dennisgorelik | Entries tagged with fraud

Another scammer with heavy African accent entertained me today.
He claimed to be from "JavEEls" city [misreading of "Jacksonville"].
According to the scammer, Javeels is close to Miami.

That scammer posted "Earn Easy Income at Your Free Time" job:
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A-Closer-Look® is hiring interested people for retail survey program, You will be making five hundred dollars per task and you can do this during your free time. This will not affect your current job.
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I just spent 4 hours on the phone talking with a scammer.

He started with telling me his fake business story: petroleum drilling operations and hiring security guards to protect these drilling operations.
He explained that they are only hiring Americans, even for work overseas, because he is a big American patriot.

Then he told me his life story (he's 69 now), and, eventually, his true business story.

He sells background checks to "security guard" job seekers for $198 per report.

He promises to job seekers that these background checks go directly to the prospective employer that may hire them for $71,000 - $100,000 per year (too good to be true).

He ran his "Internet business" for about 20 years and changes about 20-30 identities (personal names, corporations, bank accounts, websites) over these years.

He likes President Trump, because Trump is selling hope and is successful at that.
His business somewhat declined since Trump become a President, because more people have jobs now, so the demand for hope is not as high.
His business at the times when "Black President" was at power was more successful (thanks to high unemployment) and he sometimes was making more than $1,000 per day.

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2 sisters have the same parents, but in one case Wikipedia describes their father as a "media proprietor", and in another case - as the "publishing tycoon and fraudster":
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maxwell
Christine Maxwell is the daughter of Elisabeth Maxwell, a French-born Holocaust scholar and Robert Maxwell, a Czech-born British media proprietor.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell ... is a British socialite and the youngest child of publishing tycoon and fraudster Robert Maxwell.
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Why are there different labels for the same father on daughters' Wikipedia pages?
Because Christine was a co-founder of Magellan (Excite) and Ghislaine was a girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.

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It gets better:
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https://youtu.be/UGL_OL3OrCE?t=1177
19:37
What you can do is to use methods where you [have] do not need any calibration whatsoever and you can still can get pretty good results.
So here on the bottom at the top is the truth image, and this is simulated data, as we are increasing the amount of amplitude error and you can see here ... it's hard to see ... but it breaks down once you add too much gain here. But if we use just closure quantities - we are invariant to that.
So that really, actually, been a really huge step for the project, because we had such bad gains.
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"Вот тут мне карта и поперла".

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https://youtu.be/UGL_OL3OrCE?t=2242
37:22
And you can notice like at the bottom we get really terrible reconstruction, just cause if it fits the data very well, because you know it maybe wants to smooth out the flux as much as possible and we don't select things like that in the true data.
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I posted a comment below that video:
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19:39 "Calibration Free Imaging"
Does it mean that you were using measurements tools (telescopes) without prior calibration?
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but it got deleted... twice.

Update:
Discussing "not need any calibration whatsoever" on HN
"Calibration Free Imaging" (AKA scam)

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Step 1: Job posting
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Job title: Secretary
Salary: $25-$50 Per Hr..
Company Name: Sappington Insurance Services
Location: Waldorf, Maryland
Description:
Perform routine clerical and administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers. Following are examples of the tasks required for a secretarial position.
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Step 2: Email
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From: Sappington Insurance Services LLC <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 3:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Dear Applicant Jane Doe

Dear Applicant Jane Doe ,

Your resume has been reviewed by our HR Department in reference www.PostJobFree.com Secretary to our AD posted on job for your positions We are pleased to invite you for an online interview with Mr Philip Kane the company Hiring Manager as soon as possible 8:00am-5:00 pm your time via Google Hangouts. You can be interview any time between the hour of 8:00 am-6:00 pm. The interview will last approximately an hour or less and will include a brief tour of the Pay Scale, Benefits and company etc..

You are to set up a screen name with Google Hangout (www.Gmail.com) and add up the Personnel Hiring Manager Mr Philip Kane , on Google hangout with the following email address {[email protected]} Add to your buddy list ASAP,He will be online waiting for you to conduct your interview With Mr Philip Kane: If you are unable to attend on this date Kindly contact me to arrange a more suitable time.official time for Job Online Interview is 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday...

We look forward to see you.

Yours sincerely
Kindred Healthcare
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Step 3: Chat
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Jane Doe
Good Afternooon,
This is Jane Doe and I am ready for an online interview.

[email protected]
I believe you are ready for the interview and briefing on the job position?
I am Mr. Philip Kane: One of the online hiring managers of HealthFore Technologies Limited. I would be the one to brief you more about the position and the company.What are your full names and where are you located?

Jane Doe
Hello, My full name is Jane Doe. I live at 123 Super Drive, Neverland, FL. Nice to meet you.

[email protected]
The name of the company is HealthFore Technologies Limited
HealthFore Technologies Limited (formerly known as Religare Technologies Limited) is a global healthcare IT solutions and advisory services company. Our B2B and B2C IT solutions help hospital chains, diagnostic centers and public health enterprises realize superior clinical outcomes. Our patient-centric healthcare solutions focus on wellness, preventive care and condition management. Our information and health advisory services ensure prompt diagnosis and treatment of diseases. We create mass awareness to improve the quality of life through self-careHealthFore's IT products and services are built on leading-edge technology. Our solutions increase productivity and boost revenue for healthcare providers through process automation, inseparability and collaboration. Significantly, our customized solutions enable world-class patient care and comply with healthcare regulations, while minimizing costs.Now going into General office work and work from home job to create employment opportunity for the less privilege, disables and mainly to decrease the rate of unemployment.We have a Representative Office in Maryland USA. Our Head Office is located at 54, Janpath, New Delhi - 110001,India. We are working on building new locations in United States and that is why we are employing online, But when the new offices are available you will be assign to work in any of the nearest office close to you, That is if you are qualified after the interview.
This is Strictly an online work from home job, The working hours are flexible and you can chose to work from anywhere of your choice and once the office close to you is available you will be assign to work over there in the office ,The pay is $30/Hr during full working hours and the training is $18/Hr and will be getting your payment bi-weekly via check or direct deposit working 30 to 40 hours weekly, If you are employed you are going to be working as a full employee and not an independent contractor.Benefits: Health, Dental, Life and AD&D Insurance, Employee Wellness and 401k plans.Paid Time Off and Holidays with Generous Company Discounts.We are currently working on the location in Lexington Park, MD which will be available on the 28th of July 2018 . Therefore, you will be working from home until the office is available and you will be assigned to work over there if hired.We are working on building new locations in United States and thats why we are employing online, But when the new offices are available you will be assign to work in any of the nearest office close to you that is if you feel like working in the office environment if hiredHere's is the company website www.healthfore.com you are required to use 5 minutes of your time to read more about the company, then let me know when you are done so we can proceed with the interview okay

Jane Doe
Ok. I am pulling up the website now and will email you back when I am done.
Hello. I am receiving the following error message using chrome: This site can’t be reached
www.healthfore.com refused to connect.
Search Google for healthfore
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSEDI am receiving the following error message when using Google: Unable to connect

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at www.healthfore.com.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

[email protected]
was that the message you receive?

Jane Doe
Yes.. I copied and pasted exactly what was sent to me from both browsers.

[email protected]
okay
the site is temporary down now,you still have the time to check it out your self after the Job Interview Can we continue with the Job Interview?

Jane Doe
Yes, please continue with the job interview.

[email protected]
The position available are.Data Entry/Receptionist/Customer Service/Administrative Assistant/Office Assistant/Clerical Admin/ Accounting clerk and Human Resources Assistant. Which one are you applying for ?

Jane Doe
I would like to be considered for Data Entry and/or Clerical Administration. I have very strong work experiences in those 2 positions the most. I also have Customer Service experience.
Hello. Are you there?

Jane Doe
I have been waiting for over 19 minutes. Where are you?

[email protected]
Responsibilities : Data Entry and/or Clerical Administration. responsibilities include providing administrative support to ensure efficient operation of the office. You will support managers and employees through a variety of tasks related to organization and communication. The admin job scope includes communicating via phone and email ensuring that all administrative duties are completed accurately and delivered with high quality and in a timely manner.
Responsibilities

Answer and direct phone calls.
Organize and schedule meetings and appointments.
Maintain contact lists.
Produce and distribute correspondence memos, letters, faxes and forms.
Assist in the preparation of regularly scheduled reports.
Develop and maintain a filing system.
Order office supplies.
Book travel arrangements.
Submit and reconcile expense reports.
Provide general support to visitors.

Jane Doe
ok

[email protected]
Inputs information from a variety of sources into a computer database. May take customer orders and enter them into a pre-established tracking system Assignments will be sent to you via e-mail or IM and you will report directly to your immediate supervisor...Can you handle that?
Have you ever worked from home or online before ? Are you currently employed ? How many hours do you intend to dedicate to this job position daily?

Jane Doe
Yes. I have had over 20 years doing this type of work.
This is will my first time working from home. I am not currently employed and this is why it's very important to get started, asap. I intend to work 8 to 10 hours per day, depending on the task as hand.

[email protected]
How many years experience do you have in Data entry/Book keeping and Customer Service/Receptionist?How many years experience do you have in auditing reports?How many years experience do you have in sorting and filing documentation?

Jane Doe
I have over 20 years of experience in data entry, customer service, auditing reports, sorting and filing documentation. I only worked as a receptionist for 2 years.

[email protected]
Whats your typing speed? Do you have an idea of how to use MS excel ?What is your highest educational diploma?When did you receive it?

Jane Doe
typing speed over 50 wpm (at last time I checked). I have been using word and excel for over 12 years. I graduated 12 grade from Neverland Senior High School in 1981.

[email protected]
How long do you expect to remain employed with this company if hired?

Jane Doe
Forever.

[email protected]
Why Should we Hire You?
Tell me about yourself and your last or current job?

Jane Doe
Your Company should hire me because I have been an Office Manager/Data Entry Operator with over 20 years of experience at working with a diverse group of people. I have experience in verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills; pay attention to detail, superior interpersonal skills, professional demeanor and manners; demonstrates outstanding levels of professionalism in providing administrative support, including ability to exercise good judgment and to act with discretion, tact and diplomacy; and the ability to multi-task and excel under tight deadlines, while anticipating potential problems by proactively streamlining processes. Most of all, I am dependable and a hard worker.

[email protected]
Well you have done well so far and you seem like a perfect fit for this position.
Kindly Hold onlineLet me forward our Job interview to the company Head of recruitment 15 minute from now

Jane Doe
Thanks. What will happen next and when will I know if I have been accepted for the job.

[email protected]
just hold online

Jane Doe
ok

[email protected]
i am back ion my desk

Jane Doe
ok

[email protected]
Are you there with me?

Jane Doe
yes

[email protected]
For your consideration stand,You have a good news, The good news is... You've just been confirmed qualified for this position. You are welcome to HealthFore Technologies Limited. You are now given a chance to show your commitment,charisma,diligence and be a productive employee.

Jane Doe
Great. What is my next step?

[email protected]
The Company will pay you a starting salary at the rate of $30 Salary per hour and $18 per hour during training, payable in accordance with the Company's standard payroll schedule. You will be receiving your salary either via check or direct deposit.
What is the name of the financial institution you operate with ? You will be receiving your duties online everyday and i will always be online to assist you with any difficulties okay.

Jane Doe
I would prefer the check be send to my mailing address of: 123 Super Drive, Neverland, FL.
When will these assignments begin?

[email protected]
Your Primary duties include providing administrative support to ensure efficient operation of the office. You will support managers and employees through a variety of tasks related to organization and communication. You will communicate via phone and email ensuring that all administrative assistant duties are completed accurately and delivered with high quality and in a timely manner.
What is the name of the financial institution you operate with ? regular company regulation

Jane Doe
I have not opened an account, yet. Once I receive my first paycheck, I will open an account with PNC Bank.

[email protected]
Do you have a credit card?

Jane Doe
No.

[email protected]
Secondary duties : Now, your secondary daily duties would be to report to your Supervisor, who would be attached to you online, He/She would assign logs of duty daily and you would be required to work according to instructions, using the Microsoft Office tools and the Accounting software. Now the function of the Accounting software is to arrange, formalize and manage the data you have processed, sent to your supervisor via E-mail.

Jane Doe
ok
Anything else?I am signing off but will be logged back on tomorrow to see if anything is assigned to me. Have a good day.
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Long, but interesting article about overdiagnosis and uneasy balance in medicine between inappropriate care and inadequate care.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande
Millions of people are receiving drugs that aren’t helping them, operations that aren’t going to make them better, and scans and tests that do nothing beneficial for them, and often cause harm.
Why does this fact barely seem to register publicly? Well, as a doctor, I am far more concerned about doing too little than doing too much. It’s the scan, the test, the operation that I should have done that sticks with me—sometimes for years. More than a decade ago, I saw a young woman in the emergency room who had severe pelvic pain. A standard X-ray showed nothing. I examined her and found signs of pelvic inflammatory disease, which is most often caused by sexually transmitted diseases. She insisted that she hadn’t been sexually active, but I didn’t listen. If I had, I might have ordered a pelvic CT scan or even recommended exploratory surgery to investigate further. We didn’t do that until later, by which time the real source of her symptoms, a twisted loop of bowel in her pelvis, had turned gangrenous, requiring surgery. By contrast, I can’t remember anyone I sent for an unnecessary CT scan or operated on for questionable reasons a decade ago. There’s nothing less memorable.
It is different, however, when I think about my experience as a patient or a family member. I can readily recall a disturbing number of instances of unnecessary care. My mother once fainted in the Kroger’s grocery store in our Ohio home town. Emergency workers transported her to a hospital eighty miles away, in Columbus, where doctors did an ultrasound of her carotid arteries and a cardiac catheterization, too, neither of which is recommended as part of the diagnostic workup for someone who’s had a fainting episode, and neither of which revealed anything significant. Only then did someone sit down with her and take a proper history; it revealed that she’d had dizziness, likely from dehydration and lack of food, which caused her to pass out.
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The team told him that the combined procedures posed clear risks to his father—for instance, his chance of a stroke would be around fifteen per cent—but that the procedures had become very routine, and the doctors were confident that they were far more likely to be successful than not.
It didn’t occur to Bruce until later to question what the doctors meant by “successful.” The blockages weren’t causing his father’s fainting episodes or any other impairments to his life. The operation would not make him feel better. Instead, “success” to the doctors meant reducing his future risk of a stroke. How long would it take for the future benefit to outweigh the immediate risk of surgery? The doctors didn’t say, but carotid surgery in a patient like Bruce’s father reduces stroke risk by about one percentage point per year. Therefore, it would take fifteen years before the benefit of the operation would exceed the fifteen-per-cent risk of the operation. And he had a life expectancy far shorter than that—very likely just two or three years. The potential benefits of the procedures were dwarfed by their risks.
Bruce’s father had a stroke during the cardiac surgery. “For me, I’m kicking myself,” Bruce now says. “Because I remember who he was before he went into the operating room, and I’m thinking, Why did I green-light an eighty-something-year-old, very diseased man to have a major operation like this? I’m looking in his eyes and they’re like stones. There’s no life in his eyes. There’s no recognition. He’s like the living dead.”
A week later, Bruce’s father recovered his ability to talk, although much of what he said didn’t make sense. But he had at least survived. “We’re going to put this one in the win column,” Bruce recalls the surgeon saying.
“I said, ‘Are you fucking kidding me?’ ”
His dad had to move into a nursing home. “He was only half there mentally,” Bruce said. Nine months later, his father died. That is what low-value health care can be like.
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Overtesting has also created a new, unanticipated problem: overdiagnosis. This isn’t misdiagnosis—the erroneous diagnosis of a disease. This is the correct diagnosis of a disease that is never going to bother you in your lifetime. We’ve long assumed that if we screen a healthy population for diseases like cancer or coronary-artery disease, and catch those diseases early, we’ll be able to treat them before they get dangerously advanced, and save lives in large numbers. But it hasn’t turned out that way. For instance, cancer screening with mammography, ultrasound, and blood testing has dramatically increased the detection of breast, thyroid, and prostate cancer during the past quarter century. We’re treating hundreds of thousands more people each year for these diseases than we ever have. Yet only a tiny reduction in death, if any, has resulted.
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Over the past two decades, we’ve tripled the number of thyroid cancers we detect and remove in the United States, but we haven’t reduced the death rate at all. In South Korea, widespread ultrasound screening has led to a fifteen-fold increase in detection of small thyroid cancers. Thyroid cancer is now the No. 1 cancer diagnosed and treated in that country. But, as Welch points out, the death rate hasn’t dropped one iota there, either. (Meanwhile, the number of people with permanent complications from thyroid surgery has skyrocketed.) It’s all over-diagnosis.
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I spoke to that doctor, Omar Gomez. He said that he’d set about building a strong team around his patients, and that team included specialists such as cardiologists and surgeons. He encouraged his patients to shift to the ones who, he noticed, didn’t subject them to no-value care. He sat with the specialists, and, he said, “I told them, ‘If my patient needs a cardiac cath—by all means, do it. But if they don’t, then don’t do it. That’s the only thing I ask.’ ”

The passage of the Affordable Care Act, in 2010, created opportunities for physicians to practice this kind of dedicated care. The law allows any group of physicians with five thousand or more Medicare patients to contract directly with the government as an “accountable-care organization,” and to receive up to sixty per cent of any savings they produce.
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Discussion on Hacker News
Atul Gawande

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16246124
The blockchain is an interesting Computer Science toy. But in the 10+ years since it was invented, the only real application that anyone has found for it is Massively Distributed Ponzi Schemes.
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You need the blockchains to impress the idiots who buy shares.
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Bitcoin is at ~$9000 (down from ~$14000 when I posted my Bitcoin forecast).
Hopefully it would keep falling down to the price where it belongs (~$0).

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Couple of my friends asked me if they should invest into bitcoin.
Here is my answer:

1) Bitcoin is a scam.
If you invest in bitcoin, you have a 90% chance to become a victim of a confidence game (AKA "sucker").

2) There is no legitimate intrinsic value in crypto-currencies.
There is no legitimate activity that bitcoin does that more traditional financial tools (such as banks or PayPal) do not do yet.

3) Financial transactions that government can not control - is not a feature, it is a bug of bitcoin.
Imagine that somebody anonymously orders killing you with payment over bitcoin.
Would you like your government be able to trace such assassination fee over bitcoin?
I, personally, would very much like to grant the government such tracking ability. I believe you would too.
If bitcoin supports such tracking - then it is neither feature nor bug.
If bitcoin does not support such tracking (and guarantees anonymity of financial transactions) then it is a bug and the government would crush bitcoin for that bug.

4) Limited supply of bitcoin is not a feature, but a bug.
United States Federal Reserve intentionally changes supplies of available dollars in order to keep inflation at around 2%/year.
If it made sense to have a limited supply of a currency, then the Federal Reserve would do that. No crypto-currency is needed for that.

5) "But bitcoin grew up to $18,000 - I want to get in"
Try to buy a powerball lottery ticket instead. It would be much less expensive exercise. And for measly ~$10 you would still have a chance to win $50M.
At this stage bitcoin is a clear bubble, propped up by "investors" who do not understand what they are investing into.

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Couple of days ago a scam team, in order to sign up for premium membership on postjobfree.com -- hacked couple of real business emails: [email protected] and [email protected]
Both emails seems to belong to real estate agents.

I was able to find and reach actual owners of these email addresses on the phone.
They do not seem to be very concerned about their email addresses being compromised.
Both email owners confirmed that they did not make premium orders on our web site and then indicated that they prefer to continue with their other business instead of digging deeper into that email hacking ...

How much would you care if you learned that your email account was hacked?

Crossposts: http://dennisgorelik.livejournal.com/135671.html

This fraudulent job was posted from Ukrainian IP address (195.211.155.21) to United Arab Emirates location:
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Receptionist,Security guards and drivers at Mount Sinai Hospit MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAl 6000 we are in need of the following workers
Doctors
Nurse
Dermatologist
General Practitioner
Translators
Accountants
lab technician
Hospital driver
Pharmacist
Receptionist
Dentist
Security man and many more
get back to me with your resume .it is interesting to know that there is an added allowance upon the salary
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After one of candidates applied to that job, the scammer emailed to the candidate:

March 27, 2017 3:00 PM, infomount sinaihospital <[email protected]> wrote
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Dear Candidate,

The human resource department of Mount Sinai Hospital USA
welcomes you once more. We have received and read through CV and the responses presented with satisfaction. After reading through them .we have accepted to employ you in the hospital for the vacancy you applied for .We also made this decision based on your
resume and partly on the answers to the few questions. Also, we will
like to let you know that employees must arrive here in the United States one week before resumption date for proper orientation. We hereby present to you the general terms and conditions under which you have been employed

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1) SALARY: Salary allocated for this position is $5400 USD monthly.
i) ALLOWANCES: You are entitled to $100 USD weekly allowance
exclusive from salary.
ii) SALARY INCREMENT: You shall have a 5% salary increment at the end of the first six months of effective service.

2) ACCOMMODATION/ ENTERTAINMENT: The Company assists you by paying up to 50% of your consummation bills. The accommodation includes a two room apartment with internet facilities, toilet and kitchen fully equipped not too far from the hospital(just a walk)

3) WORKING HOURS, RESTING DAYS AND HOLIDAYS: You will work 6 days a week, (54 hours) . Work starts from 8:00 A.M. to 12:00 AM and 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. You will be free all through Sundays as from 10:00am. You shall have a two week break after every 5 months

4) OVERTIME WORK AND COMPENSATION: For any activity carried out outside the work time schedule above, you shall be compensated in accordance with the labor code.

5) OBLIGATIONS: You are obliged to do your best at work especially during the hours of work.

6) DURATION OF CONTRACT: The contract will have a duration of two years and may be renewed or terminated upon the decision of one or both parties with justified reasons

7) BENEFITS: Employees shall be registered with the company's health
assurance policy, have a one week trial period upon your arrival at
the company during which you shall be compensated according to the
labor code

8) UNIFORM: Employees shall appear in the Hospital’s official uniform

9) CONTRACT SIGNING: A contract document shall be sent for you to sign if you agree to the terms and conditions of the job

10) EMPLOYMENT POLICY: Our employment policy states that all foreign employees shall travel with an H-1B work visa and shall pay for the cost of processing of their travel documents (work Permit, Visa etc.) for security purpose. Since all applications for H-1B work visa must pass through the United States Citizenship and immigration services (USCIS) and the American immigration lawyers association (AILA) for approval before a visa a endorsed, our Hospital‘s lawyer barrister Ayoub who is a member of this association will be responsible for the follow up of all the processes until a visa is due for you at the United States embassy in your country. You are required to pay $250 directly to the lawyer for all the paper work and other expenditures. The hospital shall be responsible for your flight ticket after your visa has been endorsed. It should be noted that before you can travel to the United States and start work, you will need some documents which are required for your entry and work in here. The documents are:

Social Security Number (SSN)
Migration clearance
Work Permit
Residential Permit
Contract form
Visa

11) REQUIREMENTS: The following documents and information shall be required from you in order to process the above required documents which will facilitate your relocation to the United States

- A scanned copy of your passport
- Birth certificate (optional)
- 2 color passport size photos
- Your current home address, city and country
- Your Contact Phone Number

The above information shall be used to process all documents
necessary for your travel and work. While hoping that the
above terms and conditions are satisfactory, we await your response
with the requested documents and information. Thank you

--
[]
Jane maksoud

Human Resource Department

Mount Sinai Hospital
One gustave l. Levy place
New york, ny 10029-6574
+1 315-512-2319
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A job seeker asked me if "Reliance Capital Limited" company that contacted her is a legitimate employer.
Judging by the company name and the way they communicated with her (text-only) - it probably is a scam.

But in order to find out for sure if recruiter is real deal:
1) Call them (scammers frequently try to avoid talking on the phone and hide behind text messages and emails).
2) Assume that there could be a scammer on another end and do not reveal your sensitive personal details.
3) Typical signs of scammers:
- Bad phone connection quality (because scammers frequently use internet proxy).
- _Heavy_ foreign accent from a poor country (typically Nigerian accent, but occasionally could be Russian or some other accent). The scammer may insist that they are in the US or in London.
- Incoherent business story (ask them what they sell to their customers).

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I'm watching The Big Short.
It's even funnier that Back To the Future.

The scene where Goldman Sachs sales team is laughing after selling $100M of Mortgage Backed Securities to Michael Burry -- is so funny is retrospect.

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80075560

Dealing with fraudulent job posting is a part of my daily routine.
Usually these cases are simple and scammers are easy to identify:
- Job descriptions with easily recognizable pattern of fraud.
- Heavy "African" (Nigerian?) accent on the phone.
- Bad quality phone connection (because they frequently call over poor Internet connection and use IP proxies).
They rarely learn from their mistakes which makes it easy to spot them next time.

Last several days I got unusual level of attention from more sophisticated ring of scammers from Russia.

Work as the courier
Initially scammers used free email address ([email protected]) for their account.
I got a call from a girl with some Russian accent (not as strong as my own accent though).
She called herself Jess Entoro and claimed to currently be in Atlanta, GA.
She claimed to represent TOPS Consulting, but did not have access to @tops.ru email.

Here's her job posting
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Title: Work as the courier
Company: tops consulting
Work as the courier in the consulting company.
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That job posting looks quite suspicious, but "Jess" was somewhat convincing in her business story, so initially I was not sure if I am rejecting fraudster or a proper employer.
(BTW, we spoke mostly Russian, which was fun for a change).
When I asked "Jess" what phone number she called from - she gave me my own phone number.
When I said to her that this is my phone number - she gave me 1-678-999-4505, which, surprisingly, worked.

I told "Jess" that her free [email protected] email is a reason for rejection.
She learned.

Customer Operations Manager
Their next fraudulent account was created under [email protected]

Unfortunately for scammers, it is easy to see that hr-sunrise.com was created only several days ago:
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https://whois.domaintools.com/hr-sunrise.com
Creation Date: 2015-10-23T05:40:58Z
Registrant Name: Sergey Sudakov
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: Komsomolskaia 12
Registrant City: Kashira
Registrant State/Province: KDA
Registrant Postal Code: 142901
Registrant Country: RU
Registrant Phone: +7.9992745920
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This time [email protected] asked me (by email) to talk with his secretary.
"Secretary" called me from 1-347-349-5499 and named herself "Skyler".
"Skyler" spoke pure American English without any Russian accent and claimed to live and be born in Columbus, OH.

She told me somewhat convincing "business" story about how they help their customers to evaluate new partnerships and identify fraud.
She said that pretty much any company [that buys or sell goods] could be their customer.
However she was not interested in considering PostJobFree as a customer for their services (business that is not interested in selling their product is usually a fraud).

I asked Skyler if she is using "@hr-sunrise.com" email.
She said "yes".
Then I asked her for how long she's been using that email, and she told me "couple of years".
I re-asked her 3 of times in order to be sure we understand each other.
She played "I do not have that much time" card and asked for a refund.
I promised her that and we finished our conversation.

Several minutes later, out of curiosity, I called her back (1-347-349-5499), but that number simply do not connect (silence).

I also found that fraudsters posted the same "job" on craigslist.
Within a day craigslist deleted this posting:
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http://columbus.craigslist.org/csr/5291866141.html
This posting has been flagged for removal.
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Here is a copy of that job.
Try to spot red flags here:
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Title: Customer Operations Manager
We are a professional company that has been providing amazing service to our clients with the help of our amazing employees for over 10 years now. Currently we are seeking a Customer Operations Manager in the Columbus area.
This is a great opportunity not only for those with management experience but also for someone looking for a career change as well, we will provide you with all the necessary training!
Job responsibilities include managing our client’s business operations, enabling them to be informed of all aspects of every step. Monitoring quality of communication and business between existing clients. Processing and overseeing contracts, and other important papers, filing reports on completed work. Maintaining and updating client information profiles.
Starting out this position would take up several hours per day and is a work from home position. If you decide you would like to grow within our company we have an opportunity for the right person to head our new office opening soon and others to become employed full time there, although you could stay at part time working from home if that’s what you find most rewarding.
The pay is starting at $2700 monthly plus Instant Bonuses, there is opportunity for great money to be made! This position can be combined with school and full time employment.
If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity provide your resume with your contact information and we will review your candidacy.
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