ST Microelectronics
Another fraud. Ignore it.
STMicroelectronics in the United Kingdom is interested in employing a financial payment contractor, capable of performing the duty of receiving payments on behalf of our company from our customers.
In performing this duty, you will be entitled to a commission of 5% for any payment you receive on behalf of our company. If you are interested in this offer, you are expected to send us the following information – Full
Names: / Age: / Sex: / Marital Status: / Contact Address: / Present Employer And Position Held: / 7. Telephone Number (endeavour to include your MOBILE number): / Email Address: / 9. Fax (If Any):
kardec Connery,
(Human Resources, STMicroelectronics)
As Bob Bear is retiring, I shall be posting these in future. But not as thoroughly as he does.
On a serious point about these scams. I run a small but sensible UK vompnay, that takes payments from all over the world. People send me money by direct transfer, credit cards or PayPal.
Why in my right mind would I ever pay an intermediary five percent to just put the money through their bank account?
Bob Bear Retires
The owner and updater of one of the Internet’s biggest any scam resources, Bob Bear, is retiring.
Thanks for all your work, Bob.
The ability to check the scams all in one place will be missed.
NetTemps Inc
This is a scam. So don’t reply.
Looking for a job? My name is Juliette Barnes, I am a recruiting manager of NetTemps Inc, a recruiting agency for direct-hire, contract, and freelance professionals within various professions.
Today I would like introduce some part-time and virtual office vacancies in the spheres of Advertising, Education, Engineering, Finance, Health care, Information technology, Media, Real estate and Transportation.
If you are interested to learn more about the jobs offered, please get back to me, providing your name and contact number.
We are eager to help you find a better job and improve your career!
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to e-mail me on:
c v @ n e t t e m p s i n . c o . u k [please delete spaces in the email address before sending it to us]
Yours sincerely,
Juliette Barnes
NetTemps Inc
Why is this a scam?
Look at the e-mail address from where it was sent to you. Did it have anything to do with Juliette Barnes? No!
Remember there is one born every minute. Don’t let it be you!
Computers Beat Doctors at Diagnosing Child Illnesses
This was a headline in The Independent.
A computer has proved more accurate in diagnosing severe fever in children than doctors using their clinical judgement, researchers have found.
Is it the way medicine is going, as it looks like the computer system is better in this case? There’s no reason to believe that in certain areas, this may well be possible.
As a coeliac and a computer person, I’ve always felt that the diagnosis of coeliac disease could be done by means of a simple on-line system, that gave an indication that could be confirmed by proper tests. This is because coeliac disease shows itself in many and diverse ways. I had chronic dandruff for a start and would you see a gastroenterologist for that?
I think too, you have to look at the statistics of medicine and especially GPs. My granddaughter was born with a congenital hernia of the diaphragm. She’s fine now and just like any other eight-year-old. Now this problem occurs in about one in 3,000 babies. When I told my GP about my granddaughter, she said she’d never come across one in general practice.
So perhaps the computer can be much better with rare complaints.
Habitat for Humanity: A Despicable Scam
This looks to be a scam despite the fact that Habitat for Humanity is a registered charity. They have a donation page which allows you to donate direct with added Gift Aid, so why would they need to employ people to do this anonymously?
Hello Prospective Employee,
At HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, we work hard to improve and provide training, technical expertise and support in fund-raising to the national organizations in all the regions of the world. However, the actual work of HABITAT is carried out at the community level by affiliates that have been officially approved by the HFHI Board of Directors. The International Board of Directors (IBOD) are volunteers from around the world who share a deep concern for the problems of poverty housing.
This is demonstrated in our role as a corporate sponsor for the HAITI RELIEF PROGRAM with money raised going towards helping displaced and disabled children and their families.
We are an organization with a remarkable heritage.
You’ve got a chance to be one of our representatives and earn a commission for funds raised.This Could earn you an average of $200 – $500 weekly and as much as $2000 (TAX FREE) in a month depending on how active you are.
You can be rest assured that you WOULD NOT be required to pay any fees upfront and this won’t affect your current job earnings or disability payments in any way and you can conveniently work from your desk at home.
Private donations will be made in your name from our esteemed Voluntary Donors in your region and other parts of the world and you’ll be allowed to deduct 10 percent (10%) of the total amount on these donations. This serves as your remuneration for the great service you would be rendering in support of saving lives in the third-world countries. Balances (after the 10%) shall be required to be forwarded to the Regional Co-ordinators of the various charitable projects we are involved in around the Globe.
Please Note: You won’t have to do any travelling and WILL NOT be required to pay any fees, this position won’t affect your present employment.
To apply, Kindly forward the following info: to our Human Resource Department at the email listed below for further instructions.
- FULL NAME :
- FULL ADDRESS :
- CITY :
- STATE:
- ZIP CODE/POSTCODE: ..
- PHONE NUMBER (S) :(must be valid) would be called to confirm.
- GENDER : ..
- AGE : ..
- EMAIL ADDRESS:…
- COUNTRY : …
Your prompt response is solicited
Coordinator’s Desk,
Habitat for Humanity International
- 121 Habitat Street
- Americus, GA 31709
- 1-800-800-2190
- Registered No. MHQLTH1084442
- REPLY TO BE SENT THROUGH : habitathumanity7@gmail.com
It just breaks all of the rules for a sensible e-mail; bad spelling, undisclosed recipients, GMail e-mail addresses etc.
But remember if you really want to give money to Haiti, would you give it to an intermediary who creamed off a percentage? No way! You’d probably do it through someone legitimate, as then they’d get extra tax relief.
It’s a scam. Ignore it.
I am a member of Facebook, but I don’t use it that often.
Why?
Am I worried about abuse and don’t hold with their refusal to put an abuse button on every page?
No! I think that an abuse button would be a mistake, as all and sundry would click it to see what happened. We actually need to educate everybody and not just children about how to be safe on the Internet. I also think that kids are the ideal people to teach vulnerable adults how to use the Internet and stay safe.
The reason I don’t use Facebook very often is simple.
I run Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 and find that Facebook has a strong tendency to crash my machine with annoying regularity.
Around the World in 33 Days
Well not quite thirty-three days, but a give or take a night or two, that is how long I’ll take to go round the world.
The purpose includes the following.
- I need a holiday and want to have some fun and relaxation.
- I want to see a few old friends.
- I want to take pictures of any old Heidelberg printing machines, still working.
- I want to talk to various people about my new project management system.
The last reason is probably not as serious as the others, as I don’t need the money and the hassle. But if I can find the model that makes the software sell and get market share, then I’ll go for it like a rat up a drain pipe!
So what is the route?
Stop 1 – Hong Kong – Arrive Wednesday, May 12th at 16:05
I need to break the journey and what better place than Hong Kong. I will probably stay in the Mandarin Oriental. My late wife and I always did and it’s worth every penny.
Stop 2 – Melbourne – Arrive Saturday, May 15th at 06:15
Of all the major cities in the greater south-east of Australia, Melbourne is the only one I haven’t visited. I suppose I haven’t visited Canberra either, but then my Aussie friends say it isn’t worth it.
I also want to play real tennis in the city and see the sights. I’m also going to see some old Metier mates.
Stop 3 – Brisbane – Arrive Tuesday, 18th May at 14:15
Seeing an old mate that I’ve never met! We’ll talk about Artemis, Metier and the new project management system.
Stop 4 – Hawaii – Arrive Friday, 21st May at 09:25
Now I’ve never been to Hawaii, but it looks like a place that is worth a stopover as I make my way across the Pacific. I also want to visit Pearl Harbor. After all, I’ve stood on the dock at Taranto, where the Fleet Air Arm proved the concept for the Japanese. Read the Attack on Taranto by Lowry and Wellham for more details. Note that the book is an American publication.
Stop 5 – San Francisco – Arrive Monday, 24th May at 20:35
I’ll probably spend a day or so in San Francisco and then it will be a mix of trains, plains and automobiles across the United States until I get to the other side at Boston.
The first leg is planned to be a drive to Las Vegas
Stop 6 – Las Vegas – Arrive Thursday, 27th May
I was in the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, when I heard about the massacre at the real Luxor in Egypt. To me it has the ultimate bad-taste that sums up Vegas to me. I don’t gamble, except occasionally on horses, so it will be a short stay.
Stop 7 – Route 66/Grand Canyon – Arrive Friday 28th May
There are places in this area that I want to visit again, like the Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon, Route 66, the meteor crater at Winslow and the ruins of the pueblas.
Stop 8 – Phoenix – Arrive Saturday 29th May
Phoenix is somewhere I’ve been before but only for a change of flights.
Stop 9 – Houston – Arrive Monday 31st May
This will be a flight from Phoenix, probably getting in around lunchtime.
Stop 10 – New Orleans – Arrive Thursday 3rd June
I’ve never been to New Orleans, so I’ll drive from Houston.
Stop 11 – Washington – Arrive Sunday 6th June
A flight here to the capital.
Stop 12 – New York – Arrive Tuesday 8th June
I’ll probably take the train.
Stop 13 – Boston – Arrive Friday 11th June
I’ll probably drive from New York, going slowly from New York.
Stop 14 – London- Leave Boston on Saturday, 12th June at 21:30
And then it’s back to London.
This will get filled out as the time unfolds.
HP 77870 or Similar
I have a similar one to these 9 track tape drive in the cellar. It was bought for a job for a major bank, but they welched on the deal, so I ended up with a piece of hardware I didn’t want. At £14,000 too! And that was in 1995.
HP 77870 or Similar
So it’s sat there just annoying me for 15 years. It has about 10 hours on the clock and of course some dust, but it is fully enclosed.
If anybody wants one contact me. I also have the SCSI Interface somewhere, but I suspect it would be best as a plug-in replacement for one that has failed.
Note in the picture there’s a LaserJet IID parked on top of the tape drive.
Vodafone Telecommunication Network
They keep coming and this one is a little better.
Dear Beneficiary,
Congratulations The VODAFONE mobile telecommunication network service has choosen you by the board of executive directors as one of the final recipients of a Cash Grant/Donation.The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 100,000 email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web.This promotion is to celebrate the 8th years anniversary 2010 programme,We are giving out a yearly donation of (850.000.00) GPB to 5 lucky recipients as a way of showing our appreciation and to help improve our company.
Email:mr.barrysmith111@9.cn
VODAFONE Claims Department
- Full Name:…….
- Residential Address:….
- Country:……
- Occupation:……
- Telephone:….
- Sex:….
- Age:….
- Next of Kin:…..
- Nationality:….
- Winning No:…..
Secretary
Mr.Barry Smith
Telephone:+ (44) 7035954359
Vodafone® Award Promotion
© 2010 Online Award Promotion Edition.
Note the Chinese e-mail address and the 070 phone number.
Another Bed and Breakfast Scam
I reported that a friend had had one of these a month or so ago.
They’ve just had another.
i am inquiring for accommodation for 5 people for 25 days from June -10/2010.
Please give me total cost for the period specified including all
applicable taxes).what is your payment options? Hope you accept credit
cards or cheque?
How ever,an agent has been contacted for their flight
logistics,so all am asking from you is to get back to me with the total
cost for their rooms in the period
specified in {GBP-POUNDS}.
You can contact me at any time,your prompt reply will be appreciated.
Duk William,
Director,GLOBAL INC/GENERAL CONSULATE.
P.O. Box 7841
Sud bury, L18 8BY Liverpool.
Cell: +447045709832
I still haven’t figured out how this scam works. But there is a lot of information in this forum.
Incidentally the post code L18 8BY is very close to the halls of residence at Liverpool University. But it’s Carnatic not Sudbury.
The Anonymous Widower 