Is this a real job in the financial sector?

[456GT]

I've recently been sent this email after I had signed up to a job board. This is a link to the website of the company offering the 'job'.

http://www.solutionservices-ltd.net/job/finance2?l...

To give you a gist of the the role, you are there to transfer money. There will be a transfer into your own bank account of which you keep 8%, withdraw the rest and send it via Money Gram or Western Union.

It sounds very dodgy but if it is a scam, how does it work? The other concerning thing is that the job board has passed my details on to this sort of company.

[illmonkey]

456GT said:

I've recently been sent this email after I had signed up to a job board. This is a link to the website of the company offering the 'job'.

http://www.solutionservices-ltd.net/job/finance2?l...

To give you a gist of the the role, you are there to transfer money. There will be a transfer into your own bank account of which you keep 8%, withdraw the rest and send it via Money Gram or Western Union.

It sounds very dodgy but if it is a scam, how does it work? The other concerning thing is that the job board has passed my details on to this sort of company.

Are you joking? Screams money laundering!

[98elise]

Can you think of any circumstance where a company or individual would have a legitimate reason for passing money through your bank account, and give you 8% for the pleasure?

You will be the middle man in a money laundering process, and the police will not be taking "I didn't know" as an excuse.

[bigandclever]

You really shouldn't need to ask if this is legit or not

Anyway, here's an example of how 'money mules' are used ... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/wash-hospital-...

[AceOfHearts]

What would happen if you opened a new bank account, got the 'job', accepted the money but just closed the account and ran away?

[456GT]

Thanks for the input guys. You've confirmed the suspicions! I've come across the normal scam emails but this is the most elaborate one I've seen.

Just a bit alarming that this is the sort of thing you get sent after you sign up to a job board...

[V8mate]

AceOfHearts said:

What would happen if you opened a new bank account, got the 'job', accepted the money but just closed the account and ran away?

Liam Neeson would come after you. And when he finds you, and he will find you, he'll hand you over to Bricktop.

[AceOfHearts]

I just showed this to a work colleague, and he pointed me to this site:

http://www.419eater.com/

A whole forum dedicated to wasting scammers time and money to teach them a lesson Apparently they even talked one into getting a tattoo!

[Meltham Terrier]

Corporate HQ of money launders are us.

[russ_a]

Look how guilty that kid looks!

[Lynch91]

The bbc had an article on this not too long ago and a lot of students were getting caught doing this, anyone who got caught got a criminal conviction and as above its money laundering

Edit to add link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21578985

Edited by Lynch91 on Tuesday 22 October 20:37

[Steffan]

456GT said:

I've recently been sent this email after I had signed up to a job board. This is a link to the website of the company offering the 'job'.

http://www.solutionservices-ltd.net/job/finance2?l...

To give you a gist of the the role, you are there to transfer money. There will be a transfer into your own bank account of which you keep 8%, withdraw the rest and send it via Money Gram or Western Union.

It sounds very dodgy but if it is a scam, how does it work? The other concerning thing is that the job board has passed my details on to this sort of company.

From all the pretty reasonable dissertations on here suggesting scam scammy scam and money laundering as the almost certain reality of these nonsense proposals,I assume you have decided not to touch this with a 12 foot bargepole. If something on the internet looks to good to be true it almost always is too good too be true. This is too good to be true. Avoid it.

[456GT]

Steffan said:

From all the pretty reasonable dissertations on here suggesting scam scammy scam and money laundering as the almost certain reality of these nonsense proposals,I assume you have decided not to touch this with a 12 foot bargepole. If something on the internet looks to good to be true it almost always is too good too be true. This is too good to be true. Avoid it.

I had already decided not to touch with it with a barge pole of any length. It's just that the elaborateness got my attention and I thought it would be worthy of discussion; people may not have heard about how money laundering actually works and how it could be easy to get cought up in it.