Is there a scam here? If so where? Interesting prospect!!!

[Bobbieo]

Dear Sir or Madam,

We would like to offer you a job on your computer.

Job Description:
We send you the texts with important information for our employees
with important information and you need correct the texts as an
English-speaking person and then send back the revised text.

Salary:
Please note that we don't have a fixed salary for this vacancy. We
will pay you $7.00 for every 1Kb of the corrected text. The salary is
paid at the END of month. Every month your salary will vary depending
on your activity.

Example: In case you correct about 5Kb of text a day, you will get
over $1000.00 at the end of the month.

Requirements:
- Location: U.S.A.
- Age: 20+
- Ability to work at home
- Computer skills (MS Word), personal e-mail address
- Responsibility

If you are interested in this job, please, send the information
mentioned below to the following address:
__________
FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE:
Phone number (home or cell, it is desirable that it should be
available any day time):
E-MAIL:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
EDUCATION:
AVAILABLE TIME TO WORK WITH US:
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As soon as we receive your application, we will investigate it and
contact you with more information within 24 hours.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions only at our e-mail:

Looking forward to your application.

Best regards,

[shraby]

1. If something sounds too good to be true, it

probably isn't true.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. It could not hurt to find out the name of the company and do some research on it.

Of course you should not give them any info that can used illegally like your SS#, credit card #, etc. And if they ask you for any money...cut them off at the knees.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. They're probably just looking for information.

However, as the link below points out, someone who is emailing Americans from a server in Peru using an email account from Singapore is probably up to something sketchy.

http://antifraudintl.org/showthread.php?t=18755

[Warpy]

13. Right, they'd want to pay you by direct deposit, of course

and you know what information they'd need.

I'd advise skipping it.

[katanalori]

4. Hard to tell

But if you send the required info (benign enough) and then they "hire" you and then ask for personal info like social security #, bank acct. # (to deposit your pay, of course) - well, then you are likely being scammed. I trust nothing that comes via e-mail (re job offers) - was this a spam e-mail?

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Others have received this, and got the same answers you just did :D

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081003061532AA3mQ9o

[BrklynLiberal]

7. oops. It is a scam . Check this out...

http://www.oovy.net/dayold/?p=401

http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.sightings/browse_thread/thread/c4cb991246ff98c3/35bf83341f1e608f?lnk=raot

http://kol14.com/slaggtippen/dear-sir-or-madam/

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

8. I'm glad someone took the time to analize it.

[chucktaylor]

15. I hope they used latex gloves when they "analized" it.

[dems_rightnow]

6. Scam

Save yourself some trouble

[timtom]

9. Delete

Nothing important to add.

[dems_rightnow]

11. Not thart hard to tell

Who's the last person that got a job from random emails sent willy-nilly? I mean, seriously.

[Joe the Liberal]

10. Obvious scam is obvious..........

if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. 9 times out of 10 these work from home offers are just a scam.

[dems_rightnow]

12. 10 of 10

But close

[Bobbieo]

14. I'm convinced, now, it is a scam which would come in

when the scammers ask for my SS number, bank account number, etc. Thanks for the affirmation!!!! Bet as lot of people wil be sucked into this one with the job situation the way it is.