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NOTE: The site listed here:
sunrise-company.biz
is NO LONGER hosted with
A Quality Host. We have left the domain name listed
to be a warning to the public.
These people are running an employment scam and their
site was cancelled and the domain apprehended as soon
as we discovered this, but we have learned that they
are using similar domain names to run the same scam.
Be advised...Avoid any offer of employment that involves
cashing checks and forwarding the money overseas!
Do not forward checks to anyone for anyone. Do not
forward cash to anyone. All such offers are made by
scammers and thieves, and many people who have fallen
for their schemes are being forced to repay large
sums of money for items people purchased on eBay but
never received. Some have even been arrested. These
thieves used the job-seekers' names to advertise the
products, so the customer sent the money to the innocent
worker, who then forwarded it on to the scammer, but
the products are never sent to the purchaser. (The
first few customers may receive products, but they
are likely to be counterfeit.) Participating in this
makes you a party to a felony! DON'T DO IT! There
are legitimate ways to make money online, but all
I know of require hard work. If you can't find any
online business to join, feel free to phone or email
me and I will be happy to help you.
More Information about Employment Scams
Fraud.org
Jobfairy.com
Bankrate.com
SOHOjobs.org
ClarkHoward.com
Better
Business Bureau
About.com
TeachingAbroad.net
New
Zealand Police
Overseas
Digest
State
of Illinois
US
Federal Trade Commission
Codefish
Spam Watch
World
Privacy Forum
Ripoff
Report
Crimes
of Persuasion
Nigerian
Scams Alert
Fraudaid.com
What to do about it:
Federal
Trade Commission (USA)
Consumer
Affairs (Australia)
Fraudaid.com
from Webopedia.com
(v.) Pronounced “fishing,” the act of sending an e-mail
to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate
enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering
private information that will be used for identity
theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web
site where they are asked to update personal information,
such as passwords and credit card, social security,
and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization
already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set
up only to steal the user’s information. For example,
2003 saw the proliferation of a phishing scam in which
users received e-mails supposedly from eBay claiming
that the user’s account was about to be suspended
unless he clicked on the provided link and updated
the credit card information that the genuine eBay
already had. Because it is relatively simple to make
a Web site look like a legitimate organizations site
by mimicking the HTML code, the scam counted on people
being tricked into thinking they were actually being
contacted by eBay and were subsequently going to eBay’s
site to update their account information. By spamming
large groups of people, the “phisher” counted on the
e-mail being read by a percentage of people who actually
had listed credit card numbers with eBay legitimately.
Phishing, also referred to as brand
spoofing or carding, is a variation on “fishing,”
the idea being that bait is thrown out with the hopes
that while most will ignore the bait, some will be
tempted into biting.
Examples
of phishing email headlines
The
Word Spy
AntiPhishing.org
What to do about it:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/phishingalrt.htm
Suspicious e-mail can be forwarded to uce@ftc.gov,
and complaints should be filed with the state attorney
general's office or through the FTC at ftc.gov.
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