5. Hey, you're hired!
You've been looking for a job, or a change of job -- something that will leave you with some free time so that you can have a life!
Then, like unexpected manna from heaven, such a job actually falls in your lap. You get mail from an impressive sounding company offering you the grand-sounding post in the finance or marketing department.
The company, the mail explains in professional sounding terms, is doing very well in its home country and is now expanding across the globe/ in Asia, including India. They need people and you seem the right fit. They have Indian customers; all you have to do is collect money from them and send it to the company (pretty much like a post box they assure you, you're not a recovery agent and don't have to run after their customers).
Your commission will be somewhere between 5 per cent and 15 per cent; all you need to do is drop the cheques/ money orders into your account and send the money, minus your percentage, to them.
Of course, you'll need to share some personal information, such as your contact details bank account details. It all sounds simple and aboveboard, doesn't it?
Soon, you'll actually receive cheques and money orders. You'll deposit it in your account and send money to your employers. Then, you'll discover the cheques and money orders are fraudulent. Which leaves you. . . yup, conned, having sent your hard-earned savings to a scamster. If you try to trace them, you find they've vanished into the Internet. . . oops, ether!
Remedy: Remember, nothing comes free. Take a moment to verify the mail's details; you may find what you actually need is the delete button.
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