A scam email that I received and what to watch out for if you receive one, too.
Using the below email scam that was sent to me, I will point out some key things that told me it was a scam. You can skip the below paragraph and just look below it to see the key things I am pointing out.
Grandy’s Epack Corp. is now hiring Financial Assistant to help operate international payments.Freelancing today is what we all want to promote, freedom is what we all want to obtain. You don’t have to struggle the traffic and spend the whole day in a stuffy office. All you need is PC handy and enthusiasm. The duties imply accepting payments from our US and AuStralia clients and resending to designed destinations ( usually to our partners).By doing so our company saves up to 10% by reducing tax abuse. What you get is 5% out of every money transfer operation. You’re being paid instantly. If work regularly, your monthly gains would be 4000$ and more.
Besides, we offer.
- Flexible schedule (usually 2-3 hours a day)
- Saturdays & Sundays off
Requirements:
- Have to be aged 21 or above
- No criminal record
- Regular Internet access
- Ability to accept payments using your bank account
- Ability to resend the money through Western Union
If feel qualified ,please, attach the following info to start up with:
- Fist Name
- Last Name
- Age
- Sex
- State, City, Zip
- Phone number( home and cell)
- Valid email address
NOTE:!!!! the email address you use to contact us for the first time
is: Grandysbiz@gmail.com
In the subject field put ” interested”.
Please, use only mentioned email address, otherwise we’ll fail to receive your response.
Thats the end of the email. At first I thought it was legitimate email. But then I read this, “Ability to accept payments using your bank account” This email is not about a company needing someone to assist them, it is about stealing your bank numbers.
It makes no sense to me that a company needs to use private bank accounts to handle banking business.
Now look at this line, “By doing so our company saves up to 10% by reducing tax abuse.” This raises a question to me, “what is tax abuse?” This sounds more like someone attempting to do tax avoidance. That can only be something that is illegal.
It is written that paying taxes to our government leaders, is part of paying our tie to God. If my government says I have to pay so much for so much, then I want to pay that so much. Even if my government told me to pay 100%, I have to pay it, and that is God’
s commandment.
But that email has nothing to do with tax avoidance, it is someone attempting to get your bank numbers so that can take everything you have in it.
This looks like a job offer that involves doing something that is against the law, and that is tax avoidance. When ever I see email scams like this, it turns out to be just that, a scam.
It does not matter what the offer was, how large or how little they where offering. Because the system needs to have my bank account numbers to work, I knew this was a scam. There is absolutely no legitimate job, freelancing or not. That needs to use my private banking account to operate.













Wed, Apr 9, 2008, by Christopher Wesley Joyner
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