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Work at home scam

sweep9
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The text below is from the e-mail. It's based on that you bank the $4000 dollar cheque. The bank clears it in 4 days. You send off the $3600 by Western Union. The bank then says that the cheque was a forgery and your down $4000!! The e-mail penetrated 3 spam filters so must be fairly new way of doing it.
Pleasant Day,
Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly? We are glad to offer you for a job position at our company,TRG Limited We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Bookkeeper in the USA. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA.You don't need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment.
* The average monthly income is about 4000.00 USD.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-3 hours per day
About the job:
About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified Checks or Money Orders drawn from the United States/Canada based on the amount involved.
We then decided to throw open this new contract -to-hire job position as a way of giving back to the Nation in form of extra job creation and as a way of
social responsibility to the populace and ultimately to fill up this position.
Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US soon enough, as international Checks take about 20-28 working days for cash to be made
Available. We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we Have money Transfer delays* your task is to coordinate payments from customers and
Help us with the payment process. You are not involved in any sales. Our Sales Representative makes direct contact for sales of products. Once orders are
received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer (usually through FEDEX). The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done
The customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified Checks and Money orders based on the amount
involved.
Your tasks are;
1. Receive payment from Customers
2. Cash Payment at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you
will be contacted to send payment to.(Payment is to be forwarded by
Western Union Money Transfer).
Local Money transfers take barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost immediately.
For example you've got 3000.00USD
You take your income: 300.00 USD
Send to us: 2700.00 USD
First month you will have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 USD so you may
calculate your income.
For example 10 transactions on 3500.00 USD gives you 3500.00 USD
Plus your basis monthly salary is 1000.00 USD
Total: 4500.00 USD per month
After establishing a close co-operation with us you'll be able to operate with larger orders and you'll be able to earn more. Our payments will be
issued out in your name and you can have them cashed in your bank or other Cashing Services. Deduct your weekly salary and forward the balance to the
company via western union money transfer. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free time doing another job, you'll get good income and regular job.
IS THIS LEGAL?
Yes it is. As a matter of fact, our legal department checked all legal provisions to ensure if there is any domestic or international law against businesses or deals in this manner and also money laundry acts, also it complies with USA Patriot Act Section 314(b)
If you feel that you are a serious and earnest worker and you want to work for TRG Get back to us with information below information, so that we can add your mailing address to our Regional database and forward it to our customers for them to send payments.
First name...................
Middle name..................
Last name....................
Address Line(NO P.O BOX)...............
Address Line 2...............
City.........................
State........................
Zip/Postal code..............
Age..........................
Marital Status...............
Nationality..................
Gender.......................
Home phone...................
Cell phone...................
Current Occupation...........
YOU'RE PREFFERED MODE OF COMMUNICATION EITHER BY PHONE OR BY EMAIL
A swift acknowledgment of the receipt of this email will be appreciated.
Thanks For Your Total Understanding.
Yung Li,
Staffing and Recruiting Dept,
Regional Manager,
********@aol.com
NOTE Interested applicants should ensure response is forwarded to the email below: ********@aol.com
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