I believe this is illegal?

gem4

Hi,
Had a junk email today offering me a job. I was wondering if anyone else here had received it as it may look very tempting to anyone short of money, and could carry serious implications. Surely its called money-laundering? See context below, email addy removed from it.

We want to offer you a job. Part time job consists of receiving payment
from customers (bank transfer) and making further payments to our main office
or to one of our regional affiliate departments, depending on the customer's
location. It should not take more that 4 hours per week. Agent's commission is
8% from each transaction (for instance: you receive 2000 GBP to your bank
account, you will withdraw the money and keep 160 GBP for yourself.
All transfer and further money transfer related charges are also covered and paid
by our company. So You'll be responsible just for making proper payments in time
(24 hrs. since the successful receipt). Each transaction will be transferred only
after prior notification and sometimes after a notification phone call.

If you are interested in our offer, please visit our website

MustStopSpending

It's all a con, you forward the money thinking it has cleared into your account then get told by your bank a week or so later their payment hasn't cleared so you've lost the money.

DON'T DO IT!!

jobbingmusician

:rotfl: Based in Nigeria, by any chance?

withabix

You're missing the real scam there.

They will transfer the money to your account. You will transfer 92% of the money to their account, then the money originally transferred to you will bounce.

Voila, you've just given the fraudster YOUR MONEY.

The only laundering being done will be to your bank account - they will clean it out!

lynzpower

its a con, but I dont think its illegal

I saw one of these "jobs" advertised on the jobcentre website and fish4jobs too

TNG

I got one of these last night too. pmsl at it. Just ever so slightly possibly a bit of a scamette.

Don't go near with a thirthy foot disinfected one.... (barge pole, that is)

Bells&Whistles

I got that email yesterday and deleted it straight away, what a con !

James240

there really should be a law against this as im sure there would be some people who are really desperate who will end up doing this

springtide

I got one of these too! My inbox is getting incredibly clogged up these days....

needaspirin

Anyone ask the company why they don't just have the payments paid directly to their own account thereby saving the 8% supposedly paid to you?

nidje

I had one to ... be warned it's a con, one of many scams going around at the minute.
We had a situation at work only a couple of weeks ago where somone in Dubai wanted to purchase a piece of machinery from us paid a cheque for more than the amount needed - (clerical error apparently!!) - directly into our account and asked us to transfer the difference back to them. The cheque was a fake bankers draft picked up by the bank before the transfer was made thankfully.
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