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This is an employment scam that is being targeted through law school employment/internship offices/job websites, to law students. Basically, this scammer is fairly sophisticated. He posted an ad through the law school job/internship search engine for a "Legal Clerk" for $35/hr to help with legal and office tasks while he travels on business. It looked legitimate on its face and I don't blame the legal search engine spam filter for letting it through, since the law firms/attorneys that want interns have to fill out a big form to get the ad posted. However, most law school internships don't pay quite that much, especially for menial office work. However, I applied anyway as there is a legit lawyer named Eric Thompson on LinkedIn (but he is based in CO and has not moved to my state like I had assumed.)

Then, this scammer "hired" me via email, without so much as a Skype or FaceTime interview, and said that "my first task would be mailed to my house." Odd, but okay. He refused to say what it was before it got to my house. Once it got there, it was a check for a little less than $2,000, which I was supposed to "keep" $250 of, and then turn around and write a new check out of my bank account and WIRE the MONEY via WALMART to some random person in California. The back story is that the scammer "couldn't do it himself as he is out of the country on business," despite the "address" the check was supposedly sent from on the USPS Priority Mail envelope is some random warehouse already in California. This was the address: Scripps Ranch Marketplace, 297 Convair Ave Set 2, Chico, CA, 95973-8698. To make it even better, the scammer threatened me, a LAW STUDENT, via broken English with "a legal action if I didn't complete the job" in his emails after he was aware I had received the bogus check. I informed him that all of his materials and evidence had been turned in to the authorities and he stopped contacting me, but it's still a little unnerving that he has my name and address because they were on the cover letter/resume that I sent in when I applied for the job. However, I notified the Dean of the law school in charge of internships about this scam and action was immediately taken to both take down the ad and notify the rest of the law schools on the internship network to take down any similar ads they may have received.

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