This is a SCAM!
Current Open sPosition
From: JACKIE HIGGINS
To: sommeran@uwplatt.edu
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 8:33 pm
Hello.
We have acquainted with your CV and want to propose to you our offer.
Let me represent you our international company (KLK Int.)
We concern with market development, database management, and we have a wide experience in auction.
Now we need in an administrative assistant. This job is not hard and is well-paid (base salary guaranteed). This job is great because you can choose between part-time and full-time basis, plus you can perform your duties at home and no fees required!
Good candidate must have ability to manage deadlines and have strong desire to succeed and have good communication skills! Our employees are people with team spirit and they understand the company's value propositions.
Please forward your respond to: Jessica.Parker.careers@gmail.com
Best regards,
KLK Int.
Thank you, just got this email and wasn't sure.
ReplyDeleteMy thanks also. It sounds legit, compared to some others I have gotten.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds legitimate, but after 2 emails from me requesting more information, this is the response from "Jessica Parker". And I have no idea as to what "Agreement" she is referring. Thanks for busting this.
ReplyDeletethank you for the response. As you can see from the agreement our head office is located abroad. Since we haven't set up an office in the USA yet you'll be processing transactions from local USA customers (bank transfers, checks, money orders, etc). You are welcome to open a separate bank account specially for these purposes (business or corporate account will be an advantage). Our respective sellers conduct numerous sales at different auctions (items from different categories, including jewelry and watches, antiques, collectibles, and much more). It's more convenient for them to receive funds from one person rather then dealing with numerous transactions from different buyers. That's why we hire worker's like you to simplify the sale process. Also most of our customers are from the developing countries and handling a bank account is pretty expensive there. So, using such instant cash sending services as Western Union, Money Gram and others is much more cheaper for them.
Best regards,
Jessica Parker
KLK Int.
ok I have recieved same email, so how do we act upon this information. if this is punishable by international law, what do we do to have this jessica parker punished
ReplyDeleteGood Question (re: "anonymous" comment from 5/17/09). I'm looking into how to report this new sort of scam as I received a similar email this morning. As a professional, freelance Corp. Comm. service provider and English (American) language purist, there are many syntax errors in the KLK Int. email that gave me pause and should give anyone pause who KNOWS how are language/conversations are formed. So I did a little Google search and came up with this thread.
ReplyDeleteWhoever is running this blog, good on ya! BTW: will repost if I find out how to report these ne'er-do-wells (grrrrr...)
I have been approached via email by several other scam job opportunities in where they seem to have stepped up their game. This KLK one was very easy to spot. I just got one this morning.
ReplyDeleteBut I have also received stuff from Alibaba which is a real company but the scammers gave me different contact info, and Power Postal (PowerPostal is a real company that the scammers have hijacked their name and reputation and built a website. The real company in AZ does not have a website)
RE: prosecuting these KLK Int. folks, not much we can do here in the States; this from the Scottsdale, AZ police website (http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/Police/about/ISB/Investigative_Services_Division/Crimes_Against_Property_Section/email.asp") Unfortunately, adequate laws do not exist to prosecute criminals in other countries and many email hoaxes and internet based phishing scams originate in these places." Bottomline - be smart, not desperate! I know the economy sucks and many of us are out of work and looking for jobs, but beware of those who will take advantage of a bad situation. THAT ideology hasn't changed in millennium, these scammers are just using technology to do their dirty work.
ReplyDeleteI just received an email similar to your emails from Jessica Parker. Whoever is running this blog is doing a great job, because I was getting very close to sending the scammers my information. BTW: I contacted the local police department, and they said they can not do anything about this, since it has originated from outside the country!!! Be smart and DO NOT fall for this crap!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI just received an email about this job.. Its also the same. Thanks for having this site!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I will certainly not respond to the letter I received by e-mail.
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This is what I got from this company:
ReplyDeleteThey say that they are on Careerbuilder.com
My e-mail also said they were on Career builders, but I couldn't find them. So I plan to contact Career Builders to let them know. Probably nothing they can do, but as soon as I read the part of their contract about transferring funds I knew this work at home was probably a scam.
ReplyDeletei figured this was a scam you guys confirmed it
ReplyDeleteI thought that this was a scam also.
ReplyDeleteThe Nigerians sit in a room and all they do is this sort of stuff. They are very desperate..the piracy that we see on the seas is only one way that they steal. There are many other ways.
A couple of years ago, I HAD never heard of this type of scammery and started a (mystery shopper) job assignmnet for them. They actually mailed several bank-generated money orders to me and I went so far as to deposit these money orders but I notified the bank about it all and we just sort of sat on it to see if they would clear...My next step was to forward money to these people ASAP. THE MONEY ORDERS NEVER CLEARED - THEY CAME BACK- If I would have forwarded the money to them, they would have recived money from my bank account and I would have been held responsible for the debt that they were putting me in...The money orders were real and had been created by someone inside the bank from which they were drawn. However, there were no funds in the fictitious account that they had been drawn on.
The Attorney General opened an investigation and traced the trail back to an address in Houston Texas but no one lived there.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL EVERYONE. FOLLOW YOUR INTUITION....
Thank you for the information. I received 2 today and because I am unemployed it sounded legit. However deep down I was suspicious. Thank you for not letting me get taken advantage of.
ReplyDeleteThe wire transferring was the first clue. Usually those scams don't elaborate on the details of the contract. It is not a binding contract. USA law cannot hold a contract by email as binding. Even if it is legitimate it can be changed before printing. Beware! Ask for the contract through the mail. You probably won't get it.
ReplyDeleteIts a good thing most of us have command sence. I feed sorry for the ones that get taken by these jerks.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I too received the same email with a contract to send information. Also, beware of a company on the internet called Tax Inc. They have a full blown website and I hired them to take care of tax issues with a former company I owned. I sent them 10K up front and they never did anything. I'm trying to get media coverage to try and get my money back but since they are based in California Fox News in NY can't do it. thanks for this great site.
ReplyDeleteOK This just in from the jessica parker scam; KLK Int. Lysaker Torg 15 1366 Lysaker, Norway Bern Eriksen Human Resources Executive
ReplyDeletewow, you might've just saved my butt! I just got this eail an was asking more about and they even sent me document to fill out!
ReplyDeleteCame very close to sending my financial info (even had the form all filled out and ready to send). Did one final check to find out about this and happened upon this website. Thanks so much for the 411.
ReplyDeleteI received this email, this one from Jillian Parks...I will ocntact CareerBuilder as well. Thank you for the info.
ReplyDeleteWe have come across your resume on careerbuilder and wish to advertise our current opportunity.
KLK Inc. is an international company with an extensive experience in auction management.
We are currently looking for an administrative assistant. This is good work-at-home vacancy with Part-Time and Full-Time positions offered. Base salary is guaranteed. No cold calling involved, no monetary outlay asked for at any stage of employment. The successful workers must possess enough professional skills to realize the company's value offers. Candidates need to maintain a big wish to become successfull, be able to carry duties, and have strong communication and time-management skills.
If you are interested in this opportunity please email back and we will send you the detailed job ad and the employment agreement.
Thank You,
KLK Team
After I responded to Jillian Parkers to ask for more info on the company, I received another email from Jessica Parks giving me all kinds of company info as well... Again, thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteI just received email from "Jessica Parker" with the Norway address along with an employment agreement attached asking for all sorts of personal info. What they do doesn't make sense -- I open or give access to my personal bank account, take supposed "payments" from "who knows who", run them through my account and I keep a portion of the transfer? Where does the Administrative Assistant duties come in since that's what job was initially advertised? I'm still waiting for info on the company from "Jessica" as I initially requested. I did a Google search and KLK, Int. comes up as a company in India. Thanks for this website and I agree with the earlier poster -- don't let desperation in this economy impede being cautious -- if it seems to good to be true - it usually is.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all the posts, we cant be fooled this easily for as hard as the situation may be, we will see greener pastures, but not at the expense of our hard earned savings. I received an email and decided to check this KLK Int., and as Mr anonymous said, things don't check, it turns out to be a company in India, and the address is from Norway, so inconsistency number one (and should be enough and definitive to deter anyone from submitting any information), two is that the first email I received was from a gmail address, and the reply came from this person with a KLK account, so there is somewhat "phishing" here. Please be aware of this and make sure you are making an intelligent choice when disclosing your information, i tried running it by the FBI, or their website, but seems the site is not fitted for this kind of spontaneous submissions from private citizens, lets hope they do and we can all form a united front against unscrupulous persons.
ReplyDeletewell i see everyone is getting this email. it makes me feel dirty.
ReplyDeleteAs usual it sounded to good to be true, even with the "typos". So glad for your site. Referencing the Company was the clue to me among other things. Thanks for your site.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you know about KLK operating out of
ReplyDeleteLysaker, Norway?
Ed
My comment: I would rather do something legal.
thanks to this site i was aware of this scam. i had the agreement paper filled out and was ready to send it to "Rachelle Haas" and "Jessica Parker"...thanks again..this site saved my ass
ReplyDeleteJESSICA PARKER DID THE SAME THING TO ME. SHE MADE ME FILL OUR AN EMPLOYEE APPLICATION AND A LETTERHEAD PAPER WITH THE COMPANYS "ADDRESS". I THOUGHT THEY NEEDED SOMEONE TO DO LEGWORK AT PHYSICAL WESTERN UNION AND MONEYGRAM LOCATIONS. IT IS A HASSLE TO DO ONE. SO I HAD MONEY WIRED INTO MY ACCT. I WITHDREW IT AND SENT IT (MINUS 5% FOR ME) TO 4 INDIVIDUALS IN THE UKRAINE.
ReplyDeleteIT TOOK ME A BIT TO REALIZE THAT THIS COULD BE IDENTITY FRAUD. I DIDNT THINK MONEY LAUNDERING WAS THE PURPOSE BECASUE AMOUNTS WERE RELATIVELY SMALL.
AFTER READING SOME GOOGLE LINKS, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT I WAS UNKNOWINGLY AND STUPIDLY USED AS A MONEY TRANSFER AGENT.
WHAT CAN I DO NOW? WHO DO I NEED TO REPORT THIS TO. EVEN THOUGH I WAS NERVOUS, I DID NOT WANT THAT $$ ANYMORE AND I DONT KNOW WHAT KIND OF SHADY PEOPLE THESE ARE AND I HAVE A FAMILY COMING. I TOLD THEM I DONT WANT TO DEAL WITH THEN ANYMORE.
IS MY IGNORANCE ABOUT SCAMS A DEFENSE FROM PROSECUTION? WOULD I BE DETECTED? WHO SHOULD I REPORT THIS TO????
FYI: I no someone that fell for the scam. What there doing is getting info from ppl thinking its for the job and transfering money from one account with out that person knowing and sending to another account that person thinking it's a business deal & then they have u send them the money. Bottom line there stealing from one account & putting it into your account & having you do the jail time. Cause it is money laundering. I feel so bad cause this person is devisated he put faith in these people. It can happen to anyone trust. this person i'm talking about always has good choices of character. My fault i told him to have alittle trust in people. I know of alot of people who make good money working off the internet & I thought this was ok, even if it sounded to good to be true. This Jessica even called my home..that BIt@h let find out who she is.
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