Hello,

I responded to an add for a personal assistant. After a couple of emails. The other party agreed to hire me as a personal assistant. The bulk of my responsibliities, would be to receive money orders from her, and after deducting my fee transfer the remaining funds to another person, supposedly a client or seller of purchased items.

My question is has anyone experienced anything similar? Also what is the worst cas scenario, what type of trouble could I get in? Thanks.

@joseclar , Welcome to 419legal. You ask "what type of trouble could I get in?"
Hoe about up to fifteen years in jail for being in POSSESSION of a forged instrument?

You will receive either forged or stolen cheques or money orders and be asked to cash them, take your 'commission' and send the balance, to the scammer probably by western union.

After the money orders or cheques are shown to be fake you will get a call from some well dressed but unsmiling men who will ask why you are dealing in forged currency
and then on top of it all you will have to repay the money back.

This type of scam is increasing recently. If you receive ANY cheques or money orders take them along with hard copies of the emails to your postmaster as in the states they deal with this type of fraud, if you live outside the states take to your local police to cover yourself .
Do NOT attempt to cash them.

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I dealt with this very situation last fall. I wanted to open a separate bank account and run the cashier's checks through there to keep it separate from my personal account. My banker is the one who threw up the red flag and called the bank that was shown on the cashier's check. They confirmed that the check was a fake. In fact, I still have the check and never heard from the person again who originally hired me. The company I was supposedly working for was a wheel company that made specialized wheels for automobiles.