I recently got a fake job offer texted to my cell phone from 431-777-7025, fortunately I did not reply to it, but I did take the time to look up some info on the people who sent it. It tuns out that these people have been documented in several places as having been involved with an advance fee fraud scam involving fake loan offers and fake job adverts. Like most advance fee fraud scams the fraudsters will send you a cheque for either a fake loan or as a "pay cheque" for a fake job and then ask for part of the money back. Some time after you send the money back the cheque they sent you will bounce and you will be out the money. These guys change phone numbers regularly, in fact if you do a search on this site you will see two pages worth of phone numbers used by these scammers. However they always use the same e-mail address,
[email protected] So to anyone out there if you get a job offer or a loan offer that asks you to reply to
[email protected] be aware that it is almost certainly a scam.