Title: Dodgy? Post by: Poppet7 on January 04, 2007, 01:33:30 PM I've been looking for jobs recently and came across an advert that required a babysitter/nanny for 5 days a week, 9.30-5. It all seemed ok until I was offered £500 a week + travelling expenses. It seemed a bit OTT to me. Anyway he has now emailed me this and don't really know what I should do.
I want you to send me your full name and your contact address, and your phone number, because there is an assignment for you, this assignment is what can delay our coming ,its all about our house furniture and our cars and including the car that we would be given to you to make everything easy for you and some house equipments , futures of our home and yours too, and 2 cars which one of the 2 belongs to you and some other things that we bought like Child care stuff in United States, they have been given to the shipper to ship to our new house in the Uk, so the shipper is waiting for the shipping fee before they can ship them to the new house. and there is a client of my an INSURANCE COMPANY in UK WHICH is responsible for all of our traveling expenses, they have agreed to pay the shipper the shipping fee via cheque or money order, so if you are taking up the position, the issue is that you have to do something on our behalf as your first assignment and we would pay you for it, this will hasting our coming and to make everything work effectively, I will instruct the INSURANCE COMPANY to issue the payment to you. so you see, you will just have to cash the money, that is meant to be sent to the shipper of our cars and the house properties that we have already bought in United States,although the money was suppose to be sent to the shipper directly but the shipper is not in uk and my father-in-law that could have been of help to cash it by himself is currently in Belgium now so you will have to take up this assignment ,I have already talked with my father-in-law concerning you that you are capable of doing it, so you have to prove me right in his sight by being honest and he said he would talk with his INSURANCE COMPANY in uk to issue you THE FUNDS and you cash it and send the money to the shipper for the shipping, so the payment is going to be from his revenue that they generate for him every month and its going to be via cheque, so your full name and address, would be needed and your phone number???? but you would have to be honest b'cos he said that the amount that this insurance company is going to pay out is £5500, so You should take £800 for your preparations, and for any other thing you might need to put in places before your coming, so your coming would be effective the whole money to be sent is £4700.so use £800 for all your processing and send the rest of his money through Money Gram or Western union money transfer, you should search for money gram or western union outlet near to your area and send the rest of the money which is £4700 to our shipping agent in United States for shipping of the rest of our house properties and the cars including the Child care stuff and some art works drawing and some decorations we just purchased for the new house that we are moving into in your area pls send the rest of the money to shipper immediately b'cos my Father-in-Law is strict about his money and he does not joke with his funds at all .. So you would go on with the processing with that £800 , and if you now need more money, then he will send it to you again, that one is like your own benefit of helping us to do the assignment. so your full contact name and address and phone number is needed for the cashier cheque to be written on your name and get to your hand ? and in case of you not having a bank account to deposit the money order or cheque, then maybe you should try and get someone who you trust that can help you cash the money and send the person's name and contact address and phone number alone and the client would issue it to what ever name you send to me but just be sure of the person that you trust, provide everything i ask in time so you can have your traveling payment in time and by sending the rest to shipper of our properties in United States so that it can be shipped to UK in time...okay, so answer without wasting time . Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Jim-D on January 04, 2007, 01:39:23 PM I dont get it?
Sounds a bit fishy to me. Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: byronkincaid on January 04, 2007, 01:40:02 PM stolen or forged cheque to you, you pay out money, bank calls you and says sorry dodgy cheque you owe us £4700.
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: TightEnd on January 04, 2007, 01:42:07 PM I think it all sounds perfectly above board and you should drop everything and go for it.
Make sure you use your real name and address and I would write it neatly too, just to make sure afterwards everyone knows who is fencing the forged goods for the criminal Happy to help Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Colchester Kev on January 04, 2007, 01:42:39 PM PM Thewy, he will cash it for ya.
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Rod Paradise on January 04, 2007, 01:43:59 PM stolen or forged cheque to you, you pay out money, bank calls you and says sorry dodgy cheque you owe us £4700. ;iagree; Tighty ;yellowcard; ;) Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: FlyingPig on January 04, 2007, 01:45:58 PM Amazing the lenghs some people will go to for a scam. They are all the same, jusr disguised in different ways.
Stay well away from it. Report it to wherever you seen the job advert. If it seems to good to be true, it most probably is. Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: kinboshi on January 04, 2007, 01:55:48 PM Send me your cheque, and I'll sort it for you... ;whistle;
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: boldie on January 04, 2007, 02:02:27 PM Send me your cheque, and I'll sort it for you... ;whistle; yep...I would also have no problem getting the thing cashed for you.....easy peasy. Hmmm..maybe I should get new friends? Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: doubleup on January 04, 2007, 02:12:52 PM Just write back saying that you're sorry but you couldn't possibly work for someone who doesn't know what a paragraph is.
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Nem on January 04, 2007, 02:14:35 PM Just write back saying that you're sorry but you couldn't possibly work for someone who doesn't know what a paragraph is. rotflmfao Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Poppet7 on January 04, 2007, 02:15:12 PM OK, I'm gonna email him and say no ta :)
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Graham C on January 04, 2007, 02:18:46 PM For a nannying job, I would think it's probably better and safer to go through an agency. Check them out first before applying to them too.
Good luck Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Poppet7 on January 04, 2007, 02:20:07 PM OK, done! I told him that I applied to look after his kids, not handle thousands of pounds and carry out seemingly dodgy 'assignments'.
I also told him to use paragraphs in the future* (*Not neccesarily true!) Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: I KNOW IT on January 04, 2007, 02:33:26 PM So if someone falls for this con, you might be held partially to blame. Due to the fact youve educated him on the use of paragraphs, making his scam appear more realistic. :)
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: boldie on January 04, 2007, 02:35:39 PM So if someone falls for this con, you might be held partially to blame. Due to the fact youve educated him on the use of paragraphs, making his scam appear more realistic. :) yep...Poppet will be visiting MIkkyT for a long time soon ;) Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Ginger on January 04, 2007, 02:45:00 PM So if someone falls for this con, you might be held partially to blame. Due to the fact youve educated him on the use of paragraphs, making his scam appear more realistic. :) yep...Poppet will be visiting MIkkyT for a long time soon ;) Poppet is going to see his Nan too? Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Poppet7 on January 04, 2007, 02:55:04 PM I'm gonna apply for dfs instead, seems more normal!
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: kinboshi on January 04, 2007, 03:50:30 PM I'm gonna apply for dfs instead, seems more normal! You can work with Martin Kemp. Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Poppet7 on January 04, 2007, 04:14:10 PM I was thinking that but he actually advertises SCS, not DFS
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: Sheriff Fatman on January 04, 2007, 04:22:43 PM If you get a job at DFS can you post on a day when there ISN'T a sale on, just to satisfy my curiousity as to whether one actually does exist?
Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: barhell on January 04, 2007, 10:32:54 PM I must admit i've never known a Nanny to have assignments.
The way that is written makes it sound like "This is your mission should you choose to accept it". Title: Re: Dodgy? Post by: bhoywonder on January 05, 2007, 10:06:51 AM If you get a job at DFS can you post on a day when there ISN'T a sale on, just to satisfy my curiousity as to whether one actually does exist? LOL surely you are wrong sale must end this weekend just seen it on the telly |