From discounted Fords to printing Chevy checks

A friend forwarded this puzzling scam spam to me. The “from” domain is chevy.com, and it claims to be from the fictitious “Chevy Financial Company” in London. Don’t respond and don’t be fooled!

From: John Lazone
Subject: Job Opportunity

Chevy Financial Company-
London, United Kingdom. E8 2NP.

My name is John Lanzone, I would like to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job. Actually we need a representative who can work for our finance company as an online payment processor, we currently process alot of personal loans/escrows between a company and an individual who transact business via Online Classifieds Ad. We presently process only United Kingdom & Ireland transactions,we have decided to expand our business outreach process majorly USA/CANADIAN transactions.

Therefore, we require you to work a part-time position by playing the role of our processor for regions: USA/CANADA. We are willing to pay you a steady income of $500 weekly depending on transactions completed. Look below for job description and requirements:

Your primary job will be to print check’s on behalf of our customers to their sole agents ( Payroll service ), we presently have a company whom requires our services to print their payroll checks for their employee’s. Your job will be to purchase a software called “Versacheck or Quickbooks” and also a certain type of check paper in which I will describe to you, then print transaction data on each paper.

You will earn a guaranteed income, we shall process each payrolls every monday of each week and you get paid by friday via Western Union Money Transfer. You will be required to have a debit or credit card to purchase neccesary software,printer and ink and also you will need to have good skills of operating the software, also you will be required to spend approximately $200 to purchase everything required from their website. If you are interested in this offer, kindly get back to me with the following information:

Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Home Phone #:
Cell Phone #:
TYPE OF PRINTER:
MANUFACTURER OF PRINTER:
MODEL OF PRINTER:
Do you have any instant messaging service? e.g: Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ?
IF yes, what is your screen name? :

Kindly get back to me for further instructions and I will give you the website where you will purchase the materials and incase you already have it,there is no need in purchasing anything and spending any money.

Regards,

John Lanzone
@chevy.com>