Is V&S Gmbh a scam job offer?

100% scam.

There is no job.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send the money via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "shipping company". When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of being the perfect buyer, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:

1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.

2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.

3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.

4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.

5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.

6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.

Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.

If you google "fake check scam", "fake job Western Union fraud" or something similar and you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.

Any foreign company hiring you to process payments through your personal bank account is ALWAYS a scam. There are NO exceptions to this rule. Any business doing any sort of financial transactions in the US are required by law to be a) incorporated in the US; b) have a US Tax ID number; and c) have a merchant/business banking account that ALL transactions go through

it is against the law for any foreign company to process any payments through a personal bank account, Western Union or anything else. It MUST be done through a business bank account or credit card account linked to a bank account or YOU are committing tax fraud by evading reporting requirements as well as felony money laundering. You will go to prison for this - the scammers just hope you can transfer enough money to them before you get caught, then they'll just find another sucker to take your place until he is arrested.

And if you are not listed as a corporate officer on the bank account, then you can't do anything anyway even if they did have a corporate account.

Here is the real V&S GmbH website and contact details - I can guarantee they know nothing about this and a scammer is using their name http://vus-gmbh.de/index.php?id=9

And I can guarantee if you do an IP lookup of the emails you received you'll see that they do not originate out of Germany http://aruljohn.com/info/howtofindipaddress/

Also, what company in the world would EVER let a complete stranger handle any sort of financial transactions? They have never met you. They have never checked your references. They have never run a background check to make sure you haven't committed any crimes. They have not made you go to get fingerprinted and bonded. Nobody in any company deals with finances without any sort of checks.

Did you find this on Craiglist by any chance? In my experience over 80% of jobs listed there are scams

Check http://scampond.com/ for anything you feel suspicious, give a try of their search. It seems you can trace almost any scam.