Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010
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It all started with this email:
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:20:18 +0200 To: -=my email=- Subject: GoTranslators - There is Spanish teacher job opportunity in your State From: arial.company@gmail.com
---------------------- MESSAGE DIRECTLY SENT
BY CLICKING YOUR MAIL LINK
[Private and unchecked mailing!] Sender IP: 77.235.31.143 [Port: 1124] Date: 22/07/2010 - 06H20 [BE time] (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) / ru) ---------------------- Sender : Marina Mouline (arial.company@gmail.com) Recipient : Samiris (my email) Attachment : --- --- Subject : GoTranslators - There is Spanish teacher job opportunity in your State Good morning! There is Spanish teacher job opportunity in your State. If you interested, send please your CV. You don`t need to pay . Best regards, Arial linguistic company
Short. Simple. Direct.
Looked innocent enough.
Too innocent for me if you know me.
And they don't and neither do I know them.
Some things grabbed my attention:
- No specifed "State".
- "There is Spanish..." not the correct "There is *A* Spanish...."
- "If you interested..." instead of "If you *ARE* interested..."
- "Send please your CV" ...more worser grammar rules here are, Yoda!
- "You don t have to pay"... well, the idea is I get paid anyway, right? and
- "Don t " suddenly has become a French term?
It's official: it's an official spoof.
But just by my standards...So I send it to the 'service' I received it .:from:.
INVESTIGATION
From: Samiris Ortiz
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:47 PM
Subject: Confirmation of company/email authenticity.
Greetings!
I received the following on Monday August 23, 2010. Please help me confirm the authenticity of this sender.
I have not found any information on a company with this name nor have I received an email in this manner.
Thank you for your amazing website!
Samiris
(copy of above email in its entirety)
RESPONSE
Dear Samiris,
Astonishing...
This "client" uses a kyrgysian server!
inetnum: 77.235.29.0 - 77.235.31.255netname: MEGALINEdescr: P2Pcountry: KGadmin-c: YA446-RIPEtech-c: YA446-RIPEstatus: ASSIGNED PAmnt-by: MNT-NETCOMKGsource: RIPE # Filtered
person: Aleksandr Yunaddress: Rozakova str. 55address: 720000, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstane-mail: yunsasha@megaline.kgphone: +996312627848
Beware...
Best regards,
Luc Destruvaux(support@gotranslators.com) GoTranslatorsis a division ofWeb-Refer SPRLRue E. Vandervelde 30,5140 LignyBELGIUM
BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!