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KAREN A LOPEZ
Country: United States
Since last week Monday, I have been receiving EMAILS FROM THIS COMPANY.  A man Denis McLouglin, supposedly from this company sent me a job offer as a regional representative to DEPOSIT, CASH MONIES PER US POST OFFICE MONEY ORDERS AND THEN WIRING THE MONEY TO ELSE.  I RECIEVED A MONEY ORDER FOR THE SUM OF 995.00 US DOLLARS.  IS THIS LEGITIMATE???  HIS EMAIL IS: denis.mc009@gmail.com.   The company he supposedly works for is : London Graphics Art Centre, UK???  What can you tell me??

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    tj
    It is almost certainly a scam, and if you do it, YOU are the sucker.  

    Why would a business need some random individual to take "money orders" (or any other financial instrument) and wire the money to them?  Banks do that stuff, and why would they want to use YOU and not a bank?

    This type of scam may be a classic Nigerian scam, where YOU deposit the phoney checks, money orders, whatever, into your account, wire them YOUR money, then weeks later your bank wants the money back when the check bounces, or is found to be forged and fraudulent.

    The other type of scam with this pattern is where the criminal company wants you to set up a business and merchant account so that you can run through phoney credit card or electronic transactions and wire them the money.  In this form of scam the amounts are often small so many people miss the fraudulent charges, but some percentage are disputed and reversed.  In effect, the American sucker is a "mule" assisting the criminal organization in credit card fraud and money transferring.  When the scam is uncovered, YOU may have to pay back all the fraudulent charges, and you might also be prosecuted for your role in the fraud.  They are safely overseas.
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    Nita
    Please listen - I had the same experience only I was stupid enough to take the money orders to my bank.  Luckily, enough my bank has safeguards set up to protect their customers from scams.  The money orders no not have the embossed symbol on the money order and they are not signed by anyone.  If you sign them then you are held responsible for the fund replacement  and these money orders are not valid. In the end I contacted Lawton Arts who I was an Independent contractor for and they became unavailable. Goodluck!

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