Another Scam?
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Silverspark

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22 posts

221 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Sorry if this is a repost, but I received the following e-mail this morning. References to a checking account as opposed to a current account, together with the odd punctuation mistake make me suspicious.

Any comments?

[i]BellHouse Fabrics & Interiors-
Cranbrook,Kent. UK - TN17 3DN

My name is Richard Cooper, I am emailing you on behalf of BellHouse Fabrics & Interiors, United Kingdom. I would like to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job or even affecting your day-to-day activities of any kind, actually we need a representative who can work for our company as an Online Payment Processor.

We are presently making waves in the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland fabric markets, we intend expanding our business towards the United States of America by accepting orders from both individuals and companies within USA. We recently placed Ad's on online websites for sales of our fabrics and got a very good number of requests for our products,however it is against

our company policy to accept International Payments such as : UK Bank Wire Transfer , USA Bank Wire Transfers. Therefore, we are requesting your partnership to assist in receiving payments on behalf of our company.

We are willing to pay you 10% for every payment processed through you from our clients/customers who will pay for their products which are purchased from our secure website stated above. These payments are coming from these clients within USA and will be sent to you directly from our customers, all you have to do is lodge and cash each payment, deduct 10% and forward 90% to our Payment Processing Center via Western Union Money Transfer / MoneyGram Money Transfer. All sending fee's are to be deducted from our 90%, however you will be required to have a valid checking account in which our customers might request to make payment either via Wire Transfer (Bank to Bank Transfer) or either via Certified Check.

You do not require any special skills to work with our firm, however in order to apply for this job you need to ensure you have access to your e-mail regularly and reply to our e-mails promptly.

You will also need to provide us with a valid phone in which you can be reached at anytime in case of any special update, in order to accept this job kindly fill the form stated below :

Full Name :
Address : .
City :
State :
Country :
Zip Code :
Phone Number :
Age :
Current Occupation :
Bank Name:

P.S: You must have a valid checking account in which can be used to receive payments being sent from a customer, this might be via Wire Transfer or Direct Deposit. Kindly get back to me ASAP by filling the form stated above, once i hear from you i will immediately send you a reply with further information.

Regards,

Richard Cooper.[/i]

escargot

17,123 posts

246 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Yes.

padgett

434 posts

259 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Yes, of course it's a scam.

Sheets Tabuer

21,387 posts

244 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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:facepalm:

10 Pence Short

32,880 posts

246 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Richard Cooper is a very good friend of mine and this is not a scam.

Maxf

8,443 posts

270 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Silverspark said:
References to a checking account as opposed to a current account, together with the odd punctuation mistake make me suspicious.
So if he said 'current account' and got someone to proof read you'd think it was ok?

Facepalm indeed.

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

257 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Good ol' Rich. Was out with him the other day. Here's a pic of him to show you he is genuine:


Scott328i

18,288 posts

230 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Richard is my brother.

I can't believe he is undercutting me. I usually do it for 15%.

At least you would know I am genuine though.

George.

Six Fiend

6,067 posts

244 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Isn't silver normally bright? wink

esselte

14,626 posts

296 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Surely you have to ask yourself why would a bona fide company need Joe Bloggs to process payments and take 10%?

oobster

7,676 posts

240 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Six Fiend said:
Isn't silver normally bright? wink
biglaugh

bigandclever

14,337 posts

267 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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It was Viscan Sammy when I got it.

M3CHA-MONK3Y

6,095 posts

224 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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TankRizzo

8,012 posts

222 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Yes, very real, random companies always offer to give you large sums of money for doing sod-all.

norman156

2,097 posts

225 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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I know the chap, I think he also goes by the name of George



Sorry had to be done...

ianash

3,286 posts

212 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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Some people get all the luck. I never get business opportunities like this offered to me.

shakotan

10,862 posts

225 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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norman156 said:
I know the chap, I think he also goes by the name of George



Sorry had to be done...
Is it wrong that when I read the main part of the O/P, I had George's voice narrating it in my head?

Chris_H

1,065 posts

307 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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You access stolen bank accounts obtained via phishing, transfer the balance into your account, send 90% to the fraudsters bank account, retain 10%, sit back and wait for the police.

Seademon

1,168 posts

242 months

Tuesday 27th January 2009
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I can never understand why people ask such stupid questions on a public forum when the answer is so obvious rolleyes