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- Tulsa, OK, USA
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I applied for a job on Facebook. I received a messenger response, checked her profile and it looked legit, so I responded. She stated the interview process would be through an instant messenger app called Telegram, and I could download it. I downloaded the app and she sent me a link to a different person's account (presumably her supervisor). I clicked the link and said hello. The interview commenced via chatting on this app. It all seemed great, seemed completely legit. It is a real company, a very large cybersecurity firm, so I thought it was an amazing offer! Then he wanted me to send pictures of my ID and social security card along with mailing address and phone #. I sent the ID, address and phone. I asked him for proof of employment with Sophos... he sent me what he claimed to be the Sophos EIN. I had no way to confirm the EIN, and I asked if he had a corporate email address. He stated he did have one, but didn't share with me what it is. Unfortunately, I was duped into sending my social security number, then he sent me a link to id.me facial recognition software. Duckduckgo wouldn't allow the link to open (should have been a huge clue), so I tried it in Chrome. I did the facial recognition and by that time 2 hours had passed since we started chatting. I was offered the job after scoring 8.9 of 10, and was told Welcome to Cybereason (another cybersecurity firm, and not a division of Sophos that I can tell). I was to report for duty the next morning at 8am my time. I started to feel uneasy about sharing my personal information with him, so I made sure to lock all my debit cards so they couldn't be used. I downloaded antivirus software to my phone to ensure I didn't have any spyware or malware on my phone. So far, so good. I did online searches of the people's names and couldn't really come up with a lot. Brice Steward was the name he used on Telegram. Her name is Ashanti Brown from Paramount, CA according to her 2 Facebook profiles. I figured I would wait until 8am to see if this job is legit or a scam!

I logged on at 8am on the Telegram app, he went over the pay ($30/hour) and responsibilities (Payroll Assistant). The company would send me funds to purchase the required equipment for the job and it would come from one of 1,085 vendor partners. Once the check was received, he would send me the link to purchase the equipment from their trusted provider at a substantial discount and all necessary software would be installed prior to shipping. He stated they would be sending me a .pdf check to deposit with my mobile banking app and asked if I had the app on my phone. I was very uneasy by this time and stated that I lost my login, so I had to go to the bank today to have it reset. He responded to make sure I did that today so they could send me the check. A lot of the conversation had been business info and questions, which seemed to be copy & paste. When he was asked a direct question and when I started resisting about the bank info, his answers became very strange, as if English was not their first language. It was also strange to me that they would have ME purchase the equipment, instead of the company just shipping it. I have had remote positions and the company mailed everything from their own IT department. He then told me to contact him as soon as I got my bank login info. I said Okay and went about my morning. About 30 minutes later, I got a text from id.me security stating my name had just been used to log into the California EDD and asked if I authorized that login. I said NO, filed an FTC complaint, filed a fraud claim with the California EDD (their website for unemployment insurance), filed a fraud warning with the 3 credit agencies and went to my bank to see if I needed to change my accounts or anything. Since I hadn't given them any bank information, my account wasn't compromised (thankfully), but these people now have my ID, address and SS#.

The bank stated that it had also happened to another customer, that they had actually deposited the check and it was flagged as fraud.

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