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Is this a scam?

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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 07:12:13 -0700 (PDT)
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Good Day ,
We have a offer for the post of Sales
Representative,
you might be interested in this job offer.
This Job placement is only for United States
Residents.
You will work as a sales representative From
Home and receive standard Payment Plan
based on the time that you can spare in
working with us and your current Job
running.
Below you will find our questionnaire
regarding your
employment completion. You are free to fill in
the aspects that you feel comfortable. Some
part may contain strictly confidential
information which you wish not to relay at
the moment. The total response to the
question will be reviewed by our human
resources department upon submission and
will determine your employment and payment
scheme.Here's an overview of your job details
and requirements.
Job Details
*Your primary job will be to handle an aspect
of our supply
which we have newly introduced into our
system in partnership with
Colleges and Stores within the United States.
Job is less stressful and
interesting with good payment scheme.
*We are currently supplying some College
textbooks to
the strategic stores in which we have our
partnership finalized.
*You will be in charge of receiving the books
from our different stores and packaging them
as soon
as they are up to a
minimum of 10.
*We will send the Prepaid shipping
information to mail the
books to the store.
*Our payments is usually issued within 5days
of receiving the books.
Payment...
You are being placed on a weekly earning
Scheme which
allows you to earn a minimum of $200 and
$1000 maximum.. You will be earning per
transaction cleared, for every payment that is
made to us by our clients for the books we
supply,
you will receive 15% and you can mail out up
to 30 books or more in a week. You receive your
payment through Western Union or Money
Gram depending on the one you prefer.

Address Verification
Full Name
Permanent Residence Address.
City
State
Zip
Phone Number
Age

Basic requirements are as follows
Do you have a printer at home?
Do you have a current Job Running ?
How many Hours can you spare each day ?
Do you have Access to Computer/Internet ?
How Often ?
Do you have a Home and Mobile Phone ?
Specify if one
Do you have a yahoo ID?
What is the Best time to contact you.
Email us as soon as possible to confirm your
employment
and additional information required, we will
respond to you immediately.

Best Regards
Pedro Kelly
Contact Number 201 335 8805

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:39 pm

Yes it looks like a scam, somewhat like this one: LINKY (old thread please do not necro it).

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What do you mean by please do not necro? Also,how can we bait him?

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 5:24 pm

"do not necro" - the post I linked to is an old one without active discussion any more so please don't add comments to it.

How can we bait him? I'd start by asking questions about the job including a few strange ones.

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