Another Work from Home Scam

I was eager to find work I could do from home. I received an email offering me a position with an overseas company. It seemed simple enough and almost to good to be true, but I was in a vulnerable state of mind so I let my guard down and in the end it cost me.

I have been a nursing assistant for years and it was all I knew, but I had recently lost yet another job due to an attendance issues. I have a disease called Mollaret's Meningitis which causes me to get aseptic meningitis (viral infections of the brain and spinal column) on a pretty regular basis. I started to get flair ups almost every four weeks causing me to miss four to six days every month. After I got fired from my job I applied for unemployment and disability. I knew this was only going to keep happening because this was the second job I lost. I thought if I could find maybe a phone job I could do at home, or some type of work on the Internet that could be done from home that would solve my current dilemma. It was a lot harder then I thought. Everyone wanted to sell you a get rich quick home business. Key word there is sell. I did not have a job so I did not have extra cash to throw away on a get rich quick scheme.

Then one day I received an email offering me a position with an overseas company (J.M. Integrations ltd). They stated that they needed a representative here in the United States, because at the present time they do not have an office here. They claimed to be a supplier of clothing materials and that they had clients in the United States. They stated that it was hard to break into a new market so this was why they had decided to deliver the products up front which they believed would help them hold onto their customers base here in the U.S.A. My task was to receive payment from the customers, cash the payment at my bank, deduct 10% ( which would be my commission/pay on each payment processed), and then forward the balance to any of the offices that I would be contacted to send payment through Western Union. Sounded easy enough and yes a bit to good to be true but as I said due to my recent situation I was vulnerable and desperate to find a steady income. So I applied and got the "job".