Scamerican dream
Chapter 57. Addendum. Can I earn?
Can you make money by working at home? In my personal opinion, 99% of all work at home offers are scam, which leaves 1% of legal offers with ridiculously low pay, and even fewer ones with actual decent money in them. I came across some of them personally, and I even had a couple of acquaintances looking to expand their legitimate businesses in America and, therefore, in need of an American representative, salesperson or a purchasing agent. You wouldn’t believe it, but my friends failed to find good candidates and ended up turning to a recruitment agency.
But let’s return to the 99% of scam. As I told you before, people are willing to pay drops real money for certain machinations. If you’re not afraid of the fact that it’s an illegal job, you need to come up with a tale to feed to the cops in advance, and it’s a good idea to rehearse how to play fool who got tricked by drunken Russian Ivans. As far as I know, if you do it right, you’re under no threat of anything nastier than a soulful talk with an officer at the station.
I, personally, on more than one occasion worked with drops who had had visits from their local sheriff, and yet we kept working with them after adjusting the scheme a bit. For instance, Sarah from IL has been selling stolen items on eBay for three months. When the cops came to her, she said she didn’t know anything and that she’d transferred all the money to Russia already. She even showed a couple of Western Union receipts. She lied, of course. If she didn’t, she would have had to return the $20,000 that she had earned, but she had enough common sense to withdraw the money from her PP account after each payment. She sent us 70%, and kept the remaining 30. During the investigation her PP was blocked and if there was money on it, it would have probably got confiscated. Sarah was a brave one, so she agreed to keep working with us. We transferred $50,000 to her account, out of which we received $40,000, and she kept the rest. The cops came to her again, this time about the transfer, and this time she made big eyes at them and explained that she hasn’t been selling anything on eBay since her PP was blocked. And the bank transfer, she explained, was payment for the services she had already provided. She said she kept only $500, and sent the rest to icy Russia. She had to give them the $500 and talk to the officer about the evil Russian hackers a couple more times. After than both the cops and us forgot all about her, but the fact is that she made $30,000 working with us.
If you enjoyed Sarah’s story, I can give you a couple of tips on how to find the right partners. If the job is connected to mailing packages, then agree only if they agree to pay you after you send each box, so, basically, daily. In the case if the work is related to cashing or selling goods on eBay, you have all the cards in your hands and the amount of profit you make a day depends only on your greed and good fortune. If the cops come to you, you can confidently tell them about the company you’re working for and show them the website. The cops will see that you’re a complete sweetheart and willing to cooperate. No one will suffer from that, but the site will probably get shut down, so I suggest you warn your employers about the cops’ visit in advance and get a different contact email from them. Really, as soon as you realize that what you’re doing is 100% criminal and you can profit from it, you should register an email in a fake name and take all the important communication over to that account. However, don’t forget to keep up an illusion of communication on your main account too, for the cops’ benefit, because they will want to see your mail. As you probably realize, they don’t need to know what sort of money you’ve been handling and how much of this money you kept to yourself.
