Here’s an email that came in my personal account the other day. I have highlighted the areas that are a tip off that this is a scam in red. You can read my additional comments in green.

Scam Email:

Good Day

I am Mrs cathriene Tzou Jin En the Sole Proprietor of HT PACIFIC CO. jewelry manufacturer and wholesaler in Hong Kong,and we have our own design team to develop New designs monthly for our customer.

We engaged in manufacturing high quality silver jewelry set with CZ and MOP,and 18K gold jewelry with MOP, gemstones and diamonds export
into America/Canada and Europe.

We are in search of competent representative who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in the Canada/America and Europe as well as making payments through them to us. During the past years there have been mix up in customers making payments from different angles (Companies dictate the forms of payment they can accept. This “angles” thing make no sense) so the company decided to  search for a reliable and God fearing agent who can help my company in receiving and making payments from some of my customers in America/Canada and Europe.

Subject to your satisfaction you would be collecting payment from customers we supply goods to in your country. in other words,for any payment made to you, instructions will be given on how to remitt the  funds to he company. By doing this on our behalf you will be paid 10% of very amount that you collect from our customers.

Payment comes in the form of certified cheque, Bank drafts, and Money orders. (if the company can’t accept these forms of payment from customers, what sort of payment will they be able to accept from you???? You see how this doesn’t make sense?)

The following are required from you:

{1}Full Names…………………….
{2}Sex………………………………… (There is no reason to ask this)

Remember, you never want to “process” payments using your personal bank account to help a company do business. Not only could you lose thousands of dollars, but you could get arrested for passing a fake check.