You may have seen, and possibly been attracted in, emails that offer 'easy' employment. It all seems very easy. 2 or 3 transactions per week and all expenses covered. It does not say what the wage is, usually about 10% of the amount handled. Well, what could be so wrong?
Here is the set-up, as you might see it. They send to your bank account a sum of cash, say £1000. You get to keep 10% (astonishing - £100) and walk down to your nearby payment office, having withdrawn the rest of the cash on the way and transmit the 90% to the next person.
So what is the trap? Well, let's look either side. It is not that, as made out, the company cannot receive the payments. If it was, they might set up official accounts to do this with a solicitor or someone they can trust. They should not approach people via an email.
It is true that the company involved cannot accept the money directly. That is because the cash started off in some poor unsuspecting suspect's PayPal account or Bank Account and their details have possibly been phished. If they sent the cash directly to their own account, the police would be right on their tail and be able to return it.
So that is where you come in - they transmit the cash to you and you forward it to them, or maybe to a further link in the chain who then sends it on.
Is this a brilliant problem for you? Well yes. As soon as the account holder notices their absent £1000, they are going to report it and the law will get drawn in. They will see it has gone to your account and close your bank account whilst they prepare to prosecute you in order to get the £1000 back off you. But you only kept £100. It is up to you, therefore, to pay out of your pocket the £900 you passed on.
Maybe if you co-operate the police force may get some of that cash off the next level, but if you have sent it abroad, that could be complicated. In all probability, instead of seeing an easy £100 profit, you are seeing a hard £900 loss.
Really, the scam is robbing the money from you ultimately. And not only are you left out of pocket, but if the police do prosecute you, you are also left with a criminal conviction on your record. A conviction for money laundering just might not help your future career prospects, nor opening a new bank account.
If job seems too easy to be true, it is because it most without doubt is. Just because you keep 10% and pass on the rest doesn't mean that is where your responsibility ends, get mixed up in criminal activities and you could be a lot worse off.
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