Employment Scam Special Report | Lantex Employment Scam

Lantex Manufacturing Company Limited - Scam Victim!

Lantex Manufacturing Company Limited, established in 1918, is a traditional textile manufacturing company and merchant converter based in Accrington, Lancashire. Also incorporating C.W. Wright (Textiles) Ltd who specialise in muslin, scrim and gauze.

This respected and respectable company in the traditional home of the modern textile industry has, for the past 6 months been the unwitting victim of an employment scam, probably operating out of Nigeria.

Victims are commonly contacted by Instant Messenger by persons posing as representatives of the company.

Hello,Am Mr John am from England and am looking for a representative in the states who will be working for us as a partime worker and we are willing to pay 300 dollas for every transaction,which wouldnt affect ur present state of work,if u are interested pls am online u can chat with me.

This is the bait.... Once they have a prospect, they give more information...

first off all i will like to know ur asl and what u do for a living Am 38/ female / England, london,I work for lantex manufacturing co.ltd in England [ ... ]

Our main factory is located in africa were we extract the raw materials need for the manufacturing of fabrics we are looking for a representative in the states, someone who would help us recieve payments from our customers in the states.

They continue along familiar lines to convince persons to become 'payment processors', with promises of large comissions for receiving and passing on checks from 'customers'.

Here is a letter from one of the victims of this fraud:

Sir/Ma'm,

I was recently recruited by somebody claiming to work for LANTEX, a Louise Estrader. She told me that i receive payments from someone claiming to work for your company in the form of money orders, i get 300 hundred dollars from the payment, and the rest comes to this agency via western union in the name of Nwoko Johnson in the city of Agege, Lagos, Nigeria. The money orders I received were counterfeit and the bank debited the money from my account because of it. I am writing this email in hopes that we can work together in resolving this issue, and try to avoid issues like this in the future. Any information you can give me would be much appreciated.
thank you,

And here is an example of an offer of 'employment' sent from the scammers:

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