Job Offer? - Funds Transfer Administrator within Altair Financial Group Pty Ltd.

redwinedrinker

Hi, this is my first post so please bear with me. My husband received an email from Altair Financial Group offering him the above position. I am pretty sure it is a scam. Anyone had any dealings or heard of this company? I would be really grateful for any info/opinions
The letter follows below. Thanks, Carol

Hello,
my name is Kenneth Redmond and I am Altair Financial Group hiring manager. We have found and carefully reviewed your CV at Totaljobs, and we would like to consider you for the position of Funds Transfer Administrator within Altair Financial Group Pty Ltd.

Key responsibilities
1. Route and input all payment instructions received by mail, fax or electronically 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 1700 EUR per month.
2. You will benefit from the commissions, which are 5-7% of each transaction.
Normally the amounts that we process vary from 2,000 EUR to 10,000 EUR, but can go higher on special occasions.

Why we need Funds Transfer Administrators

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 Funds Transfer Administrator. 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 Funds Transfer Administrator 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 Funds Transfer Administrator 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. Funds Transfer Administrator will be processing approximately 1-2 transactions per week.

If you are ready to proceed, please reply to this e-mail and I will contact you shortly.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need more information.

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Yours Sincerely,
Kenneth Redmond,
Altair Financial Group.

Thatchapdean

Looks like a scam to me and so do these people

http://community.babycenter.com/post/a26817471/got_this_email_for_a_work_at_home_position....would_really_love_it_if_its_real...what_do_you_think?cpg=2&csi=2315553215&pd=0

Jowo_2

Scam.

Absolutely no global company would need an intermediary to process their finances, let alone entrust it to someone overseas, let alone pay thousands of euros for a simple job that requires no skills or experience.

What happens is that the victim is tricked into transferring money from their personal bank accounts to complete strangers via a money payment transfer system which means the scammers are totally untraceable, they are tricked into doing this by believing that they've received funds. However, what usually happens is the bank then tells the victim that the balance they saw on their account has been re-adjusted because the payment, such as the cheque they were given, is a forgery. By then, they've already given their own money to the scammers.

Browntoa

or its processing money from hacked bank accounts or skimmed credit cards

say bye bye to bank account contents and hello to mr policeman for money laundering

ashleypride

100% money mule scam

fantasia322

Scam screams out the page

mirth27

Hi Redwinedrinker

Got the same email myself today via TotalJobs. Seems this group is trawling the online CV houses for email contacts.

Originally from Australia myself and previously held a Financial Services licence so know a bit about the industry there and how to check this stuff out.

Bottom line,

1. Altair Financial Group Pty Ltd is an actual registered company with ASIC (the government body Australian Securities & Investment Commission) and are apparently based in Sydney Australia but I was unable to locate a phone number for them in either the white or yellow pages so couldn't call and check them out directly. (We need to be aware that the emails and the website address in the email may definitely be a scam but have nothing to do with the Australian registered company. The Aussie company may know nothing about the emails nor a website purporting to be their company!)

2. Neither Altair Financial Group nor any of the contact names listed on the website in the email (some of which are supposedly heading up departments) are registered Financial Services licence holders with ASIC ... which they would required to be in order to do the type of work they say they do.

3. If you check through the website, there is disparity over locations of offices from Runcorn Qld to Northbridge NSW and Sunbury, Victoria. The site indicates that the company started in Runcorn but ASIC has them starting in Sydney and originally under a different name.

Personally I am steering clear of this.

Chris_McLaren

This is my first post - I had just finished reading an e-mail from my junk box about this fab new job offer!! I decided to take a look on line and found this forum!!! It looks like a scam and now I am convinced it is!! Thankyou!!

Gordon_Hose

I get loads of these emails. They are all scams! lol

Nicola_Bain

TOTAL SCAM! I received the same email then sent them a reply telling them it was an obvious scam and they should be ashamed of themselves for trying to trick people who may be desperate for work. I then got an email back saying thank you for your interest in the Company and please fill in these forms to become an employee absolutely no reference to the email I sent them telling them they were evil scam-artisits.

PLEASE DO NOT OPEN ANY OF THEIR ATTACHMENTS FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, JUST INCASE THERE ARE VIRUSES ETC. AND DO NOT BELIEVE ANY OF IT.