JOB OFFER HOAX FRAUD ALERT!

We have been made aware that some people have been receiving a hoax email with a job offer that is supposedly being sent from our company. Please note that those emails are not being sent by us and that they are a phishing scam that, according to their IP address, originate both from Asia and or Africa.

We have already notified the authorities about these fraudulent emails and all steps are being taken to shut down the email accounts being used by these scam artists.

We strongly recommend that you do not reply to these or any other unsolicited email business proposals and contact your Federal and local law enforcement agencies to report this and any other suspicious phishing scams.

Whenever in doubt, we also suggest that you always check the originating IP Address of the email you received, even if it appears to have been sent by a friend or someone you may know. You can verify this by highlighting the message in you Inbox and then right-clicking on it and select Properties, Details and Message Source. You should then go to http://www.iplocation.net and enter the sender's IP Address(s) to verify where that email originated. Please note that there may be more than one IP Address listed in the Message Source, so you should check them all.

You may also want to contact the company directly by searching for their telephone number as listed on the phone book or website and then verifing their listed telephone number on http://www.Google.com If the telephone number is unlisted, be very carful as real companies almost never keep their main telephone numbers private or unlisted.

Please click here to report all suspected phishing scams to

IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) sponsored by The FBI

Jan's & Co. Fine French Antiques, Inc.
1934 West Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90018
T. 323-735-6455

Prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Sponsored by The FBI

February 3, 2009

Work-At-Home Scams

Consumers need to be vigilant when seeking employment on-line.
The IC3 continues to receive numerous complaints from individuals who have fallen
victim to work-at-home scams.

Victims are often hired to "process payments", "transfer funds" or "reship products."
These job scams involve the victims receiving and cashing fraudulent checks, transferring
illegally obtained funds for the criminals, or receiving stolen merchandise and
shipping it to the criminals.

Other victims sign up to be a "mystery shopper", receiving fraudulent checks with
instructions to cash the checks and wire the funds to "test" a company's services.
Victims are told they will be compensated with a portion of the merchandise or funds.

Work-at-home schemes attract otherwise innocent individuals, causing them to become
part of criminal schemes without realizing they are engaging in illegal behavior.

Job scams often provide criminals the opportunity to commit identity theft when
victims provide their personal information, sometimes even bank account information
to their potential "employer." The criminal/employer can then use the victim's information
to open credit cards, post on-line auctions, register Web sites, etc., in the victim's
name to commit additional crimes.

Click here to learn about additional job offer scams reported to IC3.

If you have been a victim of Internet crime, please file a complaint at www.IC3.gov

Intelligence Note Prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

December 10, 2008

Flurry of Spam Targeting the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Consumers continue to be inundated by spam purportedly from the
FBI. As with previous spam attacks, the latest versions use the names
of several high ranking executives within the FBI and even the IC3 to attempt to
defraud consumers.

Many of the spam e-mails currently in circulation claim to be an "official order"
from the FBI's Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division, from an alleged FBI
unit in Nigeria, confirm an inheritance or contain a lottery notification, all informing
recipients they have been named the beneficiary of millions of dollars.
To claim the large sum, recipients are instructed to furnish their personally identifiable
information (PII) and are often threatened with some type of penalty, such as prosecution, if they
fail to do so. Specific PII information requested includes, but is not limited to, the recipient's name, banking information, telephone number, and a copy of their passport.
The spam e-mail allegedly from the IC3 states that the recipient has extorted money
and will be given a limited amount of time to refund the money or face prosecution.

Do not respond. These e-mails are a hoax.

The FBI does not send unsolicited e-mails of this nature. FBI Executives are briefed
on numerous investigations but do not personally contact consumers regarding such
matters. In addition, the IC3 does not send threatening letters to consumers demanding
payments for Internet crimes.

Consumers should not respond to any unsolicited e-mails or click on any embedded
links associated with such e-mails, as they may contain viruses or malware.

It is imperative consumers guard their PII. Providing your PII will compromise your
identity!

If you have been a victim of Internet crime, please file a complaint at www.IC3.gov

For previous PSAs concerning e-mail scams targeting the FBI and other government
agencies:

From Wikipedia:

In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT Administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging,[1] and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. Even when using server authentication, it may require tremendous skill to detect that the website is fake. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users,[2] and exploits the poor usability of current web security technologies.[3] Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures.

A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987, and the first recorded use of the term "phishing" was made in 1996. The term is a variant of fishing,[4] probably influenced by phreaking,[5][6] and alludes to baits used to "catch" financial information and passwords.

Monster.com Email Phishing Check Scam

From http://www.federalreviews.com/phishing_scam.html

This was taken from an email sent out to members:

I actually did not plan on sending out any emails today, but something happened to me not that long ago that was very disturbing. I was on Monster.com a few weeks ago looking for a good web developer for a website I'm working on that will be very big!(I'll tell you more about that in the next newsletter). As I was looking through some of the resumes, I saw a few good contacts, so I emailed them letting them know to give me a call. As I logged out of my account, I went over to Yahoo to check myemail as I seem to do every five minutes. In my inbox was a email that came from Monster.com. I opened the email. Long story short, it was another company stating that they liked my experience and that they were looking for people to serve as account holders, cashing their checks and sending them totheir over seas company. Because I review a lot of different money making schemes, I felt the obligation to follow through. In the end they sent me an actual check from CitiBank with my name on it. I was absolutely amazed. In four days I had a check in my hand for $4,213.18.

The company, which was based somewhere in eastern Europe, said that I could keep $400 for depositing the money in my account and wire them the balance. At this point I knew I had to follow through with this, so my plan was to deposit the money in my account, let it sit, and see what would happen. 5 days went by, and the check actually cleared! I was shocked! At this point I knew I had to notify the bank about what was going on. A few days later the bank sent the check back letting me know that check was bogus even though it had already cleared a few days before. I found out after-wards that this was a carefully crafted phishing scam that took advantage of people looking for jobs, and got them in a whole heap of trouble. After these unsuspecting people wired the money to these companies overseas, a few days later the check would bounce and they either ended up in jail or in a state of financial crisis. The moral of this is that anyone could become a victim. So the best thing to do is use our common sense in these situations. Please make SURE you forward this page to everyone you know! This will save a lot of people from being scammed by this cleverly crafted phishing scam.

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