Background: I recently moved to UK and I'm looking for job. I got this job offer from totaljobs.com, and I followed through even if it looked like a scam, but stopped before any money or account was touched.
The mails
Header of the first mail:
Making contact:
The training:
The training material:
(points 2 and 3 describe the money handling)
The website
The Whois of the site, showing that it was created not 2 weeks ago, and have the same address of Yahoo headquarters.
The site has a list of partners on the bottom of their main page, everyone of those sites show similar WHOIS informations.
I hope this helps, if more informations are required please ask.
I already sent a mail asking to not be contacted by the "team manager", and no phone calls are involved at this time.
The mails
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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 09:26:42 +0000
From: "Jessica L. Hirt" <[email protected]>
Organization: Dudley Finance International Inc
To: Mr xxxx xxxxxxxx <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable[/size]Making contact:
Account Manager - No Experience Required
Location: England, UK
Salary: £18,400 (FULL-TIME); £15,100 (PART-TIME)
The company are offering a competitive basic salary, great career opportunities, friendly and dynamic working environment.
If you are interested in this role and would like some further details please forward an up to date CV for consideration.
HR Manager
Jessica L. Hirt
Dudley Finance International Inc
The training:
Congratulations to the beginning of the training, your training will start on Wednesday, 11, September, 2013.
Please confirm that you are ready to start the training as soon as possible.
Please find the training material attached.
P.S. The training manager is going to contact you by telephone.
The training material:
(points 2 and 3 describe the money handling)
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Training Course Basic Information
Company is engaged in various financial activities, cooperating with national and international payment services in USA and Europe. Now, the company is expanding its business activity on the territory of UK. Both jobs are considered as office-based and home-based, so that you may choose your working hours and your job-schedule at the first meeting that will be held on fourth training day.
Before you start to work, you should pass a free 10-days training course to practice with software and learn theoretical materials ( and other documents) preparing you for all the duties and future responsibilities. After you complete the free training course, company guarantees your employment within one business day (all necessary assignments will be discussed on the 1st interview already – as soon as your local supervisor receives your practical and test results).
The training course is distant, except for two personal meetings with one of the company’s managers in your city. It combines both practical and theoretical part for each lesson. The lessons will be assisted and controlled online by your local supervisor and distantly (only during the 1st lesson) by the training manager. While studying, you will permanently move from the easiest and the simplest tasks to levels that are more complicated. You will receive studying materials that you should learn and strengthen then your knowledge by passing tests after each practical part.
The training days do not have to be consecutive (you can make breaks for one or several days if it's necessary).
Our trading training courses include the following steps:
1. Initial professional level check (distantly coordinated by training manager): Accounts. Payment systems. Immediate transfers.
2. Determinants of Foreign Currency Exchange Rates.
3. Access to company’s software (trading platform & financial messaging network).
4. Types of Markets. Requests handling. Databases.
5. Brokerage and investment banking. Types of investments.
6. Exchanges between payment systems. Records of different transactions. Reports.
7. Volatility and Variance Products. B2B- and B2C- applications.
8. Interest Rates and Interest Rate Products.
9. Accounting documents. Financial Engineering.
10. Practical usage of training experience. Workday rehearsal with Key Trader (local supervisor).Practical usage of training experience.
Initial professional level check (instructions for the 1st lesson).
1. Your Training Manager (TM) calls prescribe you into the list of trade-trainees and to confirm that everything is ready for the start of practical part of the Lesson. (The training manager will assist you by the phone to report about your skills to organize, calculate, communicate, count, etc.)
2. Then TM informs when the money for practicing with elementary operations and your training wage £30 are available on the account that you have specified for training. (The exact amount can’t be specified at the moment since the training money goes from one training person to another by a chain: company sends the initial amount to the 1st trainee, he/she takes £30 as the training wage and sends to the 2nd trainee the rest of the amount after deduction of the commission for the transaction; the 2nd trainee takes £30 and sends to the 3rd trainee the rest minus the commission etc.(subject to the number of the trainees before you in the training chain, the amount that you receive can be different).
3. You call your TM after withdrawing the total amount to receive new details.
First, £30 you should take for yourself as your personal training wage for the lesson (you may leave it on your account) and the rest of the amount you will use for practicing with Money Gram and Western Union payment systems. Then you go to the nearest Money Gram location to perform a transaction using the data you will receive from your personal manager. Pay attention to the details to be able to compare and learn the differences between this and other financial services.
The Receipt that you get from the Money Gram managers has to be saved.
5. Your TM will provide your practical results according to all references to your local supervisor and compose several questions to check your initial professional level. After you complete the practical part, you will receive theoretical materials. You should answer questions in the test form and send it back to company’s e-mail address within next 24 hours. Some of the questions will concern your practicing for the first training day, some of them will be based on your results (to confirm your skills, abilities, etc).The deadline for sending out the test form: next workday, 6:00 pm.
In response to this email, please specify the day when you are ready to start the training. Your personal training manager will contact you by the phone. So, please, make sure to stay accessible by the phones provided.
Every training step was weighed and deeply tested during our trading and training work so that every person may show the best results. Our education initiatives incorporate classroom learning, simulated trading sessions, specialized financial engineering seminars, and a variety of other instructional programs. We view education as a continuous process—as the markets, products, and valuation techniques evolve, we adapt our coursework to reflect those innovations.
The website
The Whois of the site, showing that it was created not 2 weeks ago, and have the same address of Yahoo headquarters.
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WHOIS information for dudleyinc.com:***
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.melbourneit.com]
[Querying whois.melbourneit.com]
[whois.melbourneit.com]
Domain Name.......... dudleyinc.com
Creation Date........ 2013-08-29
Registration Date.... 2013-08-29
Expiry Date.......... 2014-08-29
Tracking Number...... 1824160727_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Organisation Name.... Robert Russ
Organisation Address. PO Box 61359
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Sunnyvale
Organisation Address. 94088
Organisation Address. CA
Organisation Address. US
Admin Name........... Admin PrivateRegContact
Admin Address........ PO Box 61359
Admin Address........ registered post accepted only
Admin Address........
Admin Address. Sunnyvale
Admin Address........ 94088
Admin Address........ CA
Admin Address........ US
Admin Email.......... [email protected]
Admin Phone.......... +1.5105952002
Admin Fax............
Tech Name............ TECH PrivateRegContact
Tech Address......... PO Box 61359
Tech Address......... registered post accepted only
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
Tech Address......... 94088
Tech Address......... CA
Tech Address......... US
Tech Email........... [email protected]
Tech Phone........... +1.5105952002
Tech Fax.............
Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.comThe site has a list of partners on the bottom of their main page, everyone of those sites show similar WHOIS informations.
I hope this helps, if more informations are required please ask.
I already sent a mail asking to not be contacted by the "team manager", and no phone calls are involved at this time.
