HELP! craigslist admin assistant scam? (urgent)

Hi everyone,
I'm new to scamwarners, I literally just signed up. But I believe that I've been caught up in the beginnings of one of those fake administrative assistant ads posted on craigslist. I've been in the unemployed market for a long time now, and I've been desperately hunting craigslist for a job opportunity with no luck, until I saw this ad which I've now learned is a scam.

Long story short, replied to the ad, got an email from a Daniel Craig who was a supposed photographer, and he then gave me the long schpeel about receiving money, using a portion of it to buy supplies I would need to carry out his duties, and didn't give me much information after that.

I gave him my address but that was about all.

Now, I've just received this check for a large sum which is saying it comes from a personal injury law firm, which is nowhere near a photographer. and doesn't even have the daniel craig person's name on it.

So i guess my question isn't so much is this a scam, because it's already too suspect not to be, but what do I do with the check? should I just throw it away and keep ignoring the emails?

Thanks for your help guys. really appreciate it.

Welcome to SW...

Just tear the cheque up into wee bits !!!

If you were to cash it, it would be honoured, but a few months or weeks down the line it would come back as a fraudulent one, that is when you are in trouble.

Have no more contact with the scammer, I too am looking for a job, I just use the Jobcentre website, S1 Jobs, CV Library (i'm in the UK), not to say that you do not get the odd scam job showing up on them.

I would not even consider using Craigs List

Hope this helps

I made an account JUST to say that I got the same email from Daniel Craig!!!
I just responded with:

" 'Daniel',

Do not contact me again, or I will go to the cops.
As for your check, Chase Bank is holding it as a fraudulant document.

Again, do NOT contact me"

Did he tell you that he was gonna pay you $500 a week??