Illegal Email Job Scams

Looking for a job online is filling up my email in box with all kinds of internet job scams. One of the problems of signing up for Monster or Career Builder to name a few job searching websites is the fact that any bozo or jerk around the world can access your email. The all time biggest scam that I see for new job proposals via email is the international check cashing scam which is very much illegal. Using the United States Post Office for such activity is a big "NO-NO" and you can go to jail!

Below is just one example of this email scam that was stuck in my IN box and not the JUNK box that is supposed to filter this kind of email crap out...

Dear ***

Our company – “QIT- Distribution” is dealing with substandard banking services throughout the world for more than 10 years. Now it is extending its presence and a package of services in the United States. One of our new accommodations is transferring of money with the US check for non U.S. citizens. Therefore we demand new employees for the job of "Check Processing Manager".
Duties include:

* Obtaining a check on USPS
* Check cashing
* Money transferring to the client the way they choose
* Accounting in the peculiar form for each check

Requirements , Demands , Claims:

* Real US address
* 1-2 hours of free time per day
* Good credit history

Benefits :

* High pay. From 100 $ up to 500 $ per day
* Guaranteed salary of min. 3 000 $
* Few working hours
* Our company takes care of all the taxes on employees’ done transactions.

In order to take this motion, please, register at our webpage and make the instructions.
Best regards.
TOP MANAGER
QIT-Distribution Inc.

The gist of this scam is that they get you to cash the bum checks on your personal checking account and transfer the funds overseas before your bank leaves you holding the bag. If you see that part where they mention obtaining checks by "USPS", that's the no-no part. These people are the scum of the earth and are the modern day equivalent to being pirates on the world wide web. How low of a person do you have to be to pray on people that are unemployed?

Just last week my phone number was obtained from Career Builder by someone in India and they had the audacity to call me for a scam job. How did I know it was a scam you might ask? Simple, high pressure call to get my Social Security number. Not once, but twice in the same day.

Protect yourself and always remember that if it sounds to good to be true, it probably isn't! Good luck with your job hunt and be careful out there.

Do your friends a favor and email this post around to them. With one out of ten people unemployed the odds are in favor of the scammers to screw somebody out of the last bit of savings they have left.

Papamoka

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Somali Pirates in for a Smackdown

Picture yourself in this scenario, you are driving down the interstate in a rented moving truck like U-Haul, Ryder, or your brother in law is helping you move with his company truck. You get cut off and forced off to the side of the road by not just one car or pickup truck but several. They pull guns on you and decide that your personal belongings are now theirs unless somebody pays the thugs aka highway pirates off. A ransom so to speak. You are now a hostage till somebody pays the ransom or your dead. The scary part of this whole scenario isn't that the ransom will be paid to save your life, it will be paid to save the truck. There is no help coming even if you called 911 that instant, help is one, two days, or even a week away. That is what is going on off of the coast of Somalia in the high seas shipping lanes and enough is enough.

I’m thinking that President Obama should cash in some of his world rock star tour chips and talk to his new friends in Europe, China, and the Middle East to see if they can offer some military help with this pandemic piracy problem. When you think about it, its their produced products heading through the area that needs protection so why the hell wouldn’t they offer assistance? I’m as liberal as the day is long but I can’t stand silent while our shipping lanes of the world are fair game for pirates. I can’t be silent when our merchant marines are attacked and they have no weapons to defend themselves with other than water cannons.

Doing nothing about the blatant theft and hijacking on the high seas is as bad as walking away from someone about to be murdered or raped. Yes the U.S. Military already has a presence in the area but try driving across Texas in a car at seventy miles per hour and see how long it takes you to get to the other side. Now try it at ten miles and hour in a war ship displacing thousands of tons of water! That is the area that our military is patrolling right now. More nations besides the United States and Great Britain need to step up to the plate or we need to deal with the source of the problem immediately. Over at the Daily News they have this to say on plans to fix the piracy problem on the high seas…

U.S. military already prepared with battle plans for Somalia pirates, say intelligence sources

BY James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, April 9th 2009, 5:06 AM

WASHINGTON - U.S. military commanders have already prepared battle plans for ending the scourge of piracy on the high seas off Somalia if President Obama pulls the trigger, sources told the Daily News Wednesday.

The Navy sent a warship to intercept Somali pirates Wednesday who hijacked a U.S.-flagged freighter, as commanders weighed military options for nailing the brigands' bases.

Retired U.S. Ambassador Robert Oakley, who was special envoy to Somalia in the 1990s, said U.S. special operations forces have drawn up detailed plans to attack piracy groups where they live on land, but are awaiting orders from the Obama national security team.

"Our special operations people have been itching to clean them up. So far, no one has let them," Oakley told the Daily News.

The veteran diplomat, who also was ambassador to Pakistan, said teams of Army Delta Force or Navy SEALs "could take care of the pirates in 72 hours" if given the order to strike. - Daily News

I hate to say it but this is the first test of President Obama and his diplomacy skills. He needs to take the lead where others are looking the other way. He can try to form an immediate world coalition to end piracy from Somalia or he can just deal with it using existing military plans and our own special forces. Either way, the shipping of commerce around the world and past the Somalia coast needs to be safe and free of gang like tactics.

Our merchant marines do not carry weapons on board these large ships transporting every possible product known to mankind. They are civilians just doing their job. Piracy anywhere in the world places an additional strain on the markets of free trade that in this point in time can be highly destructive to the recovery of the world markets. The clock is ticking for action President Obama. Tick, tock, tick, tock…

Papamoka