Recruiter-Rater

I guess complaining to Monster.com did do something: I received an email indicating that this was indeed a scam, and that they removed the offending account.

I just received a job offer from these same people on 02/08/2007 so apparently Monster hasn't gotten rid of them as well as they thought they did.

I was actually really excited about this. I was so upset that this wasn't real...even though I should have known it was too good to be true...I am a stay at home mother who really needs a part time job and I figured this would help me be able to stay with my daughter and work from home. I am disappointed. I wish there was a way I could get this jerk in trouble...what is REALLY messed up is this guy has a real website...it looks ligit! Check it out...

www.light-investments.cd

It looks so real. The other thing that I thought about was when I went to the website and I registered, the website already knew exactly what I was there for...I hit the "register" button just to see what would happen, and it brought me right to the job description! As if it knew me already...I bet ANYONE can hit that button and it would go to that job description. There are several other jobs listed on there but conveniently the only one available is this "Financial Agent". If you can't tell, I am really pissed off! How is it someone can take advantage of people and get away with it!

http://www.light-investments.cd/e/index.php?page=r_18

This is Light Investment Inc. web site partners & awards page.
If you look at the Cisco award, it has obviously been doctored. There are no shadows on the company name and it is off centered. I suspect one could also contact each company and verify the relationship between the two. I'm sure no legitimate company would want to be associated with a fraudulent company.

I guess the more creative a lie is, the easier it is to tell if it is a lie.

D~

Hi I'm from Australia and I received this today. It sounded too good be to be true so I did a quick Yahoo search and it comes up with a Scam site. Cheers for this as I thought it was a real job but that p**** Light Investments Inc, like above has made me more aware.

Drew

I have just recieved one of the Light Investments, Inc., saying they found me through www.careerone.com.au (Australia).


I recieved an almost identical email about a month ago, thought it "sounded" OK, but decided to do some investigations, the results of which are available at the URL below


http://www.iSource.net.nz/investigations/



I managed to find some names, took me about a week of searching, but the first solid name was via a www.WIPO.net resolution post on a domain name dispute involving Haworth Solution.


I am one hundred per cent sure these are the same people, and that they are successfully recruiting quite a few people.


One of the keys to the ligitimicy of there business is the fact that they use Western Union to tranfer money. THIS IS ILLEGAL TO USE FOR FINACIAL BUSINESS TRANACTIONS. They even stated so on there website, just in much softer terms.


I have also started recieving phishing for www.53.com, Fifth Third Bank, and I am sure it is by the same "network" of people.


I did notice up in the original post here "X-PHP-Script: www.www-news.biz/mail/send.php for 70.85.136.36". This tells me they are using an "off the shelf" PHP script mailer to sent the original email. Confirmed by the IP address, see:
http://paulwratt.fortunecity.com/iSource/Guru/investigations/HaworthSolutionsInc/FullDomainDossier_www-news.biz.shtml


What I want to know is, what law inforcement agencies are dealing with this sort of "crime". I KNOW there is someone in New York handling there phone and fax communications, which is why I am sure it is connected to the phishing for www.53.com, as I found a column on the new where the reporter had also done some research, finding physical buildings, PO boxes, an phone numbers, always linked by domain name disputes.


I am also sure that there are at least a half a dozen Domain Name registrars involved in maintaining these ruses.


Anyone with sopme more information regarding who handles this sort of thing, or any technical & personal details relating to Haworth Solutions Inc, Light Investments Inc, Fifth Third Bank, or any detail remotely linkesd to ANY of them, please get in touch with me. My email can be found on "the RAW email" link, on the contact page for the Fifth Third phishing scam.


http://www.iSource.net.nz/investigations/



Ok, thanks for the original post, try and collect some information if you come across the scams (or any new ones) DONT WORK FOR ANY COMPANY THAT ASKS FOR YOUR BANK DETAILS VIA EMAIL OR FAX BEFORE YOU HAVE THE JOB.


Safe Job Hunting


Paul


PS if I get the cash I'm going to visit these people :)

Thank you Gryffyx for your original post, and to all the following posts.

I was also found by these scammers through careerone.com.au. Lucky for me I decided to check them out before I did anything stupid.

I checked the domain details for Light Investments, and they are regesterd from Hong Kong with a fake address and telephone number . Go to http://www.nic.cd/whois/whois.jsp and type into the search: light-investments.cd

I have emailed the ACCC - scam watchdogs here in Aus. Hopefully they will check it out.

As said by Paul, above, DONT WORK FOR ANY COMPANY THAT ASKS FOR YOUR BANK DETAILS VIA EMAIL OR FAX BEFORE YOU HAVE THE JOB.

Cheers,
Aimee

yes I fell for it!!! what a smart(ARSE) man I must say as the actul link that he send with the email looks so real and of course I fell for it!!Wow if only it was true we would all be doing this kind of work and we all wouldnt have to go to the hassle of going to uni and getting a degree!!!
I think he goes through the newies who have just registerd their CVs on a online job network and targets people that way as I sure as hell got excited about thinking wow this sounds like the job for me.
Hmm if anyone did go through it my suggestion would be to keep all the money transfers for yourself and see how he likes being taken for a ride!!! Jokes!!!
As all the links and all that info about being caught really makes you believe that it is a legit job. I even emailed him loads of questions like is this really alegit job and he managed to be able to lie and say yes.
WOnder how he sleeps at night.
Well I hope you get caught Jerry Jones cause I really feel for the ones that go all the way with it with out doing any research about, as one thing when you try to search for this company you wont be able to find it unless you write scam light investments.
HOHum guess I have to look for a real job now HEHEHE
wb

I have no evidence that mail to abuse@monster.com is read, processed, or even stored. They accept mail to that address is all I've learned.

I also got a couple of these, the most recent being the Light Investments Inc. The previous one seemed a lot more believable to me, as it lined out the job in a lot more detail... here's a copy of that one:

Dear .,
We found your resume online and think that you may be a great fit for a position that we have available. Farmers Insurance Group has a limited number of outstanding opportunities available within our area. We offer the best entrepreneurial opportunity today and are looking for successful, business-minded individuals with a strong desire for personal growth, career fulfillment, and financial success.
Farmers Group offers over 40 product lines including Mutual Funds, Annuities, Variable Products, Commercial/Business, Life, Auto, Homeowners and much, much more. We have recently introduced lower auto & homeowner insurance rates, and no one offers more discounts than Farmers.
Allow me to share more about this opportunity with you.
Earnings - Our top agents in California earn over $1,000,000 and the average income for our district of over 30 agents is in excess of $180,000!! Your earning potential is unlimited!
No Experience Necessary - When you begin your career with Farmers, you receive complete and extensive sales training, product training, and support from your district office. Our proven system will teach you a Risk Management approach that is designed to provide real value to your prospects and clients.
Financial Support - Farmers offers an excellent compensation program to get you started. In the first two years, we have a subsidy program to assist you in addition to your commissions earned.
Outstanding Benefits - Farmers offers an outstanding benefits package including deferred compensation, medical, dental, vision, life, and much more.
Job Security - No Lay-offs! It's YOUR business! You have Equity in your business beginning your FIRST YEAR!
If you're thinking that you "don't have any insurance experience" or that you're "not a salesperson", join the crowd. Most of the agents in my district didn't have any insurance experience, or didn't think they were sales people either. They come from a variety of backgrounds and industries.
What makes a good agent/owner for Farmers Insurance?
Are you ready to work harder than you ever have? AND be paid accordingly?
Do you have a drive to succeed? Motivated?
Are you a serious business minded professional & interested in running your own business?
If you are a serious professional and you are interested in running your own business selling Insurance and Financial Service products in the Los Angeles and Ventura County areas, apply today by CLICKING HERE. Please be sure to attach the most current copy of your resume.
Please visit http://www.farmersbiz.com or at Farmers Simi Valley CA for additional information.
Best regards,
Vincent Vartanian
District Manager
Farmers Insurance & Financial Services



The links even go to a fake but realistic Farmers Insurance website, and at the top some of the hyperlinks even link to the actual Farmers website. Here is another one:



We offer you position of Local Agent with International CTN Company.
This is the part time job and the work can be combined with any permanent or other part time job; average workload is up to 10 hours a week.
Wage starts from $10,000 a year up to $60,000 a year.



We send you more information about our company and about position of Local Agent. SEE ATTACHMENT.



The work of Local Agent may be performed in accordance with your location, desirable commission, situation of the proper bank and also after consultation with your Local Manager.
To find information about possible schemas of work, SEE ATTACHMENT.



Please choose schema of work.



When we approve you to the position of Local Agent according to the data of your resume, we will send you the contract.



After signing the contract we will start cooperation.



Manager,
April Hunt

Here's the attachment:



International CTN Group is International council for standardization, certification, and metrology. All information about our company you can find at our site
http://www.i-ctngroup.com
Our company has branches all over the world.



INFORMATION ABOUT PART-TIME JOB AS A LOCAL AGENT:



Your job will consist mostly in dealing with our US customers. Some of our clients prefer to cover our bills by internal money transfers, while we are unable to collect those receivables in timely manner, as it takes up to 2 months to clear. This delay is caused by lengthily clearing process of US checks and international wire transfers through European banks.
Besides financial supporting of Agent’s network is twice less then bank’s and tax fees in accordance with the laws of countries through with money orders are transferred.



Our business requires fast cash flow and therefore we are seeking a representative that can process local US payments for our company. It is easier for us to pay commission to our representative and have the funds working the next day than wait for 2 months. This job can be combined with any full time work and do not require special skills or experience.



You will have to receive the payment from our customers, deposit it into your account and once cleared, forward the amount of payment, less your commission and other transfer expenses, to us. You will forward the money by Western Union, which is the fastest way to send money worldwide.



All applicants must pass a background check, and be able to open a bank account. Also, successful applicants must sign a Representative Service Agreement with us.



The representative, pursuant to the contract, will not be liable for any taxes in the United States. You will be transferring the money received from our customers out of the country and therefore will not be liable for gross receipts taxes. You will only be liable for your regular income tax on the commissions received.



Our company respects your privacy and will never ask you for any personal or other type of sensitive information. In this lieu we ask you to open new bank account to be used in your work. Therefore your personal finances will not be interfered our business funds.



In order that our company offers its clients a great number of ways to cover our bills for our cervices, it requires that our Agents should have good knowledge in this business area. To simplify the work of our Agents during the trial period and also to give the opportunity to be recommended as the reliable person irrespectively of the initial skills, our company offers you schemas of work and commission described below. All possible ways of covering our bills by our clients are scheduled into schemas to make the work of Local Agent’s network more automated and to simplify duties of each Agent. You may choose the scheme in accordance with your location, desirable commission, situation of the proper bank and also after consultation with your Local Manager.

!!! Bonus!!! Some ways of covering our bills by our clients may cause temporary delays because Local Agent’s network is not always able to react and perform in time the covering bills of our clients. This may cause some difficulties between a client’s payment and abilities of Local Agent’s network, and the payment may be delayed. To avoid such situations there is a system of bonuses for new Agents which is useful for both (the company – to avoid delays and the Agent – to increase commission). Agent’s bonus chosen in accordance with the scheme will not be changed even if the company’s strategy changes.



Possible schemas of work:

*direct transfer with verification (7%) One of the most convenient ways of covering bills for our services is direct passing to an account.
This takes the minimum period of time and does not require any special skills or efforts.
The difference between this scheme from mentioned below “direct transfer” is that the employee should provide on-line access to the new banking account for more prompt and accurate control of the company over received and withdrawal payments on the Agent’s account.
Unfortunately there are a small number of banks which perform such transfer in timely manner. For this reason for choosing the proper bank you will obligatory have bonus. Please pay your attention that for this schema you should choose the proper bank from the bank listing below.
Bank listing:
Citibank
US Bank
Key Bank
TCF Bank
(If you do not have any of these banks in your area, please forward the bank listing of your area, and the Local Manager will recommend you the proper one.)
Work with this schema provides visits to the bank for cashing money by the request of the Manager and timely transaction.
Requirements for working in accordance with this schema:
1. To provide bank account in the bank from the list mentioned above.
2. To provide the following account information in form:
Bank link: www.*****
Account number:*****
Routing number:*****
3. To provide to the company on line access to your account in form:
Bank link: www.*******
Login: ******
Password: ****
Location: city, state
Account holder (exactly as it is in on line access or in the bank card):*****
4. To have an opportunity to check on-line access by the first request of the Manager.
5. To have an opportunity to visit a bank for money after the first request of the Manager.
Agent’s percent commission due to this schema is 7%.
Trial period is 4 weeks
Supposedly Agent will receive and transfer 4-6 payments monthly, not more than $8,000.00 each.
We recommend this schema for the beginners who want to cooperate with our company. In other words who want to earn money and interested in career development or want to start with the easier schema of cooperation than “merchant account”.

*direct transfer (5%) The next ways of covering bills for our services is direct passing to an account.
Unfortunately there are a small number of banks which perform such transfer in timely manner. For this reason for choosing the proper bank you will obligatory have bonus. Please pay your attention that for this schema you should choose the proper bank from the bank listing below.
Bank listing:
Citibank
US Bank
Key Bank
TCF Bank
(If you do not have any of these banks in your area, please forward the bank listing of your area, and the Local Manager will recommend you the proper one.)
Work with this schema provides visits to the bank for cashing money by the request of the Manager and timely transaction.
Requirements for working in accordance with this schema:
1. To provide bank account in the bank from the list mentioned above.
2. To provide the following account information in form:
Bank link: www.*******
Account number:*****
Routing number:*****
3. To have an opportunity to visit a bank for money after the first request of the Manager.
Agent’s percent commission due to this schema is 5%.
Trial period is 4 weeks
Supposedly Agent will receive and transfer 4-6 payments monthly, not more than $6,000.00 each.
We recommend this schema for persons who are not sure about the terms of cooperation with our company. In other words who want to earn money but not interested in career development.

*merchant account. (7%) One of the most profitable but complicated schemas of work is a schema: “merchant account”. This schema requires the Agent’s unit identification, duty performances, and priority of company interests over private.
This schema requires maximum Agent’s loyalty towards the company.
Work with this schema provides every day account checking, ability to perform immediate cashing and transferring as payments are on account.
Requirements for working in accordance with this schema:
1. To open an account in a bank or take off your financial recourses from your current account so financial recourses of our company will not interfere to yours.
2. To provide on-line access to your account in form:
Bank link: www.*******
Login: ******
Password: ****
Location: city, state
3. To provide the color scanner copy of your checkbook by e-mail as attachment to the letter not smaller than 1,5 Mb format JPG.
4. To have every day access to the bank in which you opened an account
We appreciate the degree of Agent’s creditability towards our company and in respect to this the percent of commission is 7-10% (the initial percentage of a new Agent is 7%, it increases 0,5% per week up to 10% during the Agent’s trial period)



Trial period is 6 weeks.
Supposedly Agent will receive and transfer 8-10 payments monthly, not more than $8,000.00 each.
We recommend this schema for persons expecting long-term cooperation and career development.



This last one though, the way it's laid out, doesn't seem to put you at any risk, seeing as they are having you sign up for a new bank account instead of using your existing one. Could someone try that one out and see how it is? I would but I wouldn't be able to open a new account anywhere due to negative balances.

As of today (02/28/2007) - I just got this "offer" via Monster.

Wasn't interested and thought it was waaaay too good to be true, but thought I'd check out the company credentials anyway...and here I am.

Gah.

Today is 2/28/07 and I just received the email. Sadly, I was quite interested til I read how much they pay then I knew that this was possibly a scam. It sounded great because it only allowed 4-5 free hours/week which would have been great seeing as I am a stay at home mom. But I decided to google the company name anyways and the first thing that came up was this site here, saying it was a scam. :sigh: oh well.

I have opened a bank account and was going to follow through with the Local Agent position being offered. Then I came across this site. Does anyone know how this is a scam?? What could they do with my bank account information if I have no money in it? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

I also received the same email from these bastards as well somewhere late last year, except they were called Lewis Solutions. The email was the same, they just changed their website and "company" name. They are using the exact same website template, how cheap is that. I too thought this company and employment was legit so I applied. Luckily for me, I never got the chance to withdraw the money, the wired transaction never made it to my account. I had to close my account before they could touch it.

If you receive any job offers about receiving money from international clients and sending them off via Western Union don't bother applying for them, they are all money laundering schemes. There is no easy way for you to make money at home.