I am deperately trying to find work at home employment for medical reasons so I applied to an ad I saw on jobplanet.com for an online, work at home data entry position with Ideal Computers.
First of all, the legitimate Ideal Computers site is being used by a man calling himself Claude Bush. He does not work for them nor is he affiliated with them at all. He will contact you through a ficticious name like Mrs. Susan Wiltold or Mrs. Natasha Ward, to set up an interview on yahoo messenger. Yahoo messenger? He will then ask you a series of questions which appear legitimate, but be warned, they are just questions to make you think you are interviewing.
After the wuestions he will say you are what they are looking for and tell you to be online the following workday at 8:00 am. For a week to 10 days you will do some menial work, like developing documents describing the most important functions of Quicbooks and peachtree, among other Accounting related documents. He will then inform you that you will either receive a "package" via fed ex or ups the following day or so, and he will provide you with a tracking number, which he will ask you to check online to verify that it was sent. If you deposit the moeny orders, he will then exepect you to wire the funds, after your pay and expenses is deducted, to some one else. That person deducts their pay and sends the rest (via Western Union) to Nigeria (to someone named Toby BLair). If this method isn't used, direct deposit will be suggested. Be very careful!
Funds will be deposited to your account (he'll probably tell you to set up a Wells Fargo account or some such thing), and then he will tell you to wire the funds, minus your pay, to someone else. That person deducts their pay and sends the rest (via Western Union) to Nigeria and Egypt.
This is blatant money laundering and I actually have a yahoo messenger log with "Mr. Bush" telling me that it is. If you tell him that you know this is a scam, he will deny it and try to involve you in the receiving part of the scheme (the person that gets the funds wired to them, then passes them on to Nigeria). I have discovered that there a very few legitimate sites where work at home employment is offered.
Donna
Sacramento, California
U.S.A.
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