Company Representative scams, Payment Processing scams and other Employment scams.
by Panzi Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:41 pm
Hi guys,

I have received a job offer few days ago via email and after couple of correspondences they forwarded me a contract and training scheme for the Data Entry Clerk position. After checking the position details and training procedure I noticed that, tomorrow they are going to send some money(£30) to my bank account as training wage plus some amount (not specified) to perform transaction via Money Gram using the data I will receive from personal manager ???

I believe this is a scam, but I dont know how to proceed to be sure and what to do in the next steps. I have searched through the web about the company but could not get decent information...
I'd be really appreciated if you can help me in this case.

Please find more information and related emails below...
Many thanks in advance!

Company is using below email address:
[email protected]
Contact person is: Helen T. Valerio
Their website is: http://godleycenter.com/index.php
Their UK telephone number is: +44 020 3287 6154


FIRST EMAIL:

Helen T. Valerio <[email protected]>
26 Jan (3 days ago)

to me
We'd like to mention that this information is not any kind of SPAM, so if the offer is not for you, you may simply delete it, and if you're interested in - you may kindly give a reply.

We have a great opportunity for an Data Entry Clerk (No Experience Required) to join a very well established company based in UK.

SALARY: £18,200 (PART TIME); £24,700 (FULL TIME) / Permanent

Personal Attributes:

- Strong attention to detail
- Understand the importance of confidentiality and maintain it at all times
- Highly organised
- Punctual
- Confident communicator

This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful business who can offer a fantastic working environment with on-going support.

If you would like to find out more information about this position, please contact.


HR Manager


Helen T. Valerio
Godley Strategy Center


FURTHER EMAIL * TRAINING SCHEME

On 29 January 2015 at 09:17, Helen T. Valerio <[email protected]> wrote:

Congratulations to the beginning of the training, your training will
start on Friday, 30, January, 2015.
Please confirm that you are ready to start the training as soon as possible.


P.S. The training manager is going to contact you by telephone.


Training Course Basic Information


Company is engaged in various financial activities, cooperating with national and international payment services in USA and Europe. Now, the company is expanding its business activity on the territory of UK. Both jobs are considered as office-based and home-based, so that you may choose your working hours and your job-schedule at the first meeting that will be held on fourth training day.
Before you start to work, you should pass a free 10-days training course to practice with software and learn theoretical materials ( and other documents) preparing you for all the duties and future responsibilities. After you complete the free training course, company guarantees your employment within one business day (all necessary assignments will be discussed on the 1st interview already – as soon as your local supervisor receives your practical and test results).
The training course is distant, except for two personal meetings with one of the company’s managers in your city. It combines both practical and theoretical part for each lesson. The lessons will be assisted and controlled online by your local supervisor and distantly (only during the 1st lesson) by the training manager. While studying, you will permanently move from the easiest and the simplest tasks to levels that are more complicated. You will receive studying materials that you should learn and strengthen then your knowledge by passing tests after each practical part.

The training days do not have to be consecutive (you can make breaks for one or several days if it's necessary).


Our trading training courses include the following steps:

1. Initial professional level check (distantly coordinated by training manager): Accounts. Payment systems. Immediate transfers.
2. Determinants of Foreign Currency Exchange Rates.
3. Access to company’s software (trading platform & financial messaging network).
4. Types of Markets. Requests handling. Databases.
5. Brokerage and investment banking. Types of investments.
6. Exchanges between payment systems. Records of different transactions. Reports.
7. Volatility and Variance Products. B2B- and B2C- applications.
8. Interest Rates and Interest Rate Products.
9. Accounting documents. Financial Engineering.
10. Practical usage of training experience. Workday rehearsal with Key Trader (local supervisor).Practical usage of training experience.

Each lesson shouldn’t take longer than 2 hours for every trainee ( so that they could practice as well).

Initial professional level check (instructions for the 1st lesson).

1. Your Training Manager (TM) calls prescribe you into the list of trade-trainees and to confirm that everything is ready for the start of practical part of the Lesson. (The training manager will assist you by the phone to report about your skills to organize, calculate, communicate, count, etc.)
2. Then TM informs when the money for practicing with elementary operations and your training wage £30 are available on the account that you have specified for training. (The exact amount can’t be specified at the moment since the training money goes from one training person to another by a chain: company sends the initial amount to the 1st trainee, he/she takes £30 as the training wage and sends to the 2nd trainee the rest of the amount after deduction of the commission for the transaction; the 2nd trainee takes £30 and sends to the 3rd trainee the rest minus the commission etc.(subject to the number of the trainees before you in the training chain, the amount that you receive can be different).
3. You call your TM after withdrawing the total amount to receive new details.
First, £30 you should take for yourself as your personal training wage for the lesson (you may leave it on your account) and the rest of the amount you will use for practicing with Money Gram and Western Union payment systems. Then you go to the nearest Money Gram location to perform a transaction using the data you will receive from your personal manager. Pay attention to the details to be able to compare and learn the differences between this and other financial services.
The Receipt that you get from the Money Gram managers has to be saved.
4. Your TM will provide your practical results according to all references to your local supervisor and compose several questions to check your initial professional level. After you complete the practical part, you will receive theoretical materials. You should answer questions in the test form and send it back to company’s e-mail address within next 24 hours. Some of the questions will concern your practicing for the first training day, some of them will be based on your results (to confirm your skills, abilities, etc).The deadline for sending out the test form: next workday, 6:00 pm.

In response to this email, please specify the day when you are ready to start the training. Your personal training manager will contact you by the phone. So, please, make sure to stay accessible by the phones provided.


Every training step was weighed and deeply tested during our trading and training work so that every person may show the best results. Our education initiatives incorporate classroom learning, simulated trading sessions, specialized financial engineering seminars, and a variety of other instructional programs. We view education as a continuous process—as the markets, products, and valuation techniques evolve, we adapt our coursework to reflect those innovations.



With respect,
Helen T. Valerio,
Godley Strategy Center
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by Bryon Williams Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:52 pm
Welcome to Scamwarners,

It is a scam the scammer wants you to help him launder stolen money.

He will scam other victim's have them send money to you. He will then have you forward to him or an accomplice.

Website noted.

Please contacta moferatorstor if you have a question or information about this post.



Please do not tell the scammer he is posted here.


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by Panzi Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:03 pm
Many thanks for your prompt response.

I'm planning to inform my Bank's personal account manager about the issue.
Is there anything that I can do at the moment?
by Bryon Williams Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:08 pm
Ignore any future contact from the scammer. Make him wonder what he did wrong.


Domain Name: GODLEYCENTER.COM
Registrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 303
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Name Server: DNS1.ICERTIFIED.NET
Name Server: DNS2.ICERTIFIED.NET
Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 22-jan-2015
Creation Date: 05-jan-2015
Expiration Date: 05-jan-2016

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by Bryon Williams Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:55 pm
New website with a one year registration are clues. Also the site claims to have been in business a lot longer.

The site is in the process of being reported for fraud.

Please contacta moferatorstor if you have a question or information about this post.



Please do not tell the scammer he is posted here.


Please remember the fallen. https://www.odmp.org/
by HillBilly Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:33 pm
Panzi wrote: After checking the position details and training procedure I noticed that, tomorrow they are going to send some money(£30) to my bank account as training wage plus some amount (not specified) to perform transaction via Money Gram using the data I will receive from personal manager ???

I believe this is a scam, but I dont know how to proceed to be sure and what to do in the next steps. I have searched through the web about the company but could not get decent information...
I'd be really appreciated if you can help me in this case.

Company is using below email address:
[email protected]
Contact person is: Helen T. Valerio
Their website is: http://godleycenter.com/index.php
Their UK telephone number is: +44 020 3287 6154


it is also possible that this is a fake check scam (some bank to bank transfers ( T/T) can be reversed for a short period of time as well). They send you a fake check / money order. You cash it then send them back via wire transfer the "overpayment" of funds. Then in 3 weeks to 6 months the bank finds out it is a fake check / MO and withdraws the amount from your account. If it is a fake check scam it could also result in criminal charges against you. whatever you do, do not cash/ deposit a check / MO you receive. If it arrives via T/T, tell your bank to send it back to whomever sent it.

If you do receive a fake check in the mail ( USPS) then report it to the US Postal Inspector's (USPI) office. you can find the closest one to you here : https://ribbs.usps.gov/locators/find-is.cfm Make copies for yourself and take the originals to the PI's office.

If the fake check arrives via a private carrier, notify the fraud department of that private carrier about it and tell them not to deliver any more packages to you without your written consent ( from this particular person).

by Panzi Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:52 pm
HillBilly wrote:it is also possible that this is a fake check scam (some bank to bank transfers ( T/T) can be reversed for a short period of time as well). They send you a fake check / money order. You cash it then send them back via wire transfer the "overpayment" of funds. Then in 3 weeks to 6 months the bank finds out it is a fake check / MO and withdraws the amount from your account. If it is a fake check scam it could also result in criminal charges against you. whatever you do, do not cash/ deposit a check / MO you receive. If it arrives via T/T, tell your bank to send it back to whomever sent it.

If you do receive a fake check in the mail ( USPS) then report it to the US Postal Inspector's (USPI) office. you can find the closest one to you here : https://ribbs.usps.gov/locators/find-is.cfm Make copies for yourself and take the originals to the PI's office.

If the fake check arrives via a private carrier, notify the fraud department of that private carrier about it and tell them not to deliver any more packages to you without your written consent ( from this particular person).


Hi,

Many thanks for your advises. I'm living in London/UK and most probably scammers will use bank transfer rather than check, but I'll definetely follow the same steps to stay out of danger and chase the fraud.
by JazzGott Wed Feb 04, 2015 1:43 pm
They've changed the domain. Now they call themselves http://conwayinvest.com/

The content of email is the same. Even the documents they've sent me to sign (requiring me to give them my credit card number, which rang the alarm bells) were still for the previous company - Godley blablabla.
by Mike Wilson Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:50 pm
Welcome JazzGott,

Thanks for posting the updated information on this scam. The new website is in the process of being reported for fraud.

It is ALWAYS a scam
If the pet seller or shipper asks for money to be sent via Western Union, Money Gram, any brand of gift card. Walmart To Walmart , Zelle , PayPal friends and family option, or mentions Cameroon
by vonpaso xlura Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:40 am
leavyplanners.com is another Grafton-Riggs money mule site with the same registrant, registrar, nameserver, and hoster as Conway. Both sites have been reported for fraud.

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