I accepted online employment from a company in the UK.?

Question

The employer's clients sends me payment by check and I send the employer funds as directed from that check. I keep 10%. The first check was bad, and they were upset because the client defaulted,but they asked me to work with them on getting money transferred from Royal bank of Scotland to my account to cover the loss($10,000). I felt trapped because I can't cover the insf/fraudulent check and the RBOS to whom I have paid $4300.00) keeps asking me for more money to cover cost of transfer is promised to be completed but which never goes through for first one reason then another. Is this a scam?

Answer 1

Sounds like a scam. Shame you didn't check that the company were registered at Compnies House firdt - free to check and if they ain't listed here then give them a wiiiiide birth. Get this reported to Trading Standards, they may be able to help get this resolved with your bank and even try to recover funds from the scammers. An expensive lesson, there are some ugly people out there doing ugly things.

Answer 2

Not only is it a scam, the money they are sending you is stolen. They send emails to people purporting to be from banks and they direct them to an imitation site or a site thats been phished. They then get them them to login with all their account details, saying its to verify information. Then walla! Money disappears from this poor persons account.

This where you come in. They send you the money getting you to transfer it, to someone else, who probably transfers it to someone else and so on until it becomes difficult to trace. What problem happened is they stole the money, wrote a cheque against it, the person whose account it was taken out of realised there was an unauthorised transaction on the account and their bank clawed it back bouncing the checque.

Tell them to get lost, that you are on to their scam and have nothing more to do with it. Because the problem is that once you receive stolen goods or money, whether you know it is stolen or not you are guilty of a crime and can theoretically be charged.

I would go to the bank and inform them what is happening. Inform them of your lack of knowledge and they may even write off the debt. This happened to me. You don't want to wait until the police are involved and you have not been upfront. If you are upfront it should go well for you.

Regards

Chris