Scam Type
Employment Scam
Date Reported
2022-11-21 00:00:00
Victim Postal Code
76205
Total Dollars Lost
0
Scam Description
They reached out to me saying I was hired as a full time remote employee for an editing position. My interview was all done through Microsoft Teams messages. Once being hired, I was assigned a team lead, and my lead would give me pre-training assignments to do. He then sent me an electronic check that had extra funding and a sign on bonus, and I was requested to use this funding to get work equipment. But the check itself was very strange looking, and I found out that they didn’t have the right amount of digits for the routing number on the check provided. That’s how I knew it was a scam. When I first raised my concerns to the scammers before figuring it out; they said it was by a vendor and tried to reassure me. I even told them that I would verify the check before depositing it, and they never fought me on it or being aggressive. They were calm through the whole situation.
