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Job and Recruiting Scams:
Payment Officer / Transfer Manager Scam
This is a category of job scams unto itself. Have you received an email offering you a job as a "Payment Officer",
"Transfer Manager", "book-keeper", "receiving agent",
"distribution 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"?
It is an AFF / Money transfer Scam.
They'll send you counterfeit checks which you are supposed to deposit, take out
some percentage (typically, 10%) for your work, and then MoneyGram or Western
Union wire the remaining 90%.
See this page for a
step-by-step explanation of how the payment manager scam unfolds. And you
might what to read this email
from an actual victim telling what happens if you cash the check.
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.
Do you have a resume posted online? We'd like to hear from you about your
experiences recruiting emails that turned out to be scams or misleading -
click here to write us.
Sample "Payment officer" scam emails
See these pages for actual scam emails received:
- Agricultural Research Institute,
Birmingahm, Sheldon, UK
Mrs Susan Anderson
- ARINI (Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland, Jim Connay
- AT&T or
A T AND T WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, Hong Kong, Mr. Daniel Lee
- Mr Alan Jones at
an unnamed company, England
- Bradbury & Sons Holdings Ltd, Book-keeper/company representative
- CAPS Solutions Ltd, England & Wales,
from "Regional Manager"
- Child Africa, East Africa, Jean Paul Deprins
- China National Arts & Crafts, China, Mr.Wong Hong
- Crystal Holdings Ltd
- "Peter Smith" wants a "book-keeper/company representative"
- Dalston Mill Fabrics Ltd, Dalston, London, United Kingdom,
Gerald Stevens
- DALSTON MILL FABRICS COMPANY, Dalston, London, UK, Jacob R.Wallace
- Delta Marble Mining, Turkey, Dr Greg Koban
- Delixi Consults & Wang Associate, England and China
- D-Mac International INC, England, Damon Roberts
- Dream House, LCC, Moscow, Russia; Andrey Kashtanov
- DreamProject
Ltd, Russia - Vladimir Voldin
- DT-System, Inc., Lithuania, Jonas Varnas
- EDGAR ART WORLD,
Mrs.Edgar Blessing
- EDS Mobile Home Supply,
Corporate Research, Job Offer with a check - and you must Money Gram
$100 back
- ERM Capital, Ltd, Moscow, Russia, Dusty Ledbetter
- FINANCE
INVESTMENT CO LTD, ??? No address given - Mr. Scott Ono
- FTC Group, Jane
Suslov, "financial manager", "accounting manager"
- Gallery Furniture & Design Center, http://gdfc.homestead.com, Fremont, CA, Robert hicks
- Global Seafood Australia Limited, Neal Harris
- Glass Towers Inc, London, Marion Anderson
- GUARANTEE-TRADING Company or GUARANTEEINVEST, Moscow, Russia; Michael Harrison
- Hafrenfurnisher plc,
206-309-0182 - Bruce Brian
- ImageType NewMedia GmbH (via CareerBuilder), Munchen, Germany
- Jennifer Claire, ArtGalllery.org - looking for a "par time worker"
- Kelvin Cole, Arini,
Ireland
- Lucky Union
Foods Co., LTD, Thailand, Preye Miraya (Dr)
- McJAMES CONTEMPORARY ARTS INCORPORATED, England, James Clifford
- Mybabochka Scam via
Monster.com,
"Mybabochka suggests You the new job for you", "Ethan Banks is looking
for a "Goods Shipment Agent"
- Narmada Textiles, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Mr Steven Cole
- Olympic Metal &
Fabrics Ltd - Silas Cowie
- Parsco International Oil & Gas Co. Ltd., Mr. Barry Z Fard,
UNITED KINGDOM.
- Philip Walton Fine
Furnishers Ltd, United Kingdom, "Compliments of the day.", Philip Walton
- QuikDrop International, Costa Mesa, California, Virtual Assistant
- RAC Company,
Marc Benson,
"Job Position For You!!"
- Rest Pro, Mickle Jeffery,
www.rest-company.org
- RM FABRICS & TEXTILES, London, Robert Merry
- SII MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, Japan, Bryan Elvins
- Stock Trading
World, Norway, James Freeman
- Strootman Trading Bv (via Careerbuilder), Enschede Netherlands, Human resources department
- Supreme
Textiles, the United Kingdom, Mr. Ross Lukas
- Susan Art World, London, Britain, Susan Harrison
- Tourism New Zealand, New Zealand, Michael Wenzel
- Tracy and
Tina Bruno, Lagos, Nigeria
- TransBalt Int, Eduards Tomss,
"Check Manager"
- "Transfer
Manager", a reply to a resume you have on Monster.com
- Waller Truck Co., Australia, Mae Field
- Western Exporters Pty (Australia) Limited
- James Ivan
- Wintercoats, Careerwithwintercoats.com, Kelvin Smith
- WUJIANG WALINDA TEXTILE
ACCESSORIES FACTORY IMPORT/EXPORT. CORP. CHINA - MR HANG PUNG
- www.yournetcareer.com or Hill Investments, England, Susan Hall
- And below is a common example of a scam that claims to be from Monster.com
- You can try filing a complaint with Monster.com, go to this page:
http://my.monster.com/contactus.aspx and click on LiveChat
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Dear John Smith
We have found your resume at monster.com
We would like to suggest you a job of a
Transfer Manager in our
company. This work is for those who have the
company in USA.
Your goal will be to process payments between
our company and our clients through the bank
checques with remote
Internet operations. There will be detailed
instruction with each
payment order. It is a commission based
position. We guarantee that
you will get about 10% of each processed
payment.
This job allows you to:
- Get financial independence working only 3-5
hours per day;
- Efficiently work at home;
- Get additional free time;
- Develop high selfrespect and esteem. Common requirements and abilities:
- Internet and e-mail skills; Experience in
online work;
- Prior customer service experience is a good
benefit, but not a must;
- Ability to create good administrative
reporting;
- Willingness to work at home and take the
responsibility to set up and
achieve goals;
- Effective interaction with customers;
Salary: $700-$1300 per week
Current Vacancies: 5
If you are interested, or if you need some
more information,
please contact me directly at via my personal
email address.
I will need
- your full name
- your full company name (please, write it
correctly, the check will be
signed on this name)
- mail address
- your mobile telephone number
so I can send you the contract and other
paperwork necessary for
you to get started. I am looking forward to hear
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Other Jobs Scams
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!
Some of the more common job scams are
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