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"Do you have a moment? I have request I need you to handle discreetly, no calls so just reply to my email Thanks"

Name of Supervisor

Title of Supervisor

Reply Sent: - "Sure"

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"GREAT! Here's what I want you to do for me because I'm a little busy. I aimed at surprising some of our staff members with Gift card. This should be Confidential until they all have the gift cards as it's a surprise and you will keep one for yourself too. Can you get this done? and how soon?

Supervisor Name

Supervisor Title

Reply: - I can pop out tomorrow after 11 am

Email #3

"I will be glad if you get it done now. I need you to get 50 of Amazon Gift cards for $200 each (total $1000). You should get them, scratch the back and take clear pictures of each card and send it to me here. I will distribute them myself to the mail,Please keep the physical cards receipt for reference. Can we meet later for your reimbursement? Let me know when you are on your way to the store thanks."

Reply: - None, reported scam to the IT company looking after us and Supervisor.

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"Will you be able to get the..?"

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I received a first email from a man named Tom to tell me KLX was interested in my resume.

From there an Alfred Ryan got in contact with Job Offer, Onboarding Forms and Instructions.

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I recive a text message that said: make extra 500$ cash weekly by carry autozone small sticker with your vecule. So they send me a check threw Fed ex with a letter of instruction. To deposit check and when clear send 2000 dollars threw zelle and check was with company name of Black Bear Treatment center in Sautee GA. 30571

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I had applied for numerous jobs through LinkedIn and was contacted by a company I believed to be Lee Enterprises out of Davenport, Iowa. When the email traffic became sketchy, with misspellings and improper word usage, I became suspicious and contacted the Human Resources department at Lee and was informed the people I was communicating with were not employees of the company and it was a scam.

I am attaching a png of the job posting as it appeared on LinkedIn. I would like to see these individuals prosecuted.

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- Johnston, IA, USA
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This was posted on FB page group for caregivers and guardians of dependent adults on 11/16/2020. I'm looking for a work@home opportunity. My mother in law, trying to help in the job search, texted me the "script" that was used:

Hello! I currently work from home for COMCAST CORPORATION COMPANY

We are currently looking for a few gals an gents to join our team!

5 days a week ( weekends off )

Starting rate is $25/Hr Paid weekly!

We are looking for immediate hire,

feel free to pm me for more information.

Please note this is a wonderful secondary job.

Great hours for parents who need to be off for their children activities!

I messaged Cathy Ketring. I'd asked questions, and her responses were immediately a few seconds later. I was suspicious because the responses were pretty lenghty for how fast she replied. Like they were copying and pasting responses from a script. Some of the replies include:

-This is strictly an online and flexible work from home job that the working hours are flexible and you can choose to work from anywhere of your choice the pay is $25per hour,training is $15per hour and will be get payment every weekend via direct deposit or credit card and the Minimum amount you can work a week is 20hrs & Maximum of 45hrs.if you are employed you are going to be working as a full employee and not an independent contractor.

Reply YES if interested!!!

-POSITION:Data Entry Work From Home

Job Duties & Responsibilities

1. Transcribe, review, and interpret all lease data before

entry into the database.

2. Ensure all data is accurately and quickly entered.

3. Review all documents that come in for accuracy (this

makes the data entry people's jobs easier). Okay

Can you handle this effectively if you’re being trained towards it?

You would undergo a week training from your training supervisor. During that time, he will let you know how to work with the company-specific programs with much accuracy’s and other data entry tasks you will need to get done. Your training will be conducted online through your PC or smartphone.

-You will undergo an online interview with the company hiring agent now. I believe you have a Hangouts or WhatsApp so we can proceed to the next step.

They provided an email [email protected]. Immediate red flag! Large company using Gmail for Dormain Address.

Then, they provide instructions on how to setup interview: you are to message the hiring agent now via Google Hangout

- [ ] On your iPhone or Android,open the Hangouts app .

- [ ] At the bottom right, tap Add .

- [ ] Type and select the email given to you

Enter your interview code

Tap send.

I advised the "recruiter" that I thought it was a scam. They denied it was m, saying they've work for company for several yrs by starting in data entry to being promoted to recruiter.

I interviewed with the another"recruiter" through What's App, but not voice or video. Just chat.

I responded to a few questions, but then stop before providing further personal info. I told my mother in law I think it's a scam. She said that it came from a private group. I advised FB doesn't vet it's users.

Today, this Cathy person is asking if I'm still interested. Will be blocking & asking FB group to as well.

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David Smith contacted my daughter a 18 years old offering a job to be a personal assistant. She applied for a job through indeed with Sheriff Gossling and was contacted by David telling her that the job she applied for had been fill and that there was another job that was available. He mailed her a check for $1999.00 with instructions to put the check in her account and when it clear the next day to get a money order from Walmart for $1300.00 and mail it FedEx Express to Debra Tucker 207 Abbot St. Richland, WA 99352. The rate of pay for the job was $650 a week, the cost for the overnight shipping is $49. This would leave a total of $650 for her expenses. The check referenced Suncoast School Federal Credit Union Tampa, Florida in the "for" column. The check was written from Maureen Chastain and Wayne Chastain 713 S Bungalow Terrace. I would not allow her to put the check in to her account.

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- Sparta, GA, USA
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I was offered a work from home job through my school that offered 500 dollars a week. The scammer emailed me and told me that I was accepted for the job due to my location being closer to him. He also stated that he works internationally. The first task he had me to do was to find out how much a MacBookPro would cost to be shipped from one location to another. I sent him the information. The next email he sent me he told me that he was going to send a check of 2,500 dollars by email and he wanted me to print the check and endorse the check and put the money into my account. I asked him what was I suppose to do with the 2,000 dollars since the 500 dollars is for what I was suppose to receive for pay. He told me that the 2,000 dollars was for me to pay his IT representative. I talked to my mom about the information he told me and we contacted Better Buisness Bureau.

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- Beaverton, OR, USA
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They are trying to get you a job with their fake websites

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- Houston, TX, USA
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I had recieved a message from this person stating about a job position for ******** Home Builders. And that they were going to send me a check so that I send it back to the person that messaged about the job so they can send it to the vendor they use. But they needed my name to be on the money. So I recieved the check in the mail and deposit it into my account to start. And when I deposit it only $400 went into my account not the whole amount. Then I sent a cash app to $NovaKing5 which is the person that messaged me the $400 that was deposited into my account. Then the next day I had a negative amount in my bank account and the check was claimed as fraud. So then I messaged the person backing stating that I was having issues and once I said that I never received back a response and the number got blocked. So I didn't get $400 back and I don't have money to pay that back in my account. If you can please help I would really appreciate it. Thank you

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- Fredericksburg, VA, USA
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Hilska Kabon responded to a tweet I had and offered me a job. He asked I DM him about a job offer. We messaged about said job but I was thrown off when I noticed that he was willing to pay of my credit card but needed me to buy gift cards for his crypto currency business transactions. It seemed to good to be true. So I declined and blocked him.

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I have been getting these calls from an employment agency or medical employment agency, which they don't say which agencies. They ask me if I can hear them okay. I do not answer the question. If I make a response it hangs up immediately. I get these calls daily and I have also been told by someone to dial 1 and I would be opted out of the phone calls. I've been told by a recording that I have been opted out not to receive the calls only to get the same recording from a different number.

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- Garland, TX, USA
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I was contacted by email asking if I'd be available for an on-line job interview at 9 a.m. the next day on Google Hangouts. That was a first, but this is my first intensive job hunt in sixteen years, and much has changed. The name of the company was not mentioned then, only the job I'd applied for. I was unable to find a match for the job title in my records, but they admittedly were not very meticulous, and it was among the kinds of things I'd been applying for. The typo in it didn't concern me overmuch, as I have run into legitimate first-liners who barely seemed to know what they were doing.

At the Google Hangouts interview, I was given the company name and some supposed background. The company really does exist in the U.S., but that one is *not* headquartered in Dubai, as I discovered later when checking into things a little further. A website exists for the one that supposedly is, but that one is barely sketched out and just a front, to make it look as though they really exist. I was told that offices would be opening in my town a couple of months from now, and that until then, if hired, I would be working from home. I then spent an hour answering pretty standard interview questions, at the end of which I was told I'd been impressive so far and my interviewer thought I'd be a perfect fit for the position. I was asked to stand by while she sent my responses to her superiors for review, and when she came back I was told I had the job. A data entry/administrative support job, at $25. I was asked for the name of my banking institution just so there wouldn't be an issue with the company check.

I got all excited for about a minute and a half, then was told that funds for the software I would need to purchase would be sent to me by company check, after which I'd be referred to the vendor I was to use. Finally, my alarms went off. I am now in possession of a pretty good-looking check in the amount of $6,552.49, delivered by FedEx. The Bank name is from one location (in my state,) but the return address on the FedEx slip is somewhere else (different state.) I lied and reported that I had deposited the check, and was told I'd need to send them a picture of the deposit slip for their records. I said that I don't have a way to do that, but that a friend might. I intend to see if I can get them to tell me the vendor's name that I'm supposed to purchase the software from, but I suspect they're going to blow me off without a pic of my deposit slip.

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I received a job notification that was fraudulent. See the email thread below:

Hi Erika,

Below are the details of the check that will be delivered today to you via USPS which is for the purchase of gift items for the foster home and also to cover your weekly pay, you can go ahead and have it tracked on the USPS website so you are sure it delivered

Tracking Number:................9405501699320112747520

Amount...........$2495

Once you get the check just go straight to the nearest ATM Machine/Your Bank account ASAP, and deposit it into your account,part of the funds would be immediately made available for withdrawal while the rest will be available next day. Make sure you notify me and let me know how much was made available after the deposit into your account. So once the rest of the funds is available, kindly inform me for further instructions.

I just contacted the foster home that will be receiving the gift items to furnish me with the list of items they require which I will relay to you in my next email.

Kindly let me know once you have received the check and deposited it ,plus email me a copy of the deposit slip. Email back ASAP to confirm you received this notification

Stay remain blessed.

Regards,

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- Savannah, GA, USA
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What appears to be a legitimate email is sent from Kroger Co. offering you a job as a secret shopper. The email is quite good and the senders email address seems legitimate as well. There's a brief description of what your job would entail and the mention of the possible level of income to expect. There's and imbedded link on this email that redirects you to an online form. You fill it out with some brief personal info, i.e. address, email, phone number, and you receive a text later confirming you have been selected and approved and your first assignment and payment check is will be mailed and is... literally mailed to you.

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On July 22, 2016, I started receiving text messages from a Ms. Clark from the phone number listed above stating that the text was in response to the resume I posted on www.justtechconnectjobs.com (which is not a site I have a resume posted on) for a Data Entry/Customer Service position (which I never applied for). She said that my resume has been selected for an IMMEDIATE interview and wanted me to do an interview via Google Hangout with a Mr. Stone. She was not at all accommodating when I told her that I would contact her when I could get to a computer.

When I finally did get to a computer, I texted her telling her that I was ready to do the interview, but I did not hear anything back from her until on July 23, I was in the middle of supper at a local restaurant that had WI-FI and got a notification that Mr. Stone sent me a Google Hangout IM to do the interview. He claimed to be the interview manager for Capitol Health LTD in Covington, GA. Ms. Clark stated to me in the text messages that it would be a video conversation, but when I chatted with Mr. Stone, it only ended up being just a IM chat.

He asked me these questions:

(@) What do you understand by the term "petty-cash" ?

(@) Are you currently employed/How long have you been looking for a job?

(@)  Are you seeking Full Time /Part Time?

(@)  Do you know how to make use of MS excel and what's your typing speed ?

(@)  We have met several candidates, Why are you the one we should hire?

(@)  Do you have a Printer,Scanner and a Photocopier?

(@) What is your philosophy towards work?

(@) What is more important to you: the money or the work?

(@) If offered this position how would you like to be paid...Via Check Or Direct Deposit,Weekly or Bi-Weekly?

Upon completion of the "interview" he told me that he would have to send my answers to the company's Board of Directors and get back to me in 30 minutes (on a Saturday at 7:00 pm, really?) When he returned, he gave me the news that I had obtained the job and promptly wanted my bank's name, but I would not give it to him. So, I then later sent Mr. Stone an email asking to know more about his identity and requested a phone number so that I could speak to him by phone, but never received a response.

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