Is this for real?

Charles E. Benson  (1880 - 1940)

Charles Benson, who has died aged 66, was a racing tipster, socialite and incorrigible gambler.

The above were obtained from Google.

Benson Arts Gallery returned nothing on Google.

Charles Benson was on Google, but only in reference to this question.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and water just falls off of its back, I am going to bet that it is a duck.

This might be some money laundering scheme, or possibly drug smuggling (Inside of the picture, some where). I would not touch this with a ten foot pole or a twenty foot german.

The fact that the reply is to go to another email address runs up so many red flags that the Chinese would be jealous.

My bottom line is that the offer was on the down and down (like the duck), not the up and up.

I recommend that you stay away from this at all costs. (Not intended as a pun.)

JayR

Got the exact same email today and it is big scam. Run fast and far!! 

This same email is in circulation once again, except it is now with the name James Auger..... of course it is a scam...

My name is James Auger and I was born in Widnes, England in 1964.I completed
an Art Foundation course at Chester College of Further Education and from there went on
to graduate from De Montfort University with  Honours degree in Illustration
in 1986. Since then i have spent my life drawing and painting.

I am an established illustrator with an international client list, principally based
in New York,London, Paris and Hamburg, am always facing serious difficulties when it comes
to selling my art work to people in the United States,some of my customers offers to pay with
UNITED STATES POSTAL MONEY ORDER,which is difficult for me to cash here in United kingdom.

I am looking for an individual in the states who will be working for me and i am
willing to pay 10% for every transaction, this would not affect your present state
of work,someone who will recieve payments on my behalf, from my customers in the
states.These payments are in form of a money order and it will be made payable
to your name, so all you need do is cash the money order deduct your percentage
and wire the rest back to me via western union money transfer.

You can easily make $700-$2000 or more in a week by working for me as my payment collector in
your geographical location,you will be incharge of collecting payment from my customers

Does it sounds like your  dream job? Well,it's certainly for someone that have easy access to the
internet and regularly go on the internet, because most communication would be via email and some
times over the phone.


Note that no form of investment is needed from you and this job will take only 2-4 hours of your time per week.
For now,we have upto 400 customers within Canada and United States, you are to receive payments which will
be sent by my customers to you via Ups. Also you must have a checking Bank account
that can cash checks to complete the task.

If you are interested,please get back to me as soon as possible, by replying back to:  arts4artz@hotmail.com


Regards
James Auger
Auger Arts Gallery
Copyright © 1999-2009 Auger Arts. UK

Don't do it it's a MAJOR SCAM!

I had the same email, with the same adresses, but for AUGER ARTS, and he used the name james auger, i got involved and he ended up sending me two fake money grams that almost got me arrested.

I just got this same e-mail today.  It is a huge scam.  My wife was looking for a job and she received this same e-mail 1 year ago.  She got involved and they sent her a cashiers check for $7800 and told her she can keep 30%.  We took the check to our bank and they said that they would cash it, but we told them to put a hold on it until it cleared.  The check came back as a fake and we had the cops at our house.  The person that mailed the check started to call us and threaten us.  The phone calls continued for almost 2 months.  It was a man with a very thick accent.  DO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH THESE PEOPLE.  You can trace the e-mail address and get their computer IP address from where their e-mail was established and the computer address was traced to Sunnyvale, california.  Save yourself any headaches and ignore any e-mails that use a free e-mail service ( i.e. yahoo, aol, live, hotmail, etc).  A real business uses a private e-mail system.