The Art of Scam

Last week, I received an email from a guy named Peter from kozlov.peter@rambler.ru. He offered me a job to edit and proofread texts for $5/KB. It sounds too good to be true and sounds like a scam. Still, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and played along. Usually, I don't really care for these ads or scam emails. However, I only use this email address for job search awhile back. He actually got a hold of my resume through these career center / job searching web sites. That's how sophisticated scammers are nowadays.

The first email is like this:

kozlov.peter@rambler.ru

Please edit the text.
It's 8Kb - $40.00 on your account in our company.
Please make the correction of texts TODAY and send it back.
Send it back to our email in formats: .txt; .doc or in the body of
message.
text is below:


I sent back the same unedited text to see if he actually read it. Here's his reply:

Very nice. Thank you. You do your job really good.
Please tell us a little about yourself, what do you do on your free
time, where do you work, what plans for future.

Your balance - $80.00 (USD)

we will send you new texts today or tomorrow and you should edit them at
the same day. Don't forget to tell us about yourself.

Sincerely,
Travel Service


Here's a screenshot of my email reply to him.



Be careful, don't fall for these scams. Scammers can actually go into job search websites and get your resume and your real information.