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« 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?Huh? 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 .


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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2007, 01:39:23 PM »

I dont get it?


Sounds a bit fishy to me.
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« Reply #2 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.
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« Reply #3 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

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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2007, 01:42:39 PM »

PM Thewy, he will cash it for ya.
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« Reply #5 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.

 

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« Reply #6 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.
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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2007, 01:55:48 PM »

Send me your cheque, and I'll sort it for you...
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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2007, 02:02:27 PM »

Send me your cheque, and I'll sort it for you...

yep...I would also have no problem getting the thing cashed for you.....easy peasy.

Hmmm..maybe I should get new friends?


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« Reply #9 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.
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« Reply #10 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.

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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2007, 02:15:12 PM »

OK, I'm gonna email him and say no ta Smiley
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« Reply #12 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.

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« Reply #13 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*

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« Reply #14 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. Smiley
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