May 29, Consumer Affairs —
Scam targets job hunters on Careerbuilder.com. According to the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and government offices in other states,
scam artists have contacted job hunters through CareerBuilder.com regarding a bogus "Donations Handler" position with an international housing charity. The message claimed the charity was located in Norway and described the organization as similar to Habitat for Humanity. The Donations Handler's responsibility is to accept donation checks, deposit them into a personal bank account, and then send payment to the charity. Individuals who accepted
the bogus position received cashiers' checks sent in the mail from Atlanta, GA. The victims were to deposit the cashiers' checks into their personal bank accounts and wait until funds were made available, then withdraw a portion and send it via Western Union to a Ukrainian account. By the time the victim had withdrawn funds from their accounts and sent them to the fake
charity account, they realized the cashiers' checks were fraudulent. The victims reported losing between $500 and $2,000. The scammers have used different charity names, including: Abantehome.org, Adeonahome.org, Adriahome.org, Alenahome.org, Alstedehome.org, Amalia
Int'l, Amaliahome.org, Concordia, DWIO.org, DIO, PWHome, and Public Wish.
Source: [url]http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/05/career_building_scam.html

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