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Is there any information on a company called Worthington International Solution LTD?

They offered me a job for the following. This from an email they sent to me.

1. Receive payment from our customers. All check will be written in your

name. All checks are US checks, no international.

2. Cashing the checks at your existing bank account.

3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on each payment processed.

4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices

you will be contacted to send payment to. (Payment is to be forwarded by

Western Union Money Transfer).

You will receive 10% for every check processed in the first month. Within

one month after receiving the first check you will get an extra $1,000 if

you will manage to cash checks in a timely manner, also this bonus includes

Internet bill, phone bill, gas/bus tickets. We will support all bills you

have to pay for your Internet and cell phone. PLEASE NOTE: This bonus will

apply after one month starting the day you will receive the first check.

After two months of working with us, a secondary bonus will apply. You will

get 15% from all our sales. If everything works as we will expect and it

will, you will be able to do up to $1200 - $1300 per week + the bonus of

$1,000 every month.

Bonuses regarding, cashing checks are as follow:

a) Cash the check same day and you will receive a bonus of $150 for each

check cashed.

b) Cash the check within 24 hours and you will receive a bonus of $100.

c) Cash the check within 48 hours and you will receive a bonus of $50

The salary will be paid to the Representative by cashier check.

The today's situation on the financial market requires us to open and fill

several of these job positions within our company; the job opening is that

of a Representative within the US. This opening will help our company to

reduce the time it takes to receive funding from orders that we receive each

month. And we offer you one of the highest incomes on the market today and

the minimal expenditures of time.

Presently with the number of orders we have we cannot put them on hold for

fear of losing our customers, secondly we cannot cash these payments from

the US soon enough, as international checks take about 28 working days to

cash anywhere in Europe. We lose a lot of time and money each month because

we have money transfer delays. Our clients could pay us where we want by

sending checks to an US address. What we need you to do is to provide us an

address where you can receive our customer checks. We need someone who can

receive the money through this method of payment. Regarding the check

process all you have to do is to receive the checks our customers will send

to your address, take them to your bank, cash them and send the remainder

amount to us after deducting all fees incurred and your commission. All fees

for transferring the funds will be supported from our share. Bonuses will

apply for cashing checks within 24 hours upon receiving a check. You will

always take your commission upfront.

We make direct contact for sales of products. Once orders are received and

processed we deliver the product to our customer (usually through USPS). The

customer receives and checks the product and proceeds to send the payment.

We accept all forms of payment but most of our customers pay using Bank

Checks and so to solve this problem and not lose any of our customers we

have decided to open this new job position. This job is legal according to

the U.S. legislation as it is today. Local money transfers take but a few

hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost

immediately.

Is this legit?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It is 100% a scam - this is called money laundering and is a federal offense that can land you in prison for up to 10 years

    DO NOT respond for any reason. If you did make that mistake and were dumb enough to give the Russian mafia who runs this scam your home address, then turn anything you receive over to the FBI or Secret Service field office. DO NOT attempt to cash these for any reason

    How is it that people still fall for these scams no matter how many times they've been reported on the news, online, etc?

    http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/06/gina-walker-is-a-...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBLu4WxsYY

    http://ezinearticles.com/?Money-Mule-Email-Scam-Hi...

    http://www.hotscams.com/articles/warning-fake-chec...

    http://www.itworld.com/security/61984/fbi-warns-mo...

    Legitimate businesses have business banking accounts - they don't ask complete strangers who aren't even bonded to handle their money and certainly would NEVER use Western Union.

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    1 decade ago

    Of course it's not legit! It's a scam.

    They send you a bogus check. You cash it. It takes several weeks before the bank finds out it's bogus but you've already sent this "company" the cash back. Guess what... the bank is going to come after you for all the money for trying to pass a bad check. It's bad news.

    Anything unsolicited, through the email or otherwise, is probably a scam. If it seems to good to be true... it is.

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe that this seems like a scam. I received mine from careerbuilder.com. On there, I read about "check /payment processing scams" and according to their description this is most likely a scam. I am going to delete all instance of them email, if I don't send it to someone to investigate, and then block them from my email address as spam. I think it is better to be safe than sorry! Because whether or not you KNOW its a scam you may still face charges.

  • 1 decade ago

    I have received this same email and wish that I had a good answer for you but I do not. I am trying to research it myself. Mine came as a response to an ad from Career Builder. I hope others post here and provide answers so we will all know about it.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I got the same offer. We gotta stay on our toes...someone at Career Builder should also be screening their employers better. Money laundering? No thanks...I will just keep plugging away living paycheck to paycheck the old fashioned way. :)

  • 1 decade ago

    I recieved an mail from them too. The same email. I dont think im going to trust them. I looked on Better Business Bureau and I didnt find anything on them. So therefor I am not going to go though with it. I hope you dont go though it.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hey Brian,

    I just got a crazy offer from this Company too, Worthington International Solution LTD . Most likely its to good to be true. I asked the Hiring Dept for more info about the company. I'll keep you posted on what they say.

  • 1 decade ago

    If you go to scam busters. they have an article on how dangerous this scam is. It has been going around for years. The fellow that said turn over to FBI is correct.

    Source(s): Scam busters web site
  • 1 decade ago

    This sounds like a money laundering scheme to me. I am turning my offer over to the FBI to investigate. Since the syntax is incorrect in their offer, I assume they are foreigners (Indian or Muslims) just trying to get your bank account numbers. Think about it. This is as phony as it comes.

  • 1 decade ago

    They offer me the same and I would like to know it's for real. It sounds like some mafia type thing hahaha

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