A Note From Sharon:

Dear Reader,

Ah, the spirit of Christmas. It's all about family, giving and bilking people out of their life savings?? Yes, today this gem landed in my email box and I couldn't wait to report it to you. It's disgusting to me that there are people out there pulling this scam, but to do it during the holidays?

I hope you enjoy this month's issue. As always, I love hearing from you. Drop me a note and let me know what you think!
Sharon Davis

As I mentioned, I received an email this morning and I immediately knew what it was. It's one of those "we're a financial company and we need you to receive money into your bank account and then transfer it to someone else." They claim that they will pay you some percentage as a commission. The email was from "Viking Finance, ltd." and the subject was "Work With Us". Here's the email:

If I hadn't been familiar with this scam, I could see how a person could fall for it. When you go to the website, it appears to be a real company's website. It's packed with words like, "equity markets" and "international remittances". The job title is "Financial manager for cooperation with private individuals". Sounds pretty official.

Upon closer inspection though, some things are peculiar...

The situation on equity markets changes rapidly these days. Due to this fact many investors, willing to buy stocks and bonds of one or another company simply do not have time to do that at the wishful cost. First of all this is connected with the functioning of a banking system, that cannot guarantee high-speed transactions, especially when we talk about international remittances. Apart from that, recently we have been receiving a great number of applications for our services from executives in the USA, the UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Australia, etc. As we are strongly interested to grant the best services and in the shortest dates to overcome all the difficulties that are likely to appear, we decided to establish a vacancy of the financial manager for cooperation with private individuals to deal with the transactions of relatively small amounts of 2000-5000 Euro.

The grammar is really awkward, not what you'd expect from a large financial company.

Here's the rest of the job description:

Requirements:

• being under 75 years old
• availability of a bank account (or ability to open a new one, especially for the company's needs)
• E-mail availability
• 2-3 free hours a day
• skills of a PC user
• skills of an Internet user
• self-dependency, responsibility, initiative
• dedication, sociability

The responsibilities of the financial manager for cooperation with private individuals are:

Receiving the payments from the clients (private individuals) to his/her bank account. Withdrawing the funds and transferring the money further to our brokers in one of the countries, where the wanted stocks or bonds should be bought. The transfer should be done by the means of Western Union or Money Gram services. The company covers all the charges for the bank or Western Union/Money Gram transfers.

Such a scheme allows us to shorten payments' due dates, since the client receives ordered stocks and bonds as soon as You confirm the fact of funds being shown on Your bank account.

One of the main benefits of this vacancy is that it is positioned as a part time job and You are not obliged to spend all the working day dealing with the clients' transactions. This means that You are not obviously loosing Your main line of business.

To start

In order to apply for the position of a financial manager for cooperation with private individuals, You should fill in an application form available on this web site. After checking Your personal data our personnel department will get in touch with You to discuss the start dates. After several trial transactions, when the management of the company has made sure that You really meet all the requirements above, You will have to e-mail of fax the copy of Your ID, so that the lawyers of the company could draw up a working contract for a suitable for You period of time (approximately 3-12 months) and send it via post to Your place. After You have received the contract and made sure that You are satisfied with all the conditions offered, You should sign that and send the copy back to us.

Salary:

Average salary of a Viking Finance ltd employee on a position of a Financial manager for cooperation with private individuals is 9% out of the amount of every deposit on his/her bank account.

One of the advantages of a position offered is that an employee fixes his earnings himself. This means that the more transactions You accept on Your bank account, the more money You get.

Note the age requirement, which is illegal. Also, if the job is simply to receive money and then transfer it, why do you need to have "dedication and sociability"? Note that they actually use the word "scheme" to describe this job. Freudian slip?

I clicked on the little American flag which takes me to the US application form.

Ms. Ulrika Jaresund, the Manager, on behalf of Viking Finance, ltd, hereinafter referred to as the Employer, on the one hand, and Ms. Ulrika Jaresund, the Manager, on behalf of Viking Finance, ltd, hereinafter referred to as the Employer, on the one hand, and __________ hereinafter referred to as the Employee, on the other hand, have concluded the present Contract on the following:

SUBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
The Employee is hired by the Employer as a Financial Manager for cooperation with the private clients of Viking Finance, ltd. and the Employee is obliged to perform the services set forth by the present Contract. In the scope of the present Contract the Employee shall put his efforts to accelerating financial operations and supporting prompt delivery of orders, while the Employer shall pay a certain sum of money for the rendered service and cover all related fees and charges.

The rest of the contract is asking for my name, address, phone number, telephone and then we get to the good stuff.... Next is my social security number and then my bank account information. They want the name of my bank, the type of account and the account number. Guess what they'll do with my information? You got it, identity theft.

This person probably spent a day putting together the website and creating the email and now all they have to do is blast out their email and wait for the ones who don't know any better to fill out their "contract".

My Christmas gift to you is that you will never have to fall for this scam because now you know better!

See you next month with another in-depth investigation.

Warmly,
Sharon Davis
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