Employment Opportunity

[Zen]

I received this email today. I am unable to accept at this time but I thought I should share such a golden opportunity ;)




HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT
HALLIBURTON OIL AND GAS (MALAYSIA)
11th Floor, Menara Tan & Tan
207, Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA
Tel: +60 10290 2643
Fax +603 2033 4506

ATTN: APPLICANT
INTERNATIONAL EXPATRIATE OFFICIAL JOB ONLINE INTERVIEW
Your name has been shortlisted/Chosen among the Lucky expatriates who
submitted the CV to the MALAYSIA ONLINE JOB ,before we will issue you
the
Success Letter and the Contract Document You have to fill the following
informations and send it back to us
Full Names
City:
State:
Country:
Zip code:
Sex:
Phone:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
Get back to me as soon as possible.
Email :halliburtonrecruitment.oilgas@gmail.com
Bar. Najib Mohamed
Head of Recruitment Service
HALLIBURTON OIL AND GAS (MALAYSIA)

[ny biker]

How could you turn this down?!?

[Zen]

It would get in the way of cycling :D

[ny biker]

I love the email address.

[tulip]

What, no bank account information required??

[ttaylor508]

What, no bank account information required??

Must not be as important as your MARITAL STATUS and SEX. I am sure once you send them that info they will want your SS#.

[TsPoet]

I've thought about setting up a gmail or similar dummy account. I would love to answer emails like that - I think I could come up with a whole bunch of imaginative answers to the questions. But, I'm too afraid to even give out my email in those situations, which would happen by replying.

Full Names: The royal countessa smartterthanyou
City: Sinkhole
State: OfMind
Country: Redland
Zip code: 33666
Sex: trans
Phone: 555-555-8000
AGE: 12
MARITAL STATUS: Betrothed

[alpinerabbit]

Someone is already spending a lot of time on these folks. It's risky business but fun to watch:

http://www.scambuster419.co.uk

[crazycanuck]

Ok, I know spam when I see it and yes always delete it. My question is..what actually happens if you respond? Can you weasel them well??

I'm not about to but am curious about what's going on at the other computer..

[alpinerabbit]

I've never seen one with an employment opportunity, but in this case they might try to extract some fee from you for information or before "hiring".

all the other "Nigerian scams" - see link above, the guy is really good at duping them.

[lph]

Oh Zen. Really. Here is opportunity knocking on your door - no, POUNDING on your door - and you turn it down?? You are so sceptical. I swear, you are NEVER going to get a, umm, "international expatriate official job" that way.

[Biciclista]

yes, CC, you can weasel them. Go to that link Alpine Rabbit has provided. There are lots of great stories of people who have responded to these emails and even profited! (by scamming the scammers.) it's hilarious. On the other hand, so many people ARE scammed by these people.
anyway; check out that link. There's more like it too.

[Zen]

You are so sceptical. I swear, you are NEVER going to get a, umm, "international expatriate official job" that way.

OK, you talked me into it!
After all-

"Your name has been shortlisted/Chosen among the Lucky expatriates"

Shortlisted!
Lucky!
What could possibly go wrong?

[smilingcat]

http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/ is soo funny.

When I tried to sell my car on the internet, I got lot of scammers. After a while I just deleted the messages without reading them.

[papaver]

Look what was in my mailbox today.

Good News,

Dearest One,
I am happy to inform you that I have been able to finalize the fund transfer with the help of another partner from India.I cannotforget your past efforts to help me in making the transfer work though it did not work out between us.I have therefore decided to compensate you for your past efforts,I have give my attorney the amount of USD $ 150,000 Dollars so that he can send to you as your compensation.

You have to contact my attorney in Ghana,here is his contacts ;P.PHILS ASSOCIATES SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTS AVENUE 17 ACHIMOTA ACCRA-GHANA.Email: peterhills331@gmail.com
Contact him through the email and tell him where and how he can send the money to you,I am very busy here in India now and will like to read from you as soon as you have contacted him by email.

Once again,I am greatful.
Dr.William Kodjo

Gosh I'm sooooo lucky. :D

[ttaylor508]

Look what was in my mailbox today.

Good News,

Dearest One,
I am happy to inform you that I have been able to finalize the fund transfer with the help of another partner from India.I cannotforget your past efforts to help me in making the transfer work though it did not work out between us.I have therefore decided to compensate you for your past efforts,I have give my attorney the amount of USD $ 150,000 Dollars so that he can send to you as your compensation.

You have to contact my attorney in Ghana,here is his contacts ;P.PHILS ASSOCIATES SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTS AVENUE 17 ACHIMOTA ACCRA-GHANA.Email: peterhills331@gmail.com
Contact him through the email and tell him where and how he can send the money to you,I am very busy here in India now and will like to read from you as soon as you have contacted him by email.

Once again,I am greatful.
Dr.William Kodjo

Gosh I'm sooooo lucky. :D

I can't tell you how many times I have had this exact same email come in to my spam. Interesting that they refer to you as "Dearest One" though