I applied for a personal driver job on craigslist and I gave them my info. Is there a possibility of a scam?

They replied saying I need to drive around the guy's wife to hospitals for evaluation. They provide me with a car and they pay $800 for 10 hours a week without paying for my gas. This sounds like too much pay and I'm just wondering what they can do with my information if this does end up being too good to be true. Anyone else experience the same time of situation?



This is what they said.



This driver open is for a personal driver, someone who will be committed and ready to work with good manners and attitude. You will be driving my wife who has gotten an Evaluation Offer to run in many hospitals in some many parts of the United States which includes your State and your City. This scheme is for her to evaluate all hospitals for the time frame she can do them and am only looking for a driver who will be able to take care of the driving duty in good competency.



I suppose you know what an Evaluation is? Sometimes you evaluate companies without a notice of evaluation. This might include walking in as a patient and then taking records of how you are been attended to and how others feel about the Hospital. You have a privilege to work with her after getting the good credibility about you and further more will be discussed. This job is with a good flexible time and you can decide when you can have time, as the evaluation has no timely frame of running as you know that hospitals are open 24hrs.



You will be working for 10hrs a week, 3 times a week. The first day you will be picking her from the airport will make you work for 2Hrs and the other 2 days left you will work for 4Hrs each, (2-4-4.=10hrs) and this makes you earn a weekly pay of $800. She has a flexible time for the evaluation scheme, which means no matter what time you will have, you can have this job as a good part time job and opportunity to do some other things. An arrangement will be made by an agent who will get a car for us to use and an apartment where my wife will stay in when she comes in. The car should be expected to be brought to you a day prior to when my wife arrives the States after i have confirmed you for this driver open.



MORE INFORMATION:



Dress Code during work: Black Pant and white shirt, well mannered.



Date work starts: July 10th



Airport: (Fill in your closest airport for your convenience on booking her flight)



Weekly pay: $800



Working Hrs a week: 10Hrs



QUESTIONS:



What type of Car will you prefer?



What times will you be available?



What is your present work places, name and address with phone Number.



If you think you have read and answered this correctly and you have concluded that you are worthy of the open, then i will need some more information of you;



YOUR NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY:

STATE:

ZIP CODE:

VALID PHONE NUMBER:



All of this will be required for my personal documentation.



Best Regards

David Regan



Any help is appreciated. Thanks.I applied for a personal driver job on craigslist and I gave them my info. Is there a possibility of a scam?
These scams are getting smarter, where they won't ask for money right off of the bat.



So you first have to look as if it is "Too good to be true". They are offering you a job at 800/week only working 10 hours a week, that is $80 an hour. If you were to take that to a standard 40 hour a week job you would be making $166,400 dollars a year. That seems to be approaching the "Too Good to be True" range for a driver.



Another tip-off is when the start talking about "agents" and giving very generic information. In fact you could send them back two different responses with airports on different sides of the country and I bet you would get the same exact reply back.



You NEVER give anyone you don't know(and especially from places likes Craigslist or other sites where people can be anonymous). So as long as you have not done that you should be okay. But here is probably what is going to happen.



Based on other similar scams. With the address you gave them you will receive a check via some overnight delivery service. It will have either a foreign return address or no address at all. They will instruct you to cash this and send a majority of the money back to their "agent". If you do this you have just been scammed and will loose any money you sent them.
this is standard info. so im pretty sure ur safe.I applied for a personal driver job on craigslist and I gave them my info. Is there a possibility of a scam?
When in doubt, put it on fraud alert through Trans Union Fraud Dept. Their toll free # 1-800-680-7289. They'll notify the other 2 bureaus and must be renewed every 90 days in order to keep it active. This way, if someone tries to apply for credit with your info, they must notify you first before it is approved. Better to be safe than sorry later.I applied for a personal driver job on craigslist and I gave them my info. Is there a possibility of a scam?
I agree with CatDad. I would just add that asking for account information - bank, savings, credit card or asking for money to get the job would also be flags that it is a scam. The other info (name, address...) is standard for job applications. SSN should only be needed once you get the job for tax purposes.
If the following is all you supplied then you should be fine. As long as they did not ask for your SS# and date of birth then they can't do identity theft.

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YOUR NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY:

STATE:

ZIP CODE:

VALID PHONE NUMBER:
All of this is in the too good to be true category. The stilted english is a big scam clue. So is the too much detail in the assignment clue. I would put fraud alerts on my credit reports ASAP. If they respond back seeking more info, or offering to send you an overpayment upfront (such as here is $1,800 check. Keep your $800 and western union us back $1,000 for my wife's travel expenses) then contact your local post office and report the fraud.



Defintely do fraud alerts, though.