"Background Check Alert" Emails

People - It should be very obvious when they use grammar and sentence construction like this:

F7-0L ONLINE NOTIFICATION-SYSTEMS
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IMPORTANT-NOTICE FOR:
MSG ALERT NO. 14375310 - DATE. 08/14/14
(this guy loves to insert dashes)

"We are sending you this notification right now to inform you that someone just ordered your background-scan info.
Please review the details of your background check below:"

"We are sending you this notification RIGHT NOW" (not at this time, but RIGHT NOW!)
"BACKGROUND-SCAN INFO" (not background scan information)
I know proper grammar and sentence construction is becoming a lost art, but it is pretty obvious that the sender is from a 3rd world country and has minimal knowledge of the English language.

Most of these sites download an executable program the minute you click on the link. This program is designed to capture any series of numbers that may resemble a credit card number, along with possibly grabbing login names and passwords from visited sites and forwarding this information back to the original sender of the email. In the early days of these viruses, you could actually see the emails that were sent back to the virus originator in your sent emails box!

I get those all the time, I just delete them.

I also received it after job apps, tests,  etc..."How nice! they are emailing me my results on the background check ...? "  lol

They may be in California. Background Check Alert. Check Better Business Bureau.. nothing there but address is.

I have rec'd 4 of these in the past 2 weeks. I did the same as you and deleted. I haven't applied to or for anything recently. If they find something I guess I will find out. I'm a pretty boring family guy.

I got this message today: address with a "dot us" makes it close to being official....


* This is an automated message for the user at this email address *



Background Check - Alert
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Date: 08/25/14
BC-ID: AA-21183517
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To:  .....................com

Someone has submitted a request/checked to check your background information within the last 24 hours.

Please review your background records online to confirm its accuracy.

You may also view who is requesting background information on your behalf.


View Your Public Records:
http://visit692251.alrtnotice-publicrecrds-55.us


See Who is Requesting Your Information:
http://visit692251.alrtnotice-publicrecrds-55.us








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End of Automated Message
Public Records
Date: 08/25/14
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Just got the same message as Neil and clicked the link took me to checkmate.com
Wants me to pay to access is this a scam?

Got an email from CBLT telling me that someone had ordered a background check on me.
Gave links to get more info.  I did not click on them.
This seems to be a phishing scam.
They had my name, and an old email address from work.
However, the people that I've spoken to (who do actually perform background checks) say it is a scam and just delete it.
For what it is worth...

I am assuming that you have not read the preceding five pages of posts in which the general consensus is that this is a scam.  Ask yourself; why would someone, out of the blue, be informing you that “someone” had done a background check on you if they did not want to get money from you?

The “alrtnotice-publicrecrds-55.us” domain was created on Aug 25, 2014 and expires in one year.  Not a very reassuring sign of their legitimacy; a domain that is not even a day old yet.

A Google search turns up a “checkmate.com”; they are a business dealing in “Business and Call Center Dashboard Software”, nothing even close to background check information.

You broke one of the cardinal rules of unsolicited email and clicked through one of the links.  I would strongly advise you to do a thorough virus scan of your computer to find and remove any malware that may have been installed by the site the link took you to.
Never click on links in emails from sources you do not know and always be cautious of any links in emails from sources you know.  That may seem paranoid, but it is always better to be safe than sorry.

i just got the same thing and do not know what's all about. I did get a background check for college just 2 days ago, I thought it was related to that. so i opened it and there is nothing

Biggboi is an idiot

So is everyone that has skipped 5 pages of info and asks, "Is this a scam? I clicked on the link to see what would happen." D'oh!!!!

One wonders whether you are a puppet of the phisher. No one would believe you, except of course you may have been wearing sun glasses and a hoodie because you are on drugs.

Yes I have received the same email.

I have been getting these e-mails daily, they go right into my spam e-mail box and I have, of course deleted them without opening any of them.