Part time vacancy scam?

celtus

Ive recently put my cv on monster's website and have had a few interesting emails about jobs i might be interested in, but upon opening my email i was greeted with a job...not an interview, a job if you can call it that, it involves me tranfering monies to there regional affiliated departments....for which i get a 6% cut of the monies i forward ...mmmmm now i could be wrong but....this sounds to me like a SCAM.

Has anyone else had a similar email ?

:rolleyes:
We have found your resume at Monster.co.uk and we would like to offer you a job. It is a part-time job that consists of receiving payments from customers (through bank transfers) and then making further payments to our main office or to one of our regional affiliated departments, depending on the customer's location.

Your commission as an agent is 6% of each transaction. For example, if you receive 2000 GBP to your bank account, you will withdraw the money and keep 120 GBP for yourself. Your salary will be approximately 12000 GBP per year. The hours for this work are flexible and can be combined with any permanent or other part-time job, with an average workload of up to 10 hours a week. All additional money transfer fees and money transfer-related charges are covered and paid for by our company. Therefore you'll only be responsible for making the proper payments in time (i.e. within 48 hrs of successful receipt into your account). Each transaction will be transferred only after prior notification, which will sometimes be a notification by phone call.

Our company's principal business is based on a peer-to-peer type payment network, this business model heavily employs all the latest internet technologies. We are one of only a few companies that uses regional representatives in its business operations. This avoids high foreign taxation and cross-board acquisition fees. If you are interested in our offer, please feel free to ask for details of the general provisions of the contract.

Best regards,
Rita Widmer

RichieUK

Its just a common email scam. You will receive the £2000 payment, you then pay out £2000 (less £120 fee) and to your horror in a few days time your bank tells you the initial £2000 payment has failed to clear. You will have lost £1880! It's 100% scam.

Mrs_B_12

I'm always getting these scam emails and i don't have my cv registered anywhere. They just hope that some people will have registered on monster so they use that to try to make it seem real. Monster know about it and you can forward the email onto them.

celtus

:T Thanks for your quick reply's, i'll forward it on to Monster.