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Oracle12345 · #1 05-28-2009, 10:22 PM

So i got a message in my email from someone who saw my resume on career buidler and when I asked him for more info this is what I got:

Allow me to elaborate on our background. Flex & Wilson LLC was
established in April 2004 and has been successfully in operation since
its inception. Flex & Wilson LLC focus on serving and supporting
start-up and fast growing small financial firms. To that end we
provide members with more than up-market office space, more than
essential office infrastructure: we also offer them a range of
specialist financial services necessary for the establishment, running
and development of financial services businesses.

We are located and officially registered in the state of Utah, U.S.
Flex & Wilson LLC legal partner is a major legal partnership
specializing in regulation and compliance work. They cover areas from
the initial registration through to complex compliance issues. We also
have an agreement in place for them to act as legal auditors for
investment companies. These are all areas that are essential for Hedge
Funds and Investment Management companies to address, and our close
relationship with our partners enables the process to be as smooth as
possible. The level of our reliability can be better understood by
investigating the list of our permanent Partners (you may find it on
our official web site).

Profit Monitoring Agent is a part-time job at home position (no
travelling or relocation is required). We keep in contact with our
employees through e-mail and/or phone. Company hours are 9:00 am to
5:00 pm Mountain time Monday through Friday and 9:00 am. to Noon
Mountain time on Saturday. You will be notified about incoming Task in
advance, at least 1 business day before the Task is opened. Basically,
all you have to do is to check your e-mail daily as we will keep you
updated from time to time and also as soon as Task is opened we will
let you know. Usually I send notification letters between the hours of
9:00 am and 11:00 am Mountain time. In general, you are free to set up
your own hours. Evening hours are also acceptable. You can continue
with your other job if you want to along as you can handle ours too.

Our company structure currently exists out of management, human
resources, trading team and financial experts. You will work directly
under the trading team. Your responsibilities include: provision and
monitoring of payments to the customers and the customer's profit
monitoring, accepting fund transfers, financial reporting to the
company and arrangement of the transfer of further funds to investors.
The funds you will deal with are our investors accrued dividends. In
order to be able to receive bonus for completed deals, and to conduct
transfers between the company and investors you will need to have a
bank account. The company will not ask information about your personal
bank account. You will be provided with instructions for opening
separate account and the company will gladly assist you if needed.

Your basic salary is $3,000.00 per month plus additional commission 5
percent for each successfully completed Task. Pay date is the 1st day
of the month. Commission is paid on the same day the Task is
completed.

Benefits will be made available to you one month after your hiring
date.

At Flex & Wilson LLC security is our priority, which means we are
committed to keeping your personal information confidential. We are
sending an Employee Confidentiality Agreement (it is attached to this
letter), please read it carefully.

If you would like to accept this position, please reply to this
message and I will send you an Employment Agreement. After you sign an
Employment Agreement and Employee Confidentiality Agreement you will
be officially hired.

If you have any questions, please, feel free to ask me.

We look forward to you joining the Flex & Wilson LLC staff!

I havent done anything with it since I cant find this "company" listed in the utah business directory and plus I have read and heard about working from home a lot times is a scam.

pawoSD · #2 05-28-2009, 10:56 PM

100% a scam.

strelnik · #3 05-28-2009, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by pawoSD

100% a scam.

Send it to the Utah Attorney general.

Oracle12345 · #4 05-28-2009, 11:07 PM

im thinking about having fun with this clown, what do you say?

The dead give away it was phony when I couldnt find it listed in the utah business directroy. I bet its some african in some internet cafe.

OldPokey · #5 05-29-2009, 12:21 AM

Scamola - NOBODY will offer anybody a job just from a resume they saw on a job site.

mgburg · #6 05-29-2009, 01:19 AM

When it asks anything about, or to do with, a bank account...run, don't walk, away from it...regardless whether it says it won't ferk with your personal account or not...

That letter started stinking from the salutation...

Give it to the Utah AG's office and let them have lunch on this chump...

You don't need to be the meat for this phreak...

Jim H · #7 05-29-2009, 05:52 AM

This is full of classic scam key words here. Walk away from this laughing hysterically.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oracle12345

Allow me to elaborate on our background...

...The level of our reliability can be better understood by investigating the list of our permanent Partners (you may find it on our official web site).

Profit Monitoring Agent is a part-time job at home position (no travelling or relocation is required). We keep in contact with our employees through e-mail and/or phone.

Elaborate? Background? And, who has "Permanent Partners" in business???

Agent? Profit Monitoring agent??? Yes sir, you can be an Agent and work part time at home in your bunny slippers!

Quote:

...You will be notified about incoming Task in advance, at least 1 business day before the Task is opened.

...Your responsibilities include: provision and monitoring of payments to the customers ...you will need to have a bank account.

"You will be notified about your incoming Task" would sound better. English as a Second Language?

"Provision of payments" is the final tip-off. In this classic scam, you will be sent a 'check' and will be expected to make payments before the check clears. The check will not clear, but by then you will have cleaned out your account.

No legitimate business, except one that you own and run, requires you to have a bank account to be employed.

aklim · #8 05-29-2009, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by OldPokey

Scamola - NOBODY will offer anybody a job just from a resume they saw on a job site.

Technically, not true. When the girls print their ads in the back section of the Penthouse or Hustler magazines, they show a pic and a little bit about themselves. With that, when you call, you have hired them.

Oracle12345 · #9 05-29-2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Technically, not true. When the girls print their ads in the back section of the Penthouse or Hustler magazines, they show a pic and a little bit about themselves. With that, when you call, you have hired them.

that is true but this is not for adult enterainment

Contacted the utah AG office, well see what happens

aklim · #10 05-29-2009, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Oracle12345

that is true but this is not for adult enterainment

Contacted the utah AG office, well see what happens

Wrong again. The perps are adults and they want to be entertained by you giving them money.

Probably nothing much. Scammers move fast or are in some foreign place like Nigeria. The basic rule of a con game is that you have to move fast before they catch up with you. You don't need to get greedy. When it is over, it is over. There is the temptation to cash that one more check or do it just one more time. That is when the bottom usually falls out. I would run the scam for a couple of months then win, lose or draw, I move before somebody zeros in on me.