Legit or scam

[Unregistered]

Pleasant day,

This is Quanzhoustore Company Ltd. We extract raw materials from Africa
for
production of textile and fabrics which we supply to our clients in the
North American geographical region (United States) and united Kingdom for
cloth making.

Now we are looking for some representatives over there who can help us
receive payments from our customers.This wouldn't affect your present
state
of work through, we are working on setting up some branches over there
but
for now we need someone who will be handling that aspect, We need people
that are responsible and reliable.

Our main factory is located in Africa where we extract raw materials
needed
for the manufacturing of fabrics,

We are willing to pay 5% for any payment you receive and you can still
keep
your regular job while you work for us. All you will do is to receive
payments from our customers over there.

When those payment been made do deduct 10% and wire the rest to us. But
sometimes the FBI gets involved incase someone tries to run with our
money.We hope that is okay, If you are interested we will send you an
employment letter which you are to sign and send back to me as soon as
possible then you have to furnish us with those reqiuremants.

1.Your full name and full contact address.

2.Privite phone number and email address.

3.what do you do for a living presently?

(4) What Bank do you Bank with?

ATTN: It wouldnt cost you any cent, you are to receive payments which
will
be sent to you from our business partners. Please if you are interested
kindly mail us back.

Best regards

Thanks Quanzhoustore Company LTD



Are there companies hiring in this manner? I have received several offers of employment like this after posting my resume on line.

thanks.

[George Dixon]

100% total scam. They send you fake cheques or money orders to bank, you are then expected to deduct your 'commission' and send the balance via Western Union or similar wire service. After a time the cheque bounces and you are liable to the bank for the total amount.

[Aeval]

Hello there and welcome to FraudWatchers!

The message that you posted here is a scam, commonly known at the "Representative" scam.

After providing your personal information to the scammers (and letting it fall into the worst hands of all), you will then start receiving checks. You may receive those from either the scammers (the checks will be forgeries), or from other victims of the same group (thus faciliating the scamming of other victims). You will be asked to cash\deposit the checks into your own account and then after keeping your percentage, to wire the rest via Western Union to the scammers.

Unfortunately, once you post your resume online, you are bound to receive messages like that. Scammers have made themselves at home on career building sites and they are having a field day with offering people those kinds of "jobs".

Of course, the consequences of actually engaging in business with those people can be pretty damaging. You would be participating in a criminal enterprise, cashing forged\stolen checks and exposing yourself not only to civil liability to your bank, but also to criminal consequences should this be reported to a law enforcement agency.

It is a scam. Don't fall for it. The best thing to do is to advise the website where you posted your resume about the receipt of that message. You may feel free to point them to FraudWatchers and to my explanation here.

Should you have any more questions, feel free to ask. :)

[Browade]

Hello Unregistered,
Welcome to FraudWatchers. The other guys have pretty well covered your question; but let me add a little more. Some of these representative scams, in fact most of them are done by gangs who have members scattered in many different countires. Each gang member doing his or her little part in the scam. In some cases, once the wheels get rolling, it takes a while for the scammers to stop them. The result is that some victims receive the counterfeit checks even though they did not fall for the scam.

If this happens to you, just take the check to the local police and file a report. Do not under any circumstances deposit the check to see if it is good. Many of these checks are digitally reproduced from real cashiers checks and money orders. As a result, they are not usually caught until they get back to the company they are written on; and some accountant notices that the books have been all gummed up because several checks were issued with the same number etc. This may take months to happen; but when it does the bank and the police will be comming for you to answer for it since you passed the bad check.