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Scouse
1st March 2009, 09:05
I recived this email yesterday, I'm pretty sure that it is not from seek as all email's from them show up as "SEEK Service" in the from column in outlook, this message showed up as "Seek" in the from column. I have reported this to Seek as they may have a worker who is passing on client details to spammers. The message reads.

"
-----Original Message-----
From: Seek [mailto:no_reply@seek.co.nz (no_reply@seek.co.nz)]
Sent: Saturday, 28 February 2009 7:15 p.m.
To: name.replaced@woosh.co.nz

Subject: Position Available. Please read.

Dear JobSeeker, after carefuly reviewing your Seek.co.nz resume, we have decided to contact you regarding a currently open position within our company. We think that you would be a great candidate for this position and would like you to reply to this email if you are interested in further information, ofcourse only reply if you fulfil the following requirements:
Employee must own a land based phone line or a cell phone, a computer with a internet connection, a bank account within New Zealand
Our company is a medium sized one, with over 50 employees, we deal with the complications of international transfers for small to medium sized companies, your job would involve receiving payments on behalf of Euro Trade International and transfering them to our central office in London. This job would not require more than
1 hour per day of your time, to a maximum of 3 days per week.
The salary involves 1500 NZD paid to your bank account bi-weekly, plus the 5% transfer commission on every processed payment.
We project that this would add up to 500 NZD per week, for the first month, after remains to be calculated by our payment processing manager in charge with the New Zealand region.

Ian Gray, CEO of recruitment Department
Euro Trade International PLD"

portokiwi
1st March 2009, 09:10
:laugh: lol I had one like that sent to me. Passed it on to Seek.
They said yes its not theirs. Thank you.
Mine came with the seek.co.au.
That was a few months ago.

Grizzo
1st March 2009, 09:10
Yeah, I would delete that one for sure.

74 knuckle
1st March 2009, 09:12
Seems to me somebody wants to see how gullible you really are!! Good on ya for gettin it checked out you'd be gutted if it was a scam ( which it looks like ) and you didn't. If it's ligit then kwl make some sweet dosh

trumpy
1st March 2009, 10:40
Ask yourself some basic questions mate: why would they need to transfer the money through NZ and more specifically your bank account? This can be done perfectly well through any reputable bank without any help from you.
Realistically, how many jobs are there out there that pay $250 an hour plus commissions just for sitting at your computer transferring money from one account to the other?
Scam, scam, scam.

Skyryder
1st March 2009, 11:18
I see bank account number. Delete

fire eyes
1st March 2009, 11:46
I got this to when I was looking for work through Seek!

Insider stuff eh ...

Good on you for reporting .. I didn't .. I just deleted .. :2thumbsup

GOONR
1st March 2009, 13:40
I used to get quite a few of these but the reply address was something along the lines of @wwwseek.com.au.. dodgy as a man with a scalpel at a bar mitzvah. I changed my address on seek to buggeroff@nowhere.com. Haven't received one since.