scammed?? Urgent help please

cindyhove

My niece who is jobhunting has been contacted by a company called Management Planning Group

"Management Planning Group LTD registered office 55 Wall St, New York, NY 10005 are authorized and regulated by the
Financial Services Authority. Company is registered in USA with company registration number 75981236.

Our company is specialized in miscellaneous financial services, like fund management, financial
customer services, insurances and others; also the company has representative offices in such countries of the
world as: : USA, France, Japan, Spain, Germany."

U have 2 hours a day trainign for 10 days starting immidatly (I asked if I can put it off as abroad
then u start work
u get 30 pounds a day for training and 23000 for job"

She was asked for her name and bank account details which she gave them!!
What should she do and does anyone have any information about them>>>

cgk1

Complete and utter scam - the next thing they will want is ID or a signature so they can empty her accounts.

SarEl

(a) Inform her bank immediately
(b) Clater her around the head until it sinks in that handing out your bank details to anyone when they ask is a really daft idea.

cgk1

The sort code and account number alone aren't enough, they will ask next for a photocopy of her passport and a signature - then they will be in business.

vax2002

I Would still call the bank fraud team so they can place the some restrictions on the account such as direct money transfer requests from over seas, it will most likely be a African country she gave them to.

cindyhove

TRAINING COURSE BASIC INFORMATION

The training days don't have to be consecutive (you can make breaks for one or several days if you need to).

Your application was reviewed by the Human Resource Department and your candidacy was approved. After you complete the free training course company guarantees your employment within one business day.
During your training you will be paid: ₤30.00 (the money that you receive in the beginning of each training day as compensation for your time and all the expenses associated with the training - transport, phone, Internet connection etc.). If for technical reasons your training has to be postponed you receive the training wage as well.
The course is distant, except for two personal meetings with one of company’s managers in your city. While passing the course you will be permanently assisted by the phone.
While studying, you will permanently move from the easiest to more complicated levels. Each lesson contains a theoretical and a practical part. Everyday you will receive studying materials that you should learn and strengthen then your knowledge by passing tests.
The training course starts with familiarizing with payment systems. During the first three training days you will get familiarized with all the payment systems that interact with our Electronic Commerce System (ECS). Besides learning theory you will practice with performing elementary operations (sending/receiving money, depositing on account, etc.) to be able to answer clients questions and consult them in real time.

NOTE: You don’t have to use any personal money for the training purposes.*

The 10-day training course includes the following stages:

Day 1. Initial professional level check. Familiarization with payment systems (MoneyGram, Western Union).
Day 2. Paypal. Bank accounts.
Day 3. Other payment systems. Installation of ECSS-Client.
Day 4. ECSS-Client: Requests handling.
Day 5. ECSS-Client: Databases.
Day 6. ECSS-Client: Reports.
Day 7. ECSS: B2B- and B2C- applications.
Day 8. ECSS: Exchanges between payment systems.
Day 9. Workday rehearsal 1.
Day 10. Workday rehearsal 2.

After completing practical parts of each Lesson you will receive necessary theoretical materials and a test-form with questions to be answered within 24 hours. For the practicing you may find the closest and more convenient for you location, where you can observe general options and methods and remember how it works in reality during your training. For each training day it won’t take more then 2 hours. All the Lessons were composed and developed by the CEO of the Company in USA, marketing supervisors and other local managers to prepare you the best for this position.

* Money for the training you will receive to an account that you specify along with your daily training wage.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 1ST TRAINING DAY

1. Your personal manager calls you to confirm that everything is ready for the start of your training and money for practicing with elementary operations and your training wage are available on the account that you have specified.
2. You call your personal manager after withdrawing the total amount.**
₤30 you should take for yourself as your personal training wage and the rest of the amount you will use for practicing with MoneyGram and Western Union payment systems.
3. Then you go to the nearest MoneyGram location to perform an international transaction using the data you will receive from your personal manager.
The Receipt that you get from the MoneyGram managers has to be saved.

4. Then you contact your personal manager to give out the MoneyGram data for your training partner and to find out the approximate time when you are going to receive the money back via Western Union payment system. When your training partner receives your transaction and sends it back, your personal manager contacts you to give you the data for receiving the money.
5. Then you go to the nearest Western Union branch to receive your partner’s transaction. You will use this money for the next lesson.

The receipt that you receive from Western Union managers should be saved.

NOTE: YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO ALL THE DETAILS OF THE PROCESS TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION ABOUT WESTERN UNION AND CONSULT CLIENTS IN REAL TIME.

6. Then you contact your personal manager for receiving the studying materials:
- detailed description of how does our EC-System interact with Western Union and MoneyGram systems ("WU MG theory.doc");
- a test form ("TEST1.doc").
You should answer questions in the test form and send it back to company’s e-mail address.
Some of the questions will concern your practicing for the first training day.
The deadline for sending out the test form: next workday, 6:00 pm.

** The exact amount can’t be specified at the moment since the training money goes from one training person to
another by a chain: company sends the initial amount to the 1st trainee, he/she takes ₤30 as the training wage and
sends to the 2nd trainee the rest of the amount after deduction of the commission for the transaction; the 2nd trainee takes ₤30 and sends to the 3rd trainee the rest minus the commission etc.(subject to the number of the trainees before you in the training chain, the amount that you receive can be from ₤300 to ₤2000). When training with a payment system starts you will send money to the next training person. That’s why it’s very important to complete the practical part of the training with payment systems with no delays!

GETTING STARTED

In response to this e-mail please specify the day when you are ready to start the training. Your personal manager will contact you by the phone to:
- ask you the data that can be used for sending you the training wage and money for practicing
with payment systems***;
- give you the data of your “training partner” (another person passing the training course
who will assist you in practicing with payment systems);
- remind you the further instructions in details.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO BE ACCESSIBLE AT THE PHONE NUMBERS THAT YOU HAVE PROVIDED!

*** Bank name, holder name, account number, sort code number.
You can specify any bank . The account can be empty (with no money on it) and, if it’s necessary, it can be under another person’s name – you need only to be able to receive deposits and to withdraw money with no delays

cindyhove

she has spoken to her bank who have agreed that with that info they cannot do anything. Thanks.
Comments on the above would be appreciated anyway !

SarEl

Please don't let your neice out on her own for a few more years

jobbingmusician

It's a fairly sophisticated version of the normal moneygram/Western Union scam, by the look of it. I like the way she has to start using her own accounts from day one (NOT!)

cindyhove

SarEl wrote: »

Please don't let your neice out on her own for a few more years

love it! :rotfl:

dseventy

Tell your niece that the purse inspector will be seeing her tommorrow and must hand over the contents of her purse for inspection. Any "rogue" notes will be kept by the inspector.

Seriously, print out this thread and show her how silly it all is.

On the plus side at least she spoke to you about it, all is not lost!

D70