New type of scam?

[JasonC]

Got an email this morning:

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Would you like working with us online and earn up to £5,000 or more per week?

This is not a joke

100% Absolutely Legal

No Upfront payment will be taken from you.

Hit REPLY for more details..

I replied and got some more details:

Dear Sir/Ma,

Once we makes a sale we deliver the product to a customer (usually through UPS).The customer receives and check the products. After this has been done, the customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Bank Wire Transfers. We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem. Your tasks are;

1. Receive payment from Customers through your Bank Accounts /or Credit Cards,

2. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed

3. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to. (Payment is to

forwarded by Local transfers (Western Union only). A local Money transfer takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customers payment almost immediately.

For example you have got ?50,000.00

You take your income: ?5,000.00

First month you will have 15-20 transactions on 10000.00-50000.00 GBP So you may calculate your income.

You will be able to operate with larger orders and you will be able to earn more.

Our payments will be sent to your bank, deduct your 10% and forward the balance to the company via Western Union only.

We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position. This job takes only 3-7 hours per week.

You will have a lot of free time doing another job, you will get good income and regular job. But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest assistant. We are glad to offer this job position to you. If you feel that you are serious about this and earnest worker, All we will need for recording you to our database is below:

Full Name:- ................

Address:- ....................

Age:- ................

Your Mobile Phone Number:- .........

David Croxford,

Recruitment Manager

Metalon Products Limited

97 Harrow Street, Dunedin

www.metalon.co.nz

Does it look fishy to you??

[Unimatrix Xero]

yup

they quote in ?? but google returns they are based in New Zealand http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&amp...unedin&aq=f

[Colin-uk Veteran]

lol, someone wants thier money cleaned.

i'd avoid it tbh :p

[Panacik]

You run the risk of being placed under arrest if you go along with this, as well as not getting money.

They will basically, be using you as a go between, from themselves and their scammed victims. The victim wires the money to you and you send the money on to the scammer, who promises to give you a 10% cut. You will do this a few times before realising you will not be getting a cut at all and have been used as a go between.

You have also just opened yourself up to spam by replying to the email. He will now sell your email address on to friends as a "live" address...

If you do end up getting a portion of money, you will still be doing illegal activity by helping them.

The other risk is that they are scamming you and once they have your bank details, they will proceed to try and wipe your account clean.

[James812]

Scam. My mothers job gets tons of people cashing fake checks all over the world and had to switch to a new bank account. They caught almost all the people who tried to cash them from Canada, US, UK, Mexico and other places. They found out the people trying to cash these check got the same email as that and thought it was a good idea to make money. They were helping these people scam companies out of money by making them take the fault for it.

[Nashy]

That's highly illegal in New Zealand, and every country afaik.

I know for a fact NZ and AU Tax offices would kick their ass, and , NZ people can talk properly. Even if it does sound funny when you hear them.

[JasonC]

I already get tonnes of spam... I think everyone has my email address lol.

I thought it was a scam, but wasn't sure what it was about, thanks for clarifying.

[D. S. Veteran]

I'm selling the Eiffel Tower, want to be a piece? They're tearing it down for scrap metal. I'll make you a good price. :shifty:

Yes, it's a scam.

And more to that it's a well know scam.

"I replied and got some more details"

What are you? 12 years old? IQ that hovers around the room temperature? :blink:

It's a variation of the Change raising con with some Advance-fee thrown in for good measure.

Seriously... you're WONDERING if it's a scam? Go to Wikipedia and read this List of Confidence tricks

Then purchase the 4 seasons of Hustle and watch them.

Then watch The Sting.

People like you are why I should have been a con-man. I could be rich by now. :/

Edited January 7, 2009 by Bun-Bun

[Panacik]

Its called a 419 because of the 419 law code in Nigeria, which is where most scam on the net comes from.

The 419 code is the code that makes this kind of scam illegal in Nigeria, although it is still obviously still happening, mainly because people on the net are stupid and actually fall for this type of scam.

[JasonC]

I'm selling the Eiffel Tower, want to be a piece? They're tearing it down for scrap metal. I'll make you a good price. :shifty:

Yes, it's a scam.

And more to that it's a well know scam.

"I replied and got some more details"

What are you? 12 years old? IQ that hovers around the room temperature? :blink:

It's a variation of the Change raising con with some Advance-fee thrown in for good measure.

Seriously... you're WONDERING if it's a scam? Go to Wikipedia and read this List of Confidence tricks

Then purchase the 4 seasons of Hustle and watch them.

Then watch The Sting.

People like you are why I should have been a con-man. I could be rich by now. :/

I knew it was a scam when I got the first message, the "This is not a joke

100% Absolutely Legal" gave it away, I only got more info to see what it was about, as I've not seen this typ;e of scam before.

[D. S. Veteran]

Oh, I see.

About the Eiffel Tower business, are you in or are you out? The French Government is getting impatient (with Sarkozy touring the Middle East and all that) so they want to close escrow as soon as possible :shifty:

[Panacik]

Oh, I see.

About the Eiffel Tower business, are you in or are you out? The French Government is getting impatient (with Sarkozy touring the Middle East and all that) so they want to close escrow as soon as possible :shifty:

Hey,

G Bush here. Just to let you know that im in Bun-Bun and i suggest Jasonc opts in too!

Lets close this deal quick before the wife gets home from work though!

George.

[Hum]

I launder my money at the racetrack :yes:

[Brian M. Veteran]

1. Receive payment from Customers through your Bank Accounts /or Credit Cards,

Yep, all fine and dandy, read on.

2. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed

The bank that sent you the money/the account holder is now realizing they've been scammed, and begins proceedings to claim the money back from you/cancel the transaction.

3. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to. (Payment is to

forwarded by Local transfers (Western Union only). A local Money transfer takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customers payment almost immediately.

Yep, the bank's now taken the money from you, and whoops, you've already sent the scammer $2k via western union, which is mostly untrackable. You're now down $2k

:p