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Total money lost $4,850
Type of a scam Employment
Friday, October 18, 2019
I got a text message at 1:22 pm PT from +1 (949) 298-6744 "Mr. Richard Lewis" with a job offer from Ziprecruiter who told me that a potential employer wanted to interview me and asked for my Skype User ID.
A person who identified himself as Gabriel Sanchez from PTV Group interviewed me and he assured me that I was hired to work from home and that I was key to help them with expanding the company to Los Angeles.
He also said that the company was going to provide me with a computer and software to start my training.
Lastly, he told me to report with him every day at 8 am PT via Skype.
I Google searched the company "PTV Group" and confirmed that the company exists and that someone by the name Gabriel Sanchez represented the company here in the US.
Monday, October 21, 2019, at 8 am PT I reported to "Gabriel Sanchez" via Skype and he asked me to verify my details because the company was going to issue a check for the purchase of my working equipment to avoid mistakes issuing/mailing the check to me.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019, at 7:57 am PT "Gabriel Sanchez" told me that "Mr. Alex Morganson" from the PTV payment department sent me via FedEx Express a cashier's check for US$4850 and explicitly instructed me to deposit the check via ATM into my personal account and not to do it through a teller because ATM was faster and the company needed the scanned copy for documentation purposes. He gave me the tracking number and I got the envelope at around 9:45 am PT.
By 1:02 pm PT, I made the ATM deposit.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
The alleged "Gabriel Sanchez from PTV Group" told me to wire transfer US$4700 (+US$30 transaction fee) to the company's software vendor in Nevada "Andrew Baker" who will mail me a computer with software as soon as he received the money to start with my training. So I did the wire transfer at 8:42 am PT to a CHASE bank account that belongs to “Mr. Baker”.
Later on that night I got an email from Wells Fargo at 7:55 pm PT saying that the check has been returned unpaid and as a consequence I had a negative balance in my checking account of -US$ 3636.36 then they charged me US$35 for the overdrawn plus a charge of US$12 fee for the returned check, I had US$1109.01 in the account because I was gathering money to pay my rent for November.
I called Wells Fargo immediately to report I was a victim of a scam and the person that took my call told me to call a number on the East coast for online fraud. At the time their offices were closed so I called them at 6 am PT on Thursday, October 24, 2019.
The Wells Fargo Online Fraud representative heard my case, closed my account and opened a new one, told me that she was going to put the case under investigation and that it will take from two to ten days.
Then “Gabriel Sanchez from PTV Group" at 8 am PT told me he just sent me another check for the same amount US$ 4850, gave me a tracking number and told me that the money was to be used to pay for more software and materials because I needed to start with my training asap.
That same day at around 9 pm PT I filed a police report at the Los Angeles County Sheriff Station in West Hollywood CA, and they classified the incident as Theft By False Pretenses and I was instructed by the Officer to open the FedEx envelope in front them and they kept the check for evidence.
On Thursday, October 25, 2019, I called the Wells Fargo Customer Service the next day to follow-through and the first representative I spoke to, told me that they already closed the case and established there wasn’t any fraud, then I asked to speak to the Online Fraud Department and this representative told me that the case was still open but they don’t see any possible way they can reimburse my money, then she offered me to get a loan from Wells Fargo in order to cover for the overdrawn amount and for the money I already had in my checking account.
The only real solution they offered me was to return the overdrawn fee US$35 and the fee for the voided check US$12.