Okay,how does this scam work?
24 March 2005, 01:27 PM
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Okay,how does this scam work?
Got this email today.........main bit of it below...
Would they just end up just asking for your account/personal info once you contacted them and enquired further? That seems most likely unless anyones seen this before and knows different?
Sorry to post another scam but i've never seen this approach before...
Dear UK resident,
Our company "Song Zhong Int." is located in South Korea (motherland for such brands as Samsung,
Daewoo and others). Our company profile is law and economical services for Korean citizens wishing to
operate at foreign markets. We help with financial and personal representation of our customers
in 48 different countries, including USA, Australia, countries of European Union and UK.
For now we have a demand in increasing the number of our part time employees in United Kingdom.
According to this we are ready to offer you the part-time job in our company with the salaries
starting from GBP 200 to GBP 700 weekly for 1-2 hours of employment time daily (5 working days a week).
The title for the position is "Junior financial representative".
Main tasks are:
- Receiving some calls on behalf of our customers.
- Receiving some business correspondence on behalf of our customers
- Receiving some business transactions on behalf of our customers
.and some others.
This tasks won't take more than 2 hours of your time daily and the starting salary would be
GBP 450/week, which would be increased depending of your enthusiasm.
Our company "Song Zhong Int." is located in South Korea (motherland for such brands as Samsung,
Daewoo and others). Our company profile is law and economical services for Korean citizens wishing to
operate at foreign markets. We help with financial and personal representation of our customers
in 48 different countries, including USA, Australia, countries of European Union and UK.
For now we have a demand in increasing the number of our part time employees in United Kingdom.
According to this we are ready to offer you the part-time job in our company with the salaries
starting from GBP 200 to GBP 700 weekly for 1-2 hours of employment time daily (5 working days a week).
The title for the position is "Junior financial representative".
Main tasks are:
- Receiving some calls on behalf of our customers.
- Receiving some business correspondence on behalf of our customers
- Receiving some business transactions on behalf of our customers
.and some others.
This tasks won't take more than 2 hours of your time daily and the starting salary would be
GBP 450/week, which would be increased depending of your enthusiasm.
Sorry to post another scam but i've never seen this approach before...
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Originally Posted by http://www.apacs.org.uk/about_apacs/htm_files/emailscams.htm
Funds transfer scams
How it works
Fraudsters have recently started to send out spam emails and post fake job adverts on recruitment websites which offer low risk money making opportunities to individuals willing to act as their agents in the UK.
The fraudster poses as a legitimate company that is setting up operations in the UK. Individuals who decide to take up the offer are asked to provide their bank account details so that they can receive payments and then send the money overseas, less a certain commission which they can keep. The fraudster often seeks individuals with accounts at specific banks, or encourages them to open new bank accounts to participate in this scam.
How it works
Fraudsters have recently started to send out spam emails and post fake job adverts on recruitment websites which offer low risk money making opportunities to individuals willing to act as their agents in the UK.
The fraudster poses as a legitimate company that is setting up operations in the UK. Individuals who decide to take up the offer are asked to provide their bank account details so that they can receive payments and then send the money overseas, less a certain commission which they can keep. The fraudster often seeks individuals with accounts at specific banks, or encourages them to open new bank accounts to participate in this scam.
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so if they give you money, and you stop there and dont send any back, etc. they obviously cant just take it back out of your account. so what happens then ?
24 March 2005, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by paul-s
so if they give you money, and you stop there and dont send any back, etc. they obviously cant just take it back out of your account. so what happens then ?
24 March 2005, 02:35 PM
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Olly - it's spam.
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24 March 2005, 02:55 PM
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The reason they ask you to have an account with a specific bank is because they have insiders working within those banks and can shift money about without an audit trail. I can't say much more than that on a public forum, other than this trend is becoming as popular as sleeper fraud, and immigrant workers from a certain European country moving back home after the expiry of their visa and selling their legitimate bank accounts onto fraudsters.
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The other varient on this is they actually pay you good money for some time,
once they have built up your trust, they deposit large amounts into your bank for safekeeping, then it mysteriously gets withdrawn, then they pull everything out and you loose all your dosh.
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once they have built up your trust, they deposit large amounts into your bank for safekeeping, then it mysteriously gets withdrawn, then they pull everything out and you loose all your dosh.
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