Email scam just a lot of turkey
Gobble, gobble, gobble…
Many people probably dream of being able to work at home and make a lot of money doing so. This must be so because I see so many advertisements on TV, the Internet and even posted on telephone poles in the area offering big bucks for working at home.
Of course the people making such fantastic offers won’t tell you what you will be doing, working at home, for all that money until you send them $29.95 (or some other amount) for their “starter kit” or finder’s fee or whatever else they may label as their remuneration for helping you learn how to spend a few hours each week in return for riches beyond belief.
But I just got the offer of a lifetime.
It came from the Kamasan Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. in Turkey.
Here’s the offer I received:
“Dear Sir/Madam,
“I am Mr. Ahmet Kuran, manager, Kamasan Plastic Industry in Turkey. We are company who deals on plastics and we are in need of representative that is going to represent our company in the following countries:
“1. Canada
“2. America and All Europe countries.
“Subject to your satisfaction will be given the opportunity in which you are going to negotiate your mode of which we going to pay for your service to us.”
A lot of bad syntax for such a wonderful offer, huh?
If interested, he gave me his private e-mail address where I could send (as he requested) my full name, address, country, state, telephone number, occupation and international passport.
This is a new twist on some of the strange e-mails I receive. I usually get offers from people in Nigeria or some other foreign country from people wanting to pay me to help them get their money out of the country. All they ask is I send them my personal information, including my bank account number.
Well, do they think I just got off the boat? They haven’t come up with enough money (yet) to make me give them that kind of information.
But offering me a position? Wow. And in an international plastics firm, too.
Does it matter that there are a bunch of Web sites blasting this specific deal as one more scam? I looked at the Kamasan Plastics Web site and was pretty impressed. They showed a number of their products (mostly plastic containers) and even had a place where potential customers could send them an e-mail address.
I mean, if the company has such a sophisticated Web site, maybe it’s really legit?
What do you think?
Well, all greed aside, the offer may have come from Turkey but I don’t want to be one (if you get my drift).
Which means I won’t be joining the international plastics industry anytime soon. And, I don’t think you will either.
Have a good day.
James Pletcher Jr. is Herald-Standard business editor. He can be reached at 724-439-7571 or by e-mail at jpletcher@heraldstandard.com.