Derma-Tec Imposter - Employment - Fake Check Scam Reports & Reviews

Derma-Tec Imposter - Employment - Fake Check Scam Reports & Reviews (1)

- Belchertown, MA, USA

Scammer's phone (314) 788-7036
Scammer's address NY, USA
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location MA 01007, USA
Type of a scam Employment

I had been applying here and there for part-time work from home jobs a supplemental income for well over a year now so when I got a text on Friday 12/16/2022 saying, I made it to the next step of the hiring process with this “Derma-Tec” company I decided to follow through with it, but cautiously. It was a woman named “Paulette Benson” that originally reached out in the text the phone number was (314)788-7036. I had to download an app called Telegram, which partly made me feel good, because then I was not using an unknown link from the text. I actually went to the App Store and downloaded the app that is a real app that many people use. After going through the “interview process”, and I was offered the remote data entry position, she then connected me with my“training supervisor”, Ronald Derek”. He is the one who was telling me about the things that the job would entail and about the two week training and would be the one training me etc. Then he said I was done for the day, and to log on the next morning at 8:00am and he’d do more of the on-boarding. Now I’m usually pretty darn suspicious about these kinds of things, and I’m embarrassed that I let it get this far, but it all seemed pretty legit for a bit. And with Covid and how many remote jobs there are these days, it didn’t seem too far off. So once they said I was officially hired and I logged on Saturday morning December 17th, I was working with my “training supervisor” “Ronald Derek”- and we then started the on boarding process, which of course, with any company is send me a copy of your license, fill out this tax form, here is your direct deposit slip, here is a background check since this is a highly confidential medical position. So let me tell you now I am kicking myself in the butt HARD because needless to say, they have every single identifiable piece of information about me, including my bank account information. After those few hours of back and forth and okay you’re all set we have all of your hiring documents in order, log on Monday morning at 8:00am for some of your training assignments. The deal was during training for 14 business days. I had to log onto the app firm 8 to 2, and they will give me some training exercises and things like that the first week and then the second week would be setting up my mini office. So that day, Monday the 19th- it was just some core questions that I had to answer in a word document and send to them so they could just see how I was able to use Word. Which I worked on for an hour or so on Monday. Part of what they said it would come with the job too was they would provide all of the office equipment for my home office, no cost to me they would cover it. And the way they said it was that they would send me money, but they did not say send me a check I assumed they would wire into my account. But looking back, as I said to my husband last night, most companies who would hire you that are legit we just send you the actual equipment and computers. Why would they send you money to order yourself? But I’ve been up my same full-time job since 1997, so what do I know things changed a lot since then, right? Ha! Well, not that much. So basically, I got a check on Monday afternoon, I was like wow they operate fast. The check was for $4500. It was a cashiers check. And for me again because I’ve been out of the job for a while I was thinking OK that’s probably makes it more real that this is a real company right? Why would they send me so much money? Because the scams I always hear about our gift card scams are they call you on the phone and ask you for money to get your grandson out of jail, etc. But apparently my husband has heard of this kind of scam with the check so I was like and I took a closer look at the cashiers check and a signature on it was “Oprah Winfrey.” I kid you not. So then I start googling the company and my husband and I are looking to see if she’s affiliated with them, she’s not, and then I googled her signature online and it was the exact same signature. Now they might be with some of the dumbest scammers ever, I mean they’re good at what they do but why would you put a celebrities name on the check I do not know? Because that makes it more obvious that it’s fake. So I called him out on it and said this is getting weird and why is over Winfrey signature on the check. And they said oh no that’s just our accounts. Payable department is just a coincidence that it looks the same. It’s not the same. I pretty much just told them to you know what off, sent them screenshots how the signatures both matched and told them to stop using my personal information and I already reported it I have since I already canceled that checking account and opened a new one. And I paid for two different credit and identity monitoring programs to keep my stuff on lock-down, like no one can even run any kind of credit, or anything on me without me unlocking it myself. Which everyone should probably have anyway, but this was a good reason to do it. So once I called them out on at the training supervisor said oh no, this is part of your training. We wanna make sure you have some financial savvy. Good job noticing that now you have to go to an ATM and deposit it let us know as soon as you can do it. Make sure you do it in a speedy manner… so I already knew this was a scam at this point, so I just kept swearing at this fake Ron person and his fake Paulette person back-and-forth in a separate chat, message threats, and telling them go ahead and try to steal my identity but I have it on severe lockdown. I also told them that my husband already saw a claim on this site from just a day or two ago about the same exact thing except that person was never sent the check. They told him to stop before they even sent it. I didn’t know they were sending me a check as I said I thought they would be just depositing money into my account since they had my payroll information. I ripped the check up and threw it away, but I do have a picture of it. I will upload it. Once I told him, I rip the check up and call them bad words about 400 times they stopped replying to me. But for fun, I keep going back and saying more bad words to them. I just think they had a slow burn type thing where they are trying to keep you engaged so they have enough time to probably steal your identity and make some things happen before you realize. And then I have since learned by research online that when you deposit those cashier checks, what they will then do is immediately withdraw that money before the bank realizes it is fraudulent and then you are responsible for paying back the bank for the fraudulent funds. And then not only do the scammers have $4500 from this particular scam, but they also have all of your identifiable information. And just keep in mind what company would just not send you the laptop and iPhone and all these other office equipment things, why would they send you money to then go onto some website to order them yourself? Dumb. And I feel dumb for falling for it. But these people are getting good!

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