New scam for job seekers

As many of you know I have been unsuccessfully been looking for a job for the past nine months. (If you know of anything please let me know). I recently applied to a couple personal assistant positions and got almost identical responses from two different ads. In case anyone else is in the job market like me I wanted to pass this on.

Letter #1

From: wwldlton@aol.com William Dalton

 
Hi,  Am glad to hear from you concerning the Personal Assistant position. I would love to meet up with you to talk about this job but I am currently away on a business trip in Ireland,am looking for someone who is enthusiastic and self motivated,and Must be able to remain calm under pressure.vast with the use of computer and other accesories.
         Job description
I will prepay you in advance to do my shopping. I will also have my mails and packages forwarded to your address. If you will be unable to stay at your house to get my mails, I can have it shipped to a post office near you and then you can pick it up at your convenience.

When you get my mails/packages; you are required to mail them to where I want them mailed to. You don't have to put money out of your pocket,all you have to do is have packages shipped to your house and do my shopping.You are allowed to open the packages to reveal its content.

The content of the packages are computer and electronics and personal letters. All expenses and taxes will be covered by me.You will work between 15 and 20 hrs a month,I will pay $300.00 per Week. This is not a bad offer is it?  I need your service because I am constantly out of town. I Buy Company that have financia difficulties and I am trying to start Art Gallery in Ireland. I will return to state in 3weeks time from now  so this process will be on going till then. If you don't mind, I will meet up with you when I return and then we can talk about the possibility of making this long term.

Do write me and let me know if you are able to handle the position.I will email you the list and pictures of what to shop for when I am ready.No heavy packages is involved! You can do the shopping at any nearest  stores. You will be shopping for Electronics and computer accesories which you will need to carry out this assignment.I will provide you my personal UPS account number for Shipping. All you have to do is provide my account number to UPS and shipping charges will be applied into the account. I will provide clear set of instructions for each task I need done as well the funds to cover them. If I were to mail you money to do my shopping plus up front payment for your service, where would you want it mailed to? How should your name appear on the paycheck? Maybe you can provide me with the following details below

Full Name:
Full Address:
(NO P.O.BOX)
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Phone Number:
Age:

Looking forward to hear soon.Respectfully submiting
                   William Dalton






Letter #2


From: eovcoer116@gmail.com    Daniel Cooper

Hello,

Thank you for applying to the post, its quite appreciated. I received and read your e-mail and it's reasonable and acceptable. So, I will give this a go, I’m looking for someone that can be trusted and reliable to work very well and good understanding person.

This position is home-based and flexible, working with me is basically about instructions and following them, my only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, so I need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings. As my assistant, your activities amongst other things will include;*Running personal errands, supervisions and monitoring. Scheduling programmes, flights and keeping me up to date with them. Acting as an alternative telephone correspondence while I'm away. Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf. Handling and monitoring some of my financial activities.

Basic wage is $500 a week. I'm sure you'll understand I tend to have a very busy schedule at t his point, as I am presently in Canada , I will be back in Three Weeks.

I think you're the right person for this post, Please note that this position is not office based for now because of my frequent travels and tight schedules, it's a part-time, work from home basis and the flexibility means that there will be busier weeks than others, so it's a little difficult judging the exact number of hours you'll be doing per week. If you can manage your time properly, this job may even give you some extra while you do something else on the side. As I have said, I'd want us to get a head start with things as soon as possible. I do have a pile up of work and a number of unattended chores which you can immediately assist me with, I hope we can meet up with the workload eventually.

Permit me to use the coming week to test your efficiency and diligence towards all this, also to work out your time schedule and fit it to mine. I really need to find the perfect person for this job, I'm confident you can take up the challenge and on the long run we should have a relatively sound working relationship between us. I'm online most of the time as I am hard of hearing so.

I prefer we contact each other through E-mails, but if there is need for me to call, I will be glad to do that. I am glad you are willing to work with me and I promise to be a good boss. I am also glad on the commitment in working. I have been checking my files and what I would want you to do for me this week is to run some errands out to some of the orphanage home, I do that every month. The fund s will be in form of Cashier’s Check and it will be sent over to you from one of my clients and I have some list to email you once you received the funds, you will make some arrangements by buying some stuff for the kids in the nearest store around you so you can mail them out. I will get you more information on that, I will like you to get back to me with your Contact Details such as:

Full Name:

Contact Address NO P.O BOX:

City:

State:

Zip-Code:

Phone Number:

Age:

Once I have received your contact information, I will get back to you with the task for this week, Understand you will also be paid as well as it’s important for me to make the necessary steps before I get back from my business trip back to the states. Hope I am clear with that.

Get back as soon as possible.

Daniel Cooper

Just wanted to pass these on - They were posted on Craigslist

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