Have you received an email from Michael Wenzel of "Tourism New Zealand" in New Zealand (or ANYWHERE else) offering you
a job as a "Financial Representative", "Payment Officer", "local agent" or "local representative" in which
you "receive payments", deduct your "Processing fee", deposit the checks and
then wire most of the money to an overseas "company"?
Of course, since the check is fake, it will bounce a week or so later after
you deposit it. But you have already moneygram'ed the scammers the 90% of
the amount, and that is transacted almost instantly. So you now owe the
bank for the full amount. You may also face criminal charges for passing
counterfeit checks. See
this page for a step-by-step explanation of how the scam unfolds.
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Re: Sales Rep‏
From: Wenzel (tnz.wenzel@gmail.com)
Sent: Tue 2/26/08 6:40 PM
Hello Amy, We have received and reviewed your resume.
Your qualification is acceptable for Company Representative Position. You may
find more information about salary, job functions, skills and requirements at:
JOB DESCRIPTION.doc attached to this message. If you’d like to apply to this
position, please follow next application process: 1. Read job description
document and respond me back with you questions and/or agree word2. I will send
you employment agreement and application form, you’ll need to fill it out and
send back signed3. I will forward your application documents to our hiring and
security dept4. You will be noticed about acceptance by e-mail Please Note:
Your resume will be verified by our security department for security purposes.
This is regular process in our company. My job is to assist you in managing
payments and I'll be happy to do the utmost to help you whenever possible.
Best regards,
Michael Wenzel
JOB DESCRIPTION
Company name Tourism New Zealand
Job location USA – All States
Position Financial Representative
Job Summary:
We are big
touristic company located in New Zealand. We have a lot of offices around
the globe. At this time we are looking for someone with superior communication
skills to enhance our team. During all working process you will represent our
company at US market. What will you do for us? You will communicate with
customers and clients by phone/e-mail; you will manage company contacts and
provide support for new clients; you will make billing records; you will be
official representative of our company. Main part of your job is to provide to
our dealers, partners, customers and clients financial assistant.
It means that you will operate
with money transfers too. We have
multiple representatives all over the country; some of them handle meetings with
clients and selling our tours, and some handle payment issues, delivering
accepted from our clients’ payments to main processing offices all over the
world and so on. No movement from your location is involved with this job.
Specifically your task will be to
accept, process and deliver payments received from our US clients to us,
the more we expand our exotic tours sale in US, the more clients we have and the
more wages you get.
Primary objectives include:
- Relationship management with advisers on a
day-to-day basis, mostly by telephone
- Solving adviser issues
- Actively supporting a team environment to flourish
in this role you will need to demonstrate
- superior communication and organizational skills
- strong relationship management, analytical and
problem solving skills
- an understanding of processing transfers and
sending payments
- an enthusiasm for working in a target driven
environment
Salary:
Tourism New Zealand provides two payment periods. During
first, trial period (one month), you will be paid $2,000.00 per month plus 5%
bonus on every transaction received and processed while working approximately
12-15 hours a week. Your salary will be sent in the form of wire transfer
directly to your account. After the trial period your base pay salary will go up
to $4,500.00 per month, plus 10% commission.
Fees and transferring rules:
All fees are covered by the company. The
fees for
transferring are simply deducted from the payments received. Customer will not
contact you during initial stage of the trial period. After three weeks of the
trial period you will begin to have contact with the customers via email in
regards to collection of the payments. For the first three weeks you will simply
receive all of the transferring details, and payments, along with step by step
guidance from your supervisor. You will be forwarding the received payments
through transferring agents such as Western Union, Money Gram, any P2P agents or
by wire transferring.
Skills and requirements:
- You need 3-4 hours a day of available time
- Simple computer skills (MS Word/Adobe Acrobat
Reader/MS Excel)
- Internet, E-Mail, Cellular Phone, Home Phone
- Bank Account for transaction processing
Main duties for this position:
- Processing assets to/from our customers
- Making simple brokerage activities (percent salary)
- Advertisement activities at local business market
- Supporting customers by phone call or e-mail
- Making simple supervisors duties
- Making records of all incoming and outgoing
transfers (MS Word/Excel)
There are a variety of sleazy scams that look, at first glance, like
legitimate job offers. Before you write back to them, pause a moment and read about the scams below!
