Guest Author - Debbie Jacobsen

Here is an example of an illegal email that is being sent out to lure innocent victims into taking part in money laundering schemes. If you get any emails like this, be advised that participating in this type of activity is illegal – if you get caught you will go to jail.

This type of spam email is from a cyber criminal who needs help moving stolen money from the United States into another country. I advise anyone who gets this email (or similar ones) to delete it immediately. Do not click on any links that may be included, as this is a sure way to infect your system with spyware.

You can easily spot a scam email by looking for the grammatical errors. In this email, you will see several words misspelled and several grammatical mistakes. If this were a legitimate “help wanted” ad, you can be sure it would be written in perfect English.

People who participate in activities like this are called "mules". They are people who agree to be used as temporary money-moving resources for the criminals, and are in fact performing a criminal activity themselves.

"Attn: Part Time Job Offer

My name is Frank Bluefield of Sandhills Textiles.We are a fabric company that
sells fabrics and textiles to companies and private parties in wholesale.We
have offices in both Africa and the Uk.We sell and distribute our products to
customers in the US and all over the world.The company is facing serious
difficulties when it comes to selling our fabrics and textiles to
Americans/Canada as they are always offering to pay in either CASHIER'S CHECKS
or MONEY ORDERS,(some of which have been sold to our american/canadian
customers on credit)which is difficult for us to cash in the UK or Africa.And
this is making us lose most of our customers already.

We are looking for a representative in the US/Canada who will be working for
the company as a partime worker a nd we will be willing to pay %10 for every
transaction,which wouldnt affect your present state of nwork,someone who would
help in recieving payments from our customers in the US/Canada.We need someone that is responsible and reliable,cause the cost of coming to the states and getting payments is very expensive.The company is working on setting up a branch in the US,so for now all we need is a representative in the united states/canada who will be handling the payment aspect.

These payments are in CASHIER'S CHECKS and money orders and they would come
to you in your name, so all you need do is cash them, deduct your percentage and
wire the rest back. you should be aware that the company is not scared of
entrusting it's money into anyones hands as it is a duely registered and
recognised company and wouldnt hesitate to report any scam artist to the
country's law enforcers for proper investigations to be carried out on any scam
against it.

Thi s job wouldnt cost you any amount,you are to receive payments which will be sent to you by fedex or usps from our customers,which would come in form of cashier's checks or money orders, then you are to cash them and send the cash via western union money transfer to anywhere you might be required to send the money to (this could either be the uk office or africa office),all transfer fees should be deducted from the money to be sent and not from your share.

If you are interested,please get back to me as soon as possible.please send
your reply to (fbluefield1@xxxxx.com) or (fbluefield1@xxxxx.net).you could
also reach me on this number (+44702xxxxxxx).


Regards
Frank Bluefield
Director Accounts
Sandhills Textiles
Http://www.xxxxxxxxx.us.tt

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