KINGSTAR SOUND INDUSTRY LTD
Below is a sample of a phishing email that I received from a company wanting to use my services. I find it funny that a company who is in Taiwan needs help with working in the United States.
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Company:KINGSTAR SOUND INDUSTRY LTD
Address:NO. 20-126, Ko Hsi Liao,
City: Hsia Liao Tsuen, Shui Shang Hsiang,
Country:Chiayi Hsien, Taiwan
Dear Representative
I have a Job For you might be intersested in My name is Morris kings ,i am
54 of age and i work for KINGSTAR SOUND INDUSTRY LTD.
We produce Siren Horn Speakers Driver Units with Transformer and
Many Order Product from Chiayi Hsien, Taiwan
to produce Explosion-Proof speaker which we supply to our clients
in the north american geographical region(united states) and Europe
for Electronic Making.
We are looking for a representative in United State and Europe to
work for us as a partime worker and we are willing to pay $1000 and pounds
for every transaction made,which wouldnt affect ur present state
of work.First of all i will like to know your Name/Age/Sex/Location
and what u do for a living presently,Our main factory is located in
Chiayi Hsien, Taiwan united kingdom and Africa.
Where we produce Siren Horn Speakers Driver Units with Transformer
and Many Order Product.
Visit: <#a class="fixed" href="http://kingstar.myweb.hinet.net/1.htm<#/a>
The link is commented out. If you rearch the site by going to hinet.net you will see that they are some sort of internet service provided by Chunghwa Telecom. They probably don’t even have any idea of what is going on.
we are looking for a representative in the states, someone who would
help us recieve payments from our customers in the states.
Sounds like a little money laundering?
We mean someone that responsible and reliable.Though we are working
on setting up a branch in the states,but for now we need a
representative in the united state who will be handling that
aspect,We are willing to pay $1000 and pounds per every payment you recieve and
you can still keep ur regular job while you work for us.
They really mean getting someone who is niave. Don’t be one of these people.
All you have to do is help us recieve payments from our customers in
the states.
These payments are in cashiers cheques or money orders and wire
transaction and they would come to you in your name, so all you need
do is cash it, deduct your payment and wire the rest to us via
western union.But sometimes the fbi gets involved incase someone
trys to run with our money, i hope that is okay If you are
interested.
i would send you an employment letter which you are to sign and send
back to me as soon as possible and i would need you to give us your
fullinfomation
for us to get in contact with you. It wouldnt cost u any amount,from
our business patners, which would come in a cashiers cheque or money
order or wire trasaction.
then u are to cash it and send the cash to us via western union
money transfer all western union charges will be deducted from the
money.as soon as you have the money sent you.
will have to provide us with the Payment information for pickup.I
Look forward to your quick reply. Regards.
Morris Please if you are interested please kindly mail us back
Notices:this is not a scam but a job offer.
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Boy I have a great sense of relief that they are telling me that this is not a scam 8:)
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June 27th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Yeah, someone actually posted a very similar ad on http://sfbay.craigslist.org/ as a job offer to US citezens only. I actually was and still get SPAM from folks involved in these scams offering me work. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/ is a general free community site where you can post your resume. That’s how they found me.
I actually responded to one of the many emails. Received approximately 10 moneygrams worth over 8K sent to me. I wasn’t dumb though. I called the company that issues the moneygrams and was told via an autmated service and a live agent that the moneygrams were worth nothing.
Was asked what was the address that the FedEx package come from and I told them it was from Ghana. Was then informed by the agent that the moneygrams can only be purchased from the USA and these were more than likely stolen and the person who originally/legally had possession of the moneygram checks had reported them stolen already and is why the automated service states the worth of $0.00 US Dollars.
Was just bored one day and wanted to see what would happen. If it sounds to good and/or too easy to be true, it more than likely is not true/real as the old sying goes. Hey who knows, maybe someone out there will offer a legitimate exchange someday but I wasn’t about to cash the checks and wire money to people I didn’t know without investigating further.
Even if the moneygram checks were good, I would have cashed them at a check-cashing station, live with the extra percentage taken for using the service, wire transfer the remaining minus the 10% right away. That way the checks can’t be cancelled while sitting in my bank account. My total commission would have been maybe 6 - 8 % but better to be safe than sorry.
July 7th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
I actually know of a person who got scammed from people in Nigeria. To this day he still receives all sorts of electronics, etc… at his house. The authorities tell him that their is nothing they can do and these scammers know this.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Well, after what I thought was due diligence, I almost, I say ALMOST got scammed by these people! $7,000 was deposited in my bank account last night by electronic transfer. The bank said the money was good. Then I went this morning to do some investigation……..it’s all a scam! The funds were sent from a phoney account, from another phoney account. I was to Money Gram them all but my 20% commission to Texas immediately. We are waiting now to watch the funds disappear from my account. If I had sent the money as they asked I would be out $7,000!!! BEWARE OF ANY ONLINE GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES!
February 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Ok, after waiting two weeks, the funds were taken out of my account! Good thing I didn’t send the money to Texas! After doing some more checking, the address in Texas was phoney! Don’t do business with anyone who says they are from Kingstar Industry, especially Mary Crowder. She tells you how she is a good Christian woman, just like me and how we are doing such a good job! Baloney!