Several years ago before I even thought about starting my online business I found this job opportunity in a local newspaper that I thought it was a legit opportunity to make some extra money from home and I’m glad I didn’t take it back then simply because I could’ve gotten in some serious trouble. Lately I’ve been seeing this scam more than ever and I want you to be aware of it so you can identify it and stay away from it.

It’s the “Account Receivable” job offer, where supposedly you’ll need to help these major companies coordinate and process payments from their customers and in return they’ll pay you either a percentage of the money you receive or a monthly salary. Now the offer seems incredible, all you need to do is to receive checks from their so called clients, cash them in your bank and send them the money. It all seems legit but it’s not.

It’s money laundering, these people are using you to clean the money made from their illegal transactions, you can probably make some money at the beginning but once the IRS catches up to it you’ll be in serious trouble. Remember that all the money you receive to your name is consider income and since you will not be paying taxes for it the IRS will make you pay the high price. In some instances jail sentence.

Let’s take a look at the email I received a couple of days ago, read it and I will then explain you how you can identify this type of scam.

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Subject line - JOB OPPORTUNITY ONLINE(APPLY NOW)!!!!!!!

ASHLEY FURNITURE COMPANY.
www.ashleyfurniture.com
Email: ashleyfurniture.resume@gmail.com

Dear Sir/Madam,
Can you work from home?
Do you think fast?
Can you acess and undertake assinged duties carefully and comfortably?
Then you have a chance to work with us at Ashley Furniture.
The best-selling brand of home furniture in North America is closer
than you think.Coast to coast Hawaii, Alaska and even internationally,
Ashley Furniture can be found in literally thousands of conveniently
located store.
We have a job opening for the position of an accounts receivable
officer.
We are offering this position to all interested applicants.
Please carefully read through.
We serve the entire United States and a growing export market,
particularly in the supplies of selected products. Superior products
including Sofas & Love seats,Bedding Ensembles, Chairs & Ottomans.
Your primary task for now,as a representative of the company is to
coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payments
processing.You are not involved in any sales for now.
Once orders are received and sorted we deliver the product to a
customer. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the
products
but in most cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items they
order for.
About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified
Checks or Money Orders drawn from the United States.
Because of the increasing number of clients,We have decided to open
this new contract -to-hire job position for solving this problem.
Your First Primary task(Collection of Payments):
1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
2. Cash Payment at your Bank or any cashing facilities near you.
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed .
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the
offices you will be contacted to send payment to.
You’ll have a lot of free time doing another job because this job is
part time.You’ll get good income.Get back to us with the below
information so that we can add your mailing address to our Regional
database and
forward it to our customers for them to send payments.
First name
Middle name
Last name
Address Line 1
Address Line 2
City
State
Zip/Postal code
Age
Nationality
Home phone
Cell phone
YOUR PREFERED MODE OF COMMUNICATION EITHER BY PHONE OR BY EMAIL

Your response to this email is needed so that we can re-confirm your
mailing address details we have in our database.We will update you as
soon as the payment is made.

A swift acknowledgement of the receipt of this email will be
appreciated.

Thanks For Your Understanding.

Mr Paul Franklyn.
Human resource Dept,
Regional Manager,
ASHLEY FURNITURE COMPANY
www.ashleyfurniture.com
Email: ashleyfurniture.resume@gmail.com —————————————————————–

At first hand this email seems like the real deal coming from a widely known furniture company but let me explain you the first thing you need to look for in order to identify the scam.

1. Email address - This is the email they used to send the message, ashleyfurniture.resume@gmail.com, Do you notice anything wrong with this email? Gmail is a free email account provided by Google and a multimillionaire company will never use anything like that, their website is www.ashleyfurniture.com and if they were to send you an email from their company instead of reading ashleyfurnitureresume@gmail.com it would be resume@ashleyfurniture.com Did you notice how the company name is after the @ symbol and not before? That’s how you know that the email is coming from the real company.
2. Unprofessional writing skills - The message is just one big paragraph with no line breaks and it has several grammar errors. This the common scam artist writing in a hurry to make a quick buck.
3. Payments sent to your name? - Do you think a company like this will send you checks to your name expecting you to cash them and send them back? Why would they trust you?

Scam artists are everywhere looking for their next victim and in this world where often times money is so hard to find one could fall for an offer like this unaware of the consequences it may cause.

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