posted on July 17, 2008 11:09:52 AM
Hello,
How are you?My name is Charles Jones and I am the CEO of Charles Jones Textiles Limited that sells Chinese and African textile and fabric material in London.I am looking for a trustworthy representative in USA /Canada that can help as a link between me and my client over there.i would like to know if you are interested to work from home for us.Charles Jones Textiles Limited needs a book-keeper or representative in the states,so I want to know if you will like to work on line from home and getting paid weekly without leaving or affecting your present job?Our company produces various clothing materials, batiks, assorted fabrics and traditional costumes.We have clients we supply weekly in the states and my clients make payments for our supplies every week in form of cashier checks which are not readily cash-able outside the US or Canada,so we need someone in the States/Canada to work as our representative and assist us in processing the payments from our clients and we will pay him/her weekly wage.
All you need to do is receive this payment from our clients in the States or Canada and get it cashed at your bank then deduct your 10% and forward the balance to the company down here via western union money transfer.The main reason why the funds cannot be cashed down here is because it would take 20-24 days for a US money order to pass through the bank here and that would tie down the capital of the company and not make business move fast as expected but a US money order presented to the bank in the US would clear within 48hrs.Our payments will be issued out in your name and you get them cashed at your bank, deduct your 10% of the initial capital and forward the balance to the company by money transfer.If this offer is accepted,kindly provide me with the following information requested below:
APPLICATION FORM
FIRST NAME________________
SURNAME________________
ADDRESS________________
CITY________________
STATE________________
ZIP CODE________________
COUNTRY________________
PHONE NUMBER (S) ________________
GENDER________________
AGE________________
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Regards,
CHARLES JONES, CEO.
CHARLES JONES LIMITED
Phone Nos:+44702 407 6813 or 009447024076813
posted on July 17, 2008 04:07:02 PM
These money laundering/mule jobs are risky as when the police catch up with the idiots who take on the work, they have to make restitution to the victims. There have been several locals attempt to use Western Union to send money abroad to people they have never meet, and they all get the same warning. "If it seems to good to be true, then it probably is." They also have to sign a legal disclaimer that they have been cautioned to protect the WU francise. One got charged and convicted of money laundering when they sent money a second time after being cautioned by the police NOT to do so again.
Of course Charles Jones doesn't actually exist and any visit to the registered land line will be a dead end - usually a West African multi-family rehousing facility in the UK.
I don't think it's actually money laundering, but rather a more standard scam. I think the only victims ARE the people who take on the work. They deposit a counterfeit Money Order, mail 90% of the value, and then days/weeks later the bank tells them that the money order was bad.
posted on July 18, 2008 02:25:46 AM
Ah! I'd forgotten about money orders - they are seldom used here (NZ & Australia) in these days of almost instantaneous electronic bank transfers.
Most of the mules caught here abouts are the recipient of funds stolen from compromised domestic bank accounts. They are instructed to withdraw the funds minus 10% and transfer it to an offshore destination by WU. The reason for this is if you try to do an international bank transfer, it's easily traceable and the account holder has to do an extra step to verify their bona fides. Also, before you can do intl. transfers, someone at the bank will usually question you about it (particularly if it's outside normal behaviour for the account holder) since bank employees are well versed in most of the international banking scams. Most of the well-known scams are regularly featured on a nationally-shown weekly consumer protection TV program called "Fair Go". They have on occasion phoned the scammers and 'yanked their chains', or arranged a visit from their local Police.
posted on July 18, 2008 03:36:05 AM
You're lucky to have bank employees who know anything about anything. Around here, at retail banks, most of the tellers seem to have been flipping burgers last week, before that they were re-folding sweaters for display, and this week they're bank tellers. The ones who have been doing it for more than 6 months seem okay, but they still need to have management come by if it's anything other than a straight deposit or withdrawal.
