First of all it's illegal for any company to ask you to use your personal bank account for business transactions. By law all transactions have to go through a merchant banking account opened by a Company Director. Second, the ONLY reason anyone would use Western Union is to avoid taxation and reporting to the government financial authorities - meaning they are engaged in illegal activity. Third, NO company in the world hires random people they have never even interviewed IN PERSON at their offices to handle any sort of financial transactions
Report this to the site where the job was posted and DO NOT send any personal details unless you want these criminal gangs to know where you live
Don't even think about working with this scam company. Judging by your description its a scam. YOU should be paid by THEM not the other way around. Its all too suspicious that they want you to send YOUR money to them and they pay you a commision for your money.
I did a google search for Advertising International Company and found two site similar to what you have written along with some other phoney stuff.
www.scam.com/blog.php?b=9254
http://www.joewein.net/fraud/fraud-a-i-c...
http://www.bobbear.co.uk/advertising-int...
Remember this as a rule of thumb
Always google the company name follow by scam
Or google any info you have of them like an address or something
Don't even thing about replying to them either as they'll find mega ways to hook you another way. Best to make those emails as spam IMMEDIATELY! There's absolutely nothing wrong doing business with Western Union, however what the culprit is after is your bank account information. They'll send you a bogus deposit into your account which will bounce forcing you to repay the bank. Stay safe and miles away from this scam.
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 accept a fake bank deposit. The deposit will be from a stolen credit card, hi-jacked paypal account or phished bank account. You are then suppose to withdrawal the money before your bank realizes the transfer was made with stolen money. You are suppose to send the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When the credit card/paypal/bank account owner realizes their money is in your account, your bank reverses the transfer now you get the real life job of paying back the bank for 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.
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 cashing job", "fake job bank account Western Union scam", "money mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
Yep. It's a scam.
http://www.bobbear.co.uk/advertising-int...
this company wants to hire me to put money in my account then take it out and send it via western union to them then they pay me a commission to do this. Is this a scam? the company is called 'ADVERTISING INTERNATIONAL COMPANY'. All help will be appreciated
