wire transfer fraud?

Question

i was looking for a work at home job and found a posting on craigslist back in august. it is from an overseas company in new zealand. the company'swebsite is roxychanger.com. they were hiring agents to collect payments in the form of bank wire transfers from their egold buyers. my job would be to receive these payments either by cashiers check or money order or bank wire transfers. Well just yesterday I received a bank wire transfer into my account. Now I am supposed to go to Western Union and wire the money back out to some company after deducting my 5% commission and fees. I called the bank to see if the money they wired in is clear and the bank confirms it is clear. Is this legal? I heard of scams where you receive a money order or cashiers check in which you cash it and then wire the money back out, weeks later the check is fraud..then the bank would hold you responsible...but what I am getting is cash in my account..this must be real, right? please advice what i should do next.

today i went on craigslist and searched under scams and there seems to be a lot of scams of wire transfer sorts. but most involve you cashing a fake check...not someone wiring money into your account. also i checked the company's website..it no longer exists

Answer 1

If they were a legitimate company, they wouldn't need you to accept payments for them. Banks already offer the service they claim you would be providing. Ask any bank about 'lock box' service.

Answer 2

Even though the bank confirms it's clear something doesn't seem right to me here.


You checked the companies website and it no longer exists? It's sounding worse and worse by the minute.

Answer 3

most of these companies are fake. I would not wire any money until you know everything is clear and you are not responsible for anything

Answer 4

i would not trust it my mom wire some money to canada said she had won money and had to pay for prossing fees and got ripped off 1,500

Answer 5

The scheme sort of smells to me.