Part time job offer where employer's customers sends money to my bank account and I send it to my employer
I am a teenager looking for a job to earn some side income while studying, but I am very uneducated on bank transfers and such. I found this job offer and I do not know if this is legitimate or a scam, so help would be greatly appreciated.
This was the job offer:
Employer from another country has many customers in my country and wants an assistant to receive their money and transfer to him, and assistant would get tips for every transaction.
It is an easy job and pays well so it feels like something too good to be true, but I am quite 'dumb' in this topic so I cannot make the correct judgement. Is this legitimate or a scam?
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That sounds like an attempt a money laundering or direct scam.
Money laundering: criminals do crimes and acquire "dirty" funds. They transfer them to you, most likely in cash, after which you transfer them to employer, thus employer receives "clean" funds, not traceable back to the criminals. You go to prison as an accomplice, foreign employer walks free.
Scam/theft: you get 00 from person A, transfer to employer, then employer says: "hey where is the rest of it, we agreed to 00!". Now person A comes to you with baseball bat saying you stole 00 and demand the payment. You lose kneecaps and/or money.
Another version of scam: you get 00 from person A, transfer it to Employer, get 0 as a fee. Week later you are asked by person A to help out: send 000 to Employer, because person A is waiting on the money. But you have nothing to worry about, you'll get 00 immediately and .000 back week later! You might get your fee, but will lose 00 forever
You can get a taste of most common scams by searching this website for questions about scams. In general, like with food safety: "when in doubt -- throw it out"
It's a scam. One of two kinds of scams.
One kind is the "money laundering" scam. The money paid into your account comes from drug dealing, for example. If you get caught, it's most likely jailtime for you.
The other kind is money paid into your account from hacked bank accounts, stolen cheques and so on. The money goes into your account, you pay most of it to the "employer", and then the bank figures out what is happening, takes the money that went into your account away, and you are liable for the money you paid out. That kind of scam steals directly from you.
Basically, anything asking you to pay money out of your own bank account is a scam.
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