Is this a scam or not?

Cutepower Lee: Is this a scam or not?
I just recently received an online job offer from someone.
I signed up for oDesk. An employer was looking for a voice talent, so I sent her a copy of my recordings.
She sent me a message on my oDesk Mail and said that we will talk about the project outside oDesk.
She gave me her email and said:

Where you from? We are into digital currencies exchange business. Currently we do exchanges between paypal, e-gold, liberty reserve and webmoney. If you ready to go, we just need to know your verified paypal email address, so first few test transfers can be sent to you so you will get familiar with the process. If you will get payments in different currencies (GBP, EUR, etc), convert it into USD and withdraw. Once the withdrawal will be done, you will need to send funds back to us using Western Union. Of course we will pay all the fees, such as Western Union, PayPal and your $ 20 fee. After the trial period is over, you may expect several transactions per day $ 100-$ 1000 range.

I need help identifying if this is somewhat a fraudulent activity or what.
If I will accept the offer, and later found out if this is really a scam, should I be jailed for this?

Please, I need answers asap.

Thanks

Answers and Views:

Answer by Homer Myers
SCAM

Answer by chemland
I would say it is a scam. But if you want to take a chance to compromise your personal identify and lose all of your assets, then go for it :^0

Answer by Josh
Seemed legitimate up until the point they ask you to send them money back. It’s a scam, and if they actually do send you money and expect you to send them money back, I would suspect some sort of illegal activity.

No jobs ask you to give them money for things. Only your time.

Answer by john_carlton08
it’s a scam, or money laundering for criminal activity or terrorists. run like hell from this “opportunity”. if this were legit, the source wouldn’t need you to covert currency at a Western Union, they’d be doing business with a bank.

Answer by Neil
It is a scam.Also, report it to oDesk as this crowd is using odesk for illegal activities plus you should nort have any contact with them outside oDesk.

Answer by Andrew Wills
sorry but it really sounds like a scam. people do scams a lot and mention the paypal and others thing.
if you did do it and it really is a scam, you wont go to jail but you’re screwed from whatever they took from you: time, money, info from accounts. just be cautious and always ask questions and phone numbers to call and alternate addresses or even ask to meet up in person. and if they dont give a reply, or give a fake email or phone #, or wont meet up (proly not a good idea anyway if you dont know them) then you know its a scam.
just be careful and cautious and smart

Answer by Alec Bowman
SCAM don’t do it dude.

Answer by Bulldog
SCAM

Answer by Buffy Staffordshire
100% scam.

There is no job.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

Yes, you can be arrested and charged with fraud for going through with this scam.

The next email will be from another of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses and will demand you accept a paypal deposit from a stolen credit card or another victim’s hijacked paypal account and send the cash via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

When the credit card owner and hijacked paypal owner discover the fraud, you get the real life job of paying back the victims. Then, you will look forward to a visit from the local law enforcement agency asking you why you are laundrying money for criminals you have never met, don’t know their real name and don’t even know what country they really live in.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his ‘potential sucker’ list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don’t bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn’t worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

6 “Rules to follow” to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.

Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed ‘red flags’ and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.

If you google “fake UK job”, “fraud visa Western Union scam” or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

Answer by Kittysue
Definite scam – it’s called money laundering and is a felony offense that will land you in federal prison for up to 10 years.

These are scams run by criminal gangs and terrorists using the bank/paypal accounts of naive people to “launder” their illegally gained money. And guess who goes to prison? The Russian mafia or Chinese Triad or Nigerian drug gang or Al Qaeda terrorists who are overseas where US law enforcement has no jurisdiction? No – the US citizen who actually committed the crime is the one who is arrested and sent to prison. And if it’s found that the money was being laundered for terrorist groups, you could also face additional charges including possible treason

Answer by Ooops
You don’t get anything for nothing, , it’s a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information
https://www.snopes.com/
https://www.scambusters.org/
please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful