I just want to let you know that you are qualified to be our house cleaner for at least a month for the start. You will be responsible for general cleaning of hallways (dusting, vacuuming and mopping),doors, windows, pick up trash in common areas, sweeping, changing and fixing of light bulbs etc. You must be able to climb a ladder and lift up to 25 lbs and all the cleaning supplies will be provided. You will be working for 2hrs in a day and 3 days in a week, at the rate of $400 per week, meaning you will be earning a total sum of $400 weekly. In order for you to know how serious and asap we are about this, we will be sending you an upfront payment for the first week via a bank official check issued by my financier and will be mail to you via courier delivery service. The house is a 4 Bedroom 2 bath Duplex unfurnished, so i have made an arrangement with a painter to paint the interior part of the house. Therefore, you will be working with the painter in the cleaning of the house in general. My financier will include the cost of all expenses in your check. My financier will mail the payment as soon as I give him the instruction to do so. The payment you will be receiving will be for your one week pay in advance and the rest will be transfer by Western Union Transfer agent around you to the painter coming to paint the house. The keys of the house are already with the painter and you will be duly informed on arrangements made to get inside the house by the painter when all arrangement is made. I believe that both of you can work together to make the house as clean as possible and also I will send you the phone number of painter in other to set up a date and time for your meeting. Fill out the information below, So that my financier will issue out the payment asap:
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Kindly let me know if the arrangement is okay with you and I believe you will be at your best in cleaning the house for me and my family.
Kind Regards,
James PalmsIs this job a SCAM OR NOT?
100% scam.
There is no job. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
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1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
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If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "check mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.Is this job a SCAM OR NOT?
100% SCAM
There is no job - this is a typical money laundering scam that can land you in prison and ruin your credit for the next 7 years
NEVER ever send personal details to anyone you have never met in person. And nobody in their right mind is going to hire a housekeeper that they have never met nor pay you in advance. And only a scammer involving you in illegal activity would EVER ask you to send money to a person through Western Union
DO NOT respond and report this ad to the site where it was posted before someone falls for it
Just look at how many times these scams have been reported
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