I am posting a list of email addresses that have been used in fake jobs adverts and other fake adverts on Craigslist during 2015. These email addresses have been taken from the fake job postings directly.
All of these email addresses lead back to nasty and vicious foreign criminal gangs, who are involved in numerous crimes against the innocent and unaware public, such as ID theft and check overpayment scams.
These crimes can be committed against you by using the personal details that are shown on your resume, which the criminals know are true, accurate and the information on your resume is not usually found reliably from any other source.
There are several aims of these criminals gang in placing fake job postings:
• To obtain peoples’ private email addresses in order to remotely solicit you and entice you into all kinds of illegal schemes, con tricks and deceptions and to victimize you. The counterfeit/overpayment check scam is one of the more common scams that is used by these criminals.
• To steal your identity from the personal & private information that is on your resume.
• To sell your identity to other criminals
• To sell your email address to other criminals and who will know that your email address is a live address.
• To send you spam, which will never stop.
My advice: Anonymizing (de-personalizing) your resume is a bullet proof way to avoid becoming a victim when you are looking for work. By removing the following information, you will protect yourself from many crimes, but your resume will still allow you be considered for any job opportunity, because none of the following information is required by an employer when they are considering someone for a job.
To anonymize your resume, remove all of the following information, if any of it is on your resume.
1. All of your names
2. Your gender
3. Your address
4. Any phone or fax numbers
5. Any email addresses
6. Your DOB and age
7. Your SSN (yes, some people still have this on their resume!)
8. Your martial status and any children you may have
9. Any photos of you or your family (I know it sounds crazy, but some people like to do this)
10. All previous employer names that you’ve worked for (replace it with something generic, like “major technology company”, “national wholesaler”, “large hospital”, etc)
11. Any specific location information (replace it with something like “major East Coast city” or “mid-west town”, etc)
12. Any unusual or uncommon job titles (replace them with job titles that are similar to any unusual ones you’ve had but which are more generic)
13. Any actual dates that you worked for any employer (replace with the number of years you worked for an employer not the actual years – so 2 years not 2010-2012)
14. Any notable achievements/awards in college or past jobs, which can be found online and which will identify you, especially if you had your photo taken with them. If you have these that you do want to point out on your resume, try to make them generic if you can or be brief.
15. Create a new web email address – see below.
Now, look at your resume. Can you tell who it belongs to? If your answer is no, then nobody else will know either!
The above details in items 1-14 have no real value to a real employer before you are interviewed but they are of great value to a criminal. Some of the above information will be needed by a real employer but not until after you’ve been interviewed and only if you get a job offer and accept it, by which time of course, you will know if they are a legitimate employer.
Your education, skills, training, work experience and personal qualities (if you have a personal profile) are the key elements that a real employer wants to see in determining your suitability for a job and not anything else. All the other stuff is a vestige of the old days, when your resume was a “this is me” and “my life so far” type document and before identity theft and other remote/anonymous crimes had been dreamed up by the villains.
Please remember this: Once your identifying information is obtained by a nefarious/criminally minded person, you have no idea where or to whom your information has gone to and you can never get it back or protect it ever again.
15. Create a new email address just for Craigslist/job searching and use that instead of your real email address. I advise this because if your Craigslist/job searching email address is discovered by scammers/criminals and you get spam, 419 emails and other scammer emails, you can just delete it and create a new one, without any trouble or inconvenience. But being forced to change your real/usual email address is a much harder proposition as it is full of inconvenience of informing everyone you know about a new email address you have and having to update all those websites and accounts that you’ve registered your details with on over the years, etc. This is a lot of hassle and trouble we can all do without. Also, in my opinion, you shouldn’t ever publish your real/private email address – give that only to family, friends and others who you really trust.
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Here is the current list of email addresses that have been used in fake jobs adverts on Craigslist during 2015.
abobby166@gmail.com
admasadim@gmail.com
armandobond132@gmail.com
audreyarevalo159@gmail.com
awe@mushko.7pz.me
cameronu850@gmail.com
carnageicjrr@gmail.com
carrollscott36@gmail.com
carroltarsis43@gmail.com
check@borysoffice.odca.net
christina.cheng005@gmail.com
coccotlosb@gmail.com
delenasicilian26@gmail.com
donaldlentzz@gmail.com
eula837@gmail.com
gittleson777@gmail.com
grns@mathai-ghum.weby.biz
jacialyanel@gmail.com
jacksonwalter444@gmail.com
janabrazeau9@gmail.com
jhgdjhsgj767@yahoo.com
kleinjustin40@gmail.com
laruemoore2@gmail.com
lauramcgriff159@gmail.com
luis.mail29@yahoo.com
lukebricker64@gmail.com
lynetteguerra159@gmail.com
mandatory.carmic@gmail.com
marie@borysoffice.odca.net
matthewkay952@gmail.com
minojende007@gmail.com
miragboit@gmail.com
nadagisriel38@gmail.com
oliviaworley8@gmail.com
perezn686@gmail.com
pkmolnv@gmail.com
ranton.lewis@gmail.com
rocertdost114@gmail.com
rosenatalia451@gmail.com
smithadam01171@gmail.com
tammydavis159@gmail.com
treasaparamo50@gmail.com
wadegoetter77@gmail.com
zdajmh@gmail.com
zita749@hotmail.com
Scam reported at FightTheScams.com
A current list of email addresses used in fake job and other fake adverts on Craigslist in 2015