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- Edinburg, TX, USA
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Received a text saying they received my information from Indeed. Had an “interview” They offered me a work-from-home job starting at $30 an hour. The company was called Eleusis Ltd. Told me they would pay for any supplies needed and would do so by mailing a check. I received the check within two days for $3,880. The letter that came with the check sounded off. There were grammatical mistakes and a lot of different fonts being used. As well as the pages being numbered. I looked up the address where the check was from and it was a random house in California. The “bank” it came from was also not real and the Wells Fargo logo on the actual check was warped. Gave it a quick Google and most of the people on the letter were random names. Glad I didn’t deposit the check but up until I received the it everything seemed pretty legit.

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- Mobile, AL, USA
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They posted a job on Indeed and emailed me back the same day saying they wanted to interview me. For the interview, they interviewed me through this app called Signal. They told me I was hired and that they would be sending me a check to purchase my equipment and software for the company. I received the check and took it to my bank to verify if it was legit or not and it was counterfeit. These people need to be stopped! They made it seem so real! I chatted with someone going by the name Regina Anthony. The address of the company is saying it is out of NC but when you look up the address it’s for an apartment complex. When I did some more research it says the company has been around since 2013 so they may have been doing this for a while. She even provided benefit information that a job offers including a great pay such as $24.95/hr! I also asked if she could call me and she ignored my question and said she wouldn’t take too much of my time and went on to explain that I would be receiving the check and provided the tracking number.

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- Midway Park, NC, USA
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Also contacted by text by Wendy Taylor and then redirected to interview with a Jesse Villiers. Standard interview but when offered the job I was quoted a pay rate of $30+ per hour for a remote Customer Service job.

I was a bit concerned by that. Then he said I will need specific computer equipment and they will send me a check. I would then be expected to buy the computer equipment.

That seemed very suspect but the interviewer did not address my concerns- just assured me it will happen soon.

I thought it over and it seemed too much like a scam. I declined the job. I did receive two emails from them about the job offer - but did not open these.

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- Alexandria, VA, USA
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A job listing was posted in a community Facebook page I inquired, it was for administration remote work with the company sciolec corporation, they told me to download the telegram app and performed an interview at length. They have my resume, address, number, pictures front and back of my real i.d. driver license. They want me to direct deposit money into my bank so I can purchase the devices needed for work supposedly. They wanted my Facebook email and password, I told them no so they said they need 50 dollars for shipping. They are under @sciolex name on the telegram app

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- Parrish, AL, USA
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Scammer advertised a remote work from home job. I applied for the job, was "hired". Only correspondence was through telegram texting. They would call through this app however, when I would answer the call would drop. They stated in the job description that the co.pany would furnish all materials needed for the job. [ laptop,and software]

They asked for personal information to do a background check. So I gave them the information. They emailed me a check for 1200. And asked me to print it off and mobile deposit through the bank. I did as instructed. The company then asked for two payments made to Michael Guthrie in the amount of 600.00 each for shipping and installation of software on laptop. They also stated that the money would be reimbursed. After sending money via debit card The bank called and informed me that they had refused the check due to an issue with the routing number. This resulted in an overdraft of my account. I brought this to the company's attention. I stated that my pay would need to be direct deposit going forward due to the fact that the bank would no longer accept a check from this company again. I started asking questions and they told me that my materials had been shipped. Then the following day they contacted me again wanting more money. I asked them for the ETA on the package they then stated that Apple would have to have full payment before it would ship. I asked more questions and they stated that I would be receiving my pay via mail. I asked them more questions and their answer would differ every time . This is when I contacted the Real company and asked them of the hiring process and mafe them aware of what I was experiencing. They stated that they never ask for money and that the only correspondence was through phone calls, video calls ,and email. Never text. So I then contacted the FTC and filed a report. Put a credit freeze on my cards with one of the three credit Burroughs. The IRS was notified as well.

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- Indianola, IA, USA
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They are offering a paid research study.

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- Chino, CA, USA
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I got a text from someone named “John Chapman” working for “Eleusis Holdings Ltd.” offering a work at home job, they asked me to download the App called Wire to do an interview. We did a full interview and I got the job. Then they sent me a check to order supplies needed to work from home. I deposited the check, pulled out cash to send to their vendor via bitcoin, then that night the check bounced and I became responsible for the negative balance on my account.

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- Livonia, MI, USA
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The scammer approach to me with a job offer after make me an interview never request my resume but it request my ID after send me a check by email for buy office material the company was for IT and Data entry the check arrive form a construction company that was the alert for me I try to deposit I called my bank the say check was fake and it was a scam luckily I didn’t buy anything and report to my bank on Time

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- Greenville, TX, USA
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I was contacted by phone number, 321-207-6133, through text by someone calling themselves, Jaime Gonzalez, stating they worked with Carelon. They told me to contact Mr. Roberto M. Nini via Skype for an interview. They said to only do chat for the interview. I downloaded Skype and contacted this person with email address, [email protected], on Skype. They did a very long interview process, made me hold for ten minutes while they said they discussed the interview with the HR team and then told me I was hired. They sent me a contract to the company that included the Carelon logo on it. Then they told me I needed to have certain types of software on my computer in order to work but that the company would pay for all of the software. They gave me a list of needed software and then told me that they would email me a check to deposit so that I could purchase the software through their vendor. The check did not go through right away and my bank placed a hold on it for 7 days. I told them this and they seemed in a rush for me to get the deposit, so that I could purchase the software and “begin working”. Then they sent me a smaller check for $400 because I told them the hold was possibly because of the amount of the check. I deposited this check as well and the same hold was placed on it. Then they asked me if I could cover the cost of the $2,100. I told them no. Later they asked if we could at least cover $500. I told them no. I told them I would contact my bank and ask them why the checks were being held that night and get back with them. I wanted to contact my bank anyway to inform them because I still was not sure if this was legitimate or a scam. I contacted my bank and spoke with someone who told me that the checks were good. Then I thought maybe this is really the company. So I contacted Roberto Nini back that night and told him that the bank said the checks would deposit in three days and that I would keep them updated. The next day, I received an email from capital one saying that I needed to call them. I looked on Carelon’s LinkedIn for an email address for an actual employee from their business and saw that their emails ended in, carelon.com. I double checked the email of the person I received the contract and checks from and their email address was [email protected]. So this was a purchased domain name made to look like Carelon. This is when I knew for sure this was a scam.

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- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
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offered me a job, did not ask for my SSN or bank info, I did not sign anything, but attempting to send a check of some sort to purchase laptop etc to get started with company. have already seen it happen to someone else online.

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- Kyle, TX, USA
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This person reached out to me via LinkedIn and asked me to fill out an application for a position. I asked for their email after they sent me an application via linkedin and they just asked me to send back the application via linked in with my ID.

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- Greenbrier, AR, USA
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It was a work from home/remote opportunity via Facebook. I was asked to download Signal, which I have now learned is an untraceable app for messaging. They did a 12 question interview, which was vague. You could not contact anyone, everything was communicated with Signal. They asked for my name, phone number, picture of myself and then my driver's license. Then they asked for my bank, to make sure it coordinated with their payroll. Then, they asked for my log in and password information. We did not give that to them and stopped the communication.

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- Southern Pines, NC, USA
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Said they were working for Ashton carter staffing, his name was James Dale..communicated through telegram messenger..ask for very basic info..until he asked if I had credit cards..then I asked why, answer was “purchasing equipment for work”. I didn’t give any account information or permissions and when I didn’t, he asked me purchase $300 in bitcoin to start “training, etc…”

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- Killeen, TX, USA
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I was offered a work from job from Outsy LLC located in Florida but they are a national company for customer service representatives. I did a zoom interview with someone but they didn’t have their camera on. I was also communicating with someone on telegram about the information about the job. I filled out paperwork for them as well via email. All the paperwork looks very professional and real that’s why I believed it was a real job. After I officially received the job, they started describing to me in “detail”, they used, about helping clients with cryptocurrency. Then asked if I ever used it myself. Told me I had to make an account to move forward and then would link my account to the corporate account. The account was somewhere in Oregon and I got suspicious so I unlinked the account because I did not want to be accused of fraud especially since the Robinhood account was MY name and not the company name. During the time they asked me to create my account they kept asking for screenshots of each time I finished filling something out via telegram.

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I was messaged about a job for a customer service/sales position. They said they were “Bottazzi Blondeel LLC”, a European jewelry store expanding to the US. They sent me a legit looking job contract, job description, and even had a small application and interview process. Used email addresses ending in **********************. Gave me phone numbers and set me up with a sales manager to train me. Spoke to the “hr manager” and my “sales manager” meant to train me. Both just ignored questions when I asked them and continued talking about the job. I was to do a paid probationary period of one month before being permanently hired. On my first day of probation I was asked bank information as they required i make purchases for the company with money they sent.

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Scheduled interview for WHF position via Skype chat, never called or did video interview, only over chat. Pay seems too good to be true at $30/hour. Offered job on the spot and was told to purchased multiple software programs and report the next morning to start. Never received any paperwork documentation.

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The person called and asked me to receive packages and mail them off to a different address

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The position I accepted was for InStyle as a Proofreading assistant. I found this on Upwork, but at this time, I was wondering who the client was or the name of the position. Upwork hides all client information until the client has picked your proposal and moves into the interview stage. All my contact with the "client" has been through a skype chat because the "client" claimed our time zone was different. I didn't think of this then since I knew Meredith had a location in New York City, and the team could be based there.

I received an offer letter via email, eagerly accepted it, and signed it. After I signed the offer letter, I sent it through the skype chat to my "supervisor," who called themselves Michael Brent or Brent Michael; that's what it looks like on my end.

They ask if I have the items needed to start a 3-day orientation, and I say no, then they send a few fairly scripted messages and a check to cover the costs of the items. I am supposed to use my mobile banking app to deposit into my account.

Once the funds arrive in my account, they want me to pay the local vendor responsible for shipping out the materials - a computer and a laptop with the company's enterprise software loaded in on it since they don't have an online version yet.

They informed me payment could be made through Zelle; we tried that, and it didn't go through. We keep trying other apps - CashApp and PayPal. Then they ask for Apple gift cards in increments of $500. I immediately decline, and my phone rings; it's my bank saying they blocked a fraudulent card on my account. Then I pull the plug and tell the supervisor we will not continue until I can verify the check. What makes me incredibly suspicious is the payment methods and how pushy the supervisor was for me to complete the transaction.

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Sent me a bunch of expensive items to reship and did not pay after i supposedly worked for a month

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They posted a job as an outbound call center position with day one benefits.

I and the other 10+ trainees didnt find out that the position was Inbound only until partway through training and that day one benefits meant day one After training.

After further investigating they have been doing this bait and switch scam tactic since at Least 2019 posting job ads specifically stating a job role but then surprising candidates that it is another after they are hired.

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