Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Russian Mafia & Me

The other day, I had an interesting email inquiry on my posted resume. Company "A" was looking for individuals who could work part-time by internet reviewing business transactions of client companies. Training was provided, salary plus commission during training was excellent. No selling involved, just a commission on the number of transactions reviewed.

After a month of training, the salary plus commission, for part-time work, was really, really good. Too good to be true?

I googled the company....they had a very nice website with several pages of information. But as much as I read and re-read the material, I couldn't figure out exactly what they did.

So I googled the individual who had sent me the message. No luck.

I have to tell you that I honestly considered contacting this company. I mean, a part-time job, at home, that would allow me to continue my job search or give me the security to start my own business...too good to be true?

Maybe it was my Irish pessimism, but I kept looking for information and finally a story popped up about the company...and the fact that it was a scam, allowing the Russian Mafia to launder money....and for a good, maybe 30 seconds, I was thinking, "does that still mean I could make this money???"

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