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06-26-2017, 01:44 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Richards
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Easy money scam
I got a message in my linkedin a couple weeks ago from a good friend . He told me he was doing this part time job as a store auditor and if was interested contact this email address . So me being the fool and trusting a friend contacted the email . Now it seems they need retail store auditors and pay 300.00 per job . So after a few emails they send me a certified check , tell me to deposit it go to the post office buy 3 money orders and a bunch of stamps and keep the 300.00 over the purchase .
I did not do it of course , I have tried calling my friend and contacting him via LinkedIn ..I do not have his personal email but somehow these people have hijacked linkedin . Oh well Easy Money !
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06-26-2017, 01:55 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: New York City
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Shame ruining a guys reputation. Maybe write him a letter, google him in the white pages. Tell him someone is masquerading as him. Maybe reach out to him on Facebook. I dont do Facebook but lots of folks are on it.
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06-26-2017, 02:28 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Probably similar to the way folks hijack facebook accounts with copycat profiles.
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06-26-2017, 04:25 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Spending the Kids Inheritance and living in Chicago
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Tell us when your bank notifies you the certified check was a fake and bounced, so they withdrew the entire amount from your account.
Usually takes 2-3 weeks.
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06-26-2017, 04:39 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunset
Tell us when your bank notifies you the certified check was a fake and bounced, so they withdrew the entire amount from your account.
Usually takes 2-3 weeks.
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I think he fully understands the scam.
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06-26-2017, 04:44 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Breedlove
I got a message in my linkedin a couple weeks ago from a good friend . He told me he was doing this part time job as a store auditor and if was interested contact this email address .
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Any time you hear from someone you know who offers something that seems "interesting", but directs you to another site - particularly an email address -for more information instead of contacting them directly, assume it is a scam. This has happened to me a couple of times, I have contact the friend and they either were not aware their account was being used like that, or let me know their account had been compromised and to ignore it.
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06-26-2017, 05:32 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RunningBum
I think he fully understands the scam.
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Probably, but sometimes I say the painfully obvious for the benefit others who may only read the thread and don't know the answer.
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06-26-2017, 08:10 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Richards
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I understand the scam , check out their website , lot of work was put into it.
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06-26-2017, 08:30 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2008
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why would I want to click on a link I know is dirty?
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06-26-2017, 08:59 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lemming
why would I want to click on a link I know is dirty?
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No, I didn't click through either; it seemed painfully obvious, at least to me. 
I'm wondering how much more than $300 the check would have been?
Also, nobody seems to have mentioned flagging it to LinkedIn (or did I miss that above?). Not to mention that if it was going to involve mailing stamps or money orders, would the post office be interested in the attempt?
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06-27-2017, 05:36 PM
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Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Originally Posted by GalaxyBoy
Not to mention that if it was going to involve mailing stamps or money orders, would the post office be interested in the attempt?
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Not sure about now, but when I was working in the police department Fraud Section they would have been very interested. But I've been out for 14 years.
https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/
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