Multimedia Ltd

Multimedia Ltd at http://it-multimedia-uk.com/ is a money mule recruitment scam.
Cody Evans the "Prez" leads the team here: http://it-multimedia-uk.com/company/manage
Here's the dodgy job: Financial Services Officer http://it-multimedia-uk.com/job/finance
Here's the dodgy fax number: 087 2352 104
Tel No: 011 7230 5033
Fake site database entry: http://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=73185

What exactly does this American based company do wrong ? The funds are transferred to your account,you withdraw and send to another address via western union or moneygram,taking your commission out. Is this illegal,as you have documentation of where the money is from and who it is going to .

Forgive me pauly66 but you ask

What exactly does this American based company do wrong ?

It's a UK company - hence the use of the initials UK in the web address and the contact address in Bristol, which I hasten to add isn't a county, which anyone in the UK knows.

Also all UK incorporated companies are legally obligated to be registered at Companies House.

The registration for this company is as follows

Company Details

Name & Registered Office:
MULTIMEDIA LTD
http://WWW.BUY-THIS-COMPANY-NAME.COM
SUITE B, 29 HARLEY STREET
LONDON
W1G 9QR
Company No. 06274986

Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 11/06/2007

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC):
99999 - Dormant Company
Accounting Reference Date: 30/06
Last Accounts Made Up To: 30/06/2012 (DORMANT)
Next Accounts Due: 31/03/2014
Last Return Made Up To: 11/06/2012
Next Return Due: 09/07/2013

Under UK and EU law websites are legally obliged to show their company number and registered office as shown at Companies House.

Note that this company is recorded as being DORMANT. A company that is DORMANT is unable to make payments or receive payments.

I see that your statement is based on this claim on the website

http://it-multimedia-uk.com/privacy

Unfortunately no US contact details are supplied, the company name is in a UK format and the telephone numbers are in the UK.

PS - you'll never know how grateful I am you asked.

Im obviously being a bit stupid here,so on the information provided is it a legitimate company or not ? That is all I need to know.

No it is not a real company and all the photos on the website are stolen. It re-emerges under different disguises and there are other reports on SW about these fake people who do not exist. pauly66 if you are involved with transactions to do with Western Union money transfers as a result of these people via a fake job or something YOU NEED TO STOP FORTHWITH. Such transfers are totally illegal under International law and the crime is not Fraud it is MONEY LAUNDERING. The rules are to stop illicit funding of terrorist activities. The money is sent to an innocent party/mule who is not under the radar of Intelligence services. The mule makes cash transfers via Western Union to a criminal who has the MTCN anywhere in the world. Often the mule is told to tell the transfer office that it is to a family member, should they ask. The mule will also find it necessary to be visiting many offices, sometimes far apart, to spread the proceeds out and to avoid detection. The mule gets 10% or less maybe. Should the mule then discover it is a criminal activity and stop doing the job, they are subjected to threats and blackmail. The best way out is to stop before a policeman arrives, and he will not be sympathetic.

Thank you for the advice.I have obviously been very naive.I have been unemployed for seven months,and this company found my cv on a job recruitment agency.I filled in the application form and supplied all documentation required.Every seems so real,all the administration is so professional,and you would really have no reason to doubt it,I have had telephone and email correspondence from them also.I have completed one transfer for them receiving 8% commission,although there is a bit of administration to do,it was very easy.I even have receipts and correspondence as from where the money came from and where it was going to.I have emailed them and told them I no longer wish to be an agent for them,there is no fool like an old fool I was totally taken in..........

My sincere apologies for being so brutally frank with you, but there isn't any doubt whatsoever that getting involved with these people can only lead to serious problems and financial loss. Nothing about their set up is regular and there are vast numbers of these irregular companies and websites being set up.

I have every sympathy for your personal situation and understand the pressure you're under but doing this will only make matters worse. It is all the more despicable that this/these scams are targeted at those who will be less able to defend themselves when it all goes horribly wrong.

pauly66 Make sure you keep all the records you have, now you know. Please publish the email addresses and letters

If I may add pauly66 DO NOT post any of your personal details, e-mail address or anything that could identify you.

If you can pm myself or a mod or admin with details of where the money came from and went to, that would be useful. As Began says, hold on to all documents and e-mails that you have received.

Hi Guys,

My bank has already suspended my account pending investigation this afternoon.A further transfer had been stopped from going into my account,but the bank had already been alerted to the first one yesterday.It was a same bank transfer,where they had obviously got hold of some poor sods online banking and transfered it to my account.I just did what the so called JOB DESCRIPTION told me to do,withdrew it,took the 8% commission,paid the sending fee and posted it via western union to Lithuania !!!! I have told the bank all this and supplied over 20 pages of emails,transaction receipts etc,I feel so foolish,hurt and downright annoyed that I could of been taken in like this,it really was so profesional.Im not sure what will happen to me,as the Bank fraud squad are investigating,I just hope I dont end up with a criminal record or worse still Prison,I am very worried now,and feel very stupid

You've been scammed and, if information is required, I can supply it to help you out any way I can. The least we can do is indicate that this is a monumental case of organised fraud on such a scale there are bound to be victims and you are one of many who are going to get caught up in this. I sincerely hope and believe you don't deserve to be prosecuted over this, but still leaves you with a likely debt to handle and a busted credit record, which is bad enough.

Was it a cheque ? No need to tell me anything more than that.

The deplorable thing is that members of this forum appear to be doing more to combat this major fraud than UK authorities and many of the people here aren't even in the UK. Don't tell the police that because it won't help you, but it is the truth.

Please keep in touch as it would help to know how the UK police treat these cases. I wasn't planning to put any information forward just yet, as I've only really just started, but I can only guess at how bad you must feel.

Hiya,

It was Cash,£3533.00,Commission at 8% was £282,sending fee for western union was£106.00,leaving my commission at £178.00 which obviously I have offered to repay,the sending fee comes out of your commission,so total amount sent was £3250 but converted to USD in Lithuania.I shall keep you informed with what happens,if Im not in the slammer !!!!

I'm not doubting you pauly66, but there's some part of this I'm not comprehending and my only interest is to work out precisely what the criminals are doing. I doubt it was cash, as such, so I presume it was some sort of electronic transfer in to your account. This suggests to me that some other 'trick' is being performed on the initial victim's card/account, suggesting that there is a security weakness/failure elsewhere. This is only speculation on my part, but money doesn't fly off people's account by magic. This is helpful to you because as well as being victim of an elaborate, complex and large scale fraud, there appears likely to be some weakness elsewhere in the system that enabled funds to get to you in the first place.

Your place in this isn't in doubt and you've provided the documentation to show what you did and why. Beyond that they can't take you to the gallows without explaining why it is the money came to you, and I can't think of an answer that doesn't raise some awkward questions. Perhaps I need to do some homework which I will do.

It appears you're doing the right thing and that is the best course of action to take. I've got my fingers crossed for you.

Hi,

Sorry I confused you,the documentation i received said the funds coming into my account was a WIRE TRANSFER,what ever that is. All my statement said, shall we say was J R HARTLEY COOPERATIVE and the sum.Maybe it was a coincidence we had the same banks,I dont know,but the Fraud department told me the case was only raised this afternoon when the person realised the money was missing from their account.When I went in yesterday to withdraw the money,there was no problem,it was £3500 and all the teller did was just get her supervisor to sign it off.I really had no idea that I was doing anything wrong,I was just following the instructions to the letter.I had already printed off the paperwork of where I had to send the money,and showed it to the guy in western union,you have to supply id in there,which was stated on the paperwork.The guy read through the paperwork and I explained it was a new job I had started and he explained the process to me,once done,I went back onto the computer,and recorded the transactions onto a form online and sent it off.An hour later I received another email saying the company Multimedia Ltd had awarded me a £50 bonus for completing the transaction in two hours,which I would receive with my £1500 salary at the end of the month !!! As you could imagine,I felt very pleased.I then received an email today at 1330,well after my stated "work" hours 9-11am,saying that a payment of £2955 was being transferred into my account.On receipt of monies in,email and they will tell me where to send it.I went onto my online banking to see if transferred but could not get in,phoned the bank ,then they told me !!!!!

At least, being an online transaction, what the criminal did to get the money to you will be recorded and that can't be hidden or covered up. Banks can and will act quickly to block the method. I could speculate on what they've done, but I won't and can't be certain without seeing the paper records, but that's in the hands of the police and bank, and they can track every key depression, who made it and where.

To judge by the insane level of website production I suspect the criminals know this has a limited life span and are intent on driving it to self-destruction, making as much as they can while they can. The drawback to that tactic is that they're drawing massive attention to what they're doing.