100% scam.

There is no job.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses 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 "supply 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 from his other free email addresses 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.

This is a money laundering scam. DO NOT send these people your personal information

That check will be fake but they want you to send real money. The scam works like this -- you get a check for $3000 in the mail asking you to deposit it, keep $2000 for yourself then wire $1000 to their "shipper" through Western Union/Moneygram.

The check will clear your bank as the check uses a real company's name and account number. But then the cancelled check is sent from your bank to the payee's bank, then sent to the payee with their next monthly statement (which could be in 4 weeks) and it's not until the company bookkeeper is balancing the books at the end of the month that they notice a check they did not write so they inform their bank and the police, who inform your bank, and the police show up at your door asking why you are cashing counterfeit checks. You will also owe the bank the full $3000, have your account closed and be put into CHEX Systems preventing you from opening a new account for 5 years. So you are now out of pocket $4000 ($3000 for the check + $1000 you sent to the scammer through WU/MG), are investigated for bank fraud and counterfeiting, and can't get a bank account for 5 years

Google Craigslist laptop repair scam - this has been around for years

https://www.google.com/search?q=craigsli...

YES that is a scam! Anyone taking about sending you a check is a scam. Never accept anything but cash and in person transactions on CL. It is common for people from Nigeria to respond to US CL ads to scam Americans. This is one of those scams! Delete the email and never respond to it.

Anyone who sends you a super polite, long email where they go into way too much detail like that is a scam. Anyone who talks about someone else sending you money or sending you more money, via check or western union is a scam.

Delete that email!

Yes, the check is fake. The scammer will require you to wire money to that shipper by wester union (a guess). The check may clear, but it can bounce weeks later.

Silly goose. All that you will ever find in Craigslist are scams when it comes to making money.

Looks like a variation of the Nigerian 419 Advance Fee fraud scheme, anytime someone want a portion of the check returned, it's almost certainly a scam, the shipper would probably turn out to be a fraud in this case.

i recall an investigation TV program that scammed the scammes, getting one to fly to another country with the promise of reimbursing him.

There's a site that guides you on how to waste the scam artists time, leaving them less time to do real harm.

http://www.419eater.com/

Here's an information site on this sort of scam

http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/

The Nigerian pop song "I go chop your dollar" celebrating such scams.