#3 - The Help Wanted Scam

You’re gonna love this one...

1. The Setup

Since the FedEx career hasn’t worked out so well I recently applied for this job:

I received this text message a short time later:

I sent my resume in my email reply to that text message:

Here is the email reply I received offering me the position:

And my reply accepting the position:

2. Next reply from them, The Scam is exposed:

3. FTC - The Fake Check Scam Explained:

FTC: The fake Check Scam

Lessons Learned:

• If it seems too good to be true, it usually is not true

Who wouldn’t want to get paid $1,000 per week cash for three days of work driving around town in a new Mercedes S? That had a blinding effect helping me to overlook obvious red flags like ridiculous statements, poor word choice, and sloppy grammar. I called the guy at the company who purportedly posted the job on Indeed and he had no idea he was being used as part of the scam. I called Dr. Barron's office and left two voicemails telling him he was part of a scam and those messages were ignored.

• The internet is a sewer

The online world and social media cater to the lowest common denominator of bad human nature all in an effort to make money selling our eyeballs to advertisers. It works, look at the tech billionaires.

• These Nigerian guys are really funny and these scams really work on people who have not learned the two lessons above

  I am not interested in becoming an investigative journalist exposing the scammers but if you have any better ideas, please post them in the comments or sent me a note.

Tell the truth.

Tell the truth.

Tell the truth.

/Sober Robert