There is no job.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next text will be from another of the scammer's fake names and paid-for-in-cash cell phone numbers pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand 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 "shipping 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 official 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 and texts from his other free email addresses and paid-for-in-cash cell phone numbers 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.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
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.
6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.
If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "check mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
It's a SCAM. NEVER accept a check UNLESS you go to the bank with that person and personally witness them drawing a certified check at the bank which you immediately cash or deposit
They send you a counterfeit check. You deposit it and your bank will make the funds available after 3 days as a courtesy - so you think the check is good. The "shipping service" (scammer using another fake name) picks up the car. Then 3-4 weeks later your bank calls to say the check you deposited was counterfeit and they withdraw the full amount from your account. Meanwhile your car has already been stripped for parts or has been shipped to Mexico to be sold on the black market
Craiglist has a red warning across the top of every single vehicle listing telling you to avoid all transactions involving shipping
NEVER sell to anyone you cannot meet in person and sign over the title to in person
Scam. Step 2 is they send a (phony) check that.s 2_3 times your price, and tells you to cash the check immediately and either western union the rest of the money after deducting the car price or send the rest of the cash via Fed Ex.
Yeah it's a scam.
Make sure you have the money in hand and the title has been transferred to the other person before you hand the keys over.
Scam, who buys a car with out seeing it, what makes your car so special?
Ok i posted my current car up for sale on craigslist in my city, about 2 hours later i got a text message from a number possibly out of state claiming they wanted to buy the vehicle, he said he would get the car shipped by hiring ine of his 'PRiVATE' Shipping service. & sen me a check from bank of america via USPS Or Fedex for the price i was selling it for. Also Saying He Wants To Buy it ASAP!! I Never Used Craigslist Or Sold A Vehilce Online So idk About those shipping services PLZZ HELPPP!!!!!
