Got a job offer out of the blue!!!

[Geronimo '74]

In my mailbox today, I don't get what the scam is...
Adres of sender was eric@msn.com, reply adress in the mail is different, which is classic for scammails.


Here it is:



Civilities


I'm addressing you on behalf of the HR department of a large company. Our company covers a wide range of businesses
- realtor
- establishment and disestablishment of enterprises
- bank account establishment and maintanance
- logistics
- private business support
- etc.

There are vacant positions of regional managers in Europe:
- salary 2.400 euro + bonus
- part-time employment
- optimal timetable


If you would like to work with us, please provide us the following information: Eric@europen-consalt.net
Name:
Surname:
Country:
City:
E-mail:
Telephone Number:
Mobile phone-number:



Attention! We need European residents only

Please, write your Telephone Number and our manager will contact with you and answer all your questions.



End mail...
Anybody else getting similar mails??

[legion]

Nope. I have good spam filters.

My best friend has gotten three job offers out of the blue. When he was working as a photographer, a video game developer happened across some of his old work (he hadn't done any programming in 4+ years at that point). He was offered a job at Human Head.

Sony got wind of him, and offered him a job working on Gears of War II, but he turned them down. A few months later, Nvidia offered him a job.

[masraum]

I don't think I have, but I've heard about this. They ask for a resume, and then they use your resume, or at least parts of it, if I remember correctly. I think it's usually done by offshore people/firms.

[masraum]

Yeah, Is Someone Stealing Your Resume? In This Tough Economy, Resume Theft is on the Rise

[Schrup]

I get 3 or 4 job offers a year that come in the mail. They are usually government jobs, some how they get my info from the state related to my certification. The last offer was to be the head plumber of a state prison, no thanks.

[Geronimo '74]

Why would one need to steel someone's resume??
Isn't it easier to just make one up?

date of birt: then
place of birth: there
Studies: Harvard law at the age of 12, PhD in Nuclear chemistry at 16
yada yada yada.....

[Oracle]

The next step is they'll ask you to pay a fee for them to pass your contact information.
The transaction will be "guaranteed" as the multimillion transfer I'm about to get from Nigeria

Be careful...

[djmcmath]

That's bizarre.

A coworker today explained that, given a person's home phone number, you can charge 900-number services to that number. Apparently someone had signed him up for a variety of interesting subscriptions on web-sites using that capability. It occurs to me that people could be hunting resumes to collect home phone numbers.

Dan