Another Scam Targetting Gullible Malaysians

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Monday, June 15. 2009

(Posted by Mel Mudin)

This looks to good to be true to me:

From: "HTR National Ltd." <process@grant25sernet.com>
Reply-To: "HTR National Ltd." <equipmentout115@yahoo.com>
To:
Subject: Job Offer (10,500 MYR)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:34:46 -0700

ATTENTION

Our warehouses are filled with great new and used warehouse equipment and racking 
products, ready for fast shipment. Due to the large amount of order we receive from 
Malaysia, we are in urgent need of workers who will work part- time as payment agents. 
Customers will make payments into your account, we will then give instructions on how to 
send the funds to us. You will be paid RM 2,000 on every transfer and also get a 
Monthly Payment of $3,000 (USD).

Email us the below information if interested.

Full Names:
Contact Address:
Mobile Phone Number:
Bank Name:
Account Number:

APPLICATION / REQUIREMENTS:
1.) We only accept Maybank Accounts
2.) You are required to have an ATM Card as most withdrawal will be done via the ATM Machine.

Website

www.htr-equipments.com/Online.html

Management

HTR EQUIPMENT Ltd.
55/1 College Street,
Worcester, MA 01610 - USA

This sounds too good to be true. RM2,000 for every shipment + USD3,000 per month - that's roughly MYR13,000 per month! This is how the site looks like:

The website (http://www.htr-equipments.com) is hosted on a domain parking server. I believe this is a scam, and it's goal is to collect as many Maybank account number as possible. Don't fall for this.

Posted by Mel Mudin at 10:59 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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This scam is known as the money mule scam. The victims are the money mule, where they accept dirty money and cash it out to the mastermind which is clean money. Many fraudulent transactions launder their money via this method, and many countries have laws that will penalise these money mules very severely under the anti-laundering act.

This scam will hit the uneducated the hardest, because they do not know such an act is against the law.

Some related articles below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_mule
http://ezinearticles.com/?Money-Mule-Email-Scam-Hits-U.S.&id=61504

Regards,
Cappella

#1 Cappella on 2009-06-15 15:18 (Reply)

it money mule! update! update!

#2 santa clause on 2009-06-16 12:38 (Reply)

Thank you very much Mr. Mel Muldin. Please look the the text below. They send that in my email. Once Thanks for proving me it is scam. I can also see that there website which is
http://www.htrservice2009.com/Jobs.html Is very clumsy one. Look sir, the first good observation is that they have a website and then why are they using yahoo account email (htrequipment4209@yahoo.com)?

The second observation is why an established company that can pay amount of money reaching $3000, would use yahoo account emailing system?

The third observation is that link looks very cumbersome ( unprofessional)

All the best sir, this is a war between good and bad. They almost tempted me.

"
Vacancy - (Malaysia)‏
From: HTR EQUIPMENTS (online@servicehtr250.com)
Sent: Tue 8/04/09 12:49 AM
To:
HTML clipboard

ATTENTION

You have been offered a Part-Time Job. Please view the job details and description below.

View Message Here

Management

HTR EQUIPMENT Ltd.
55/1 College Street,
Worcester, MA 01610 - USA
"

#3 Adam on 2009-08-04 14:03 (Reply)

Thanks for the information - Money mule is an interesting topic. Almost fall to it too.

#4 Larry (Homepage) on 2009-11-18 22:04 (Reply)

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