Is it legal?

Question

I have recently received a mail from a company looking for reps who can receive their customers payment (written to my name) and asking me to cash them and deduct 10% for myself and send the rest of he cash through western union. Is this a legal way to do? Has anyone received any mail like this one that I received recently. They have sent a package through UPS and I have to wait a day to receive it.

Answer 1

This is 100% a scam. They will send you a check, you will send 10% back and by the time they have the money (because Western Union is instantaneously picked up) the check they sent you will be returned to your bank because it is no good and you will be out your 10% (hopefully that is all you will be out assuming your bank put a hold on the check).

If it sounds too good to be true it is !!!

Answer 2

This is a scam. Check fraud to be exact. Talk to someone at your bank. If you go through with this here is what will happen to you. You place their check in your bank account. Depending on the amount that you deposited your bank may place a hold on it for a few business days. Even if the hold is remove and you think that the check cleared it hasn't yet. Because it may several weeks to validate a check and that is when you discover the check is a fake. Before that happens, you send 90 percent to some foreign land and then you have to pay your bank back. You may be arrested as well. I would refuse to accept the package that you are expecting to receive and if necessary return it back to UPS unopened.

Answer 3

Those type of emails are 'Scam Mails". What happens is that scammers want to rip off people, through promises of free products or cash.

No company, not matter how generous, will send anyone anything on the extra basis.

I suggest that you don't get involved with them, but at the same time, try contacting one of the countless online FBI security sites and make a full report of the issue here. You never know, you could save someone else.

Answer 4

Were you born yesterday?! I get 10 of those a week. Also, "you've won the lottery", "I have $6 million to sneak out of the country", etc. Don't you watch the news? Can you say "scam"?

Grow up. Get a job. Keep working. Save your money. Invest. Be a success.

If you have contacted them you're already in trouble. Delete everything you get from these people. Monitor your credit report and call the bank, states attorney and credit agentcy at the first sign of trouble.

Answer 5

If u have not applied to be a rep. and they just sent it to u then it's a scam. There is no company in the world that will send you their cash to deposited for them for no reason. You have to be at least an employee with them. My suggestion is to stay away from them before they get u in trouble.

Answer 6

It is a scam. ID thieves buy things with stolen credit cards or checking account numbers. US companies will not send packages out of the country. So the thieves have you re-ship. They would try to steal your ID as well, to clean out any bank checking and savings accounts. Don't do it.

Answer 7

Companies do not pay their employees 10% of their sales.

If that was possible then everbody would be a millionaire.

Coca-Cola spends more money than anybody else in the World in Advertising and they spend 10% of their sales.

If you take that job you will be working for the Triads (From China), the Cartels (From Mexico) or the Cosa Nostra (From Italy) and you could be in prison or dead after a few years.

Answer 8

Sounds like a great deal. Let me know how it works out for you. By the way I have a bridge to sell you....

Answer 9

Sounds like money laundering to me. It also sound kinda dangerous, who knows how soon they could empty out your accounts.

Answer 10

I don't se anything wrong with it.