Posted on 10/27/2007 6:38:09 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb
Hello,
I am writing to inquire if you might be interested in part-time employment in the field of accounting/clerical services.
Our firm is a major Russian investment bank and asset management company, is looking for responsible and determined individuals to fill the specialist and associate positions within the Receivables department of our Transactions/Finance group in the United States. As a specialist or associate, you will be in charge of monitoring and processing funds transfers initiated by our US clients and reporting to the Receivables department manager in Russia. We are looking for numerate individuals who are also capable team-players, preferably with some college education and/or previous accounting/clerical experience.
The position is entirely home-based, and no relocation is required from the successful candidate. This role does not involve any fixed working hours and is suitable for senior citizens or self-employed individuals.
Our company is a leading Russian asset manager and investment bank located in Moscow (Russia) with a subsidiary office in Vilnius (Lithuania), and a local representative in Nicosia (Cyprus). Our mission is to provide investors with reduced emerging market risk and superior returns through broad diversification and conscious risk-taking.
The position on offer is commission-based. Typically, you will be expected to dedicate up to 8 hours per week to your duties, part of which should be regular business hours. Your core responsibility will be to receive investment funds from our US clients into your designated bank account, reconcile the payments and obtain the transaction documentation from your supervisor, and transfer specified funds into our managed investment accounts as instructed. You will be in charge of contacting your bank in order to obtain transfer status information, confirmations and account activity reports, as well as handling daily communications with your bank.
You will receive a flat-rate 2% commission from the gross amount of each transfer that is remitted into your designated account (for instance, if $10,000 is credited into your account, you will be retaining a commission of $200), plus we will cover any funds transfer fees. Your commission is available immediately, so there is no need to wait for the payroll check in the end of the month.
It should be underlined that all monies that you will receive will come from verifiable entities within the US. The funds that you will handle will comprise of stake purchase at our managed funds, funds given into trust management and various fees that are charged on our clients. You will receive funds via secure electronic Wire transfer used by major US banks for funds and securities settlement. This means that no funds will be deposited into your account unless the transaction is reviewed and confirmed both by the remitting and recipient banks. Thus, there is no risk on your end. You will never be required to cash a check, make a remittance before the funds are cleared into your account or engage in any other financially risky activity.
It should also be understood that being a foreign entity, EncoTrust is not subject to the US IRS supervision. You will be the sole person liable for reporting the commissions that you receive as your personal or business income.
In order to qualify for the position, you must be a permanent US resident aged 21 and above and have an existing personal/business banking relationship with a US bank. Since most communication with your supervisor will be via email/fax/phone, you should have access to these facilities and be reachable during regular business hours. Business owners utilizing business bank accounts will be subject to higher receivables turnover, and thus, higher commissions.
To apply for this position and for more information on our company, please fax your resume and (optionally) cover letter to: (267) 316-5784. Don't forget to inclued our email address.
Please note that only applicants under serious consideration will be contacted.
Food for thought. Commence to talking amongst yerselves.
You’re right about a new take on the Nigerian scam, except worse. They’re making offers of employment online, taking your SSN (or SIN in Canada) and stealing your identity.
I got that one about a week ago. I read over it because it looked different from the usual scams. It is likely the same people using a different angle.
Since it looks and sounds like a legitimate email, they might be hoping that your spam filter will whitelist their email address, opening the way for more traditional spam to make its way through to you.
Go for it!
I can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl!
LOL!
“Go for it” like hell, think money laundering!!!!!!!!!!
It's a fraud known as a "Secret Shopper" scam.
I have a better proposal for you. Let’s just eliminate all doubt, unnecessary paperwork, phone calls and headaches.
Just withdraw all of your cash from any accounts you may have and send it to me for “safekeeping.” I’ll ensure that no scam artists ever touch it.
They want your bank account numbers.
Money talks, and in this case, it would be saying, “Buh bye.”
LOL... sky's the limit!
Which means, of course, that I won't be reporting it. Of course there won't be anything not to report, but the offer is so tempting (especially since I've been out of work for the past twelve months and desperately need a job where I can work from home) that I've got to give it a shot. Who knows? It's either legitimate or not, so I've got a 50/50 chance!
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Uh, right. This should be setting off alarms for you, FRiend.
It's a very well put together money laundering scam.
The vast majority of them have been coming from the UK. I’ve received them from a number of other countries as well.
The letters are all very similar and they do attempt to put on a legitimate front. Of course, I’m certain they are not.
I suspect that they may be tapping into on-line employment boards like Monster, etc.
See #9. There was an expose of this scam on one of our local news outlets a few weeks ago after a gullible woman found herself thousands of dollars in debt.
Money well spent, if she gets wise as a result.
I got such an offer. When the check came, it was drawn on a Wachovia bank. I called Wachovia and asked them if they could tell me if the check was good. The number for Wachovia printed on the check was disconnected. So I took the check to my bank and asked them if there was any way they could validate it. They said no, but that this was a pretty common scam. So I gave them the check, got a photocopy of it, took it to the local Bunko squad, along with all the supporting documentation, and handed it over. They said they would forward it to the state attorney general’s Fraud Division, as well as to the FBI, but that since it was international — the check supposedly came from Canada — there was little they could do to prosecute.
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