Inspirational Proverbs - Part 1

"Man is a pupil, and pain is his teacher."
- Alfred de Musset

"It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare;
It's because we don't dare that things are difficult."
- Seneque

The wise man asks himself the reason of his mistakes.
The fool asks others."
- Chinese proverb

"By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree."
- Cambodian proverb

"With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk."
- Chinese proverb

"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man,
but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."
- Bruce Lee

Scam or No Scam: How do we differentiate?

Today's Blog is about scams which people are going through, but most of the times it is difficult to recognise it at an early stage whether it is a scam or not. OKAY, so lets begin, people generally receive a mail like this:

Greetings.

Our company ALM is pleased to offer you a well-paid part-time vacancy for the position of administrative assistant/sales support.

You'll work at the convenience of your home, part-time.

ALM, a luxury goods company, presents the best off-season luxury finds from the most prestigious international designers and collectibles from the rarest collections at irresistible prices.

Candidates for the job should possess excellent organizational skills as well as the ability to efficiently multi-task. Ideal candidates have a strong focus on day-to-day operational excellence, and a personal style that builds trust, and inspires loyalty. The candidate should be motivated, proactive, be able to learn and adapt quickly.

Other duties of the Administrative Assistant/Sales Support include, but are not limited to:

. Incorporating effective priorities for the virtual office function

. Administer day-to-day financial responsibilities for clients

. Reporting online daily

. Preparing brief summary reports, and weekly financial reports

Salary part-time: 1,800GBP/month, plus commission.

Location: United Kingdom

If you are interested, please reply to : Leta@uk-groups.net with your short resume.

Best regards,

ALM.

So what would you do when you receive such emails. Ideally people search for:

1. The email address:

Now, if you search the email address, you might get a legitimate company or many links referring to that email address.

2. The names of the sender:

The names of the sender ideally are not helpful as they might be the actual names of good people who have no connection with this scam.

3. The name of the company:

Ok, you might go for the name of the company. Well, you could Google the name of the company, but sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Technique:

So how do we resolve this in just a few seconds, the idea is simple, just copy the entire text from email. For example, Copy the line to Google search engine "Our company ALM is pleased to offer you a well-paid part-time vacancy for the position of administrative assistant/sales support. You'll work at the convenience of your home, part-time." and the results would be definitely on your screen, showing you that it is a scam or fraudulent email.

The scammers often use different email addresses, some email addresses are real, but some are fake. Often they use the name of a well-known Doctors, Lawyers, Government Officials, etc. so when you search them, you will find it that it is a good person and the company are genuine. The important thing that the readers can do is to know the source and whether they have actually applied for any such vacancy.

You can read in detail about the above scam on this forum: http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&p=36862