Thursday, July 4, 2013

Meek Ceramics scam

On Jun. 22, 2013 I emailed my resume to this address: knbooth@hotmail.com. 

I found an ad in the Edmonton Journal about it so that's why I applied.  However, this is a scam.  I emailed my friends about it three of them said it was.  Here is the correspondence:
 
Good day Applicant,


We received your email concerning the ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT position vacant in our company. First of all, this is a brief introduction about our company. We (MEEK CERAMICS LTD) are a fast growing tiles supply company with our head office in Maryland, USA but we have clients all over the United states of America and Canada, you can visit our website www.meekceramics.net to know more about us. Some of our customers who are not far from us buy directly from our main showroom while others make their orders online. Due to the vast number and irregular distribution of our customers all around the United States and Canada, we are trying to open new outlets in strategic cities so that we can be closer to our valued customers. It is always a slow process trying to get payments from customers and also shipping their products or delivering services to them. As a result of this, we will be opening an outlet in your city early next month and this is why we seek an ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT for the new outlet to help with payments, be a live help for customers, keep records of transactions and carry out other administrative duties.


As our ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, these would be some of your duties:

-Data Entry
-Receiving and verifying invoices and requisitions for goods and services
-Preparing, verifying, and processing invoices and coding payment documents
-Collection and processing of payments from customers
-General administrative functions.

You will also serve as the contact point or liaison between customer and vendor centralized functions and resolve any issues related to a customer's order. Majority of our customers make payments through money orders or bank drafts as they are readily available and since payments come from a wide range of consumers, this is an easy option for customers. Most of our buyers are those we have previously handled successful transactions with and new buyers are verified by us so there is no cause to worry. When a payment is in form of a bank draft or money order, you would be required to get it processed and send the funds to an information that would be given to you. You will be paid $400 weekly(for the duration of the training which is 2 weeks and will earn between $18 to $22 per hour(depending on years of experience) after the training) as your basic wage and a transport allowance of $200 at the end of each month but note that the job does not require any traveling as you will be working in the outlet when it is opened. For the time being, your weekly pay will be deducted from payments sent to you by our customers.

You will be going through a trial period of two weeks(which you will also be paid) as the outlet will be opened later this month. This is to test your efficiency and trustworthiness in working with us as we need to employ the perfect clerk for the outlet. During this trial period, the job would be part-time(any 4 hours daily,you do not work everyday) and becomes full time when the branch is opened in your city.  A company representative will be sent to your city on the 9th of July to meet with you and finalize the opening of the outlet. Our company offers benefits such as flexible/negotiable working hours, health and dental insurance and a vacation after every 6 months.


Please do not hesitate to ask questions if you have any as we will be glad to answer them as soon as we can. Kindly fill the employment form below for our records and for us to facilitate the documents needed for you to be our employee. A phone interview will be conducted with you by one of our staff after we have reviewed the information you send to us.


Full Names:
Full Contact Address(including city,province and zip code):
Contact Phone:
Contact Email:
Current Job: (if any)


Best Regards,
Morgan Becks,
Human Resources Department
MEEK CERAMICS LTD

Hi Morgan

I have a question:  Where is your Edmonton location going to be at?  I would like to Google Map it first to see if I can get to easy.  If I can't get to without lots of difficulty, then I won't take the position.

Thank you for your time.

Tracy


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Hello Tracy,

Your application has been reviewed. We appreciate your prompt response and we hope you will not disappoint us. We are glad to inform you that you have been offered temporary employment in our company pending the time the outlet will be officially launched in your city early next month. You will be starting the trial/training period next week and it will last for 2 weeks as stated in our previous email.

These are some of the details you need to know before you start:

* During the training, you will work from home for any 4 hours of the day and carry out some  administrative duties. Also, you do not have to work everyday and your pay will be $400 per week during this period. You will also receive and process payments from our customers during the training.

* The outlet would be opened on Jasper Avenue, Edmonton
                 
* You will resume at the outlet when it is opened later this month and will earn $19 per hour (9am to 5pm), this is negotiable depending on your experience and efficiency .

* We have scheduled how you will get your pay during the training; you will get payments from our customers each week of the training (which is certain every week), all you need do is to get the payments processed at your bank, deduct your weekly pay and send the rest to an information that will be detailed to you.

* There is no work on Saturdays and Sundays.

* You are entitled to a transport allowance of $200 at the end of each month.

* We are already processing your employment documents and they will be finalized and sent to you as soon as we get a reply that you are available to start. Taxes will also be taken care of by the company at the end of every month.

NOTE: Always check your inbox and spam folders for daily updates from us.

Kindly reply this email to let us know if you are available to start next week. Also, you are required to notify the company through me a week ahead if eventually you want to discontinue this job. Once again, congratulations and welcome aboard. We look forward to working with you.


Regards,
Morgan Becks,
Human Resources Department
MEEK CERAMICS LTD.

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