Derby House Fabrics Bookkeeper Job Scam!
Another day and another scam. I recently received an emailed job offer allegedly from the "Derby House Fabrics" company. I’ll spare you the suspense. It’s a scam. Let me start off by saying that there may actually be a legitimate company named "Derby House Fabrics".
Scam artists are like a viruses they spread and adapt quickly. Because they know most work at home seekers are naturally skeptical (as they should be), a con-artist tends to use real legitimate company names in their emails. The hope is that it will disarm you from thinking it’s a scam when you do your research. But I’m going to show you my 3 strikes method on how to determine when these emailed job offers are a scam. But first we need to do some self reflection about this so-called opportunity that has appeared out of thin air.
Here are some questions you need to ask yourself.
1. Did you apply to be a bookkeeper?
Is there anything in your resume to indicate that you have this skill set? I know I’m awful with numbers so immediately I know this guy is full of crap by asking me to be a bookkeeper for his company. Me doing bookkeeping is like asking Britney Spears to be a good mother. (Ooh, I’m sorry that was wrong of me. But you get the picture.)
2. Why isn’t their any experience or references being requested?
After all this bookkeeper job involves the handling of money. Why would anyone trust you without any references or prior experience? Would you go to an OBGYN that had no prior experience or references from other doctors or women you know. I would hope not.
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So why the heck is someone going to let you manage their money? Duh!
3. Why is this person referring to me as Sir or Madam?
Presumably if they knew me and I applied for this position they would refer to me by my first name Or Mr. Salomon if you’re nasty. (Sorry, Janet Jackson pun.) But seriously, who uses addresses people by Sir or madam? What are we in the Victorian times?
3 Strikes To Look For!
I’ve included an image of the email I received, please refer to it as you read the items below. Just click on it to enlarge it.
Strike 1.
We now live in a very small world .There is never a situation where people from other countries can’t access money from international locations. This is pure BS! So as soon as you read "our clients can’t readily process payments because … blah blah", You can go ahead and file this email in your trusty trash bin.
Strike 2.
Why would a company pay you a percentage of each check cashed? You’re not a check cashing place. Financially this wouldn’t make much sense for the company because it would be far more most cost effective to pay you a salary. Can you really picture an employer saying, "Hey, I have a million dollar check for you to cash, you keep 10% and I’ll take the change!" Get the hell out of here! Not ever in this life time will this happen!
Strike 3.
A professional company isn’t going to be emailing you from their free yahoo account. The bastards that sent this email think they’re slick. They included reference to a company’s real website address (which might actually be legitimate) but they aren’t emailing you from that company’s listed email address. For instance when I visited www.derbyhousefabrics.co.uk the email addresses listed on the site weren’t any damn yahoo addresses (derbyhousefabrics@yahoo.com). Busted!
You’re out of here Mr Tomas Cooper, Aka Fake Ass Recruitment Manager!
Don’t Fall For The Hype!
Guys I get these emails everyday. But fortunately for me they end up in my spam box automatically. If they do actually happen to reach your inbox, please don’t fall for them under any circumstances! They’re all just variations of check processing and wire transfer scams that we’ve covered here many times.
Have you ever received any of these emails? Did you get duped into this so called opportunity? Inquiring minds want to know. So please feel free to share below.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 am |
I recently worked at a check cashing company, and you wouldn’t believe how many people would brig in these money orders for huge amounts of money only to finsd out that they were fraudulent, and that they could be arrested. No matter what, if a business sends you a check or money order to cash for them, then require you to send the majority back and you keep the rest, is as fake as they come. if you’re not sure go to fakecheck.org, for more info.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:31 am |
Hi Michael,
I totally agree with you. In our original post about these check processing scams we referred to fakecheck.org and their great videos. http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2007/10/16/fake-checks-wire-transfer-scams-fakechecksorg-fights-back/
They really bring the point home.
Thanks again for your comments. We appreciate expert advice.
Eddy
March 27th, 2008 at 5:22 pm |
I received this today…
“You’re invited to view my photos!”
I was also invited to view a photo through Walgreen’s photo album.
Most of these go to my junk box, But this one slid through and was titled as
“Job opening in your area
Album 03/26/08
1 photos
I am Gary Bridge,Manager Derby House Fabrics Ltd.I need a representative who can be working for us online.We make lots of supplies to some of our clients in the USA/CANADA for which its always too expensive and stressful for me to come down and receive such payment so i decided to contact you.I am willing to pay you 10% of every payment received by you.
fill the form below,
NAME
FULL ADDRESS(not p.o. box)
CITY
STATE
ZIP CODE
PHONE NUMBER
AGE
OCCUPATION “
April 15th, 2008 at 1:02 pm |
I received this today and let me tell you they send these email to hundreds of other emails My GOD give us a break, we are not stupid
“Dear Applicant,
Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid
weekly? We are glad to offer you for a job position at our company,
Derby House Fabrics We need someone to work for the company as a Accounts
Payable /Receivable Manager in the USA. This is in view of our not
having an office presently in the USA. You don’t need to have an Office
and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the
moment…
Thanks For Your Total Understanding.
Chris Baileys,
Staffing and Recruiting Dept,
Regional Manager,
Derby House Fabrics.
Email:-derbyhousefabricsstaffs@yahoo.com”
April 15th, 2008 at 1:17 pm |
Hi Odalys,
Thanks for sharing with us.
It’s not so much a matter of thinking we’re stupid.
It’s a matter of being ignorant and a numbers game.
The scammers think of this way, yes 99.9% of people will ignore their bogus emails but less than a percent won’t because they’re new to the internet and they could make a killing on those people.
So in their minds it doesn’t cost them anything to send massive number of emails because someone will eventually bite unless they’re lucky enough to be on our site like ours.
It’s just a sad situation.
Eddy
April 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pm |
Hi Eddy
Here is another SCAM, and they give a Phone # and everything take a look.
“Greetings to you
My name is Elvis Solomon, I am an artist. I own Elvis ART in London
(United Kingdom)We Have a job offer available for you in response to
your initial requesting the job search directory for USA, CANADA, UK AND
EUROPE. We are based in Asia. We have been receiving orders from North
America which we have not been able to process completely since we do
not have a payment receiving personnel in this area. So we have decided to
recruit Payment Officer online hence we will be needing a
representative to process out payment in this area and get 10% on each payment being
processed and you will making at least close to $1,800 weekly.
All you will be doing is receive payments from my customers in the
States in form of MONEY ORDER’S or TRAVELER’S CHEQUE,Then take to you bank and
cash then deduct 10% and have the remaining 90% sent back to me via
western union money transfer.
If interested Kindly get back with this information below and i will
furnish back with further and more details on this, Please have it in
mind this is 100% legit and would not affect you present job nor cost you
dime of your personal money.
If you are interested, N: B, Please send to me the listed
information below directly to me at (elvis_solomon@hotmail.com)
Full Name, Address in full ( No Po Box ) City, State, Zip code,
Phone Number.
Have receive or done an offer like this? Yes or No?
If Yes give out come
Name:Elvis Solomon
Time 24Hrs Daily
+44-7031851629 “
April 15th, 2008 at 5:05 pm |
Hi Odalys,
Thanks for the heads up on this one.
Has all the traits of the usual check cashing fraud scams.
People be sure to avoid it!
Thanks again Odalys.
Eddy
May 10th, 2008 at 11:52 am |
Here’s my tale.. Just got it in my email… if it is truly from a manager in a company, then it would be in perfect English and in correct spelling, right? Here’s another variant of the derby house fabrics spam mail:
Derby House Fabrics Ltd.
Derby House,
59 Derby Street,
Manchester
M8 8HW.
+447024028499
I am Gary Bidge the Manager Derby House Fabrics Ltd and i live and work here in United Kingdom, Would you like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job? Actually i need a representative who can be working for our company as online bookkeeper.We make lots of supplies to some of our clients in the USA,CANADA,PUERTO RICO as well as in the EUROPE and AUSTRALIA for which i come down to receive payment and have it cashed after i supply them raw materials. But its always too expensive and stressful for me to come down and receive such payment twice in a month so i therefore decided to contact you.I am willing to pay you 10% for every payment received by you from our clients who makes payment through you.
Reply by filling the form below if interested,
NAME
FULL ADDRESS(not p.o. box)
CITY
STATE
ZIP CODE
PHONE NUMBER (S)
AGE
OCCUPATION
COUNTRY
GOD BLESS YOU
Gary Bridge
{Managing Director}
Anyway, Thank you for informing us about the derby house fabrics scam mails.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:51 am |
Hi Ayleen,
Thanks for sharing this scam email with us.
I’m glad you found our page helpful in terms of avoiding this scam and variations of it.
Eddy