Submitted by Tarryn921 t3_xuru3n in personalfinance
I've been doing some job hunting recently and filled out a few pre-employment questionnaires (no SSN, just name, phone number, address, etc which has been all fairly normal across a lot of legit jobs as well) after completing one for an administrative assistant I received an email (email address name is something along the lines of "Fname123@email" ) from a man claiming to run an Australian based company that is branching to US.
Part of the email reads:
" You will be carrying out your first task/errands as we would be needing to pay for some goods & office supplies (you are not buying them). The payment will be arranged with the financial officer who will mail the payment to you before next week runs out, so a check would be made out to you which will include half of your first week's pay as well as the funds to make the payment for the supplies needed which will be your first task/errand. You will deposit the check and once the funds are available you would be getting instructions on how to go about the payment. "
I have never once spoken to this man in any way shape or form and just received a check for $5,000 with an immediate text/email follow up asking when I will be able to deposit the check.
There's no way this is legit but I needed to get a second opinion on what to do.