You receive an employment offer from a guy who calls himself “Dr. John Beckman” from the Thame Gallery of Arts. Your job is to receive payments from customers on their behalf. You are supposed to deduct your percentage commission and then send the rest of the money via Western Union or Money Gram.

Don’t fall for this job offer. It’s a scam!

Below is copy of the email content:

Hello Dear,

We are an European Art company with an immediate opening for a part-time book keeper/administrative assistant to join our team.You will be working for us from home. Thames Gallery Of Arts isolated in Aberdeen, Scotland. We exhibits Contemporary art paintings by emerging and mid-career artists, including abstracts, landscapes and figures.Our Gallery initiates and presents an extensive program for local and national exhibitions.

The Gallery’s wide client-base includes private collectors, art consultants, corporate art consultants, architects and interior designers as well as business, government, diplomatic and social VIPs.Our Gallery offers the client an extraordinary opportunity to acquire some of the most carefully curated art in the contemporary, global art market.We are yet to open an office in the U.S or have representatives in U.S, all our sales are made seamlessly integrated through a company-wide computer network.Thus we need to get payments for ourproducts as soon as it possible and about 90% of our customers prefer to pay through Certified Cheques and Money orders based on the amount involved.Unfortunately, we are unable to cash these payments from the US because most international Cheques take about 10-14 working days for cash to be made available.We lose about 75, 000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays.We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem.

Please note that this job may take 2-3 hours of your time on a weekly basis and will give you lots of free time to do other jobs.We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be
a competent assistant.We are glad to offer this job position to you and the best of your cooperation is highly needed.

YOUR TASK:
1. Recieve payment from Customers, No sales involved.
2. Cash Payments at your Bank or cash stores.
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Per Payment
processed.
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the regional offices you will be contacted to send payment to.Payments are to be forwarded either by Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer depending on the one more convenient for you. Charges for western union/Money Gram will be paid by us and not from your commission.Local Money transfers takes barely minutes or sometimes an hour, so it will give us a possibility to get customer’s payment almost immediately. Also, all checks and money orders sent to you are all tax free, so you do not have to bother about the Irs or any other government agency when doing your taxes. Please Note that an Employment/Application Form Will Be Sent To You if you decide to accept our offer.

Thanks Once Again,

Dr.John Beckman.
Address :Giffnock, Glasgow, G467QB
Scotland, UK
Tel:07505058619
THAME GALLERY OF ART

Note how he starts his letter with “Hello Dear” . How professional that is! Does he even know your name?