Furious
Beach Park,#2Consumer Comment
Wed, August 06, 2008
Here is the how the scam works. Because it just happened to me.... They deposit the funds into an account that you create, i.e. CITIBANK is there preferred bank. Once the account has been created they (Anita) will e-mail you tenaciously about the clearing of the funds, it appears that the funds will come from a Wells Fargo bank account. All appears to be legal like. Next what will happen is that you will receive the account number for Wells Fargo and Anita will ask you to perform a transfer exchange between your newly created CITIBANK account and the Wells Fargo bank so that a wire transfer can be executed. After all that is setup the next step will be to wait for CITIBANK to clear the funds. Here is the real stinger! CITIBANK will e-mail you that the funds are approved and ready for you to use, so like everyone else you are like OK I guess this is legit because if a bank approves it it should be good, right.....WRONG!!!! Little be known about wires but the funds even though approved and received by the bank can be revoked by the initial sender, don't know how don't know why but they can. So with that said the initial deposit in my case was for 18,000.00. of which I was able to execute 2 transactions totaling 9200.00, and I was getting ready to execute another for 4800.00. If the folks at CITIBANK did not catch it like they did I really would have been in a bad way. So Thankfully enough this lesson only cost me about 4300.00 of which is a small price to pay given the fact that it could have been 18,000.00. So Please beware of this scam and don't go for it. There is no reason that anyone would pay you that much money in commissions to send funds back to the same country of origin. Again Beware of any type of money transfer scams they could affect you in ways you have no idea, the money is not worth it. Regards, Furious.......
Kdcroy
Englewood,#3Consumer Comment
Thu, July 24, 2008
I received the exact same letter and although it looks shady I was wondering if anyone knows how this scam works. Is it really a scam? I emailed the company telling them that I was interested and got a copy of their contract. They say that they are hiring people as transfer managers and they will transfer money into an account that you set up. I would never use my own. They give you a list of banks. Apparently they send you money and according to their agreement "The money that has come to you via check must be sent within 24 hours after the check is cleared under the essential elements specified in the instruction. If you are sending the money 24 hours after the check has cleared how do they scam you? I received the letter from the address below: Transfers Exchange Inc., BIlkantie 4, Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, 00400 Phone: 358 20 7187 311 email: [email protected]
Kdcroy
Englewood,#4Consumer Comment
Thu, July 24, 2008
I received the exact same letter and although it looks shady I was wondering if anyone knows how this scam works. Is it really a scam? I emailed the company telling them that I was interested and got a copy of their contract. They say that they are hiring people as transfer managers and they will transfer money into an account that you set up. I would never use my own. They give you a list of banks. Apparently they send you money and according to their agreement "The money that has come to you via check must be sent within 24 hours after the check is cleared under the essential elements specified in the instruction. If you are sending the money 24 hours after the check has cleared how do they scam you? I received the letter from the address below: Transfers Exchange Inc., BIlkantie 4, Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland, 00400 Phone: 358 20 7187 311 email: [email protected]