My curriculam vitae, was currently advertised on total jobs, I received this email, offering me a job as a financial assistant.
Good day,
We are glad to inform you that after examine your resume we came to the conclusion that you are qualified much for this position: "Financial Assistant".
Financial Assistant takes part in Commercial interactions between potential customers and our company. The job is related to remote Internet operations. Every payment order will be accompanied by detailed instruction. It is also the duty to interact and report all the details of every action you take to our manager. The brief training course is enclosed. To be successful in this role, you will need to be an energetic and flexible person with strong computing skills.
Your main duties will be to communicate with clients over the telephone or through the Internet, to conduct the reports, to fulfill our tasks following our instructions, to work with business forms on your own, to conclude agreements with our potential clients, to receive payments from potential customers. You will be able to get new information from our " Project Manager ", contact your head office and to check the report on the earnings. You will get monthly salary for your work; your salary will be divided into two parts and bonuses from each transaction depending on the amount of the deal.
My name is Amanda Davidson. I will be your instructor for a month before you will obtain enough skills for independent work.
To start working you need to complete the following steps:
1. Please download the attached contract, make sure that everything is clear in it.
2. Fill out all the required fields in print letters.
3. Send it to our UK fax number '+44 (0)207 681 1627'
Attached is a PDF version of your contract. If you do not already have Adobe PDF Reader installed please go to www.adobe.com to install it..
We'll process your contract and get in touch with you in 1-3 business days.
Address:
ING Funds Distributor, LLC
www.ingfunds.com
Amstelveenseweg 542
1032 KL Amsterdam, Nederland
Tel: +31 32 342 2362
After believing I was headhunted by a professional company such as ING, I was naive and gullible enough to respond, to the email by signing the contract and faxing it.
A week later I received this email from Amanda Davidson
Good day,
Congratulations! I'm Amanda Davidson the Project Manager of ING Funds Distributor,LLC.
I'll be contacting with you by email during our work. You became a member of our Company. We are happy to greet you as one of our employees. I have received the signed contract. Thanks a
lot. You will receive the first instructions about your duties and the first task of training courses in the nearest future. The secretary has tried to call you today but your phone did not answer.. We are calling from the multilinear number and it is possible that our number won't be showed.
When can we call back? I'm looking forward to hearing from you confirming your continued interest in work for our company.
Your personal ID in our company: ING_FUNDS_ID #5040208-9##.
Once the training courses are over I'll send you the copy of signed contract via DHL (you'll
receive it within 14 days). Before we start the training courses (please note you'll be paid for them as well as your future job) I would like to clear some more details and give you several instructions you have to complete before I'll send the training assignments to your email:
1. Are you full-time employed? (Where do you work?)
2. What's your job phone number?
3. Please confirm your home address.
4. What is the best time to call you back? Please confirm
your phone numbers.
5. When does your ID document expire? (DL, PASSPORT)
6. How often can you be on-line (especially check your
e-mail)?
ING business activity is oriented on selling financial products and services. Due to the fact that you are still on the trial period , we can't risk its reputation and provide a brand new member of our team with the access to our accounts.Before we will start our work, you need to pass training
courses which consist of 3 working tasks. You should complete with them during 2
week period. The first task is the studying of banking and payment system. It is necessary to have an account in a bank to complete this task. The description of the next 2 assignments I will send you once you finish the first one. As soon as you'll complete it please provide me
with the requested information. After that you'll receive the further instructions..
During your training period you can use your own personal bank account.
To start your first training task you need to inform us about your banking information. (the
account number and the sort code). Please send us your bank details: account number and sort
code and make a printscreen of your online banking account. To find the instructions how to make a printscreen please go to http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows)
Thank you in advance. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask me.
Please confirm the reception of this email by answering it.
Sincerely Yours,
ING Project Manager
Amanda Davidson
Again I replied thinking this is genuine, thankfully I did not send my banking information.
However after reading the email, it looked and sounded unprofessional
After researching more about ING, I came across SCAM WARNING Job offers.
I have become a victim of this scam, therefore I would like further advice on how to stop any of these fraudsters using my personal information.
Thanks