‘Interested in Your CV’ Money Laundering Scam

According to this email, a bookkeeping and business administration company is interested in your CV and would like to offer you a job.

The email claims that the company is looking to increase its overseas representatives. Supposedly, your duties would include document processing and payment control of Australian clients.

The message invites you to reply via email if you are interested in the offer.

However, the email is not a genuine job offer and is not from a genuine company. Instead, it is a criminal ruse designed to embroil you in a money-laundering scam.

If you were to accept the offered job, you would be instructed to accept ‘client payments’ into your own bank account, deduct a specified percentage as your ‘wage’ and then send the remainder to the ‘company’ via a money wire service.

The ‘client payments’ will arrive as cheques, as direct bank deposits, or, in some cases, as international money orders.

But, in due course, the bank will discover that the cheques and money orders are counterfeit or stolen. And, the direct deposits will have come from bank accounts hijacked via other scams.

By getting you to process the stolen funds and send the bulk of it back to them as cash, the scammers are able to effectively launder the proceeds of their criminal activities.

Via this scheme, the scammers ensure that police investigations will lead to your door not theirs.  Thus, after the scam runs its course, you will be left out of pocket and – quite possibly – in all kinds of legal trouble for accepting and processing stolen funds.

Such money laundering job scam emails are very common.  Be very wary of any supposed job offer that instructs you to process customer payments via your own bank account, deduct a percentage as your wage, and wire the remainder back to your employers. It is extremely unlikely that any legitimate employer would conduct their business in such a way.