Is this technically money laundering of what they are asking of you to do? And the one who is cashing the money orders/checks is the who gets busted, right?
Guess what happens when you cash a check from YOUR account, send them the funds, and then their check bounces? You get charged the fee and never see the money! WHOOPSY DOOODLE. This is the Nigerian Scam; the grammar is just better.
You pay them $900 from that $1000 cheque that later bounces. Bank goes after you. It's the same scam as an online purchaser giving you more than your asking and asking for the 'excess' back. Why would such a successful company with ongoing foreign sales need such a hairbrained and expensive processing facility? And the grammer's only marginally better then the Nigerian thingie.
The grammar on the above example is very poor. It doesn't even fully explain how the process works either. They have these same things I've seen for Ebay sellers. They want you to post auctions for exotic cars using your legit Ebay user id. The company wants you to post the auction and in return you make 5% on the final selling price. The buyer thinks its legit since you have a valid Ebay user id with feedback and history, etc... Thus when you receive the money, you send the check to the company who is supposed to send the buyer their exotic car. But then the company (since its a scam) never sends the car, and you will be held liable for the money/car. These are all variations of the exact same scam. Another easy way to notice its somewhat shady is their use of an yahoo.com email address. A legit company would have their own domain. But I've seen scam artists nowadays even use corporate domains with elaborate websites. So beware, if it is usually to good to be true, it probably is.
I was about to post about the Domain name and Yahoo email, but that has just been done. Another Flag is that they go on and on about the tremendous cash flow opportunity, but they never tell you what they are selling. Even if it was marginally legit, there would be some balance telling you about their future prospects on whatever they are selling and how long this opportunity would last before competition would come in and take some of these tremendous profits away from them (and you). Finally, and nothing personal about this.................. Why did you get an email from somebody that you don't know that would let you take 10% off of the top to cash Checks and Money Orders for them? If I had a going business (legit and legal) that let other people take a 10% fee for cashing Checks and Money Orders and still left enough profit to keep me happy, there are plenty of friends and relatives that I would extend the offer to and it is very doubtful that I would send out email to strangers such as yourself.
Other things that raises a Flag..................they sent an email mentioning needs for payment officers in areas such as North America, Australia and Europe. They mention that they are based in the United Kingdom............ United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; note - Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales Hard to imagine why they would be looking for payment officers in Europe because the Continent is extremely close to the UK and the two are probably integrated fairly well at the business, mail and banking levels. Even banking between the United States, Australia and the UK should be fairly stable and established. Not sure about this, but it seems likely that large banks would be able to help them establish payment receipt, clearing, transfers etc in those countries for a fee probably a bit smaller than 10%. If they are based in the UK, why are they looking for payment officers in the UK? How do they know that you live in Europe, North America or Australia and fit the geographic profile of who they are looking for? You could be in Bannu, Pakistan and they sent you an unsolicited email thinking that you are in North America? Yes, I know about web sites like: IP2Location but it doesn't seem to fit in this scenario. You could be a Canadian, American (US), Australian or have citizenship from a UK country as per their stated requirements near the end, but wouldn't necessarily be living in one of those countries which would negate their needs stated in the early part of the email request.
This time I inquired about job listings for delivery/transportation in craiglist and got this response on one of them. Why would they need a middleman (which the job is essentially)? What am I risking other then not getting paid?
