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After sending in all of this information I was sent information to login on an exclusive company portal, already setup with a password for me. Once on the email service I was requested to sign up on an app that would also be used between employees, one of which reached out to me claiming that he would assist me through the setup process and get me all of the information I would need, after again confirming my address and phone number with who I believed to be this now third individual. This person sent me a large message about company policies establishing efficiency and cordial relationships, and that I would need equipment from an "official IT vendor" called Tech-Insights where KPMG Limited employees would receive a 20% discount. Then he laid out the equipment I would need as a laptop, a graphics card hard drive, a phone system, a management application, a set of headphones, and an intranet server, along with a link of where to "contact a specialist to get a quotation". At this point I was told that "all provisions will be made by management" and this is "part of the training process to help you make future purchases. I was told to use my new company email to submit the quotation request and update this person with a screenshot confirmation of response "for proper documentation purposes".
It took some time for this new email to be received, where I was given a PDF invoice that amounted to $3,762.00 that would cover the equipment and installation. When I passed along the screenshot I was then told to stand by for this person to forward my information to an accounts department to process the payment for me, then about 45 minutes later I was informed that a cheque was ready, and had been sent to my company email address. In that email I was asked to deposit a cheque based on a picture of it, although my mobile banking app was having a very difficult time submitting all the right data, which again, was another large red flag. The individual from accounts, and the individual from the equipment site were all using similar mannerisms and phrases to the supervisor, which also is an enormous red flag that I had overlooked in my eagerness to get the job done.
After having the cheque in my account for over a day before I received any confirmation from where I could deliver these funds, I began sweating, wanting to get rid of the money that is not mine, and wanting to prove a sense of loyalty that I ultimately would not receive in return. I finally received an email from the Tech Insights Specialist requesting that I e-transfer the funds to this account with the message of "CSC Interac Funding Request", first with a total of $2,000 the first day, then in a second email, invoice, and payment the following day. Both times I was requested to also submit a screenshot of the E-Transfer confirmation receipt "after payment is completed to initiate your order processing". This also included a delivery date that I would have to change due to my own time constraints, but ultimately was not delivered on the date I had eventually confirmed. Once I had submitted the second payment however, I was then informed by my bank that the cheque was returned because the account was closed, leaving me with a negative balance of $3,762. I alerted the supervisor to this and was told that he would immediately update the accounts department "so reimbursement can be processed for you by direct deposit".
Over the next week I awaited that deposit, was in contact with the supervisor who continued to claim that it would take "24-48 hours for processing", and even had another task for me of submitting 5 'before' pictures of the workplace where this equipment would go, but now on the messaging platform this person has not been seen in at least 7 days, last asking me "when is your estimated delivery date and time?" which has now come and past.
Overall I thought that I had communicated with at least 5 different people that had LinkedIn profiles, and two companies that were reputable enough on Google, but it appears that I am the victim of an elaborate scam.