There is no job, no legit company with that name, no car wrap and nothing legit in that job posting or any emails you received.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "car wrap manager" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "car wrap installer manager" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.
If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union car wrap scam", "checkmule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
That's the sort of almost free money offers that has more takers than actual opportunities, most often these offers from what appears to be an advertiser will end up selling you an obsolete list of former car advertisers for some $39. It's best if you can make the connection with a local adverting company.
From a mobile advertising interview "Our typical campaign lasts three to six months"
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pf_article...
Here's a list of what might not be the worst ones.
http://www.bessed.com/carwrapadvertising...
Here are some example scam sites all running off the same file server
advertisemycar.org
advertiseonmycar.org
cashtodrive.org
getpaid2drive.org
paid2drive.org
vehicleads.org
The same people seemed to be associated with questionable mortgage sites.
Was there a fee to start? If yes, then it is a scam.
While there are a few legitimate companies that do this, they are very picky on who they choose. You have to have the right make, model and year of car and you have to live in the right area.
Generally, if you received an unsolicited email, it is a scam.
Car wrapping is done to get advertising.It may be done by yourself or companies may also contact.It is your job to save yourself from those spammers and get contact real advertising companies who pay for advertising.
This is a question just for people who have wrapped their car in ads.
Ok so I received this email about a week ago, asking if i would be interesting in wrapping my car in an ad? it sound too good that they will pay me just for drive around (I’m already driving around 80 to 100miles per day), so I want to know if this is a legit work or is just a scam I seen plenty of cars with different ads that's why I’m confuse.
Is there a limit of miles you have to drive per day or per week?
What is a reliable company to work for?
Thanks.
