Monday Open Thread | 60 comments (60 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I just received notification of this vacancy from an agency

Our company currently seeking Customer Service Representative to join our team.
Employee Type: Part-Time Employee
The major duty of the incumbent is to promptly receive and process stockbrokers payments to further transfer them applying specified method. Please inquire for detailed work scheme.
Requirements:
- Expert skill in managing payments and transfers between our company and clients.
- Knowledge of basic payment systems.
- Ability to schedule working hours effectively.
- Availability of spare time (3-4 hours per day).
- Advanced user ability to operate computer and to use Internet and e-mail.
- Legal age.
Payment basis: During the trial period you will be paid 1500 GBP per month. You will also be keeping 5% commission as bonus from every payment received from a client.
With the current volume of clients on average your overall income will add up to 3000 GBP per month. After the trial period your base salary will go up to 2000 GBP per month, plus 8% commission (11% for financial agents with corporate bank account).
Benefits:
- Flexible work schedule.
- Possibility to combine the job with primary employment.
- Free training course.
If you would like to apply to this vacancy and inquire more detailed information, please reply email to our Customer Service Representatives Manager.

£1500 a month part time ??? Does this sound remotely real to anyone ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 01:37:52 PM EST

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Might be real, but I'd check if it's a multilevel marketing scam.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 02:00:31 PM EST
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TGTBT, still worth checking out though. it'd be good to talk to someone who's doing it, or try googling it to see if anyone's bitching about getting used.

at that wage it sounds like it'll be skirting some law or other. prolly a hot line to the caymans...bring a shovel!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 02:27:28 PM EST
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Depends on what they mean by "specified method" and, additionally, of what and for what the "stockbroker's payments" consist. I.e., is there legal liability?

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 02:31:05 PM EST
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If it came by email from a source previously unknown to you, then it is total bullshit. The same scam has been around for several weeks.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 03:36:59 PM EST
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thanks for the heads up

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 03:39:35 PM EST
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Definitely a scam.

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 04:04:25 PM EST
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Sounds like a sophisticated version of the well-known Nigerian prince.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 04:07:36 PM EST
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Advance fee fraud as it is technically called

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.