Job scam offered ?????? Via totaljobs.

silvano

Hi JUST CHECKING IF ANYONE HAS HAD ANY DEALINGS WITH A COMPANY CALLED = ABELA FINANCIAL GROUP Pty LTD.
I APPLIED FOR VARIOUS JOBS ON TOTALJOBS WEBSITE AND POSTED MY CV.
NEXT DAY I RECEIVED AN EMAIL ASKING ME IF I WISHED TO BE A Payment Protection Agent . SEE BELOW. NUMBER 1 THE AGREEMENT THEY EISH ME TO SIGN AND NUMBER 2 THE EMAIL SENT TO ME.

NUMBER 1 AGENT AGREEMENT
Abela Financial Group Pty Ltd (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”) on the one hand
and _________________ (hereinafter referred to as “the Contractor”) on the other hand, together
called Parties, have concluded the present Employment Agreement (further - Agreement) as
follows.
Payment Protection Agent
Duties, Term of the Agreement and Compensation
1. DUTIES:
1.1. The Company assigns and the Contractor undertakes the responsibility to provide the
following services to the Company in the context of the present Agreement:
• To receive protection payments from the clients of the Company to his personal bank
account;
• To effect protection payments to the Company’s partners via Western Union / Money
Gram or another mentioned money transfer system.
1.2. The Contractor will report directly to the senior manager and to any other party designated
by the senior manager in connection with the performance of the duties under this Agreement
and shall fulfill any other duties reasonably requested by the Company and agreed to by the
Contractor.

2. COMPENSATION:
2.1. The Contractor’s basic salary will be 1500 GBP per month. The Contractor will also benefit
from the commissions, which are 5-7% of every transaction and depend on the quantity of
completed transactions and the speed of the Contractor’s work.
2.2. The Company shall have the right to decrease the Contractor’s commission in case the
payment processing terms were violated by the Contractor. In this case the Contractor’s
commission will be decreased at a rate of 3% per day.
3. BENEFITS PACKAGE AND PROFESSIONAL ADVANTAGES
3.1. The Contractor, being the independent Party, independently bears responsibility for
execution of services in the context of the present Agreement. Therefore the Contractor agrees
that the Company shall not render the latter an employee, partner or agent with the Company for
any purpose.
3.2. The parties have agreed to consider any messages sent each other by means of facsimile or
e-mail communication to be legal.
4. TERM AND DURATION OF THE AGREEMENT:

4.1. No person, but the account holder, who is the Contractor, shall have the authority to the
withdrawal of any money from the account, which is to be requested from the Company. The
company’s sole purpose to such bank information: account number, routing number, BSB/sort
code, account name and address, is to deposit only. The account holder, who is the Contractor,
will have the authority to withdrawals of any kind in order to satisfactorily complete the “duties”
of the Contractor, who declares full responsibility of any requests to withdraw money for the
Company according to the instructions provided by the Company. The Contractor acknowledges
honesty and specific times to complete the tasks for the Company. The Company and The
Contractor understand that all the money deposited to the Contractor’s bank account by the
Company’s clients belong to the Company. No personal investments will be required on behalf
of the Contractor to execute the Contractor’s duties according to the provisions of the present
agreement. No information, which will be provided to the Company, shall be distributed to third
parties for any reasons and if doing so, the Agreement will be breeched by the Company.
4.2. The present Agreement signed by the means of facsimile or e-mail communication, stands
good in law. The present Agreement shall remain in force from the moment if it’s signing by the
Parties (“____“________________ 2009) for the period of 1 (one) year, unless terminated earlier
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

By:
_________________________
Contractor’s first and last name here
_________________________
Contractor’s signature here
By: Abela Financial Group Pty. Ltd.,
24 Lincoln Rd, Essendon,
VIC, 3040, Australia.
ABN: 91 082 867 230
http://www.abelafinancial.com/Financial Group Pty. Ltd., Agent Agreement. Inbox X




NUMBER 2
John Atkinson to me
show details 7:55 PM (2 hours ago)

Reply

Dear Silvano,
Thank you for showing your interest in our organization.

In order to find more information about the Payment Protection Agent job
on our website, please, follow the link below.
http://www.abelafinancial.com/protection.php

To join our team now, you have to confirm your intention by filling &
signing the Agent Agreement attached to this e-mail. Thank you for
choosing Abela Financial Group Pty. Ltd. I hope to hear from you soon.


P.S. If you agree with ALL conditions of the Agent Agreement, please fill
in the registration form online at
http://abelafinancial.com/registrationform.php

--
Sincerely yours,
John Atkinson,
Abela Financial Group Pty. Ltd.
hiring@abelafinancial.com
Visit us at http://www.abelafinancial.com/

SEEMS A SCAMMMMMMM TO ME .

maninthestreet

It's a scam - the reference to you receiving payments into your bank account and sending it on via Western Union is the hallmark of a known scam. Counterfeit/stolem cheques will be paid into your bank account - they appear to clear (the money appears in your account), so you send the money on via WU, then your bank tells you the cheques have been returned unpaid, and debits the money from your account.

silvano

Most excellent reply . Wouldnt it be great if the scammers got scammed. Any way good to bring it to attention as someone will fall for it.
thanks Mark

MothballsWallet

I also think that the job websites (and newspapers) should do a lot more checking before accepting adverts, but they don't do as much as they could because they could lose the money from the client's adverts... Or am I just too cynical?

dealer_wins

MothballsWallet wrote: »

I also think that the job websites (and newspapers) should do a lot more checking before accepting adverts, but they don't do as much as they could because they could lose the money from the client's adverts... Or am I just too cynical?

Your spot on. They dont give a toss as long as they get their commission. Big companies dont give a stuff about their customers, its always the little guy who suffers. Ads like this are blindingly obviously dodgy and should not be accepted full stop.

Surely the Police could reply to these ads and nail the people involved for fraud and theft. Or are they too busy sitting on the roadside catching easy targets going 5 miles over the limit.

Apples2

The sort of person who would fall for that is unlikely to ever get employment in any case.

peenkturtle

Thank you guys for shedding some light regarding this Payment Protection Agent job scam. The culprit is making their move again this year and thank you all for the information I wasn't able to give in that easily. Good thing their website looks suspicious so I thought of searching about it on the net.

Below is the response I received from CANTABRIAN FINANCE LIMITED:

my name is Chris Orton and I am Cantabrian Finance hiring manager. Thank
you for your reply and interest in our company.
Please read the e-mail below with the explanation about the job role.

Key responsibilities

1. Route and input all payment instructions received by e-mail or phone in
a timely and accurate manner.
2. Control workflow on a daily basis to ensure deadlines are adhered.
3. Monitor and control of required reports.
4. Basic knowledge of online payment systems.
5. Excellent communication skills.

Salary & Benefits

1. You will be paid a basic salary of 2650 AUD per month.
2. You will benefit from the commissions, which are 5-7% of each
transaction.
Normally the amounts that we process vary from 2000 AUD to 10000 AUD, but
can go higher on special occasions.

Why we need Payment Protection Agents

When buying-selling operations via the Internet are concerned, the buyer
and the seller don't know each other and are placed in different corners of
the world. Therefore, it is important both to the buyer and the seller for
their transaction to be made safely. Payment security means receiving money
concerning the transaction by a reliable, experienced, impartial person -
our Payment Protection Agent. He will hold all the money until all the
terms of the deal are satisfied and only then release them to the intended
receiver. Please, visit our web-site for more information.

Having a Payment Protection Agent in every country we can quickly transfer
funds inside a country without wasting time on the international bank
transfers, and continue our rapid growth rather than overwhelming our own
bank account with inbound and outbound transactions leading to severe hold
times and possible service interruption. It is time that is of significant
importance to our clients.

The main task of the Payment Protection Agent will be receiving money
transactions to any bank account he would like to use for the purposes of
this job; and then forwarding these transactions to the next party of the
process according to our instructions. Payment Protection Agent will be
processing approximately 2-3 transactions per week.

If you are ready to proceed, you have to confirm your intention by filling
& signing the Employment Agreement. You may download it here:


If you agree with all the conditions of the Employment Agreement, please
fill in the registration form online here:


In order to find more information about the Payment Protection Agent job,
please visit the links below:

Thank you for choosing Cantabrian Finance Limited. Feel free to ask me any
questions you may have.

My personal e-mail is [EMAIL="hr@cantabrianfinance.com"]hr@cantabrianfinance.com[/EMAIL], please add this e-mail to
your contacts to be sure you receive the information correctly.

P.S. We have a lot of deals to process at the moment due to the holidays,
so if you can apply now we may start immediately.

--
Sincerely yours,
Chris Orton.

gb12345

peenkturtle wrote: »

My personal e-mail is [EMAIL="hr@cantabrianfinance.com"]hr@cantabrianfinance.com[/EMAIL], please add this e-mail to
your contacts to be sure you receive the information correctly.

This is a definite scam, the domain that is mentioned above cantabrianfinance.com was only registered on the 20th December for a period of 1 year, which are both red flags for it being a scam.

I will be arranging for it to be investigated by the experts at www.419eater.com and closed down.

gb12345

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piglet25

Good work www.419eater.com Hopefully saved someone out there from financial ruin!