Craigslist job offer, is it a scam?

Question

Here's an e-mail I received back. I'm looking for a job and I need one desperately so I posted on craigslist, but I'm not sure if this is real or not.

Good Day,

We have received your phone and confirmation email regarding your application for the post under the Sales and Managerial position. This
Job placement is only for United States Residents. You will work as a sales representative From Home and receive standard Payment Plan based on the time that you can spare in working with us and your current Job running. Below you will find our questionnaire regarding your employment completion. You are free to fill in the aspects that you feel comfortable. Some part may contain strictly confidential information
which you wish not to relay at the moment. The total response to the question will be reviewed by our human resources department upon
submission and will determine your employment and payment scheme.Here's an overview of your job details and requirements.

Job Details

*Your primary job will be to handle an aspect of our supply which we have newly introduced into our system in partnership with Colleges and
Stores within the United States. Job is less stressful and interesting with good payment scheme.
*We are currently supplying some College textbooks to the strategic stores in which we have our partnership finalized.
*You will be in charge of receiving the books from our different stores and packaging them as soon as they are up to a minimum of 10.
*We will send the Prepaid shipping information to mail the books to the store.
*Our payments is usually issued within 5days of receiving the books.

Payment
You are being placed on a weekly earning Scheme which allows you to earn a minimum of $200 and $1000 maximum.. You will be earning per transaction cleared, for every payment that is made to you by our clients for the books we supply, you will receive 10% and you can
clear up a minimum of 3 transactions per week depending on your efficiency.

The rest of the payment will be forwarded to some charity homes.
Address Verification
Full Name
Permanent Residence Address.
City
State
Zip
Phone Number.
Basic requirements are as follows :
Do you have a current Job Running ?
How many Hours can you spare each day ?
Do you have Access to Computer/Internet ?
How Often ?
Do you have a Home and Mobile Phone ? Specify if one
What is the Best time to contact you.
Email us as soon as possible to confirm your employment and additional information required, we will respond to you immediately.

Sincerely,

Esther
Customer Service Representative
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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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Answer 1

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.



You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.



Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.



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.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

That's a reshipping scam that will land you in prison for fencing stolen goods. Report to CL ASAP to get the ad removed before someone falls for it. You can tell because of the odd way it's written and the capitalization of words in the middle of a sentence that it was not written by any sort of person working for a real company



There is NO company in the world that hires customer service representatives without a single face to face interview at their office. 90% of jobs posted on CL are scams. It's very easy to tell. Real employers will ALWAYS invite you for a face to face interview BEFORE offering you the job -- NO exceptions. Job scams will offer you the job without ever meeting you



These scammers buy textbooks online with stolen credit cards and hacked Paypal accounts, have them sent to you then ask you to ship to a third party address. When the person whose credit card/paypal reports the theft, the investigation can only lead one place - your front door as you are the one who accepted the packages



If this was not illegal nothing would be going through you. A real company would have an account with FedEx, UPS, Mail Boxes Etc or a third party fulfillment house if they were running a legal business. They would never trust a random person over the internet they had never even met



DO NOT reply

Answer 4

I recently applied for a Part-time Teller position on Craigslist and got a response back from a Vannessa Crossby from BWA Property Management telling me I was the perfect applicant for the job but I needed to fill out an on-line application with a verification code. I googled her name and company and cannot find anything on the internet to verify this is a legitimate company. I m glad I didn t send in my resume right away and only responded with a letter. I believe this is a scam as well. What a disappointment.

Answer 5

I got the exact same email from the same person and came here to find out if it was real or not. It's definitely a scam by the way they send their responses. They are always quick to get your personal information as well

Answer 6

Listen to Kittysue or go to jail. If you are desperate for a job then stay away from Craigslist, turn off the computer and go to the only place there are jobs...the outside world.

Answer 7

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