In the interest of educating Hilda, but especially any others who may be curious and at risk of such promising opportunities...
hilda wrote:. A foreign financial company requires UK agents to process some transactions concerning UK clients in the UK on its behalf. This is perfectly normal and legitimate. I have done similar work before and found it all perfectly amicable, legitimate and lucrative.
In fact,
this is not perfectly normal and legitimate. It is unheard of.
It is simple for an overseas company to set up a local bank account with which to process payments from customers. It is ridiculously risky for an overseas company to solicit employees whom they have
never met and who
do not even get a face-to-face interview to accept money for them -- there is zero guarantee that the company would get its money. (Think about that for a moment. If you live in the UK, and I live in the US, and you've never met me, would you trust me to take $100 from somebody else in the US and send it to you?) Not to mention the "commission" of between 6% and 10% for this sort of "work" is a huge expense. No real company would process payments this way, for these and many other reasons!
If you are offered a job processing payments, DO NOT take it. The company is not real, and the job is illegal.
http://www.bobbear.co.uk is an excellent resource for more information about money mules.
If you don't trust anything you read on the internet (but still accept money from strangers on it?) then please verify my assertions with the police, in person.