This is quite a scam, unfortunately my girlfriends daughter fell for it hook, line and sinker. I feel so bad for her. She put an ad on kijiji looking for part time work. She was contacted by text from this number 406-924-3157 telling her that they had work for her in her area. Now the scam, they are going to send her a cheque for $2,550 and when she gets it they want her to send them $2,000 back by email interact. Well as I said the poor girl fell for it and is now out the money. I traced the number which shows it down in Montana and it is still active. Have to see if the international fraud squad are able to do something with it. There seems to be a group involved as the envelope the money order came in was post marked in Toronto. I will gather everything that she has to see if there is anything that can be done to get these bas#####. As someone else has already said, " if it sounds to good to be true, it most likely isn't"
One other thing they use gmail for there emails, maybe we can get Google to help nail these scumbags.
Same scam for me lol. Daniel Lowell in the amount of $2550.00 with the name Cynthia Muller on the cheque. Same instructions. Thanks for your posting it really helped me figure this scam out.
Same scam for me. Daniel Lowell of 8 Radford Street, Hamilton, ON, L8S 3E6 CIBC international money order in the amount of $2550.00 with the name Cynthia Muller and Grande Prairie AB on the cheque. I haven't got to the instruction part yet. Thanks for all for your postings, it really helped me figure this scam out. I travel to Hamilton lots, think I will do a drive by. lol
I have several ads posted on Kijiji and shall l say the scammers are out in full force. I have been contacted by phone, text and email by these people. I reported all the emails from them to Kijiji who will now block them from contacting anyone else on the site. Just remember always meet in person and only accept cash. Anything else is almost always a scam. Never give out any PayPal info and do not accept it as a form of payment on Kijiji. If it sounds a little bit fishy there is a reason why. Just use common sense and lets put these idiots out of work.