In a recent post about an apparent scam involving eBay, I suggested that it would probably turn out to be a form of money transfer scam. So I mailed the scammer, pretending to be interested in their proposal. Here's what they wrote back:

I work at the warehouse in the chain of large online stores and can buy goods at cost price This job doesn't require any investments on your side. You will obtain 20% of the amount the product was sold for regardless of the selling price. Ebay and PayPal fees - 50/50 . You need to put up goods for sale at ebay, answer messages, and when the buyers pay you, I'll send the goods to them (you'll provide me shipping addresses) ... I don't have time to sell at ebay because I have other good job. I need a person who will sell products at ebay and get his/her per cent. While I have the opportunity to buy goods at their cost price I use it to the best of my ability and let others make money on it too. We sell goods for home and garden, tools, etc.

In her message, 'Linda Wright' claims to live in Peoria, but the grammatical mistakes in her message aren't typical of a native English speaker. They do, however, resemble the kind of mistakes that you commonly see in Chinese fake storefront scam pitches.

Based on this, it sounds as if my analysis of the way that the scam works was probably correct.