Police Issue Advisory About Scam Job Email
The police have issues a warning about online scams, specifically a scam email offering an alleged part time job which requires sending your personal details.
The full statement follows below:
Once again the Bermuda Police Service Financial Crime Unit would like to remind members of the public to remain vigilant regarding phishing e-mails and other scams that attempt to obtain personal information or other sensitive data.
In particular, local residents are advised to be wary of a scam e-mail currently circulating with the heading:
“BERMUDA JOB OFFER . BMD 600 & BMD 4,500 / MONTH GENERAL EMPLOYMENT OFFER (2012).”
This alleged part time job opportunity, reportedly from a major manufacturer and distributor, asks for personal and banking details claiming:
“Our customers … will SEND PAYMENTS to your ACCOUNT, we will then give instructions on how to remit the funds to our office location or clients in UK using Western Union Money Transfer which can be processed from bank or any Western Union Location.
“Customers will make payments in Bermudian Dollar or USD (Which your bank may convert to your local currency) and you will instantly deduct BMD 600 as commission on every payment and also get a Monthly Payment of BMD 4,500. You may receive about 1 – 2 payments weekly.”
Such requests via unsolicited correspondence should be ignored. In addition, residents should ignore ‘official looking’ e-mails claiming to be from any local bank regarding their ‘security information.’
Please be aware that banks or other legitimate financial institutions will never ask you for personal account information such as your password.
Members of the public can contact the Financial Crime Unit on 247-1757 or report suspected internet fraud via e-mail to fraud2@bps.bm.
Isn’t this how Government is financing its deficit?
ROFLMAO!!!
Is this a Works and Engineering or civil service position…..most of them are not real