This might not be a scam but surely reads like one. Arrived Tues. Jan 30.

Hello!
Have been dreaming to earn much for so long but still didn't find a way to? We will help to make your dreams come true!
We are Patrex Ltd. Our company was established in 2000 as a logistic group specializing in the shipment of electronics of different producer. Patrex Ltd. is one of a few companies dealing with regular legal import shipment of electronic components. The company has steadily working contracts with components' producers located in South-Eastern Asia, Korea, North America and Western Europe. The company is specializing in the shipment of industrial consignment of electronics from producers (directly from the factories), express-deliveries of small consignment of components, as well as in shipment of unique components of not popular firms.
At the present moment due to increasing number of customers we need employees in the USA, Germany and Turkey. So now we need Shipment managers.
Here are the main advantages of the offered job:
- You won't have to work more than 5 hours a day.
- High salary.
- Stability and promotion opportunities.
Your duties are: Receipt of money for whole shipment from our customers on personal bank account and its remittance to our offices or subsidiaries through Western Union. Sums of money depend on customer's order and may vary from 1 component to 10 components at a time. We demand responsibility and sociability from you. You can be demanded to open an account at a bank that will be convenient for money remittance from a customer.
As you understand job is not hard, but very interesting, so if you got interested in this job, send your CV to support2@compluse.com

May your work be successful!

Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)

When you finally understand it completely... it changes.

Sign me up! What a great deal! Rewarding job satisfaction! What a great company! Gooooooooo Patrex Ltd.!

http://patrex.en.ec21.com/GC01138367/CA01152387/PATREX_-COMPUTER___CONSUMER_ELECTRONICS_Products.html

David,

Being able to contact "Vora S." is confidence inspiring.

PS - This post is from David L. :-)

They asked for my CV. Do I include the boot off the CV joint, or do I keep that and they just get the CV? I'm confused.

But I really like the 5 hours part.

Do I write to them using the same venacular: Popular guy looking of big pay job with responsibility and sociability. Have happy appearance and utteral descrepency. I-)

I'M THEiR GUY! No one else needs to apply. I can hear it now, "Thank you for calling ACCESS. WE specialize in the sales of used laser engraving machines and unique components of not popular firms. Before we start discussing your needs, please leave your personal and credit information with the automated answering system." (devil)

A little off the beaten path, but maybe along the same lines....

I've gotten several submissions from our "contact us" web page from this address: baufaufru@mispir.org.

Every one of his submissions has had some sort of html reference to prescription meds.

I used to just get the normal spam from these guys, but now they're actually using my fill-in-the-blanks form to get my own website to send me spam! :/

And I am still amazed that people actually respond to those drug ads. They are such obvious spam.

Maybe I should offer a course in how to become an expert engraver in less than ten days.

They send me $100 and I send them a link to EE.

Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)

When you finally understand it completely... it changes.

I don't know if his has the potential spam problem or not, but for ones that do, yes a different script is the answer.

The problem comes from generic scripts that pass the recipient email address from the web page. The more secure scripts have the recipient email address hard coded into them in a part of the script that can not be reached from the web. FormMail was a popular CGI script that is supplied by a lot of web hosts as a simple way to have a contact form. Similar scripts in other languages abound and work in similar ways, with similar vulnerabilities.

A custom PHP script with the address hard coded is typically the most secure. The next best thing is this PHP script that a friend of mine wrote, with a bit of advice from me, called "NateMail": http://www.mindpalette.com/formprocessing/index.php

It has a hidden list of recipient email addresses stored on the server and forms can only be sent one of the names you enter in that list. The list can not be accessed or overridden from the web.