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Old 02-22-2011
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I spoke about this in the chat room. A couple of weeks ago I receive an email from a Mr. Michael Rosenberg from the Lasansessile Group, he is from their HR. This company is based in Italy, at Lasansessile Group,
Viale Giovanni Gronchi 1, Pisa, Tuscany, I-56121, Italy.

The following is the email that was send to me on February 3, 2011. Their website went live in Febraury 2011. Their website read the website carefully. I never applied to this company for any work, can't say how they got my company's email address; their use the email will my name and my company web address, I usually don't give that out.

Dear Job Seeker, we are happy to inform you that you may be a suitable candidate
for a Customer Payment Assistant position. You can find additional information about Your salary, work schedule and
duties in section "Vacancies"(Customer Payment Assistant position) at our website: lasansessile.com
Important: you should be not less than 30 years old to start with this position.
If You are interested in Customer Payment Assistant position and would like to start new carrier with our company,
please see how to register with Lasansessile Group:
1. Fill in this form on Your computer and send it to our e-mail job@lasansessile.com:
First Name:
Middle Initial:
Last Name:
Date of Birth:
Address Line 1:
Address Line 2:
City:
State:
ZIP Code:
Home Phone:
Cell Phone:
E-mail:
2. As soon as we receive Your filled form and Your confirmation that You are ready to start, we will send You the
Employment Agreement form. You should sign it and send it back by fax or e-mail.
3. When we get the signed Agreement form we'll start our cooperation with You, and our supervisors team will give
You their full support during first month of your work.
The procedure is simple and will not take more than 2 days.

Note:
You can easily find additional information at our website or feel free to ask any questions about Your duties and
salary.
I am here to help You and I will do my best to help You get along with this.
Sincerely,
Michael Rosenberg HR Manager

Lasansessile Group
Tel: +39 050 849167
Fax: +39 050 991357
Website: lasansessile.com


(notice the word career is spelled carrier)
Before I posted anything on this site, I investigated the company. I send an email back to the individual via the email he send this through michaelrosenberg83@yahoo.co.uk, notice it's not a company email but an email that anyone can sign up for through gmail, ymail, yahoo mail etc.etc. I haven't received an answer as of this writing.

Didn't get an answer from the email, I googled the address, after downloading the new map app by google, I google the address that's on the website, I went to google in Italy, the address came up but not the company's name. Next step, google the address and ask for any company at that address. What I came up with didn't surprise me; the company wasn't listed at that address, a Hotel was listed at that address. The Hotel Accademia Palace,

I search around the net to see if anyone else receive an email from these individual; found individual asking about this company after receiving their email. I google this title, "Anyone have info on Lasansessile Group". Please read the responses.

This type of investigating is time consuming but it's worth it. Tess I don't know if I place this in the right place, if I didn't please place it under the correct title.

I have another company that I am investigating, a Client's daughter was send a certify check from this company to purchase equipment and shipped to them in different parts of the United States. Standby I will post the results after I am finished the investigation. She was also looking for work on the web. Thank you all.
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It never seems to amaze me.. It is so sad that people perform these scams
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Thanks for posting Phyllis. Truly amazing and time consuming for everyone involved!

Good investigating by the way!
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Thanks Phyllis for posting this, I appreciate the time you spend in these investigations.
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Good job! You really are meant to be a PI! Hope you do well when the test comes up .
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Thank you all for support. I have an update of the email that was sent. Naturally it bounced with no response and it wasn't a working email address. I found other email addresses that's this individual is using, michaelrosenberg29@yahoo.co.uk, rosenbergmichael5559@yahoo.co. uk, michaelrosenberg83@yahoo.co.uk, and rosenbergmichael92@yahoo.co.uk.
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Thank you so much for the information.
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Phyliss,

Regarding your client's daughter. I had done something similiar several years ago, found out it was a scam. They would send me small items(i.e., ipods, digital cameras) and would have me send them to people out of the country and sometimes in the US. Maybe this isn't the same thing but it sure sounds like it to me. If you like feel free to contact me so I can give you more details about it.
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Phyliss,

Regarding your client's daughter. I had done something similiar several years ago, found out it was a scam. They would send me small items(i.e., ipods, digital cameras) and would have me send them to people out of the country and sometimes in the US. Maybe this isn't the same thing but it sure sounds like it to me. If you like feel free to contact me so I can give you more details about it.
When I get the information from the client, I will PM you with the details. Thank you.
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Old 02-25-2011
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I think a good rule of thumb is that any unsolicited email offering you such a job is indeed a scam. Email addys can be purchased or scraped. I get this kind of stuff all the time in the email account for my business. They all promptly get reported as spam.
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