Being a company's foreign representative is an offer many would gladly grab without asking questions.
For the obvious financial benefits that are tied to many of such offers.
But what I can't understand is how someone would get so excited about finding a proposed job representative offer in their spam.
Every time I tell people of how someone was used by a scammer to collect money from another victim and wire it to someone they don't know ( the scammer).
They find it hard to believe and when they eventually do, they consider such individuals to be the not so bright group.
But here we are with this so called juicy offer in their spam that gets them all exicted, unfortunately this is the first step to becoming a money mule in many cases.
scammers realise that it would obviously be difficult to convince someone into sending collecting money from another to send it to someone they haven't seen in their lives.
Hence they come up with the company representative dummy.
Telling tales of how their company has been successful and needs representatives that would help them collect their payments in your region.
They wont fail to add the fact that they dont have an account in your country and this words are accompained with a mouth watery offer, to shake off any suspicion and focus your mind on the price.
The dangers of obliging their requests cannot be overemphazied as these scammers ensure that they collect all relevant personal information about you which could be used for identity theft at a later date or use you as a medium to collect payments from victims of other scams.
Another hazard of this kind of business, is that the scammer could just send you a bogus check which they expect you clear immediately and forward their share to them by wired transfer so that they can pick it up at their leisure time, and its business as usual.
Here you go, the answer to the money mule riddle, the next time you find such spam emails report them and delete them, but if you consider them, you do so at your own risk.