Is this legal? Is there anyone who has followed instructions completely after getting money grams?

My cousin's sister's nephew's brother, got an email from some dude in Africa, offering a P/T job for recordkeeping for a textile company that sells woven horse hair products all over the world. For some reason the only people in the world who can cash the pmts. are Americans and are recruited to receive money orders worth thousands of dollars. Using personal bank accts. to deposit (cash)a portion of the amount and the other portion is to be sent to this dudes personal assistant by way of western union. In turn for doing this the bookkeeper keeps 10% as payment for duties. The money orders are legal and the African dude calls as soon as you reply to the job ad. Now, as I understand it from my cousin's, sister's, nephew's, brother, the dude is hard to understand since he speaks very low with thick accent reminding me, of a voodoo doctor hissing "do you understand these instructions?" Has anyone followed through with this? Or is anyone alive who did not ? Thats just what i heard

Oldmansea

its legal to get all your funds withdrawn and the bank overdraws an additional amount and your stuck with paying the bank back. as for the fee the checks are a come on....don't do it.

Notorious

Oh please! IF ITS SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE THEN IT IS! TRY WATCHING THE MAGAZINE SHOWS LIKE DATELINE ON NBC, ETC. YOU MAY REALLY LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT SCAMS. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HONEST ABOUT THIS. IF YOU AND YOUR LOVE ONES ARE WILLING TO LOSE HARD EARNED MONEY, THEN GO AHEAD.
These people are very good with their scams. Not only do they send out these e-mails, they scan Craigslist looking for home and apartment rental ads. Someone I know had an apt. for rent on Craigslist and got several e-mails stemming from London from a so called engineer who was locating to NYC for work and there was this company paying all his expenses, so she got leases prepared, Fed-exed them to London and low and behold received a large check with a request (his company had issued his check in full to her) to send back to him via Western Union the so called $5,000. in excess that she had received. The only reason she did not lose more that $50 for depositing a fraudulent check from her bank was because she didn't have $5000. to send right away and was waiting for the check to clear in order to send this crook the money.

She lost precious time getting her apt. rented and she had a lot of explaining to do to her bank about the check. Ironically the check she received was a US check that when I helped her research it on the Internet, there was indeed a full report from the US bank warning people about a series of their checks that had been compromised for this scam.

gekkedodo

It's a very typical scam. One of many. You will never receive anything but lose it all. Take a look at this website: http://www.data-wales.co.uk/nigerian.htm. It tells you all about different form of scams, known scammers (their used email addresses, banks, tips to recognize them and much more). I found it very use full when I wanted to check out someone. But FIRST: stop all contacts with this man! You either will be completely broke and/or arrested for money laundering!

ScamBuster

it's a scam.

To Avoid scams here is what i tell people...
All spam emails/unsolicited phone calls/letters and faxes are scams.
As a general rule - ANYTHING involving Western Union/money gram = Scam.
my Advice: Don't deal with anyone out of state or from a foreign country or Accept or cash checks from strangers and never use wire/bank transfer services.. you risk losing your $$ and your mind.
Remember, if it sounds too good
to be true, it probably is! NEVER(ever) give out your personal information to strangers online or offline! Always be on guard.

S-CHEMING
C-RAFTY
A-GGRESSIVE
M-ALICIOUS

Noell

No, it's a total scam. A very common one, too.

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