits listed:
-Steady income in amount of 3500 $ minimum on a monthly basis.
-5-6 hours a week! That’s all you have to spent on doing this job. You can easily combine this job with your another one.

Requirements:
-Basic idea in Accounting
-Regular internet Access
-Ability to accept payments using your BANK ACCOUNT
-Ability to resend money VIA WESTERN UNION

If feel qualified ,please, attach the following info to start up with:
- Fist Name:
- Last Name:
- Age:
- Sex:
- State, City, Zip:
- Phone number( home and cell):
- Valid email address:

Please, contact us for the first time via this email address: Epackwork@gmail.com , in the subject field put: “Interested”. Use only mentioned email address, otherwise we’ll fail to receive your response.

Now I know this this flavor of the check cashing scam is not new. A quick search finds a ton that already have documented, debunked and derided it [actually many of the dates are pretty recent]. But the timing can’t be worse. Economy tanking and jobs looking tight some poor schmuck is going to fall for this.

What amazes me is the level of people that even consider this. My job as the technologist chief geek at a large public school surrounded by many that have at least one advanced degree, many that have multiple degrees and/or higher degrees, I find myself as the goto answer guy for general tech goodness. And I’ll be damned if this crap [is this spam or is this legit questions] is the most inquired about. It must strike a desperate or greed chord in the human condition for these overly educate fools to even think that some ambassador dictator financial secretary of a massively crazy third world country asshole is really trying to solicit their help in passing large dough through the banking system.

In this case the email will find a bunch of teachers looking for summer work to pay bigger bills and a bit more frantic about their job futures. I wonder if Dante is rewriting the Divine Comedy to add another layer of hell for spammers and Nigerian email scammers.

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