Is this a scam?

Condatis

I responded to a small ad in the Evening Herald for part-time work from home and got this response.

Hello **My name**

Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily.
We are glad to offer you a job position.

Our Company Charlotte Costume Ltd, We are 1 source of discount Quality Costume, party supplies and Halloween costumes and accessories. . with numerous customers home and abroad. We need a representative in the Asia, Ireland, Europe, South Africa, USA, CA, Uk, poeto rico and mexico. who will be in charge of all our payment from clients/customers in Asia, Europe, Ire, Usa and Uk.

Your tasks are:

1. Receive payment from our Customers through mail: (DHL, FEDEX, UPS OR OTHER FORM OF DELEIEVERY OR DIRECT DEPOSIT)
2. Cash it at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices
you will be contacted to send payment to.
Payment is to be forwarded either by Money Gram or Western Union Money
Transfer. A local Money transfer takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer payment almost immediately.

Kindly provide us with the requested details below if you are interested.

Full Name:
Full Address (No P.O Box):
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Country:
Phone:
Age:
present or prev job:
Can you Check email at least twice Daily?
Have a Credit card Machant Account?

If you wish to work with us and want payment to be paid directly into your bank account without waiting for a check payment then provide only details below
Bank name:
Name on account:
Account number:
Sort Code:
Phone number:
========================

You are to respond to this offer by clicking reply to this message and filling the required information where necessary.

We await your urgent response.Thank you for your help. We look forward to working with you.

Sincerely,
Kenny McDermott
Human Resources Manager
Charlotte Costume Ltd
325 East Boulevard Charlotte,
North Carolina
USA
2132838129

A Google search shows a company of that name in North Carolina but I doubt if it from them. It's too badly typed for one thing and US companies don't use the Ltd. in their titles.

Joey the lips

From my searches for jobs and verious stuff i would be 99.99% confident this is a scam but you can always give them basic information like your name and telephone number and tell them you will like to phone someone and discuss this over the phone as you dont like to share personel information of your home internet which is not secure as its shared.

Agent_99

Yes, You cash the "Cheque" return the 10% 3/4 weeks later the "cheque" bounces and you are overdrawn and out of pocket never to hear from them again.

Stay well clear, these work from Home Scams appear when times are tough to defraud struggling people.

other scenario is that it is a from of money laundering.

crazyderk

Ye Its a scam, I've heard of it before, you start receiving cheque's, send them the money through western union and low and behold the cheque bounces and your out of pocket, of if theyre really smart the first cheque or two of really small amounts will clear then they send you a couple of big ones which bounce, then your up sh*t creek

dlofnep

Scam. If you ever have to ask "Is this a scam?" - trust your intuition, it's a scam.

foggy_lad

This company do not know you and have not vetted you but are going to instruct their clients to forward cheques to you? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...it surely is a duck. I would not engage with them any. Further and Mark any mails from them as spam or report as phishing emails.

dudara

YES.

Moved to Work and Jobs

dudara

ei8dqb

Got this email last week and thinking about it. It seem to be to good to be true.( The monthly payment part got my attention. Anyone else looked at it.
Kieran

"Good day.We require representatives in IrelandUK for customer serviceadministrative job.No special knowledge in computerit required! No relocation fromIrelandUKrequired you will operate from your current location. EU citizens arealso welcome to apply.Job schedule is mostly in the morning or in the afternoon 2-3 hours a day.Asi Tech Innovations Inc operates in USA and develops web-products(databases c++ applications mysql) for customers from IrelandUK. Ourclients have to pay with bank payments due to the contracts. We do nothave representative office in IrelandUK. So we cannot accept payments by bank transfer inside the country.Job duties are: to receive invoice payments from our IrelandUK customers 3 times a week process it and resend to our main office.You are paid 5 percent commission from each payment + 4500 EURO base salary a month + all travel fees bank charges and taxes.You can use your own bank account for this job or open new one. It doesnt matter for us and is for your convenience.We dont ask any secure details and never ask any money to start job we are serious company and the job is 100 percent legal.You are paid commission instantly 3 times a week and based salary at the end of every month.No relocation required you can do the job in your area.Please confirm if you accept the job I will send you further details and application form.Send confirmation in format: I “name” accept this job “date”.ThanksPamela HirnerAsi Tech Innovations Inc1914 Plaza Drive # 201Eagan MN 55122-2923

Condatis

With reference to the first post in this thread I reported it, as a possible scam to the Evening Herald, which is where I saw it and replied to it.

I have had no response, not even an acknowledgement. Not a good example of responsible advertising.

ei8dqb

When you replied to the Ad. did you hear anything back from the advertiser?

I am pie

ei8dqb wrote: »

Got this email last week and thinking about it. It seem to be to good to be true.( The monthly payment part got my attention. Anyone else looked at it.
Kieran

"Good day.We require representatives in IrelandUK for customer serviceadministrative job.No special knowledge in computerit required! No relocation fromIrelandUKrequired you will operate from your current location. EU citizens arealso welcome to apply.Job schedule is mostly in the morning or in the afternoon 2-3 hours a day.Asi Tech Innovations Inc operates in USA and develops web-products(databases c++ applications mysql) for customers from IrelandUK. Ourclients have to pay with bank payments due to the contracts. We do nothave representative office in IrelandUK. So we cannot accept payments by bank transfer inside the country.Job duties are: to receive invoice payments from our IrelandUK customers 3 times a week process it and resend to our main office.You are paid 5 percent commission from each payment + 4500 EURO base salary a month + all travel fees bank charges and taxes.You can use your own bank account for this job or open new one. It doesnt matter for us and is for your convenience.We dont ask any secure details and never ask any money to start job we are serious company and the job is 100 percent legal.You are paid commission instantly 3 times a week and based salary at the end of every month.No relocation required you can do the job in your area.Please confirm if you accept the job I will send you further details and application form.Send confirmation in format: I “name” accept this job “date”.ThanksPamela HirnerAsi Tech Innovations Inc1914 Plaza Drive # 201Eagan MN 55122-2923

Look, the simple rule you can apply here is if you didn't apply for a job, attend an interview and then get formally offered the job then it's a scam.

Receving payments via cheque / invoice to pass on elsewhere is never a job and is always a scam.

silvershark

Easy to spot a scam like this - while reading it the voice in my head automatically turns to a Nigerian Accent, therefore its a scam!!

D1stant

This thread is a scam

Plazaman

D1stant wrote: »

This thread is a scam

No it is 100% genuine and legal and if you can post the following details here online we will forward a cheque for $10,000,000 that you can cash and start using as collateral in our genuine and 100% legal business.

Name :

Bank Account Number :

Sort Code :

Credit Card Number :

Valid To Date :

CSV Number :

wrmwit

Condatis wrote: »

With reference to the first post in this thread I reported it, as a possible scam to the Evening Herald, which is where I saw it and replied to it.

I have had no response, not even an acknowledgement. Not a good example of responsible advertising.

I see adds like those in newspapers everyday. Once thay get paid for the add they don't give two hoots where it's from or what it's advertising!

BikingChick

Any email asking for your personal details, including your bank data, is obviously a scam. Why would someone you don't know offer you a job? Unless you get an email from an actual job site you are registered with, it's unlikely to be a valid job offer. Also, they won't be asking you for such personal details up front, and if you are registered with a job site, they already have your basic details..

paulcdub85

Here's a thought. Say you agree to accept money in your account, maybe 5,000. you give the scammers an 085 number you've purchased for the purpose of ths transaction. Then you withdraw and pocket the money and ditch the number. Now obviously the bank will be on your case in a few weeks but the scammers are in another country there not gonna come to Ireland for 5,000. Basically scamming the scammers. Not that I'm gonna do it but it just came to mind.

f3qh5g0z6vc7ob

OP did you actually apply for this???

If so you need to contact your bank ASAP and make them aware as you have given all of your details - these people can set up fake accounts and rob everything from your bank.

BikingChick

You can't scam the scammers - there's never any real money involved. Just like the fake car scams, they will never give you any money. They may send you a cheque for too much money or send you a bank transfer and ask you to refund the difference, but the fact is, the cheque will bounce, the bank transfer will be denied and you will have given your account details to these people in the process. Identity theft anyone??

paulcdub85

I recieved one of theese emails myself. what I don't understand is how people are able to withdraw this 'money' from their accounts. I no on my own account when you lodge a cheque it will appear on the balance but you cannnot withdraw until it clears. Do some banks allow you to withdraw prior to it clearing? or are people who already have large funds on thier accounts getting stung and withdrawing thier own cash?

AnnyHallsal

paulcdub85 wrote: »

or are people who already have large funds on thier accounts getting stung and withdrawing thier own cash?

Yes. Then when the cheque doesn't clear you lose. You can't scam the scammers on this one.

Joe10000

If you do not personally know the name of the person or organisation sending you an email then delete without reading, that's the only way.

torments

I chose the user name 'torments' because I am in absolute bits since receiving a check for 6,500 euro last Friday 2/8/13. This check was delivered to me totally out of the blue by registered post and crossed payable to my personal bank account. I could not for the life of me figure out why 'John Lewis Partnership' would send me a check. I puzzled over it for hours but finally put it down to a mystery benefactor - as if. So, as I have been struggling financially these last few years I went and lodged the damn thing to my account anyway hoping in my heart that it wasn't someone's idea of a joke.

All of that day and night my mind was a blank as to why and where. Then it came to me. I checked my old emails and had my suspicions confirmed. Back in May I had answered a 'work form home' ad in my local paper.

The money still appears in my account although it's unavailable to me. But what do I do if by some miracle it clears? I have no intention of following this guys instructions to send it on via WU and besides I don't have the funds to do so without the check clearing but given my present financial position I'd be sorely tempted to make use of it myself.

I found a closed thread on here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=85340074 with different suggestions - ignore it - spend it - report it etc. My question to the board is; am I already in trouble for even lodging the check and what further trouble am I laying myself open to?

Thank you for reading.

panama

ei8dqb wrote: »

Got this email last week and thinking about it. It seem to be to good to be true.( The monthly payment part got my attention. Anyone else looked at it.
Kieran

"Good day.We require representatives in IrelandUK for customer serviceadministrative job.No special knowledge in computerit required! No relocation fromIrelandUKrequired you will operate from your current location. EU citizens arealso welcome to apply.Job schedule is mostly in the morning or in the afternoon 2-3 hours a day.Asi Tech Innovations Inc operates in USA and develops web-products(databases c++ applications mysql) for customers from IrelandUK. Ourclients have to pay with bank payments due to the contracts. We do nothave representative office in IrelandUK. So we cannot accept payments by bank transfer inside the country.Job duties are: to receive invoice payments from our IrelandUK customers 3 times a week process it and resend to our main office.You are paid 5 percent commission from each payment + 4500 EURO base salary a month + all travel fees bank charges and taxes.You can use your own bank account for this job or open new one. It doesnt matter for us and is for your convenience.We dont ask any secure details and never ask any money to start job we are serious company and the job is 100 percent legal.You are paid commission instantly 3 times a week and based salary at the end of every month.No relocation required you can do the job in your area.Please confirm if you accept the job I will send you further details and application form.Send confirmation in format: I “name” accept this job “date”.ThanksPamela HirnerAsi Tech Innovations Inc1914 Plaza Drive # 201Eagan MN 55122-2923

Do you really need to ask? :eek: Come on now. Look at the state of it.

torments

torments wrote: »

I chose the user name 'torments' because I am in absolute bits since receiving a check for 6,500 euro last Friday 2/8/13. This check was delivered to me totally out of the blue by registered post and crossed payable to my personal bank account. I could not for the life of me figure out why 'John Lewis Partnership' would send me a check. I puzzled over it for hours but finally put it down to a mystery benefactor - as if. So, as I have been struggling financially these last few years I went and lodged the damn thing to my account anyway hoping in my heart that it wasn't someone's idea of a joke.

All of that day and night my mind was a blank as to why and where. Then it came to me. I checked my old emails and had my suspicions confirmed. Back in May I had answered a 'work form home' ad in my local paper.

The money still appears in my account although it's unavailable to me. But what do I do if by some miracle it clears? I have no intention of following this guys instructions to send it on via WU and besides I don't have the funds to do so without the check clearing but given my present financial position I'd be sorely tempted to make use of it myself.

I found a closed thread on here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=85340074 with different suggestions - ignore it - spend it - report it etc. My question to the board is; am I already in trouble for even lodging the check and what further trouble am I laying myself open to?

Thank you for reading.

Don't withdraw that money, don't try to spend it, don't forward on anything - the cheque will bounce eventually and the money will be gone again and ti will be up to you make up any shortfall in your account.

Call your bank or call into the branch and tell them perhaps?

torments

Luckily the cheque didn't clear but got my bank account locked because of it. Had to report incident to garda so i can get it unlocked. Local rags are at fault here publishing ads like this. Never trustd anything on internet but always had a little faith in local press - no more!