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Likely "prepayment" scam (source material was published several years ago)
Thread poster: jm2470
Sheila Wilson Spain Local time: 07:33 Member (2007) English + ...
The worst case scenario is really bad
Nov 29, 2018
B D Finch wrote:
jyuan_us wrote:
If they do pay you by "bank direct deposit", how will the scam work? As I understand it, when the payment is deposited to you bank account, it is your money and the scammer cannot take it back.
The scammer cannot take the money back, but you will find that the money apparently deposited into your account mysteriously disappears, because it never existed in the first place. However, the refund of the alleged overpayment that you were conned into paying would be real money of which you were defrauded.
I remember we had one poor translator who reported on the ProZ.com forums that she did send the refund, so she was well out of pocket. Far worse, the authorities were talking of prosecuting her for receiving illegal, laundered money. Hopefully that never actually happened, but it was hanging over her at the time.
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