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Fravans, Ltd
Attempted Fraud Cedex preying on job seekers across the US

This company preys on job seekers across the US. The tell you that they want you to be a "researcher" for them, but they offer to pay you in the form of a huge cashier's check in which you deduct a small fee and send them the remaining balance. Well, any fraud research will show that they want you to deposit a huge cashier's check into your account so when it seemingly clears, you'll eventually be at a loss. Fraudulent cashier's checks takes weeks to be caught so although it clears, eventually it bounces. After you send Fravans the money, a few weeks later, your account will show you owe the full amount you deposited.

For example, they send you $20,000 and ask that you return $17,000. You think you have $3,000 leftover in your account. Three weeks later, (and after the company fails to respond to any of your emails) your bank catches the fraudulent check and the check bounces. Your bank now wants the $17,000 back that you sent away. Fravans is long gone and you're left with a $17,000 bill. And no legal protection!

Check out the pitch they sent me:

Hello

My name is Michael Nielsen, I am a Chief Accountant of Fravans Ltd.

Thank you for your e-mail. I found you on the current list of new employees and we can proceed with the payment.

It is a policy to make all payment to our employees in a form of a check, issued from a bank in the country where the employee is residing. Currently our United States office is under the setup phase, we still waiting for a permission from the French Royal Revenue Service to open bank accounts in the USA, such is required for all French companies wishing to conduct business outside
the European Union, it will takes us another month and a half to have everything settled and the accounts opened. We were expecting the permit this week, but our legal department advised me that it will take longer because of some paperwork that wasn't filed timely on their part. After that we can redeem the payment to
you and you can start working.

If you wish to continue without a delay, I have another solution. Our company does a lot of business with domestic US firms. We can have one of our company's
creditors forward you a business check in the amount of the their balance with us (around US$22,000-24,000 roughly), drawn to your name, and then you can, after it
clears, forward the remaining balance by Western Union to us (you can find transfer rules and regulations at www.westernunion.com. WU has $2000 daily limit for
online transactions launched from their website, so you will be doing transfer from WU agent location because they has no limits for IN PERSON transactions).

I tried to convince our creditor to send you only your wage, instead of the whole amount owned by them to us, but they did not want to split the amount because of
the accounting difficulties that the procedure would create for them.
You will not be liable for any capital gains taxes for the whole amount of a check. Also it won't be a problem because the money is going to go in and out of your account completely, less your share. You will be though liable for your income as your usual income tax. This transaction is fully legitimate and in compliance with United States Financial regulations.

Since you will be also doing us a favor, and will start to work earlier then the rest of the new employees, we can offer a $1000 bonus to you personally.
You will deduct your wage plus $1000 bonus from the amount of the check, and transfer the rest (less the Western Union transfer fee which is about 5% for a
transferring amount) to us. This will also put you ahead of all other new employees and you will be able to achieve more, and possibly take part in a wider range of
activities here at Fravans Ltd.

Also i want you to now that we did a background check of your person, based on information you faxed to us, Now we see that you are a honest person and we can trust
so much money in your hands. I hope you won't break our trust in you.

Please let me know how you want me to proceed. If you tell me to go ahead, I'll let our creditor right away and the check will be mailed by a Fedex Overnight within a ten days. If not, we wait until we setup Fravans Ltd. United States bank accounts and you will get a paycheck in about 45 days.

Anyway I will need you mailing address for a check with a phone number (Not PO Box address, since Fedex don't deliver to PO boxes) and the name to draw a check to.
Please give me your mailing information EXACTLY in the following format:

James X Smith
XX Lincoln street
Los Angeles, CA, 94950
415-232-XXXX

Also i need your decision regarding what check do you prefer (Check from our US creditor within ten days or a check from our United States bank account after it will be established).

P.S. If you have any questions regarding your future employment, please address it to Patrice Darsan at [email protected], since my job is to arrange payment
only.


Michael Nielsen
Fravans Ltd., France


Offender: Fravans, Ltd

Country: France   State: Nationwide
Address: 579 Villeneuve-Loubet
Phone: 153016628

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