Work From Home: Get Paid to Launder Counterfeit Money
From GoogleWatch, via TechDirt, is another excellent example showing why it's important for people looking for online earning opportunities to be careful, and to use a bit of common sense.
The report involves an international work-from-home scam that was busted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Office of Homeland Security.
The GoogleWatch article goes into a fair amount of detail, but the gist of it is one person gets paid to receive FedEx packages containing counterfeit AmEx Traveller's Checks and USPS Money Orders, and send them to other various addresses provided by the scammer. The packages may get passed around like this a number of times (making the whole operation more difficult to track) until eventually, somebody is instructed to cash in the traveller's checks or money orders, keep 10% as their payment, and send the rest of the money on, until it eventually winds up in the hands of the scammer.
As the TechDirt article points out, you'd think the people involved would realise that getting paid to move money around had to be connected to some sort of scam or other shady activity, but if so, they don't seem to care. As long as they get paid.
Sound familiar?
The report involves an international work-from-home scam that was busted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Office of Homeland Security.
The GoogleWatch article goes into a fair amount of detail, but the gist of it is one person gets paid to receive FedEx packages containing counterfeit AmEx Traveller's Checks and USPS Money Orders, and send them to other various addresses provided by the scammer. The packages may get passed around like this a number of times (making the whole operation more difficult to track) until eventually, somebody is instructed to cash in the traveller's checks or money orders, keep 10% as their payment, and send the rest of the money on, until it eventually winds up in the hands of the scammer.
As the TechDirt article points out, you'd think the people involved would realise that getting paid to move money around had to be connected to some sort of scam or other shady activity, but if so, they don't seem to care. As long as they get paid.
Sound familiar?
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