You will NOT be paid. In the extremely rare scenario in which you are paid, it would get you into more hot water. I cannot believe that they would go that far as to use a secondary company, fake too, to hire someone
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They can set up another fake domain to mask their activities for a few thousand dollars. They can make hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars if they create a "business" that looks legitimate enough to last a few months. It's simple math to them.
I'm going to be very blunt here, in reiterating what has already been said. I am sorry you have gotten caught up in this, but you do need to understand the severity of the situation.
Wow. I hope these people are legit
They are NOT. We're well past the "shadow of a doubt" phase. There are additional flags on the website not posted here, but we are not going to point them out where the criminals can read them and change them for the next scam site.
I pray to God they are not scamming people
These people are large scale criminals who are using you as pawns in the scam.
EVERY item you receive will have been bought using stolen credit card, banking, or other payment info. That means that with every single shipment you process, you are receiving and forwarding stolen merchandise, which is a crime. They put you in that position deliberately, using you as a shield to help get stolen goods to them.
I better get paid the 1850 they owe me at the end of the month.
As AJ said, not likely. Even if you didn't discover the truth, eventually if the criminals kept using you, the credit card companies and/or merchandise sellers will catch on that your name and address keeps popping up in relation to fraudulent purchases. They will then notify the police and the major retailers will very possibly flag you to prevent further shipping to you.
If you believe they owe you $1850, then you have obviously had a lot of stolen merchandise pass through your hands already. You can't sue them (all their information is fake and you have no clue who or where they really are) and you are reaching the point where you are of no value to them because you are likely to be identified soon. They have NO incentive to pay you. Most likely they will just drop you--that's the most common scenario.
In the (extremely rare) scenario that they DID pay you (if they believed you could be useful to them for far longer and they wanted to keep you going), they will most likely transfer the money from the phished/hacked account of an innocent victim. If your payment is not reversed by the bank for being fraudulent, it's seized by the authorities as the proceeds of a crime (and that's before fines and costs associated with criminal charges.)
I'm going to spell out more clearly what has already been stated above, as I suspect that we will see more newcomers to this thread:
Which scenario makes more sense for a company?
Scenario A 1. Find some random strangers on the internet.
2. Send some emails back and forth and talk to them on the phone. Never meet them face-to-face.
3. "Hire" them and ship valuable merchandise to them, even though you have never met them, and you have absolutely no control over your merchandise.
Hope they don't just keep the merchandise and claim they never received it, or that they were impersonated on the phone interview and don't know what you are talking about.
4) Pay for the shipping of that merchandise to your "employee."
5) Have that person take out the merchandise and repackage it, increasing the possibility of damage occurring with the extra handling.
6) Pay AGAIN to ship the merchandise, this time overseas. Since there aren't as many packages going from one address, most likely volume discounts will not be available.
7) Pay the "employee" for each package.
Scenario B open an account with major shipping carriers, and ship products directly to your customers (and of course receive volume shipping discounts.
So in Scenario A we have:
Total cost: Shipping within country + International shipping (without volume discount) + a large additional employee fee.
Timing: Shipping time to "employee" + processing time for employee + shipping internationally. (which leads to much longer delivery time.)
Risk: Distinct risk of theft and/or damage in the employee shipping step.
In scenario B we have:
Total cost: International shipping (with volume discount) + 0 + 0
Timing: Single shipping time from company to customer, no added delays.
Risk: No intermediate stops or processing, significantly reducing risk of theft.
There is NO legitimate reason for a legitimate business to use Scenario A, EVER. It is far faster and cheaper, and much less risky to send directly to the customer, period.
The same goes to money transfers. The most direct route between the business and the customer is ALWAYS the one a legitimate company will use.
