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Call 4 Action: Work-At-Home Offer

POSTED: 5:14 pm EDT April 12, 2005

When Kim Finney was looking for a job, she decided to post her resume online.

What she got was not what she expected: An e-mail from a foreign company offering a high salary and not many hours of work.

"Just within the first paragraph, I started questioning this," Finney told Call 4 Action reporter Meghan Jones. "They said you only have to work one to three hours per day. I've never heard of anything like that."

The salary was $6,500 per month for collecting money from people for notebook computers, and Finney could keep some of it for herself -- but she needed a bank account for deposits and transfers.

Jones says the solicitation does not appear to be legitimate.

According to U.S. Postal Inspectors, work-at-home scams often steal people's identities by obtaining personal information, ask them to illegally move stolen merchandise, or get them to launder money.

Finney worried that this was a money laundering scheme. The link to the Rizhao Electronics Web site did not work. Call 4 Action found a Web site with that name, but it did not list the company headquarters.

"It's kind of scary how they got what little information they got from my resume, and I can't get them to stop sending me this information," Finney said.

If you have received a similar solicitation, contact the Financial Crimes Task Force of Southwestern Pennsylvania at financialcrimestaskforce.com.


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