*This is my personal story. This actually happened to me. So if you get e-mails asking you to some type of work that requires you to receive money to a bank account or cash checks and send the money to someone via Western Union or Money Gram, DO NOT DO IT.
I’d just had a baby and was looking for a way to work at home. I was searching and searching and I got an e-mail from a company named Haworth Solutions, and boy was their site well displayed to lead me to think I was actually employed by a legit company.
Basically it was a wire transfer or fake check scam. I opened a bank account to make sure the job money didn’t mix with my own money, they wired me $7800 and e-mailed me specific instructions on who to send the money to. My gut at first told me this must not be legal, but I filled out application forms and everything. It was really fancy.
Well I sent the money, and while I’m out and about, a gentleman kept calling my cell phone asking me had I sent the money, so I thought OMG they’re checking on me! So I finish sending the money and go home. When I check the bank account the next day to see if they had wired more money so that I can head to work, I was in the negative by $7800. My life changed in one second. Not only was I out the $7800 but the bank froze my other account and told me I will not be able to withdraw my money at all. And the rent was due, so you can imagine.
Well, for me it was a happy ending. I made all the reports that I had to, to the FBI, printed out that website, and about 3 months later in the investigation, the bank closed all my accounts, told me i could no longer be a client, but allowed me to withdraw the money from my other account and didn’t hold me liable for the $7800.
You can see this same post at I’ve Tried as I provided Joe with my story to help others in the event that they were contacted by companies like this.
Filed under: Scams Tagged: | fake check, money gram, Scams, wester union, wire transfer, work at home, work at home scam
Wait, if the money was sent to someone else with instructions to send to the 3rd person, then isn’t that NOT the 2nd person’s money really?
Just a word of advice, if it’s too good to be true it usually is. This seems like a common sense thing, sorry the person had troubles but really? This didn’t seem too good to be true or anything? :/
The thing is that this was presented as a legit job from a lead that came from Careerbuilder.. Phone calls were exchanged and everything… so the scammer deposited the money into the posters bank account.. The poster withdrew the money as instructed and then sent it to the third person via Western Union.. so yes the third person kept the money. After the third person received the money the scammers called the bank that the wire came from and stated they never approved it therefore leaving the poster with a negative balance in their account because the bank refunded the money to the scammers bank account. Its like the scammers used a stolen bank account number and when the owner found out reported the fraud activity to the bank… therefore the bank account owner got his money back, while the poster lost money and the scammers (third persons) walked away and never answered the phone.. Since the scammers were in Europe it was very hard to trace who actually picked up the money at Western Union in Europe..
Yes… this was too good to be true but some people take advantage of vulnerable stay at home mom’s who want to bring income to the household.. Thats why this post is here to help prevent these things for happening…
This is why if it seemed too good to be true then Careerbulder should have been notified to doublecheck to see what that company was about. Fake companies slip onto sites like that all the time.
I can see how this is a warning, but honestly, it IS about common sense, not people preying on “vulnerable” stay at home people. It’s the suckers who keep the scammers in business because they don’t bother to doublecheck on these too good to be true scams.