Is H&M Fabrics, Ltd of the UK a legitimate company?

Question

H&M Fabrics Ltd, UK, is offering employment to send payment back to them after giving 10% commission from each check. The thing that makes me nervous is that they want a Western Union check after the checks have "cleared". I begin to wonder if this is truly a legal business or one of those scams. Could use some help here.

Kathy Steele

Answer 1

I’d say this is almost certainly a scam. For a start it all sounds very dodgy, especially the Western Union part, but they don’t seem to be a legitimate company anyway…

Companies House is a UK government department responsible for registering company names. I used their on-line searching tool [1] and could not find any active companies with that name. You can’t be a Ltd company in the UK without registering with that database. I did, however, find a company with that name that was dissolved in 2005 [2].

I personally wouldn’t send these people any money, at least without asking them to explain why they’re missing from the Companies House database.