Question:
Is Do My Tasks, LLC Legit?
Annie B
2011-07-10 13:18:03 UTC
Here's the email I got. Is this a legit job or scam?
Hi!
We acknowledge receipt of your email. Yes, this part time position is still available to start (A.S.A.P.)
For any additional information about this position, payment, how it 'works, etc please refer our corporate website and FAQ section (frequently asked questions. Website address is at the bottom).
You will find the contract attached to this email. If you have already studied our website, your next step is to sign up the labor contract and send it back BY EMAIL as attachment (do not fax it). If you have any questions and do not see answers on the website please reply to this email.

Christopher Brown
HR Department
================
Do My Tasks, LLC - Your outsourcing partner
Tel +1 (305) 432-2395 (please contact 9AM – 2PM EST)
web address: grandalt[.]com 7/8/2011
Four answers:
Buffy Staffordshire
2011-07-10 15:09:55 UTC
100% scam.



There is no job. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.



The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.



Of the next email will demand you accept a fake bank deposit. The deposit will be from a stolen credit card, hi-jacked paypal account or phished bank account. When the credit card/paypal/bank account owner realizes their money is in your account, your bank reverses the transfer now you get the real life job of paying back the bank for all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.



Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.



You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.



Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.



Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.



6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:

1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.

2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.

3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.

4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.

5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.

6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.



Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.



If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union bank deposit scam", "money mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
Judge Julie
2011-07-10 21:00:33 UTC
Hello Annie B: -- well, I just spend a good hour looking it over, and quite frankly I can't believe it. They'll be charging a "user of service" $69.00 a month - and paying a "lackey" provider of services $500.00 a month. That means that there must be at least 10 users to one lackey type. This must be somebodies brain child. What I did notice is the lack of "good grammar" and a whole lot of misspellings (always a bad sign) Even the one contact available - in FLORIDA - shows a map of Manhattan Island - New York! Why would you need at least 16 more Part Time employees? Why not just hire some people locally to do the job? I can check bus/train/hotel/airport/restaurants from any location to any location - don't really need to be local - unless to pick up drugs! All in all - it just doesn't pass the smell test! I don't have anything against one man businesses - as long as I know who that man is!



So I spent a little more time and found the following: grandalt.com



Registrant:

willie jenkins (jenkinswillie47@yahoo.com)

10862 Nichols Blvd. Apt 11-9 10862 Nichols Blvd. Apt 11-9

Olive Branch, MS 38654

US

+1 901 5501906





Domain Name: grandalt.com









Administrative, Technical, Billing Contact:

willie jenkins (jenkinswillie47@yahoo.com)

10862 Nichols Blvd. Apt 11-9 10862 Nichols Blvd. Apt 11-9

Olive Branch, MS 38654

US

+1 901 5501906











Record created on Jun 29 2011.

Record expires on Jun 29 2012.

Domain servers:

ns1.valuehost.ru

ns2.valuehost.ru

ns3.valuehost.ru







Domain Service Provider:

Web Hosting Inc

650-963-0999

support@valuesrs.com

www.valuesrs.com



Now you know!
Wayne Z
2011-07-10 20:33:23 UTC
My gut says SCAM.



The website was just created less that 2 weeks ago and the registrant's address is an apartment in Mississippi yet they claim to be in Miami.



The website looks rushed.



I have a feeling that the whole site is just a front for a fake check scam.
Kittysue
2011-07-10 21:00:13 UTC
I don't know if it's legit or not but here is the registry detail

http://whois.domaintools.com/grandalt.com

site created on June 29th 2011


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