Beware CesarUS Package Handling Scam!

reveurgam (60)in #review • 5 years ago

As I was searching for fake jobs posted by AOJ on CareerBuilder, I came across this one. Right off the bat, it looked suspicious because package handling from home is one of the oldest scams out there, so I put on my sleuth hat! 🕵

Since the job posting is liable to be removed because I've flagged it, here it is.

Text version:

Remote package handler from home
CesarUS • Los Angeles, CA  Posted 4 days ago
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Job Snapshot
Part-Time  Degree - None  $25.00 - $31.00/Hour  Transportation, Packaging  Entry Level, Warehouse, QA - Quality Control
Job Competition
20
Applicants
15 - 19
Years of Experience
Bachelor's
Education Level
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Job Description
Company: CesarUS is an industry leader in unclaimed and excess new inventory. We partner with a number of America's premier transportation and distribution companies to obtain one of the most diverse and extensive merchandise assortments in the world. Our unique business model provides competitively priced, quality items through retail and on-site auctions.
We are searching for candidates who enjoy working from home.
Work from home and make your own schedule.
We offer free training and employee benefits too!  You can save a lot of money and time, and often times have less stress, when you work from home.
We are currently hiring in all states and Europe too.
This is entry level job. With high salary. 
To be successful, Package Handlers should have good communication and comprehension skills. Basic computer skills may also be required for this position.
We are looking for an individual that is DRIVEN, MOTIVATED person on position Correspondence and package sorter at home. 
Work from your home office and expect to make good money. 
Why Work Here?
Great training and support. Bonuses paid monthly. Flexible schedule. Proven lead system. Profit Sharing. Good Salary paid every week.
Summary: worker sorts incoming correspondence for distribution and/or prepares outgoing for delivery since you have a post office at home.
Job Requirements
Able communicating in English in writing and speech;
Being able to receive and send email and take digital photos to complete photo reports.
Receiving arriving packages with orders;
Making visual assessment of any damages and creating a photo confirmation report;
Arranging the orders for further transportation;
Keeping a prompt response to emails and phone calls form your supervisors.   
Accurately stage and sort products for loading
Sort correspondence. 
Write a report on all the parcels that come 
Complies with all safety requirements
Examine appearance of outgoing packages for damage.
Package or kit finished product for shipping (shrink wrapping, boxing, labeling)
Quality control
Complete daily logs
* The company incurs All expenses

I'm going to walk you through the steps I've taken to check out this employer.

Phone Number

First of all, the 646 area code is in New York, while the business is located in California. This COULD be a mobile phone, so I used the free Phone Validator service to check. It's a VoIP number located in New York, but this is not positive proof of fraudulent activity because the person could work remotely for the company. I tried to call and while it didn't ring, I was eventually asked to state my name by a program, and then it rang and was eventually picked up by voicemail. Unfortunately, I couldn't understand the recording other than "Hi, you have reached...company...tone," as the recording was poor quality.

Contact Name

I was unable to locate a Julia Spice in NY with or without that number.

Salary

$25.00 - $31.00/Hour is an awful lot of money just to handle packages. Then again, perhaps they want to make sure anyone doing the job isn't going to feel tempted to steal by offering such a lucrative salary.

Errors

There are grammatical errors in the job description. While I have seen legitimate JDs with far more errors, it is generally a sign of a scam.

In addition, the Job Requirements section lists almost no requirements and a lot of job responsibilities, some of which are redundant. This lack of organization and redundancy can be seen on legitimate JDs, too, but is usually associated with scams.