I replied to an "office help/assistant" position that was listed on my universities job bank. And this is the response I received,
"I received your resume regarding the job. As a consultant with a focus in international business, the majority of my clients are out of the country. I need help with my errands because I am constantly out of town. As a matter of fact, I am currently on a business trip to Stockholm, Sweden. I will prepay you in advance to do my shopping, Bill payments, placing and expediting orders, picking-up and delivering items to my PO box. I will pick the items up from the post office when I return from Sweden on the 18th of November. How soon can you start?
I will email you the list and pictures of what to shop for so you can do the shopping at Sears, Walmart, Best buy and other stores. I'll pay you $200 for your service for 10 hours every week. I'm prepared to pay for mileage/travel expense. I will provide clear set of instructions for each task I need done and sufficient funds to cover all errands. I'd love to meet with you upon my return from Sweden to discuss the possibility of making this job long term."
I discussed this position with them over email, and they eventually sent me an E-transfer for over $1000 to cover weekly pay, expenses, and cost for the errands. I noticed it odd that I received the E-transfer from someone else whom I was not in correspondence with. Along with the E-transfer, they gave me the following instructions:
"Payment for your services is included within the money. However, I would prefer to pay you upon satisfactory completion of the tasks. So I have decided to pay you half now and half at then end just so there are no discrepancies. Deduct $150 (Partial payment for your services for a week) and then go to a Western union office to do a bill payment. Send $800 to my suppliers details:
Receiver name: Jolene Manuelito
City: Tohatchi,
State: New Mexico,
Zip Code: 87325, USA.
Upon reading those instructions I became very skeptical, and I left the money sitting in my account. My bank is currently looking into the history of the money, and as to whether it is real or not. Has anyone had a similar incident like this, is this a scam or would it have me dealing with laundered criminal money. I really don't know what to do with the money I received.
Thanks.
"I received your resume regarding the job. As a consultant with a focus in international business, the majority of my clients are out of the country. I need help with my errands because I am constantly out of town. As a matter of fact, I am currently on a business trip to Stockholm, Sweden. I will prepay you in advance to do my shopping, Bill payments, placing and expediting orders, picking-up and delivering items to my PO box. I will pick the items up from the post office when I return from Sweden on the 18th of November. How soon can you start?
I will email you the list and pictures of what to shop for so you can do the shopping at Sears, Walmart, Best buy and other stores. I'll pay you $200 for your service for 10 hours every week. I'm prepared to pay for mileage/travel expense. I will provide clear set of instructions for each task I need done and sufficient funds to cover all errands. I'd love to meet with you upon my return from Sweden to discuss the possibility of making this job long term."
I discussed this position with them over email, and they eventually sent me an E-transfer for over $1000 to cover weekly pay, expenses, and cost for the errands. I noticed it odd that I received the E-transfer from someone else whom I was not in correspondence with. Along with the E-transfer, they gave me the following instructions:
"Payment for your services is included within the money. However, I would prefer to pay you upon satisfactory completion of the tasks. So I have decided to pay you half now and half at then end just so there are no discrepancies. Deduct $150 (Partial payment for your services for a week) and then go to a Western union office to do a bill payment. Send $800 to my suppliers details:
Receiver name: Jolene Manuelito
City: Tohatchi,
State: New Mexico,
Zip Code: 87325, USA.
Upon reading those instructions I became very skeptical, and I left the money sitting in my account. My bank is currently looking into the history of the money, and as to whether it is real or not. Has anyone had a similar incident like this, is this a scam or would it have me dealing with laundered criminal money. I really don't know what to do with the money I received.
Thanks.