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- Montoursville, PA, USA • Jun 10, 2024
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I received an email then a text message. Upon answering them they gave me a link to signal to do an interview. I did the interview and they sent me an email with a check I was to place in the bank mobile use only. Before the bank released the check they had me use Paypal to get what they said was equipment. They took the money out before the check was released from the bank. The bank then said the check was fraudulent and that the money was taken from my account. The person I was in contact with on Signal said they would get the money back to me and has not done so. The person the money was sent to was messaged and they gave me an email of the person giving them orders to use the money. I reached out to that person and the person on Signal and received nothing. It has been almost a month now with no contact back from anyone and no refunds attempted. The bank suggested a police report to be made so there is an investigation but it looks like nothing will be done.

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- Squires, MO, USA • May 28, 2024
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Received a cashier's check of $1795 for a "secret survey" assignment. I was suppose to deposit check into my own bank account. Then purchase gift cards totalling $1300 & scratch off numbers. Take pictures of front & back of gift cards. Answer a few questions about my experience in the store & email my report along with photos to them. I was going to be able to keep the remaining $495 as my fee. I did NOT deposit bogus check cuz I know better .

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- Bath, PA, USA • May 23, 2024
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Sent a fake check

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- Houma, LA, USA • May 01, 2024
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It was for a remote job. Told me I got the job ask for info and sent box of envelopes and check

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- Chicago, IL, USA • Apr 12, 2024
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I was contacted by phone by “Hannah” for an online Administrative Assistant position. Made an account on the website. Then chatted with someone named “Glenda Beaumont”. Asked the usual questions about ability to work a set schedule, pay, training. They even had paperwork. So they sent a message about a package coming and my equipment will be shipped. Here’s the message:

You will be receiving the package from FedEx today and I also have the FedEx tracking number available for you to keep track of it.

Here is the tracking number: 775880587160 (www.fedex.com), you can look it up and let me know the status of the package.

So I received a tracking number from them for a FedEx package. It was not my equipment. It was a check. I called the bank to alert them about what has happened. But they now have my information. I think it’s time to call social security.

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- Avon, CT, USA • Apr 08, 2024
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Went along with the Teams request for an interview. Answered a few generic questions and immediately got offered a job. Next day they sent me a check to buy the supplied I would need to work from home.

While on the Teams meeting (text only, they would not set up an actual phone call) they emailed me a check and asked me to deposit it right away. The check was from some construction company in Georgia.

I looked them up and called them to ask them about the check. The company said this was not the first call they had received about this and that the check was bogus. Probably stolen from an old account.

I'm sure that the next thing Benjamin Sutter (if that was his real name) would have asked me to do was to send money to their preferred vendor to buy supplies right away knowing that the check was bogus.

This company is a GIANT SCAM. THEY DO NOT MAKE AFFORDABLE HOUSES "DELIVERED WITH HUMANITY" as their web site proclaims. They are TOTAL SCAMMERS AND THIEVES.

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- Bloomer, WI, USA • Mar 28, 2024
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scammer sent me a check which he then asked me to run around and distribute to a "vendor" with the name of "Mr. Alan" using bitcoin. Then the next day it was gift cards, I refused, then he wanted me to do the bitcoin again. I again refused and am reporting.

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- New Rochelle, NY, USA • Mar 22, 2024
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The scammer was working with someone on Instagram that messaged me about being a model for them. The Instagram artist sent my phone number to her "client" and the client emailed me checks that he continuously badgered me to scan. Once I did, he had me send some over to Cashapp to then be converted into bitcoin and sent to a specific address.

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- Brooklyn, NY, USA • Mar 20, 2024
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Business pretending to be a remote Data Entry job. Sent me a fraudulent check for $4,955 dollars expecting me to deposit it into my account. Instead I went to the check cashing place to verify if it was real, it was not.

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- Liberty, MO, USA • Mar 02, 2024
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I I was contacted by text for a job position as a Claim Support Associate position, with a link for a chat. I went on the chat. There I stared a chat Roy Burklalter, which was a chat interview. After some small chat he offered some other positions other than Claims Support Associate, at this point I became suspicious. He informed me about the benefits. He told me that he would be mailing me a check to buy a list of supplies. I informed that I received the check for 3890.00 drawn on First National Bank in Greencastle, Indiana. The company name is from Putman County Hospital, they asked me to deposit the check into my checking account, and I said no that I need to keep things separate. The chat ended and never heard from Roy again. But Dylan Walker to me that he verified that I deposited the check, I said no that I still have the original check, and that conversation ended.

I still have the original check and I have copies of the chat.

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- Bronx, NY, USA • Feb 29, 2024
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Cheque with large amounts of money to buy expensive supplies.

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- Bethlehem, PA, USA • Feb 27, 2024
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The scammer reached out to me with a job offer then had sent a check over to me then had me cash it, and it was not a good check I’m thinking, and now since it won’t clear they’re asking me to pay forward. Communicating is all via email.

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- Gaithersburg, MD, USA • Feb 08, 2024
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Scammer mentioned offered me a job opportunity using fake checks under the request to buy “printers” from the company. It took account numbers, I reported it to PNC and they shut down the account so now I am affected from the scammer job

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- Vienna, VA, USA • Feb 06, 2024
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Said I was accepted for the feedback assignment. Mailed me directions with a $1,950 check and told me to deposit it and then buy 4 $375 target gift cards to send to them and I keep the extra money.

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- Manassas, VA, USA • Feb 02, 2024
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Scammer asked for address to send a check and upon research on tadano the job that was offered was not on career website and when asked where the position was located they stopped replying. Also sent me a w2 form to fill out and an offer letter, which I did not fill out.

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- Brooklyn, NY, USA • Jan 16, 2024
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Offered a job and then sent check to by computer and supplies. ECheck came in under Magnum construction management, different name that the company that was offered to hire

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- New York, NY, USA • Jan 09, 2024
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I'm partially self employed, and I was asked to work on a comission which we sgreed would be paid through zelle. After I finished the comission, I was told that he wasn't able to dozelle, and he would send my payment by e-check. I didn't want to lose my money for all my effort, so I agreed. He then proceeded to send me 3 checks for $400, claiming that one was part of a bonus (original total amount agreed upon was 2 payments of $400). he got my email address, name and phone number but that's pretty much it. He wanted screenshots of the deposits which I thought was weird, and then asked if I could do him a favor. He had a single mother that he wanted to help out and he wanted me to send her money. I immediately got super suspiscious and did my best to delay, claiming I didn't want to do anything until the funds "cleared." He got very aggressive and pushy, going as far as to call me multiple times to try to pressure me to wake up early to transfer the funds. When I pointed out that this was looking like a scam, he got hostile andthreatened to send my account into the negatives (not possible, as he didn;t have any of my credentials). He spam texted me, and then I received a text from another icloud account, claiming that they had been "hired to assassinate me" and that they knew where my family and I lived. I called my bank and got the checks removed, and they verified with the bank on the check that there was no account under that account number.

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- Hatfield, PA, USA • Jan 08, 2024
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It was an work at home business and I did 2 assignments at the beginning of November and has yet to pay me. I was sent a check but it was returned for fraudulent activity

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- New York, NY, USA • Jan 08, 2024
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Saying you got a job after interviewing you, making you sign etc. Then sending ‘checks’ getting you to forward to vendors etc.

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- Arlington, VA, USA • Jan 04, 2024
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I was offered a job by epc engineering and technologies. I researched them and could not find anything on them and they sent me two checks in the mail and wanted me to cash them. I felt very suspicious about this company and I am warning all of you to be aware.

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