If a company over seas wants me to collect money for them take a 10% commision and send them the rest of the money. Is this illegal? Where could i get information on this?
2006-11-09 03:54:04 · 11 answers · asked by kyle st. 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
they are asking me to collect money for them. Then take a 10% commision, this is so they can get away from international taxes. I have to put no money down.
2006-11-09 05:13:22 · update #1
They will probably need a few hundred dollars up front to pay for legal fees and what not, and then you will never hear from them again.
Run. Run away. Run as fast as you can. Run Forest, run!
2006-11-09 04:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by Mutt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Danger, Danger Will Robinson. It is a scam!!!!
Well, more than likely is.
Is this what they want you to do? You will recieve checks, money orders, cashiers checks and then deposit them into your account. Then you send them 90% of the amount and keep the rest for your troubles.
What is going on is that these are forged checks. The company is taking advantage of timing in cashing checks vs. the timing of making the money available in the account. You will send the money, a few days later the bank will realize it was a bad check, and now you are liable for the full amount. There is no protection for you because someone else sent you the money, you are the one who put it into your account. You are the one responsible for paying the money back to the bank. This is a classic scam and it seems like there is a bunch of it going around these days.
I would shy away from this one if I were you.
2006-11-09 04:00:31 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need information, it's a scam, garunteed.
They will send you what appears to be a genuine cashier's check. Once you take that to the bank and cash it, it will go through the banking system to the bank it is drawn on, where it will be discovered that no such bank exists. In the meantime, you will have sent them money which your bank will want back from you, and there will be no tracing where you sent the money.
What the people that send these offers out are counting on are two pieces of wisdom from a hundred years ago:
"You can't cheat an honest man." WC Fields
"There's a sucker born every minute." PT Barnum
2006-11-09 04:00:03 · answer #3 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations, you have stumbled upon the biggest scam currently circulating the internet. There are people in Nigeria who put out these emails and others that entice you to give them your information. After you do, you then become the victim of indentity theft. Your bank accounts are cleaned out, several items are opened in your name, and your credit gets shot.
2006-11-09 04:00:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Big word that says scam(overseas).They want to get your identity to collect all your personal info to use it to their advantage.Do it and you'll be penniless.Could take years to rebound from their financial gain not yours.Report it to the IRS
2006-11-09 04:01:53 · answer #5 · answered by riordanjsca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you got some spam e-mail. did they ask you to send them some sort of registration fee, or pre-send the 10%?
2006-11-09 03:57:14 · answer #6 · answered by garfield 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've been scammed.
Call your local police dept and they can direct you to the correct authorities.
Good luck.
2006-11-09 04:02:08 · answer #7 · answered by mudbeast66 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do not do it it is a scam,this happened to my daughter a little while ago
2006-11-09 04:04:47 · answer #8 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SCAM SCAM SCAM.... go away from it like wild fire.... NO ONE wants to give you FREE money....
2006-11-09 04:00:19 · answer #9 · answered by Marshall Lee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a scam
2006-11-09 03:56:48 · answer #10 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋