Waikato Police of Waikato District, New Zealand is cautioning netizens that they should be vigilant of online employment offers wherein people responding to the e-mails may unknowingly get entrapped into money-laundering activities. Tvnz.co.nz reported this on March 23, 2011.
Actually according to Waikato police, in one such recent e-mail scam, a lady from Hamilton in Waikato, NZ got duped into transferring illicit money after she replied to an uninvited electronic mail offering employment as a marketing executive.
States the Police, the lady was asked to supply personal information, especially her bank account particulars in an application form that she filled in and e-mailed. Next day, the so-called firm got in touch with her and told her that it would shortly wire her the initial sum of money.
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