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I got this email today from the American Latvian Humane Society saying that they saw my resume on Monster and wanted to know if I would be interested in a part time position that paid such and such.  When I first read the name of the organization I thought it sounded Mike Bauer-esque.  I was also suspect of their HR departments 11 day old Yahoo email address, another trademark of Bauer’s.  But, just in case, I do need a new job after all, I replied that I was interested and asked if they had a website.

Surprisingly they did.  They sent me a link to an admin page, which made them seem legit.  So, thinking maybe I’ll be helping Latvian animals for a living, I fill out a membership or whatever, and then get inside.  If you are interested in checking out this scam yourself, check out it out.  You can even apply for the job yourself.  Obviously you’ll want to use fake information.

A few months ago I wrote to a Nigerian scammer complaining about their lack of sophistication, and suggested that they have websites to make themselves and their businesses seem more real, or at least more real in a cyber-sense.  It warms my heart to see that they’ve taken me seriously.  There’s even Flash on the site.

After you set up an account, you find out that this international animal rescue league needs part time employees to -what else?- open bank accounts for them.  There’s even a little bank account entry page in the admin section, but I’ll let you find all that stuff on your own.

For those of you interested in getting to know Nigerian scammers better, you can download my letters to Falex here.  Last year I baited a scammer pretending to be an eccentric millionaire with ties to the Russian oil industry.  You can pretty much skim his initial letters because they are all boilerplate.