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Employment

Scam Type

Employment Scam

Business Name Used

Claiming to be PepGen Inc

Date Reported

Sep 22, 2022

Victim Postal Code

29607

Total Dollars Lost

0

Scam Description

This is what I emailed to the company PepGen Inc after I saw that the offer letter was sent to me from a personal email. I feel really bad because on a google chat, I actually gave the guy my address, phone number, full name and email. I recently put my resume out on the web on various sites similar to zip recruiter in order to get a remote job. I assume that’s how they got contact info to contact me in the first place. I’m never going to do that again. I kindly asked the guy to send me the offer letter from a company email and he replied, ” I’ll instruct her to do that right now”. It’s been about half hour, and I haven’t received it. This is what a wrote to the actually legit company:
To whom it may concern,
My name is ****** ****. The reason I’m writing to you is because I got a text message from a lady named Anabell Miller. She directed me to a google chat with a gentleman named Roger Watson who claimed he was the human resources manager at PepGen Inc. This was regarding a job interview for a data entry specialist. We conducted ” an interview” via chat (not video). He asked me a series of questions and then he offered me the job at $ 31 per hour. He asked me for my address, full name and phone number.He instructed me to send him a google chat message today at 8am so I did. He then said to check my email for the offer letter from PepGen Inc. I checked and it was in the spam folder. There was a PDF file and without opening it, I saw that it read PepGen on the top. This was sent to me from a gmail account from the lady Anabelle Miller. I asked Roger to please send me the letter from a PepGen Inc emailed to me. The question is, do these people work for you? is this legit ? Am I getting scammed? Thank you for your response.

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