Tax Evasion or

[Emily]

Money Laundering or what? http://www.achome.co.uk These emails are getting more imaginative.


Dear Sir/Madam,
Achome art and craft International Limited is a UK company.We produce and distribute art and craft product such as furniture, lighting, fabrics, wallpapers, carpets, ceramics, clocks, mirrors, prints, paints, books, tiles, metalware etc. and associated gifts and cards. worldwide.We have reached big sales volume of art and craft product in the Europe and now are trying to penetrate the US market. Quite soon we will open representative offices or authorized sales centers in the US and therefore we are currently looking for people who will assist us in establishing a new distribution network there. The fact is that despite the US market is new for us we already have regular clients also speaks for itself.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FOR US?
The international money transfer tax for legal entities (companies) in UK is 25%, whereas for the individual it is only 7%.There is no sense for us to work this way, while tax for international money transfer made by a private individual is 7% .That's why we need you! We need agents to receive payment for our craft product ( in money orders,check or bank wire transfers) and to resend the money to us via Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer.This way we will save money because of tax decreasing.

JOB DESCRIPTION?
1. Recieve payment from Clients
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the
offices you will be contacted to send payment to(Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer).

HOW MUCH WILL YOU EARN?
10% from each operation! For instance: you receive 5000 USD via checks or money orders on our behalf. You will cash the money and keep $500 (10% from $5000) for yourself! At the beginning your commission will equal 10%, though later it will increase up to 12%!
ADVANTAGES:
You do not have to go out as you will work as an
independent contractor right from your home office. Your job is absolutely legal. You can earn up to $3000-4000 monthly depending on time you will spend for this job.
You do not need any capital to start.You can do the Work easily without leaving or affecting your present Job.The employees who make efforts and work hard have a strong possibility to become managers. Anyway our employees never leave us due to our excellent work condition.

MAIN REQUIREMENTS:
18 years or older legally capable responsible ready to work 3-4 hours per week.with PC knowledge e-mail and internet experience (minimum) . And please know that everything is absolutely legal, that's why You have to fill a contract! If you are interested in our offer, please respond with the following details inorder for us to reach you:
NAME:
CONTACT ADDRESS(Including City/State/Zipcode):
PHONE NUMBERS:
OCCUPATION:
AGE:
SEX:
Thanks for your anticipated action.And we
hope to hear back from you.
YOU ARE TO SEND YOUR REPLY TO MY ALTERNATE/PRIVATE EMAIL :
E-mail: achome_artandcraft@yahoo.co.uk

Very Respectfully,
Mr Mark Golding
President,
Achome art and craft International Limited
9 GLEBE STREET, CHISWICK LONDON W4 2BH ENGLAND
Phone: +44-702-405-1401 .

 

[RichM]

I think I read somewhere that sometimes these are e-bay scammers that post auctions and never ship anything and they're just looking for a few good bag-men... You end up taking the fall for receiving the money and not delivering a product. Could be wrong, though - either way it sounds shady.


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[johnmfaeth]

Varient of Nigerian Scam

This is a VERY popular scam that has many European victims.

What they do is hijack the routing number and account number of a legitimate businesses checking account. They print checks using those numbers. They send you the checks at the beginning of a month, you deposit them, in a few days, the checks clear just fine and you send them their 90% from the cleared funds using a cash-equivalent method (western union).

Eventually, the legitimate business can't balance it's books at month end closing. They investigate, discover the checks and their bank, and then yours zeroes out the deposits.

You then lose all the money you sent them and have to pay your bank back 100%. It's your personal liability that you deposited phony checks. If you don't have the money, no problem for them, they get a judgement and go after your house, car, and other assets. Banks are not very understanding when it comes to their money.

Meanwhile, the scammer is long gone and is partying it up in Lagos.

Like 90% of these schemes, they are based out of Nigeria, the world's capital of email scams.

If it's too good to be true, that's only because it isn't true....

John Faeth

 

[Emily]

What if www.achome is a legitimate business or web based business. What keeps these nigerian scammers from sending out info under the name of legit businesses and signing people up under thier "private" email accounts.

I'm not saying that is what is going on here - I don't know if achome is legit or not (they have a fairly elaborate webpage which was not included in the email - I had to do a search for it).

This is so deviant. . . ugh .

We have a webpage for our business, kind of a worrisome thought.

 

[Bill4728]

THe key part of this scam is the wiring by Western Union. When you wire using western union you are sending CASH. It not like sending a check which has to clear. You're sending cash. So the scammer is receiving cash

You would never take a check from someone off the street, deposit it and give them cash. Why would anyone do the same thing for some unknown person at the end of an E-Mail?

 

[Dave M]

What if www.achome is a legitimate business or web based business. What keeps these nigerian scammers from sending out info under the name of legit businesses and signing people up under thier "private" email accounts.

Nothing keeps them from doing that. They do it!

That's why most of us receive e-mail messages purported to be from eBay, PayPal, various banks, credit card companies and other legitimate businesses asking us to click on the link and log in to verify something. Once click on the link and log in to the fake website (that looks identical to the real website), your info will be used to scam you.

That's why the standard advice is to never log into an account from a link in an e-mail message. Always access the website independently before you log in.

 

[Icarus]

It's a total scam.

Legit businesses don't need individuals to cash their checks using their personal accounts.

Multi-national legit businesses know how to conduct business in a tax advantaged manner.

Legit businesses don't send their money to individuals that can keep it. They use effective accounting controls to avoid that.

And the main tip-off, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Nobody is going to give you a 10% fee for handling their money if they are legit.

-David

 

[stevedmatt]

Has anyone here ever tried to do this and just take the money?

When you get the check and deposit it, just cut off ties with the "company" and not send them anything.

I would think that this could appear to be legitamate by them actually sending you a couple small checks at first, then they get you with a BIG check.

Why not scam the scammers?

 

[Dave M]

That won't work. None of their checks are valid. And if you deposit even one such check, you'll get likely get charged a fee by your bank when the check bounces.

Further, once you respond positively to one of these schemes, you can be pretty sure your contact info has been added to lists that will be shared with many other scammers.

 

[johnmfaeth]

I actually got a check once for an EBay sale. Was a $800 timeshare rental and they sent a $5,700 check. Looked real good, just charged to someone else's business account was the only minor issue (done via the routing and account numbers).

If you know a large $ check is a fraud and deposit it anyway to get the money, they call that a felony here in NJ.

The scammer never has a penny at risk to defraud, only the other victim in this one (the legit business) has money in their checking account.

PS. Dave, read my first posting carefully, they are hijacking a legitimate, well funded business checking account, only when other checks start bouncing, or the end of the month happens, will anyone even look into it. You can have the cash from one of these checks for three weeks before it's detected and charged back.

That's the entire angle, the delay caused by this "discovery" process makes the victim think that everything is cool...after all the check cleared just fine...