Scam or for real?

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fullyautomatix replied

14 May 2012, 16:00
Craigslist seems synonymous with scams these days. I doubt its a good place to get a new job. I remember a scam a couple of years ago where jobs were advertised in India for some fictious construction company. Everybody who applied got a job and they were all told to pay 50£ for visa processing. A lot of them mugs paid up and then started wondering why they never heard again from the scamsters.
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NotAllThere replied

14 May 2012, 14:02
Originally posted by vetran View Post

was I the only one who read that as Profanity.com and had a picture of Roger Mellie in their head?

No, I did as well.
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vetran replied

14 May 2012, 13:59
was I the only one who read that as Profanity.com and had a picture of Roger Mellie in their head?
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SimonMac replied

14 May 2012, 13:33
I thought craigslist was only used by serial killers and rapists?!

Anyway if you have to ask if its a scam, good judgment is to assume it is.
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NotAllThere replied

14 May 2012, 12:46
Anyone who signs up with profinity.com nets the email sender $25. The register of the fake website has used an apparently real name and address.
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NotAllThere started a topic Scam or for real?

14 May 2012, 11:52
Scam or for real?

A friend of mine applied for a job on craigslist in the US, and got an email inviting her to go to Fairchild, Jones & Assoc., LLC and fill in the details. You can try it yourself by clicking on "Get Started". After asking a few questions, it directs you to Creditscore Insights, and then redirects to the profinity.com "free credit check", as part of their identity validation.

The whois for fairchildjones show it was only registered 6 days ago! It's obviously a scam, but profinity.com has been around for quite a while. Any other suggestions on how to dig further. Unless the owner of fairchildjones.com gets some benefit from redirect people to profinity.com, I can't really see the point.
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