I'd also be careful acting as an escrow for this: it could raise money laundering questions.
As i told to rdbase, i am acting as an intermediary to help a friend whom i trust.
Even if you (or the person doing this) would fully trust the guy, it can still raise questions. Receiving $6000 from the US and sending it to Tunisia on a regular basis can cause quite some legal headaches and "a friend from someone on Bitcointalk" won't be sufficient if (tax) authorities ask questions.
I understand this very well , but as i see many trades been made by forum members PP/BTC , i thought i may find a solution here. It's 1200$ monthly not 6000$.
And as i don't anyone to get in trouble while trying to help , i posted this topic to ask about the possible solutions.
Upon the first replies , i created a topic in currency exchange board and explain the situation and even using an escrow if needed (trying to add more garantes). First idea was to deal with trusted members only who will not hesitate help me understand the risks. The only one i contacted is rdbase and i understood from him all the risks.
The check is either drawn on a non-existent bank account, or is fraudulent, or will otherwise result in the "employees" bank ultimately reversing the deposit.
This sounds plausible.
Maybe he is right , but believe me , this is not the case here. And if i have 0.1% doubts i would never go into it.
The problem of my friend is that he is dealing with a company with only few options to receive salary on monthly basis. As i said, he received already salary for the last 5 months and the issue appeared with the Sixth month salary so the company suggested paypal.
i am acting as an intermediary to help a friend whom i trust.
How much do you trust him? Do you know him in real life? Would you trust he returns $6000 to you if you give it to him?
I know him in person and i fully trust doing business with him. I am pretty sure that he is not trying to scam anybody.
We had deals of more than 6000$ and everything went smooth. Beside this, if i found someone ready to make the deal and my friend scam him, i will take the responsability and pay him from my own money. I am not ready to lose my reputation by naivety.
When i talked to rdbase , i told him that we will use an escrow for the btc funds even i know he is trusted guy and i will send first , i suggested this to garante his funds to be in safe hands (escrow) if any trouble may occur with the PP transaction.
The company will probably get in trouble sending to a person not in contract with them
I'd also be careful acting as an escrow for this: it could raise money laundering questions.
The OP is describing a common employment scam.
The scam works like this:
Someone is hired to receive payments to their personal bank account from a third party. Often the payments being received are checks being mailed to the "employees" residence.
The "employee" is to deposit the check into their personal bank account.
The "employee" then is to either wire the funds to the "employer", buy gift cards, or send cash to the employer, less a percentage cut for the employee.
The check is either drawn on a non-existent bank account, or is fraudulent, or will otherwise result in the "employees" bank ultimately reversing the deposit.
Replace receiving a check with receiving a PayPal transaction, or an ACH payment, nad replace send cash with send bitcoin, and you have what the OP is trying to facilitate.
Hey man , i am asking about possible methods and not trying to scam anybody. I am not a PP user and don't know about how it function neither my friend. Does there any problem asking about things in the forum?
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