This company is actively recruiting on most job sites as well as craigs list.
if you reply to their ad. they will send you an e-mail telling you you have been hired and to go find the closest fedex, ups and post office i your area, in order for you to be ready to ship their brochures, they will then send you postal costs...
and here comes the hook... you then receive the following e-mail
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Classic Art Supplies Inc,
1 58 Camberwell Rd
London,
SE5 0EE
United Kingdom
Dear Rep A116,
After necessary verification, I want to inform you that your application with Classic Art Supplies Inc has been approved. Please be informed that you are working two days per week and 2-3 hours each day depending how fast you can handle the mails. The working days and hours are flexible so let us the days you will be available to work.
Your First Primary task
1. Find out the nearest post office to you
2. Find out the UPS or FedEx offices nearest to you
3. Find out the cost of USPS stamps from the post office
The company will send payment to you as embursement to buy all the shipping materials you will need before sending the mails and catalogs to you. Please confirm your house address again so payment could be issued out to you as soon as possible.
Please accept my congratulations while I await your immediate response.
Regards,
Mr Owen Simpson
Personnel Manager
Classic Art Supplies Inc
www.classicartsupplies.com
Tel: 442086918225
Fax: 442086918225
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Now I'm not going to test it, but pretty sure that check is as fake as can be, - but good enough for the bank to initially cash it, you send them the money back, the bank send you a nasty letter saying you have deposited a fraudulent check... and the rest is history.
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