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Brandy Said:

I want to know about a spam job vacancies?

We Answered:

100% scam. There is no job.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money and your identity.

Any phone number that starts with +44-70 or anything similar is not based in the United Kingdom. It is from a UK based cell phone redirect service that can be answered by anyone anywhere in the world. It is a favorite service of scammers who want to pretend to be in the United Kingdom but are really half way around the world from there.

The next email is from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "UK government visa agent" and will demand you pay for made-up fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.

Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.

Stacy Said:

Do you find it offensive some people think if you didn't go to college your stupid?

We Answered:

That lady sounds like a tool. But yeah, I know what you mean. I have a degree but my fiance doesn't, and I have always felt that my parents (my dad especially) thinks lower of him just because he never went to school.

My dad pretty much made me go to college right after high school. He's one of those ultra-conservative one-track mind types that think there is only one path everybody's life should take which is, go to school, immediately afterwards go to college and get a degree, get a job/career, then marry someone of the opposite sex, then have kids. Now because of his mindset, he has wasted a buttload of money on a degree that I don't really care for and I am stuck in a career field I don't really care for either. Maybe some people don't want to go to school or they want kids out of wedlock, so what? That kind of thinking pisses me off...and I just realized that I have gone off on a tangent, sorry.

Some people just aren't cut out for college and that's fine if they can make it work. Many people who went to school, just went to get a piece of paper, which makes them no better than someone who didn't go to school. Higher education does make you a better person when you use it to better your own or someone else's life, but that still doesn't give you a right to act like your better than anyone else.