An Example of Money Laundering Hiding Behind a Work from Home Mask!
Warning signs that may reveal work from home scams:
⚑ They request money to send information about the position.
⚑ They request money for a training manual.
⚑ The pay is from a percentage of 'processed funds'.
⚑ Pay is too high compared to a legitimate work from home offer.
From the flagged list above, several of those are actually traits of money laundering techniques! Much can be learned by studying examples of money laundering!
The recipient of an actual work from home scam received an offer after posting her resume to a well-known, legitimate career job search site. In my opinion, it's a good reason to not post a resume online!
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| Work from Home Masks Money Laundering |
One way you can research a scam vs a legit opportunity, would be to look on the site for the bbb work from home jobs reports. That is, the Better Business Bureau.
You can always go to their site to determine if there are complaints filed regarding a specific company, or not. Keep in mind they may not have any information regarding a scam business!
Money laundering can easily hide behind the mask of purporting to be a work from home opportunity!
However, money laundering is not often recognized for what it really is!
This is the actual money laundering scheme posing as a work from home opportunity, which the woman received after posting her resume online:
We found your resume on (name of job search web site was removed).
We would like to suggest you a position at our company - the Transfer Manager.
The task of the Transfer Manager is to process payments between our clients and our company via bank accounts, checks, PayPal.
The job is related to remote Internet operations.
Every payment order will be accompanied with detailed instructions.
It's a commission based position. You will get about 8% of each processed payment.
General requirements:
- Ability to create good administrative reporting.
- Work from home, take responsibility, achieve goals.
- Prior customer service experience is a good benefit, but not a must.
- Honesty, responsibility and promptness in operations.
- Effective interaction with customers.
- Familiarity to working online, internet and email skills.
- 3-5 hours per week
Salary: $600-$1200 per week
This job will allow you to:
- Work efficiently from home
- Increase available personal time
- Achieve financial independence in half the time
- Develop high self-respect and esteem
Again, the above example was an actual offer a woman received in an email, after she posted her resume online, and worst of all it was money laundering!
- Become able to share time and money with others less fortunate than you
Be cautious as you seek legitimate work from home opportunities!
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