Work At Home Scam

Today, a work at home scam came in my email. I thought I would show you what it looks like because in my article "New Twist On An Old Scam", I wrote about this scam.

Basically, the person presents what looks like a legitimate work opportunity.
They use a familiar company name and say they are seeking work at home accounting or bookkeeping help.
They then set up quite an elaborate system, sending you what looks like legitimate work to do. They begin with accounts recievable, recieving payments for the bogus company.
They then send fraudulent cheques to deposit.
They ask you to send them the money via money order or similiar immediately.
You withdraw the amount you can keep for "your services" and send the rest to them.

However, you have to withdraw the money before the cheque they sent you has cleared. By the time you find out the deposit/s were fake, they are spending your money.
You end up being responsible for the amount you gave them and took for yourself as well as being responsible for depositing fraudulent cheques.

It is a disgusting scam and the people who run it should be ashamed. They are cashing in on people who need to make money. How low is that?

Anyway, here is the e-mail I recieved. Again, THIS IS A SCAM. I have left out the contact email address they put at the top and company name they used. Never respond to this kind of email.

Interested Applicant,
Can you work from home?Do you think fast?Can you assess and undertake assigned duties carefully and comfortably?

Then you have a chance to work with us at ****** Furniture.We are currently seeking 300 part time employees for our ever-growing Accounts Receivable Department. Through extensive demographic research, we have discovered a wealth of untapped human resources that, for one reason or another, need the freedom to work from home.

Your primary task for now , as a representative of the company is to coordinate payments from customers and cordinate the payment process. Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to the customer. After this has been done, the customer has to pay for the products but in most cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items they order for.About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Transfers (Bank Transfers/Credit Card Transfers/Wire Transfers) or Checks (Certified Checks/Money Orders) drawn from the United State. Because of the increasing number of clients, we have decided to open this new contract -to-hire job position

Your First Primary task(Collection of Payments):
1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
2. Process Payments at your Bank or any cashing facilities near you.
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,

Get back to us with information below information , so that we can add your mailing address to our Regional database and forward it to our customers for them to send payments.
First Name:
Middle Name:
Last NameAddress Line
1:Address Line
2:City:State:
Zip/Postal Code:
Bank Name:
Home Phone:
Cell Phone:

YOUR PREFERRED MODE OF COMMUNICATION EITHER BY PHONE OR BY EMAIL
Thanks For Your Understanding.
Dr Wesley Brainaid
Human Resource Dept
Regional Manager


Beware of the above email and any email similiar, they are scams.