Hello as regards the housekeeping position,I'm Carter Bishop and My wife's name is Tiara.We are relocating to the City from Miami,Florida to Tennessee with our children Martins and Samantha.I have been transferred to head my company branch over there,so I will need someone who could help me in taking care of the apartment by doing some house work while i am off to work because we are expecting our third child soon and it will be very stressful for my wife to do the cleaning.
I will be offering you $350 weekly,I will be needing your services for 5 hours at any suitable time of yours, making a total of 10hours a week since i will be needing your services for 2 days of the week.I believe you are fit for this position in as much you will prove yourself to be a reliable and good person, My company's headquarter will take care of all your payments and other expenses too, so I will instruct them to pay for the first week before our arrival so as to secure your service, actually if i am satisfied with your service after the first week,i shall make it weekly and with time make provision for an increase in the payment.
They will be making out a check to you before our arrival, you will be receiving a check out of which you will be deducting your pay of $350 for the first week and you will be using the remaining to buy groceries and other things needed in the apartment ,you will getting this foodstuff on the day of our arrival which is on the 19th of June..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 to you as soon as the renovation work is completed so that you can do all other necessary preparations before we arrive.The apartment is located at Mcfarland St, Morristown, TN,i will also email you the shopping list.
You have to get all the shopping ready before our arrival so that we wont have to start running around when we arrive, So I would be needing the following Information from you to make out the check to you.
Full Name to be on Check,
Home Address :
City, Zip Code:
State:
Cell Phone:
Home Phone:
Email address:
All I need from you is total honesty and sincerity and you will also have a nice period of time working with my wife. I will be waiting to hear from you.
Carter.'
And then a few days later I woke up to an email that said he shipped a check and I need to deposit it. I did and then a few days my mom told me to check online to see if it was a scam to be safe. I looked and found pretty much the same thing. I have no clue of what to do. Will I get in trouble with the bank for a fake check? What can I do to make sure i dont get in trouble?What should I do if Im scammed on craigslist?
100% scam.
There is no job. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email was from one of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and demanded 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 officer 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.
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.
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.
WALK into your bank tomorrow and tell them you now know the check is fake and will bounce. You might still have to pay the $35 bounced check fee. Yes, you could get into trouble with the bank, but it will be less if you go in immediately and tell them what happened.What should I do if Im scammed on craigslist?
omg just a few days ago i replied to this add. the same exact one but different location and names. He replied to me the same thing and i replied back with the info he asked. So when he sends the check i should just rip it up? im a bit nervous. Did he contact you nymore after that?
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What should I do if Im scammed on craigslist?DO NOT attempt to deposit that check for any reason - it's fake and if you do, you will owe your bank the ENTIRE amount of the check, have your account closed, and be investigated by the police for bank fraud as this girl and thousands of others find out every year
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You can either shred the check, write VOID across it and mail it back to the name/address on the actual check with a note saying you cannot accept it (the real checking account holder has NO idea their checks have been counterfeited) OR print copies of all emails you received with full headers and bring them along with the check and original envelope into your local police and report that you are being recruited as part of a Nigerian check overpayment scam
With the "employer" you have two choices. You can either ignore them completely but they will then send you threatening messages claiming to be from the police, FBI, lawyer, etc threatening you with arrest if you don't deposit the check
OR you can write to them saying you tried to deposit the check but the bank would not accept it as it was counterfeit and you have had to give the police their contact details. And say that you will not be able to work for them as you found another job and if they send you any more checks they will be returned unopened to the sender
Remember - there is NOBODY who will offer a job to a person they have NEVER met for any reason. And NOBODY pays you BEFORE you have done the job. And do you really want to agree to work in the home of someone YOU have never met? You have no idea it's not some rapist that is looking for a "housekeeper" because he knows it attracts mainly single women. Never go to meet anyone alone - always bring someone with you even if they are waiting in the car outside
You are lucky you have not fallen for it. Take this as a learning lesson
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