The same thing just happened to me! Same name, same story, etc. I am a tutor as well and have an ad on craigslist! we tutors have to be careful these days!
Gotta love the internet for getting just the information you want. I am a stand-up paddleboard instructor in Hayward, WI, and at first I thought he got Hayward, WI and Hayward, CA mixed up. But he said his 14 year old daughter would be relocating with her nanny to Wisconsin. Same MO, 1 hour/day, 3 days/week, 1 month.
I also posted swim lessons on craigslist. John Peter texted me same 14 yr old daughter will be in my CITY needing 3 hrs a week for the month wanting the amount for tutoring while he was on business in Canada.I repeated swim lessons and got weird mixed up texts. Then he agreed to pay $900 asked for name, address to send a check that the nanny would be bringing her and for me to show her love. (?) I did give him my full name, address before I realized what was going on. The next day, I wasn't home when the USPS Express Mail check arrived made out to me for $2,250.00 ($1,350 overage). The mailing address was in MD, but the Allied Construction Co., was in East Brunswick,NJ. John texted me when he got the tracking number showing it was delivered letting me know the check arrived. I texted him letting him know I know he's a fraud.
Same thing...I'm a math tutor that advertises on Craigslist...I never post an email to respond to and I make it perfectlly clear that I will not accept a text message as an initial form of contact...this idiot, John Peter, texted me today and I told him, "and I would like to know if you know how to dial a phone number"...my next text message back to an 805 area code pulling the same scam will be, "Okay, so I'm going to add your number and name to the list of names and numbers I'm compiling to turn over to the authorities...just so you know"
He over pays, and asks you to reimburse him by sending him back some of the excess. The problem is, his payment to you is bad, fraudulent, and it gets taken away from you with bank charges. Meanwhile, he has your money, the over payment money you sent to him from your good bank account. More than likely he will ask that you use WesternUnion to send it back to him as then there is no way to get it back once its sent.