Have been offered a job having money paid into my bank account , withdrawing all but 5% and sending it to china via money gram . supposedly by as much as £3.000 per week .
I can't believe that anyone would think that this was anything but a scam.
It puzzles me that people can be so naive to get conned by something as blatantly obvious like this.
"Excuse me, can I have all of your bank/personal details so that I can pay money into your bank account?" ........ "ermm , yea ok then, why not ....."
You have just won 20 billion dollars on the Tibetan lottery, please send £50 (in cash) and your bank details so that we can transfer the money to your account.....right...
Yes, a scam - but the issue is not that one has to give all your bank details to a third-party. Every time you give out a cheque you give out your bank details to a third-party written on the cheque - so there is absolutely no risk in doing this as it doesn't enable others to access your account. Yet another AB urban myth dispelled.
I came across a transfer scam last year, it involved the scammer paying you 'n' thousand pounds by credit card then you p'aying some business associate of his for some contrived reason, the amount 'n' less your commission, by bankers draught. The scam, if you haven't spotted it is that the banker's draft cannot be cancelled whereas the credit card transfer can.
Boxtops - I gave a complete stranger my bank account details only yesterday when I paid for a service using a cheque from my chequebook. They were written on it in BIG BOLD BLACK LETTERS. Should I be worried that fraud might occur? Should I inform my bank that I gave a complete stranger this information?