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Another “Join our marketing team” spam

By SpamBurner • Nov 22nd, 2007 • Category: Fraud SPAM, Work Offer SPAM

The requests for work are falling. Another one arrived in mail this morning. The proposal is for home based work and there is any specific requirements mentioned. All you need to do is to send a an email to a specified address. In fact there are two emails.

In fact emails with this subject are becoming popular.
Here is the full spam text:

We are Looking for partners worldwide. The position is home-based. Our Company Head Office is located in UK with branches all over the world. Wjavascript:checkSpamAssassin();
ðÒÏ×ÅÒËÁ SpamAssassin-ÏÍe are looking for talented, honest, reliable representatives from different regions. The ideal candidate will be an intelligent person, someone who can work autonomously with a high degree of enthusiasm. Our Company offers a very competitive salary to the successful candidate, along with an unrivalled career progression opportunity.

If you would like to work with our active, dynamic team, we invite you to apply for employment. Preference will be given to applicants with knowledge of multiple languages. Please send the following information to GarlandWolfYO@gmail.com.
1. Full name 2 Address of residence
3 Contact Phone numbers
4 Languages spoken
5 Whether you are interested in part time job or full time employment.
Thank you. We look forward to working with you.
If you received this message in error, please send a blank email to: StephenHortonNN@gmail.com.

It is interesting that there are two emails and the second one can be used in case the email arrived by mistake.
What does it mean?
If you send email to specified second email you only confirm that:

  • Your email exists
  • Your read those mails
  • Your take actions requested in such emails

It as sent From: “leland claude”
From the headers we see:
Received: from [189.70.216.240] by dns5.imgfarm.com; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:30:29 +0000
Message-ID: <000601c82bbc$021520e7$16c6669d@aewby>

How to protect? Ignore this message, mark it spam, delete it, add a filter in your SpamAssassin to delete the message.

Hope you find useful.

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