I’m posting this as a warning. Google is a great tool.. if someone searches the email addresses or key words in this post it might help someone else out.

My husband was searching for some jobs online, to see if he could find something to do on the side when he came across one that caught his eye.

Customer Services Individuals Wanted For Data Entry Positions

The ad said:

working from home or where ever you have INTERNET access
earn $250-$500 per week
full training provided
completely legitimate with the American Business Standards for on line work
you set your own hours
we send the work and explain how to do it

So my husband sent her his resume like she had requested, and she wrote back saying all he had to do was send $10 to her paypal and she would send him the “training guide” so.. not knowing, he sent her the $10 and waited.

A few hours later he received an e-mail with this so called “Training Guide”.. it was nothing more than a bunch of words thrown together (and misspelt) telling him to re-post HER same ad’s on Craigslist, Kijiji, Monster and all these other free ad site to get $10 out of people and keep it going. The job wasn’t a data entry job, it was a scam. Re-posting false job ads telling people they could make all this extra income. When really, they were stealing $10 from people who were in need of jobs or like my husband just looking for something he could do for a little extra spending money online.

When I realized how much of a scam this was. I contacted her from my husbands email address telling her this was in fact a SCAM and I wanted our $10 back or I would be contacting the Cyber Crimes line with the Ontario Provincial Police Department to report her scamming money. She e-mailed me back the following:

non refundable and sorry to say but my father is a cop and he said it may be nice but its not illegal as it states clearly no refund and alos because if you follow the guide you will make the money it promises NO REFUNDS

Of course this just pissed me off even more so I responded with the following:

I don’t care if your “father is a cop” this isn’t a job, its a STEALING. and I will be making the phone call. I called yesterday and spoke to our local police and this is a scam. So you can state non refundable all you want - if I follow the training guide I’d make money? scamming people isn’t a job. I replied to your ad seeking a JOB. A DATA ENTRY JOB. Not so I could re-post the same ads you are trying to steal peoples money. its a scam and a crime. I’m out $10 so therefore I can contact the OPP scam line and paypal to report you. If your father was a cop he’s clearly not a very good one. the guide “promises?” the guide has so many spelling mistakes, and so many promises but it is a scam. good try, and good luck. You had your chance to refund my money, now I am contacting the proper authorities who deal with cyber crimes, scams and fraud.

I called the OPP scam line, and they were pissed. I told the lady on the phone I wasn’t too worried about the $10 I just am irritated this girl is trying to pull this off as a job. The OPP said it doesn’t matter if its just $10. So even if $10 is insignificant to me, and may seem small it is not and they requested all the information I had, and said this is very much a scam, fraud and theft. People are replying to these ad’s thinking they are going to be hired for a data entry job, not told to keep re-posting bogus ads. The lady told me that if my husband had started posting the ads and taking peoples money, and others filed reports like I did he would be doing the same as her and would have to deal with what this girl will now have to deal with.

While I was on the phone with the crime like she sent us this:

guess what like you I bought the guide and like the person ahead of me she bought it look on line you will see hundreds of these if you really think the cops ate worried about $10 you are sadly mistaken hone we live in the real world where real crimes happen and yes |I looked into it after I bought the guide for 15 bucks and they would do nothing for me either

REALLY? My last, and final reply this woman will ever get out of me:

Actually they do care. There is a whole unit for this stuff alone. I’ve already filed the complaint. Yes we do live in the real world and its sad people who are actually looking for jobs get taken advantage of by people like you. They have all of your information, and cragslist and kijiji have been contacted. You may think its petty, and yes $10 is but you posted an ad for a job not for people to join your scam. Say what you will, the complaint has been filed. This is a crime, contact them yourself and see for yourself. Do not contact me again, this is in the hands of the authorities who yes do take this kind of thing VERY seriously, $10 or not.

So any more e-mails she writes me I’ll be directing right over to the cyber crimes unit. I don’t care if it was $10 I found ad’s placed by her with the amount changed to $15 and even $20. So, if she keeps getting all this money… WOW. And not a lot of people actually know about this OPP cyber crimes line. I had no idea, but I’m glad I did contact them that way she can be stopped. She has this ad posted even in the US kijiji and in pretty much every major city’s Kijiji in Canada. I couldn’t even believe it.

I will follow up and keep updating as this is on going. The OPP cyber crimes people take this so seriously, they were very helpful and the lady I spoke to seemed very pissed off over this whole thing.

So, if you come across this ad or others like it BEWARE. Watch out for the email addresses servicehelp2010@hotmail.com , workers46@live.com and her fake company “SERVICEHELP2010″