posting ads on kijiji job legit or fake?

[Emily]

i posted how ive been searching a job with no luck on kijiji and i got a reply. but it sounds to good to be true . heres the first email.

Hello,

We are responding to your ad under resumes on Kijiji.we are offering you a job to post for us on Kijiji. We want you to assist us with posting ads daily on kijiji which is absolutely free for you. we will pay you we also pay $200 per week.

It would only require 10 -15 minutes of your time daily.

Let us know if you can handle this and if you are interested in the job offer, and we will provide you more details as regards the job, payment process. kindly get back to us asap as we will want you to start work immediately..



Warm Regards,
Brave Redia

i replied back and heres the email they replied to me
Hello,


Thanks for responding to our email.we need you to effectively post 1 ad daily on kijiji.One AD under the Job category on kijiji.And we will pay either $800 Monthly or paying $400 every two weeks, by whichever payment plan is preferred.We will pay you $400 bi-weekly or $800 monthly. Let me know if you want payment bi-weekly or monthly.

We will provide you with kijiji accounts needed for each ads, so all you need to do is login to the account and post the ads.

We would like you to start immediately, let us know what method you would prefer to be paid.. payment can be made either via money order or cashiers check.Let us know which you would prefer We need all ads to stay up and reflect live daily, We will send you the full directory needed for this postings.

We really need this online posting ads for at least 12 -24 months, and would like to maintain a good working relationship for as long as possible,

Get back to us accordingly, as we need you to start as soon as possible.

so is this real or a scam?

[Kittysue]

It's a scam that will land you in prison for fraud
You know all of the people who come on Yahoo every day claiming that they lost money to a puppy scam, car scam, apartment scam, fake job scam, etc they fell for on Kijiji, Craigslist, Gumtree or some other free classified sites? Who do you think places those ads? The people running the scams? Of course not. They look for suckers to place the ads for them. Then once the victim who lost money files a police report, the investigation ONLY leads to one place - your home as you were the one who placed the fraudulent ad
NOBODY is going to have another person place ads for them if they were not doing anything illegal. Nobody is going to pay someone $800/month to post one ad per day if they were not involved in illegal activity
DO NOT respond for any reason and report the ad to Kijiji to get it removed

NEVER post a work wanted ad on Kijiji. No legitimate employers look there and you are only setting yourself up to be targeted by scams like this that get you involved in illegal activity and will eventually lead to your arrest
Besides, NOBODY hires a person without a single face to face interview

[514]

100% scam.

There is no job.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money and maybe your freedom.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "assistant" and will supply you with stock ads of fake "cash the fake check" type jobs. You are suppose to post the ads, the victims contact the scammer, he sends them a fake check to cash and they send him their money via Western Union or moneygram. When the victims realize they were scammed, they report YOUR post to kijiji and now you are ip banned from ever posting there again. Being ip banned is the real reason that scammer can't post his ads for fake jobs.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Any "paycheck" you receive will be fake and will bounce. In fact the scammer might try to steal more of your money by saying he "accidently" sent a check made out for "too much money". Then he will demand you cash that large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails and texts from his other free email addresses and paid-for-in-cash cell phone number using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

7 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank/paypal account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
7) Job asks you to post ads on ebay/craigslist or on forums advertising merchandise, programs or other websites

Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.

If you google "fake job posting ads scam", "fake job kijiji scam", "selling on ebay fraud Western Union" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.