The FBI is warning that if you are “hired” or recruited to work at home processing payments, or transferring funds you are probably part of fraudulent activity. If you are involved in this you are being asked to receive wire transfers into your bank accounts and told to send the money overseas via a wire transfer service like Western Union or Moneygram they want you to tell the Internet Crime Complaint Center at http://www.ic3.gov/
The FBI is saying they have seen a significant increase in fraud in these types of scams. They claim the majority of this money is coming from “phishing” attacks against small to medium business, schools, and municipal governments. You can read more about it at the FBI’s press release.
I still need to put some words to this because I am unsure how these scams continue to get people involved, why would you ever give out your account information for someone to wire money to you etc. If it’s too good to be true it is, and If you have to give personal information like a bank account for a job stay away.
In fact if you get an email after posting your resume somewhere and they want you to do something just file a complaint and do not respond. These types of criminals are doing more to hurt the economy even though they “supposedly” are offering you employment. They are causing jobs to be lost, such as if a small business gets wiped out because of a phishing attack they may not be able to make payroll, and the banks are not going to give the money back right away. What do they do now?
I plead with everyone if you get any emails from these types of scams to report them to the IC3 and get rid of the emails. We need to get these types of things stopped.
