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Job and Recruiting Scams:
Payment Officer Scam
WUJIANG WALINDA TEXTILE ACCESSORIES FACTORY IMPORT/EXPORT. CORP. CHINA
MR HANG PUNG

Have you received an email from MR HANG PUNG of "WUJIANG WALINDA TEXTILE ACCESSORIES FACTORY IMPORT/EXPORT. CORP. CHINA" in Lagos, Nigeria (or ANYWHERE else) offering you a job as a "payment/Remittance Representative", "Payment Officer", "local agent" or "local representative" in which you "receive payments", deduct your "Processing fee", deposit the checks and then wire most of the money to an overseas "company"?

It is an AFF / Money transfer Scam.  They'll send you counterfeit checks which you are supposed to deposit, take out some percentage (typically, 10%) for your work, and then MoneyGram or Western Union wire the remaining 90%. Notice that although you receive checks, they won't let you forward a check to them, only Western Union or Money Gram. There's a reason for this: Western Union and MoneyGrams are cashed immediately and are untraceable and irretrievable. Bank checks can take 1 or 2 weeks to clear!

Of course, since the check is fake, it will bounce a week or so later after you deposit it.  But you have already moneygram'ed the scammers the 90% of the amount, and that is transacted almost instantly.  So you now owe the bank for the full amount. You may also face criminal charges for passing counterfeit checks. See this page for a step-by-step explanation of how the scam unfolds.

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Notice the passages we have highlighted in the actual scam email below.  They point out some of the additional clues that it is a scam, such as the email comes from a free email account (such as Yahoo.com, Hotmail.com, Aim.com, Gmail, cox.net, etc.).  Wouldn't you expect a company to have its own website and email address (after all, it only costs about $200/year; every reputable company has its own website these days!) And don't be surprised if the scammers do put the names of real companies, real websites and events in their scams; it doesn't mean anything at all!

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Sample "Payment officer" scam emails:

From: textilaccessoriescom_1@yahoo.com.cn  and info_dept01@cox.net
Sent Monday, April 2, 2007 9:01 pm
Subject WORK WITH US.

OFFER TO ACT AS AN INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE.

I AM MR HANG PUNG MANAGING DIRECTOR OF WUJIANG WALINDA TEXTILE ACCESSORIES FACTORY
IMPORT/EXPORT. CORP. CHINA. involved in the manufacture and exportation of textile materials and export into Canada, the United States of America, Europe and Australia. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in Canada, the United States of America, Europe and Australia as well as making payments through you to us. Presently, we are having some problems with most of our client, especially with our Payment methods as most clients we have in Canada, the United States of America, Europe and Australia prefer to pay us with cheque rather than cash. We find it very cumbersome in accepting such payments due to the new monetary policy in our banking systems here in China and this is crippling our business.

We have numerous customers in Canada, the United States of America, Europe and Australia and we cannot afford to loose them due to this problem.

We hereby request for your hand in partnership to act as our payment/Remittance Representatives, to act as our agents who shall receive payment on our behalf from our customers in your region. You shall be entitled to 10% of each payment you receive on our behalf and this shall be a continuous process. Please if you are interested in transacting business with us, we will be very glad.

Please contact us for more information. Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the
opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will pay you for your services as our representative in Canada, the United States of America, Europe and Australia. Please to indicate your interests please send to us the following information about yourself. BELOW IS OUR COMPANY HEADQUARTER WUJIANG WALINDA TEXTILE ACCESSORIES FACTORY IMPORT/EXPORT. CORP. CHINA. Ltd. No. 5 The Third District Nanshan Road, Shengze, Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province. China. Please if you are interested forward to us your

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Upon receipt of this requested information I shall provide
you with the necessary details of how to become our representative. MANAGING DIRECTOR. textilaccessoriescom_1@yahoo.com.cn
WUJIANG WALINDA TEXTILE ACCESSORIES FACTORY
IMPORT/EXPORT. CORP. CHINA.

Thanks In advance
Yours sincerely,
MR HANG PUNG

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Other Jobs Scams

There are a variety of sleazy scams that look, at first glance, like legitimate job offers.  Before you write back to them, pause a moment and read about the scams below!

Some of the more common job scams are

• multilevel marketing - Primamerica
• credit card applications (in particular, one from "Grey Marketing Team")
• 30biz.com
• Liberty National Recruiting
• Also see these Spam job emails