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By Randy Duermyer, About.com Guide to Home Business

Metro London Police Issue Work from Home Fraud Alert

Tuesday April 17, 2007
I've been harping on the issue for several weeks now after getting sick and tired of all of the spam offers I received to work from home by transferring funds. Work from home by acting as a company representative for some phony company by collecting and forwarding money overseas into the fraud's bank account, usually by wire transfer.

I'm pleased to see that London's Metropolitan Police have issued a fraud alert on these work from home scammers.

My primary concern is that there are literally millions of people who might bite on these scams. As the fraud alert points out, not only do you risk losing your hard-earned money, your credit rating could be negatively affected and you may very well be arrested for money laundering and imprisoned - not just in the UK but in the US as well.

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November 9, 2008 at 8:39 am
(1) mubashar says:

it is right

December 5, 2008 at 11:40 am
(2) ennis says:

i was caught out by this had my account closed down

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