Money Mule Scam

There is one type of scam that is particularly dangerous as being drawn into this can end up with you in prison. The reason this type of con sounds so plausible is unlike most work at home scams they do not ask for any money up front.

To get an idea of how it works and what to look out for read the following letter. This is a typical money mule scam where if you took part you would end up unwittingly laundering money. You may receive this letter via email or you may come across an ad on one of the many classified ad sites or even see an ad in your local newspaper. This particular one was sent out via email and is the actual unedited version minus the contact details.

Dear Friend, We have a job opening for the position of payment Receivable/Payable Clerk in your location. Would you like to work from your home and get paid weekly? Global Suppliers Quality.

ABOUT US:
About Our Company,Our Vision, Values, Mission and Operating Principles have been developed to reflect not only our day-to-day work on our core business strategies, but also to guide us through the challenges and opportunities that come with global expansion and rapidly changing markets.

The job Description:
Your primary task for now, as a representative of the company in your location is to Coordinate payment's from our customers, once product is been Supply to our customer in their various location. please Note: You are not involved in any sales .

REASON FOR OFFERING THIS JOB:
Is because most of our international customer's make their payment through a bank check's and the check take up 1 to 2 month before the funds is available. As you can understand that any company that is not yet register in States can not operate any bank account there, anyway we are working hardly towards this. Meanwhile most international check's takes-up one to two month's before the funds can be available and due to this delay to get the funds on time. This has cause much problems and delay in our production to enable meet up the customer's demand.

Therefore We have decided to open this new contract to hire job position for solving this problem. Your job possession is payment Collection:
1. You will be receiving check's payment from our Customers.
2. Have the check cash at your Bank or any cashing facilities nearest to you.
3. Then you are to deduct 10% commission from the money, which is your percentage on each payment processed by you, after deduction of your percentage from the money.
4.The manager will instruct you where to remit the remaining money to company .
But this job is very challenging and you should understand it clearly, that the nature of this job deserve trust and honesty without this it can not be achieve. Do you interested in this job offer ??
Get back to us with your full contact information as stated below, so that we can file your datals regarding the job, also to enable you start the work as soon as possible.

As you can see it is full of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors and appears to have been written by someone whose primary language is not English. There is no contact telephone number only a fake address and disposable email address which I have purposefully omitted.

The way this scam works is that you pay cheques into your bank account and then forward the money minus your commission. You are usually asked to send the money to a bank account or more usually through a money transfer system such as Western Union.

The pretext is that you are cashing cheques from the company's customers as they do not want to wait the 1 to 2 months it takes for the cheques to clear. Whilst international cheques do take longer to clear a legitimate company would not use a member of the public as a middleman.

In reality you are using your bank account to launder money which is then forwarded on to another person. You can find out more about money mules by visiting Crimestoppers don't be a mule website.