I fell for a babysitting scam, what can I do?

it was off craigslist. I'm always looking in the jobs post because I been sucessful with getting a few in my city. Three weeks ago I responded to this lady named Shylla Franklin, I know this person is a scammer now, here's the message she wrote me.





Thanks so much for your interest in the nanny position. My name is shylla franklin , my husband's name is david with our first son .We are in the process of re-locating , to your city and will as well appreciate if you can recommend a good doctor for him when we arrive. We are coming on a vacation to the United States and i found your email interesting. We are in need of someone who can help me with some of the house hold chores running some errands when necessary and babysitting my son clark taking care of him as yours around these hours of 2pm - 6pm from Mondays to Fridays. You would only be needed for few hours per week at your convenience.We will need your service starting from july. Kindly advise your available hours and when likely can you start?About My son: clark is a talented child and very bright. he is fun loving, kind and lovely. I will be needing your service till the end of the year but am offering $400.00 per week as compensation for a trustworthy and honest candidate. I have a Personal Assistant who is helping me with the re-location process. It's okay if you prefer to be a live-in or live-out nanny as i can drop him at your home everyday and will greatly appreciate if you will be delighted to accept this offer as we would be arriving before the starting date.If you accept this position, I will instruct my finance manager to forward to you a cashier's check for your first week upfront payment by express mail so that i can be rest assured of your availability for the job and wouldn't need to search for a nanny anymore. I will as well run a background check on you because it's not easy to leave a child with someone just like that and i hope you understand my concerns.If this employment opportunity is acceptable to you, kindly get back to me asap with the information below required for confirmation and further proceedings to take place:

Full name:

Contact Address: (No P.O. Box)

Apt #:

City:

Zip Code:

State:

Home %26amp; Cell numbers:

Best time of contact:

Our expected arrival date is 1st of august but you will be paid beginning immediately, as i will have several small assignments for you to complete prior to our arrival, such as checking our new apartment for necessary supplies, purchasing what may be needed before our arrival, etc. All we ask from you is honesty and sincerity. And am sure you will enjoy the time you will spend with our son.Please do get in touch on time so that we can start making arrangements with our travel agency while i await your swift response regards this employment offer and the requested details.

Have a pleasant day.

Sincerely,

shylla franklin.



By mistake I gave her my home address, phone, and name. I didn't give any card info, or social security number. I got a message today from the scammer again and she said she'd be giving me a check in the mail, I'm not stupid to cash it now that I learned my lesson. This is the message she wrote today,





How are you dong today? Thanks for getting back to me promptly and also, i really appreciate your expediency. I have talked to members of my family regarding your position in the house and it all went well.





I am glad to inform you that your first week upfront payment has been mailed out via Fedex with the tracking number: 8758 6229 7811 to be delivered this morning. You can as well have it tracked via www.fedex.com/us to know the delivery status.





You will be receiving a check of $ 2720. out of which you will deduct your pay for the first week upfront payment and you will be using part of it to buy groceries and the rest to keep for us prior to our arrival, you will purchase these groceries on the day of our arrival for you to commence work the next day. Actually our flight will arrive at night so you will be getting the groceries in the morning and making all other preparations. I will also instruct my Realtor to mail the keys of the apartment we found to you including address as soon as the renovation work there has been completed so that you can do all other necessary preparations before we arrive.





Kindly have the check deposited in your account today as it takes 24 hours to be able to withdraw the funds. Do get back to me as soon as you complete the deposit so that you can be fed with more details of what next to be done because you have to get all this shopping before our arrival so that we wont have to start running around when we arrive.





I do appreciate you and hoping for a memorable event you will be showing my son as can't wait to have you around him.

Regards,

Shylla franklin.





I'm really scared and I already told my parents about it. I blocked the lady from emailing me and I don%26amp;#I fell for a babysitting scam, what can I do?
take a copy of the email and the the package you got right to the police.

take it as a hard lesson learned any time you get offers like that it is an attempt to get your money



on;ly take babby siting jobs from your parents friends or some around your neighbour hood

and don't get jobs over the net most of them are scams
just chillI fell for a babysitting scam, what can I do?
GO THE YOUR BANK, and even the police to report this fraud. Even if you haven't cashed a check, you will be helping others that will fall prey to her/his/them crap.I fell for a babysitting scam, what can I do?
IF you get a FedEx envelope--DO NOT OPEN IT!! Immediately take it to police, where you tell them everything told to us here. They can open the envelope---and retrieve the scammer's FINGERPRINTS, hoping they match to crooks w/ records in their NCIC database. This is how a friend of mine caught scammers trying to rob him via mail.



If no prints are found, then these scammers are pros---but there still may be ways law enforcement can track hunt them down.....before they rob other innocent people.
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They've been caught so don't worry, just inform the police :)
report this to the police .you should get an attorney asap.identity theft is a very serious problem and there are a lot of things that you need to get done now that you have givven out your personal information.you will defantly need a lawyer to get this mess fixed.