Will I be involved in a scam?

I recently looked on CraigsList for a job %26amp; came across a CareWorker's job for this womans sister who was moving to Asheville from Philadelphia. She said I would get 500$ a week via certified check for taking care of her sister. I guess she's disabled or something, Idk. She asked me for my name, address, phone number, age, sex, marital status, %26amp; state, zip code %26amp; city.



Not thinking too much about it cuz I'm good with people who need medical attention %26amp; REALLY need the money right now, I gave that information to her.



Can someone please help me. I'm a little worried it's a scam. I didn't give her a credit report or my SSN or anything like that. I just don't know if someone can scam someone else by just having that information. Can they?





PLEASE HELP! 10 points.Will I be involved in a scam?
It's a SCAM



You NEVER give this information to anyone you have not met face to face. There is NO reason for anyone to know your home address and it's against the law for anyone to ask your age, sex or marital status. That is illegal. Only a scammer who wants to steal your identity would ask for this



They will now send you a certified check. DO NOT sign for it. They usually send through UPS or FedEx requiring a signature. Refuse delivery and return it to sender. If you live with other people tell them to refuse delivery. The minute you accept it, you just confirmed to the scammer your personal details. If you refuse it and it gets returned to them, they'll assume you knew it was a scam and gave them fake info



If it's too late and you already signed for it or they sent it regular mail, then take the certified check (which is counterfeit), write VOID across it, and return it to the address on the check (not on the envelope) saying you received it in error. It will be an overpayment check. Instead of $500 they will send you a check for $2900 and ask you to keep $500 then wire $2400 to someone else through Western Union which is money laundering that can land you in prison. Then write back to the person saying you cannot accept more than they offered so you voided the check and returned it to them



There is NO job in the world that hires people they have never met face to face. Ever. Almost all Craiglist job scams offer work to people they have never even met in person
This is a very popular job scam......forget about it......trust me.Will I be involved in a scam?
yes they canWill I be involved in a scam?
100% scam.



There is no job.



There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.



The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.



Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.



You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.



Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.



Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.



6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:

1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.

2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.

3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.

4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.

5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.

6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.



Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.



If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "money mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.