Work From Home- This “company”, if you can call it that, is running work from home job ads on Craigs List. They send you an email and tell you that they want to hire you to send out mailings for their company. They then say that they will pay you $400 for your time and also pay for the postage. A day later you receive an email saying that the money for the postage was mailed out to your address. Then you get an email the day after that saying that they made a mistake and sent you $3000.00, to please cash the check and keep the $400 owed to you and send back the rest through Western Union. This is the old check fraud scam, just in a new package.
Look for the red flags on these type of scams. First of all they are not really giving you very much information on the job you will be doing, the main focus will be around the money. Second, any legit company will not make a $3000.00 accounting error and if they did they would cancel the check right away and issue another one. They would not take the chance of trusting someone they never met to send back their money.
This scam has left many people broke. Some banks will not see that the checks are no good, until days later, after you have sent the money back to the scam artist. Then you are left responsible for covering the bad check. So if it does not seem right, run. Don’t get involved in these scams out of greed. It will get you into trouble every time.
