I believe this is illegal?

cupid_s

but surely if you realise its a con you can't be conned. Say they send you the money. We know that apparently it clears before it actually does, so you wait at least the time for cleaqred funds to definately be cleared (in fact you don't send the money ever as you know its a con). then the money gets taken back but you don't lose anything.
i know there's not much point as you gain nothing but if enough people did this so much of their time and effort would be wasted for nothing

Thefunkygibbons

So you leave the money in a high interest account and make a turn, I like your thinking

lemontart

cococococcoconnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn being doing the rounds for a long time that one.

Beth
xxx

tyllwyd

Don't get involved at any level - anything that involves you giving out personal information like bank details, name, address or even e-mail address to people like this has got to be risky. If you even acknowledge the e-mail your inbox is in danger of disappearing under a flood of spam within a few weeks.

Numpty_2

If it does go into your account and you get the 8% then yes it is illegal - it's called money laundering - this is why it's getting harder to buy cars etc with cash as it's an easy way to "hide" money, and why you need so much ID to do so

WelshWoofer

I got it too!!!
Where do they get your email address from?
Deleted it immediately

westernpromise

In addition to the above I have also heard a different angle on this, which is that it is a way of laundering money stolen from phished PayPal accounts.

The MO is to get somebody to receive a sum of money from PayPal and then send 95% of it to Western Union, where of course it becomes an untraceable cash collection. PayPal will not do this, so you need an intermediary bank account, and of course if you are a Russian criminal, you aren't going to use your own.

There has been at least one case of a middleman dupe who actually made money. He really did get money in from PayPal and send it on, less 5%. When the police got to him, in Australia I think it was, he escaped being charged - he was so hopelessly thick, it was clear he really thought this was a legit business opportunity, and the police thought he'd probably get off as he was demonstrably too stupid to be a master criminal.

The evil part is that the scammers know the police will be happy to get a conviction, any conviction - so they feed them a mug they can convict. The police get an arrest, the crooks get their money and everyone's happy.

I got one of these recently which also linked to a very professional-looking website apparently belonging to a Honda dealer. A WHOIS search showed that despite claiming to have been set up in 1992 it has actually only been put up about a week earlier. The OP might try the same with this one.

rog2

It is very important NEVER to reply to these emails. They are scams, and they hit your mailbox, usually by random scanning of a name or part of name, or by people picking up your email address via tracking cookies. Even filling out an 'unsubscribe' email can give these criminals more information about you that they could use for even more scamming.
We have a firewall and anti-spam filter but these cons keep filtering in.
Just delete and NEVER open any attachments.

gem4

westernpromise said >>>A WHOIS search showed that despite claiming to have been set up in 1992 it has actually only been put up about a week earlier. The OP might try the same with this one.<<<

I'm just glad we have sensible folks who see thru it but if they send out mass mail like this how many gullible fools are gonna fall for it if they are strapped for cash. I didnt look at the site or do a whois. After a bit of a rant at my pc for letting it slip in I deleted it, but it did make me very annoyed that it can happen.:mad:

Kevicho

if you want to earn extra money, start your own part time business

Or search the web (google) for passive income

Kev