I am a freelance translator, and I have a professional profile on different plat-forms, such as TranslatorCafe. This person made a job pool offer. I received his first e-mail :
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My name is Paul Carson, i am from South Carolina.
I recently retired as a document controller for Sempra Oil & Gas USA. My wife and i are coming to spend our retirement in France.
Currently, i am in search of a personal assistant to work with us virtually/remotely prior to our arrival in France.
Reliability is very important to us hence our choice for interpreters and translators.
We arrive Paris on the 20th September 2014 and we shall be in Paris for four weeks before finally moving to the south of France where we plan to spend the rest of our lives.
Your duties as our personal assistant would be to assist us in basically anything we are required to do prior to our arrival which may range from.
Planning trips.
Arranging Airport Pickups.
Pay bills.
Booking train tickets.
Vehicle Hire.
Vehicle Insurance
Organizing diaries.
Booking Hotels.
General assistant.
The candidate must be a good listener and friendly.
The candidate could be male or female and be of any race and age.
The wage we are offering is Four hundred euros per week.
This job is a part-time job because most of the task will be done at your spare time.
Full itinerary would be given to you as soon as all arrangements have been concluded.
After reading the above, if you are interested in this position please leave your full name, address and telephone number.
If you require more information, please feel free to contact me and i will be glad to respond almost immediately.
Please note that this email does not automatically offer you employment.
Only successful candidates will be contacted by telephone and email.
Your details would be verified before being accepted.
No prior experience in this field is necessary.
Best Regards,
Paul Carson
+1 864 697 8219
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I received then a second email :
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Hi Julien,
I have received your email stating your interest in this job and i am glad to let you know i am also interested in working with you.
As i stated in the earlier email,my arrival date is the 20th September 2014. Full itinerary would be passed on to you as soon as all arrangements have been concluded.
You are to work with me virtually at your spare time. Basically email to email prior to my arrival.
I would say preparing me for my Arrival in France and acting as my representative is the key statement.
Before i arrive, there are a couple of things that needs to be done which include.
Hotel reservation.
Travel Insurance.
Car rental.
Arrange pick up at the airport.
The travel insurance is handled by an Agent in the UK while the Hotel Reservation,arranging pick-up from the airport and the car rental will be sorted out by you.
Hence your primary duty would be to receive payments that will serve this purpose.
A check would be posted to you to enable you have funds for this. Checks from the USA don't work in the EU hence the check would be drawn from an European financial institution.
I will require you to create a folder which will contain every communication and every dealings. Which would be referred to when needed.
This will only happen after you sign the agreement attached within the context of this email and send me a valid photo ID.
I hope this is not much of a task?
Feel free to contact me for more information and i will be glad to respond almost immediately.
I hope to read from you soon.
Best Regards,
Paul Carson.
P.S Attached herewith is a scanned copy of my passport and a contractual agreement between both parties.
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It does sound like a scam.. He sent a bad copy of his ID. The email headers are sent from an IP located in US.
How to be sure ?
Note: I opened several emails, opened fe attachment (doc and JPEG file) directly from the browser, without saving them.
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My name is Paul Carson, i am from South Carolina.
I recently retired as a document controller for Sempra Oil & Gas USA. My wife and i are coming to spend our retirement in France.
Currently, i am in search of a personal assistant to work with us virtually/remotely prior to our arrival in France.
Reliability is very important to us hence our choice for interpreters and translators.
We arrive Paris on the 20th September 2014 and we shall be in Paris for four weeks before finally moving to the south of France where we plan to spend the rest of our lives.
Your duties as our personal assistant would be to assist us in basically anything we are required to do prior to our arrival which may range from.
Planning trips.
Arranging Airport Pickups.
Pay bills.
Booking train tickets.
Vehicle Hire.
Vehicle Insurance
Organizing diaries.
Booking Hotels.
General assistant.
The candidate must be a good listener and friendly.
The candidate could be male or female and be of any race and age.
The wage we are offering is Four hundred euros per week.
This job is a part-time job because most of the task will be done at your spare time.
Full itinerary would be given to you as soon as all arrangements have been concluded.
After reading the above, if you are interested in this position please leave your full name, address and telephone number.
If you require more information, please feel free to contact me and i will be glad to respond almost immediately.
Please note that this email does not automatically offer you employment.
Only successful candidates will be contacted by telephone and email.
Your details would be verified before being accepted.
No prior experience in this field is necessary.
Best Regards,
Paul Carson
+1 864 697 8219
***************************
I received then a second email :
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Hi Julien,
I have received your email stating your interest in this job and i am glad to let you know i am also interested in working with you.
As i stated in the earlier email,my arrival date is the 20th September 2014. Full itinerary would be passed on to you as soon as all arrangements have been concluded.
You are to work with me virtually at your spare time. Basically email to email prior to my arrival.
I would say preparing me for my Arrival in France and acting as my representative is the key statement.
Before i arrive, there are a couple of things that needs to be done which include.
Hotel reservation.
Travel Insurance.
Car rental.
Arrange pick up at the airport.
The travel insurance is handled by an Agent in the UK while the Hotel Reservation,arranging pick-up from the airport and the car rental will be sorted out by you.
Hence your primary duty would be to receive payments that will serve this purpose.
A check would be posted to you to enable you have funds for this. Checks from the USA don't work in the EU hence the check would be drawn from an European financial institution.
I will require you to create a folder which will contain every communication and every dealings. Which would be referred to when needed.
This will only happen after you sign the agreement attached within the context of this email and send me a valid photo ID.
I hope this is not much of a task?
Feel free to contact me for more information and i will be glad to respond almost immediately.
I hope to read from you soon.
Best Regards,
Paul Carson.
P.S Attached herewith is a scanned copy of my passport and a contractual agreement between both parties.
************
It does sound like a scam.. He sent a bad copy of his ID. The email headers are sent from an IP located in US.
How to be sure ?
Note: I opened several emails, opened fe attachment (doc and JPEG file) directly from the browser, without saving them.