When you put up a resume on CareerBuilder, apparently the buzzards think you are not only jobless, but stupid and greedy, too. Take this email, for example, which imagines that I will be suckered in by thoughts of easy money and ignore that little tingling in the back of my head that says, “Not only is it too good to be true, but if it were true it would be illegal, and, gosh, you trust these people?”

Hello David J [Names of people and companies along with URLs have been changed.-DJ]. My name is Liz H and I work for a company called Scammers I found your resume on careerbuilder.com because we are searching for reliable professionals across the United States who are interested in a potentially lucrative partnership with an international firm.

Scammers is a leading investition company in Germany and we are currently expanding our operations in the United States. But because of various banking and legal restrictions, we are unable to open commercial bank accounts in every state. As such, Scammers is recruiting partners to conduct simple banking transactions on our behalf.

The process is simple. If you were interested in becoming a US partner of Scammers, you would sign an agreement that would make you an official financial representative of our company, able to accept invoice payments on our behalf. Instead of asking our American clients to conduct complicated international payment transactions (which are especially complex for German companies), we have them work with our partners to submit payments. You would then forward the payments to us, a simple transaction for an individual.

Scammers pays its partners a 10% commission on every transaction. In addition, we will take care of any incremental tax liability you incur. Depending on which state you are in, and of course on how good business is, your monthly commissions could be as high as $4,000 per month.

If you are interested in working with us, or if you want more information, you can contact me directly at my personal email address: [Email address removed-DJ]. I’ll need your full name and mailing address so I can send you the contract and other paperwork necessary to get started.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

The truth is, greed is the door that scammers walk through--the promise of something for nothing that inhabits the hearts of people more concerned with cash than integrity. Some greed, some desire to have things better and easier at the same time, is common; the kind of greed that pushes a person into truly stupid acts, though, is the kind of greed that con artists count on for their big scams.

Just sayin’.