Company Representative scams, Payment Processing scams and other Employment scams.
by eddie1 Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:41 pm
So I fell for an employment scam and already put the website up in the right thread on this website.

Just finished uni and got an e-mail this morning with a job offer and it looked great. Went through the job application process and put down my details along with by bank account number and sort code. Alarm bells rang here but seeing as though they weren't asking for the long digit number, I went along with it.

As soon as I sent the e-mail I realised they have all my other details too and will be able to steal my identidy. I rang my bank and told them what happened and they've flagged my account and if I ever want to do any transactions I can only do so by going into a local branch and show photographic ID (so I can't use internet or telephone banking)

I also rang red24 and asked for advice, I cannot really remember the conversation well enough, I told him I don't have any credit cards and he said something like that they won't be able to apply for credit cards? Is this true?

Is there anything else I should do? or all am I all good?
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by eddie1 Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:35 pm
I went on experion.co.uk and signed up as well, their line was closed so going to ring them tomorrow morning to tell them whats happened and install some security checks as well
by David Jansen Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:22 am
I think you are safe. Most of these scams are just as was described in the employment scams forum where you posted in. These scams are about working as a mule, or money laundering. These scammers can't get to your bank account, especially now that it is flagged.
Thank you for posting the url to that fake website, could you also post the emails that you got from this scammer? Preferably with full headers, so that our fake website killers can deal with it.

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