am i being SCAMMED on craigslist?

May 2021 7 97 Report

am i being SCAMMED on craigslist?

I'm looking for a job on craigslist this is an email i received:

Thanks for the interest in working for green teem 100, here is our website www. greenteam100.com, however i am on a business trip to Netherland so we cant meet up for a one on one interview but i want to believe you are capable enough to handle the post of a personal assistance. I will prepay you in advance to do shopping and also to recieve my mails and packages in your address or a post office near you so you can do the pick up at your own convenience .When you get my mails /packages you are required to mail to where i want them mailed the content of the package is proposal papers / personal paper you dont have to take money out of your pocket because all expenses and taxes will be covered/payed by me.You will work 15 to 20 hrs a month and you would be paid $400 per week.I would appreciate your sincerity because am constantly out of the state.*Running personal errands, supervisions and monitoring.Scheduling pro grammes, flights and keeping me up to date with themActing as an alternative telephone correspondence while I'm away,Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf,Handling and monitoring some of my financial activities.

I will meet up with you when i return so we can posssible make this long term,I will email you the list and pictures of what to shop when am ready.No heavy packages are involved! i will provide you my personal ups account numbers for shipping all charges will be applied into the account ,I will provide clear instructions for each task that need to be carried out.

If I were to mail you money to do my shopping plus up front payment

for your service, where would you want it mailed to?

Your full info for check

Full Name:

Full Address:

(NO P.O.BOX)

City:

State:

Zip Code:

Phone Number:(Cell):

Home:

Age:

Email:

Present Job:

Attach a Photo of you:

The address of the nearest Post Office to you for receiving packages:

Name:

Address:

City:

State:

Post Code:

I will be expection to hear from you at the soonest if you intrested in handle my business on my behalf before i return,you can open all packages to confirm how legit they are.Thanks so much and have a nice day.

This is what threw me off:

Ok here is your first assignment you are going to recieve $3,000 check and you remove your $400 payment to start the job and you are going to wire the remeaning money to other staff get back to me asap.

He's asking me to wire money. I don't want to do this if I'm going to get in any trouble. please tell me what you think. Am I being scammed?

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Verified answer

100% scam.

There is no job. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.

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.

When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.

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 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.

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 "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "check mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

thankyoumaskedman

The greenteam100.com homepage looks like a roof cleaning business. Is the spammer's contact address at that domain? Does anyone at the stated phone number at http://www.greenteam100.com/index_files/Page434.ht... confirm this "job offer"?

Whether the stated domain is honest, I don't know. The stated registration data is plausible-looking, but it is not a certainty.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/green...

There is no BBB record.

It is clearly a scam. I'm just wondering whether greenteam100.com is the actual perpetrator, or an innocent one whose name was misused by the scammer.

Kittysue

100% scam nd one that can land you in prison for felony money laundering

ANY time someone you have never met face to face asks you to deposit a check/money order then wire money to another person, you are being used by criminal gangs to launder illegal money

NEVER give your home address to anyone on Craigslist. If its too late and they already sent the check, turn it over to your local police with the original envelope and copies of all emails you received. DO NOT reply to these criminals for any reason and report any threats to the police

Greenbayfan

YES THIS IS A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!..... I am the owner of Green team100, I am a legit business and someone is posing as me. I am based in New York... DO NOT RESPOND TO THE ADS ....I AM NOT IN THE NETHERLANDS, AND I DO NOT NEED SOMEONE TO MAIL ANYTHING FOR ME! .....AGAIN, THIS IS A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!