Online Job Scam?

mootonandy

Someone contacted me via email offering me a job accepting money into my bank account from people who sold shares on the LSE, then I am supposed to send the money on somewhere else.
This is supposed to be their website:
douglas financial . de without the spaces.
With pictures of real people on it.

Looks fairly professional, so how can I be sure this is definitely a scam?

Browntoa

email contact


accepting money into bank account and passing it on


SCAM

McKneff

Do you not watch Judge Judy.




This is always, always a scam.


They need your bank detail..... is that enough to alert you.


Block them....

Flyonthewall

If it involves gaining money and sending it on it is a scam. 100%, no doubt. Avoid!

Just think, why would anyone ever need someone to do that? They wouldn't.

Plus, for a job it should never include your own personal accounts. This includes bank accounts, paypal accounts and ebay accounts. If they want you to use your own acount it is always a scam.

PenguinOfDeath

mootonandy wrote: »

This is supposed to be their website:
douglas financial . de without the spaces.
With pictures of real people on it.

Looks fairly professional, so how can I be sure this is definitely a scam?

What else were they supposed to use to make you think it was legit? A picture of these guys?

PlutoinCapricorn

Money laundering, obviously.

Money_maker

Not obvious enough if the OP thinks it legit.

There'll always be a place for scammers.

mootonandy

Has anyone else heard of this douglasfinancial.de? I could not find any mention of them other than on their website itself.

Slinky

mootonandy wrote: »

Has anyone else heard of this douglasfinancial.de? I could not find any mention of them other than on their website itself.

I don't know, but have you ever heard the phrase 'a fool and their money are soon parted?'

Why on earth would anybody running a legitimate business need to shuffle their money through your bank account?

usefulmale

mootonandy wrote: »

Someone contacted me via email offering me a job accepting money into my bank account from people who sold shares on the LSE, then I am supposed to send the money on somewhere else.
This is supposed to be their website:
douglas financial . de without the spaces.
With pictures of real people on it.

Looks fairly professional, so how can I be sure this is definitely a scam?

It's a scam because they are asking YOU to do something that THEY should be able to do themselves.

Why can't THEY accept this money into their own account and pass it on?

What exactly would you be bringing to the party?

Flyonthewall

mootonandy wrote: »

Has anyone else heard of this douglasfinancial.de? I could not find any mention of them other than on their website itself.

No, but why does it matter? It is 100% clearly a scam, regardless of whether anyone has heard of them. You've been told that by numerous people.

Scammers set up different websites under different names, use them for so long then go onto others when word gets out about them being a scam. So if someone hasn't heard of them it may well be that it's only just been set up. However, it is a German site which is the highly likely why people haven't heard of them as they possibly operate in a different country normally.