There is no job, no one works for any charity and absolutely nothing legit in those emails from a scammer. While there *might* be a charity by that name, you are NOT emailing anyone that works for them. You are being asked to launder stolen money.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses and will demand you collect STOLEN money from Western Union or moneygram. Then you are suppose to send the STOLEN money to the scammer. When victim that sent the cash realizes they were scammed, they will come looking for YOU to pay them back. Since the scammer is using a fake name and ID, you are the one that the local law enforcement agency tracks down.
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.
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 being the perfect buyer, 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 "Western Union scam", "moneygram payment scam", "fake check payment job fraud" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near victims of this type of scam.
IT IS A SCAM. You do not need any more information other than the fact that the scammer has asked you to send the money to them via Western Union. THAT MEANS IT IS A SCAM.
THERE IS NO CHARITY. The scammer is going to collect the money himself and YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY BACK YOUR BANK and you may even face legal trouble for cashing a fraudulent or stolen check.
I think you should IMMEDIATELY call your local police,ask to speak to a detective and ask if this is a scam. If it is, they know about it. I would never EVER do anything from craigslist and in particular give someone information and a copy of my license. You better watch yourself here. Wise up! This may be something like exchanging money for drugs or something really bad.
You already asked and got about 10 answers telling you it's a scam.
Look.... it's a scam. Don't ask again. You really want to believe this don't you? Anything on Craigslist is basically as scam. Please know this.
SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!
Sending money by Western Union 99.9% scam!
Sending money by Moneygram 99.9% scam!
i got a job off of craigslist, the person who runs the company and me conversed for about a week and i gave him my information along with my licence. i was looking for a job that i could do on my own time. the company guy has give me an assignment he says to go to money gram and western union and he gave me the receiver information of a donater to the company. he says to fill in the send information and mine as the receiver, accept money and then send him a picture or scanned copy of the reciept after i pick up the money or whatever. i dont have experience with this so i dont know if its really a scam. the company is world educate a child.org or something. i havent heard any bad reps about them but also no good information on them. im a little confused.
he didnt say to take it to the bank or deposit money or anything like that
