Is this for real?? I don't want to give out my personal information to a fraudster! What do you guys think?

Has anyone else gotten something like this?

I am Stephen Mchenry, Director/CEO of "Arts and Crafts Inc. This is to inform you that after critical and proper review of your resume sent to us by the career site www.govjobs.com we are please to inform you that you have met the requirements needed for the post of Payment Officer /Book Keeper with Arts and Crafts Inc. My Company deals with Art designs, crafts and musical instruments, sales and supplies. Our headquarters is in London and we also have stores in Holland, France, Malaysia, Scotland and Germany.

We are using this opportunity to introduce to you a new job opening while you are still working at your present working place. We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Bookkeeper in USA.

Your duties as the Payment Officer / Book Keeper is to collect payments been transfer to you by our numerous customers within your region, process the payments, deduct 10% of the amount issued to you as your personal bonu
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Well I did give my information.. and this is what they wrote back. Still sounds fishy to me right!?

Welcome aboard Ashley M Elgin,

I am very glad you are taking up this challenging job and I hope you enjoy your
time working for us.

Your name has been updated and added to our databases of newly employed staffs
and we have also allocated certain customers to you and they would be sending
payment via checks or money orders to you in due course.You would be notified of
any before it gets to you.

Do keep up with your mails and let us know whenever you receive any form of
payment also as your trustworthiness counts.Contact me by dropping me an email
always here when you have any questions for now.

Thanks once again for your co operation.

Regards,

Stephen Mchenry
Director/CEO,
Arts and Crafts Inc.

Don't talk to that person anymore! I can pretty much guarantee that this is a scam. Even if you did actually submit your resume to govjobs.com, it would've been easy for a scam artist to find it and do this to you.

Something really similar happened recently to a woman I know. Different details, but same outcome: the "company" offered to pay her a percentage of checks she processed for their "clients." So I read about it and discovered that it's a scam that tricks you into laundering money. You think you're just working for a company, but you're actually a third party that they use to transfer money illegally. You could end up in prison -- and face serious debt when you finally get out.

Also, whoever composed the letter created an alarming array of grammatical atrocities, and I don't think any real businessperson would do that.

Don't trust that person! And I wish you luck in finding a cool (and legal) job. :)

OMG such the scam!!! Report this as spam and DO NOT give out ANY information. In addition, this is money laundering and very illegal. DO NOT DO IT!!!

This is 100% a scam.

I would talk to the 3 credit reporting agencies to look for possible future fraudulent charges on any credit cards you have, or for credit opened in your name. If you actually do receive any checks DO NOT cash them. That is one of the oldest scams in the world, and it goes like this. You get a check, deposit it in your account, keep the 10% and send them the balance, the check eventually bounces, and you get stuck for the money.
Also report this to your local police department's "bunko" division.

I think you hit it on the nose. Just do a search for that person and that company.

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