A twist on the Nigerian scam!

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I just received this email with the subject line "New Job Offer". Now what’s also interesting is that the lines in the email are double spaced and when I highlighted the text, there appeared small fonted text in the supposedly blank space of the double spaced line!

Ive tried to make it readable by making the normally viewed text in bold and the hidden not in bold.

Its a good laugh really, especially as im not in America.


Hello. My name is Brian Pauls and I work for a
4. The identity content-coding is always acceptable, unless
company called Funders Online I found
specifically refused because the Accept-Encoding field includes
your resume on monster.com because we are
identity;q=0, or because the field includes *;q=0 and does
searching for reliable professionals across the United
not explicitly include the identity content-coding. If the
States who are interested in a potentially lucrative
Accept-Encoding field-value is empty, then only the identity
partnership with an international firm.
encoding is acceptable.

Funders Online is a leading investition company in Latvia

and we are currently expanding our operations in the
If an Accept-Encoding field is present in a request, and if the
United States. But because of various banking and
server cannot send a response which is acceptable according to the
legal restrictions, we are unable to open commercial
Accept-Encoding header, then the server SHOULD send an error response
bank accounts in every state. As such, Funders Online is
with the 406 (Not Acceptable) status code.
recruiting partners to conduct simple banking

transactions on our behalf.
If no Accept-Encoding field is present in a request, the server MAY

The process is simple. If you were interested in
assume that the client will accept any content coding. In this case,
becoming a US partner of Funders Online, you would sign
if identity is one of the available content-codings, then the
an agreement that would make you an official financial
server SHOULD use the identity content-coding, unless it has
representative of our company, able to accept invoice
additional information that a different content-coding is meaningful
payments on our behalf. Instead of asking our
to the client.
American clients to conduct complicated international

payment transactions (which are especially complex for
Note: If the request does not include an Accept-Encoding field,
Finland companies), we have them work with our
and if the identity content-coding is unavailable, then
partners to submit payments. You would then forward
content-codings commonly understood by HTTP1.0 clients (i.e.,
the payments to us, a simple transaction for an individual.

Funders Online pays its partners a 10% commission on

every transaction. In addition, we will take care of

any incremental tax liability you incur. Depending on
Fielding, et al. Standards Track Page 103
which state you are in, and of course on how good

business is, your monthly commissions could be as high
RFC 2616 HTTP1.1 June 1999
as $14,000 per month.

If you are interested in working with us, or if you

want more information, you can contact me directly at
gzip and compress) are preferred; some older clients
my personal email address.
improperly display messages sent with other content-codings. The
I'll need your full name and mailing address so I can send you the
server might also make this decision based on information about
contract and other paperwork necessary to get started.
the particular user-agent or client.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.



Brian Pauls
 
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Don
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kaiowas said:
Looks like the standard attempt to recruit someone to help with a money laundering scam combined with some random text to help evade spam filters.


got the basics of that but thought we were looking for something in it
 
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