NIGERIAN OIL COMPANY JOB SCAMS

It turns out the job offer I thought I had was a Nigerian scam. If you
receive a job offer working for
a large oil company in Nigeria for "obsene amounts of money", beware.
I ran the letter by a
Lawyer, and 4 of my smartest friends they all thought it was real.
Here are some links:

http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?...cam_alert.html

http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/...job_offers.htm

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_928.html

https://www.oilcareers.com/content/c...c&topicID=1045

Cheers, DRH

DRH wrote:
>
> It turns out the job offer I thought I had was a Nigerian scam. If you
> receive a job offer working for
> a large oil company in Nigeria for "obsene amounts of money", beware.
> I ran the letter by a
> Lawyer, and 4 of my smartest friends they all thought it was real.
> Here are some links:
>
> <snip>

This may come as a terrible shock to you, but your "4 smartest friends"
aren't very smart.

And "a Lawyer."

LMAO!

Notan

DRH wrote:
> It turns out the job offer I thought I had was a Nigerian scam. If you
> receive a job offer working for
> a large oil company in Nigeria for "obsene amounts of money", beware.

If you receive an unsolicited job offer in e-mail out of the blue, you
can be pretty sure it's a scam, regardless of content :)

Usually, if you have any doubts that it might be legitimate, these are
very easy to check, too: if the e-mail it's from or the e-mail you
should contact is not a company e-mail address you can find associated
with the company (call up the company's website and check the mail
domain used), then it's pretty sure it's a scam.
Real companies never use free "throwaway" e-mail accounts like yahoo,
hotmail, mail.com, or any of the many many others out there.

> I ran the letter by a
> Lawyer, and 4 of my smartest friends they all thought it was real.

Content may be written in a convincing way, that's why you should always
look at the e-mail headers and addressing information. Once again: if
you didn't ask for it and it has no clear link to anything you did to
receive job offers like that, it's a pretty safe bet that you are
looking at a scam. If the offer seems too good to be true, you can bet
that it -is- :)

MC <nospam@mail.com> wrote in news:45887ed6$1@wish-server:

> DRH wrote:
>> It turns out the job offer I thought I had was a Nigerian scam. If you
>> receive a job offer working for
>> a large oil company in Nigeria for "obsene amounts of money", beware.
>
> If you receive an unsolicited job offer in e-mail out of the blue, you
> can be pretty sure it's a scam, regardless of content :)
>

Some of the articles stated that 'they' were using Monster.com, or other
online job sites to find people to scam, not that they were just spam
offers.

I could see how someone out of work for a while, stressed about having
trouble finding a new job, may be able to be scammed by this.

on 01 Jan 2007, something possessed DanS to write:

> MC <nospam@mail.com> wrote in news:45887ed6$1@wish-server:
>
>> DRH wrote:
>>> It turns out the job offer I thought I had was a Nigerian scam. If
>>> you receive a job offer working for
>>> a large oil company in Nigeria for "obsene amounts of money",
>>> beware.
>>
>> If you receive an unsolicited job offer in e-mail out of the blue,
>> you can be pretty sure it's a scam, regardless of content :)
>>
>
> Some of the articles stated that 'they' were using Monster.com, or
> other online job sites to find people to scam, not that they were just
> spam offers.
>
> I could see how someone out of work for a while, stressed about having
> trouble finding a new job, may be able to be scammed by this.
>
>
>
Ya, there seem to be a lot of job scams out there. They're also
targeting users on careerbuilder.com and beyond.com. A good hint to any
job-searcher is to google the name of the group and scam. If you're
unsure about if an e-mail correspondence is from a scam but are unable
to find anything for sure on google, than post an inquery on scam.com or
a similar forum and see if someone can dig up some kind of information
on the organization. It's also always good to check with the Better
Business Bureau for unresolved complaints.

Cheers,

Will