I would highly recommend staying away from Craigslist in terms of job hunting. I was duped about $2000 because of a scam! It all started when I logged onto Craigslist on the 22nd of this month--I responded to a job posting in my area for a 3rd shift Shipping Clerk position. So I emailed the person thinking nothing of it and thinking it was perfectly legitamate. Gosh--was I wrong! A guy named Glenn O. Hodges got in touch with me in response to my resume and offered me a personal assistant position. He obviously was testing me. He and I contacted each other through email and he provided me with his cell phone number. He and I were texting each other. In the most recent email he'd sent me contained something in it about him mailing me a check for $2462. But it came from a completely different person: Cassandra Wade from California. So he had me cash the check. He had me wire through Western Union $2062 and had me keep $400 as his weekly pay, which turned out to be a lie! He had me wire it to someone named Barbara Stinson in Ogden, Arkansas--he claimed that she was his travel agent and he needed the money for his flight back to the states as he was on a business trip in Canada.
I got another check via FEDEX (so was the first one) in the amount of $3782. So I cashed it in and I was going to wire someone money. He claimed that her bank card was debited while she was booking him the flight and when she contacted her bank--they told her that they'll return the money after 3 working days. All this happened only two days ago. Anyway--when I was in the middle of the second WU transaction (I had the lady at the customer service desk help me out)--I got two calls from my own bank letting me know that something wasn't right. As it turned out, both checks were proven to be fraudulent. They contacted the fraud dept to let them know what was going on. I told the clerk to cancel the transaction and she did. I gave the money back to the bank, needless to say. This Glenn guy kept texting me all day long. I filed a police report yesterday afternoon and told them everything I could possibly think of. So Glenn texted me from another cell phone number. I confronted him. He called me names and threatened to call the police and FBI--he wanted me to give him back the checks. I told him that they're on hold at the bank which they are. I also let him know that they're fraudulent checks and I got a hold of the police, also providing him with their phone number. Low and behold--he never contacted me after that point!
If it were me-I would not look for employment from Craigslist, as there are numerous scam/conartists. I'm only telling you this so this doesn't happen to you too. Below are numbers and addresses I've managed to collect throughout my ordeal:
Glenn's contact info:
469-619-2342
650-539-9039
[email protected]
[email protected]
Cassandra Wade
1405 Lazenby Way
Roseville, CA 95747
740-412-5209
But with THIS one--I found out on www.411.com that this address belongs to someone else. The cell phone number comes out from Circleville, OH.
The checks were supposedly written from:
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
308 NW 164th Street
Edmond, OK 70313
I was at the bank this morning. I’ll be debited about $2000 because of this horrendous scam.