I had a profile on the SitterCity.com website and this man, Robert Megan, contacted me and said that he needed a sitter for his daughter. He was going to be in California for three months due to his job. His wife had breast cancer and was too sick to be held solely responsible for their daughter so he asked if I would be available to be considered for the position. After much communication and conversing through email, I was hired. We planned on when I would nanny, times, places, rates, etc. Robert ensured me he would send a retainer check to ensure my services and the rest of the money he would have me forward to a store manager for the remainder of Amber's things. Monday Feb. 25 he had a check mailed to me for $2950 and I deposited it into my account. He asked me to have the money wired through Western Union to Jack Dawson at 35464 Ward Ave. Springville, CA 93265. I waited to have the money transferred until the check funds were put through to my account, which they were. The next day he said the store manager needed more money, $1200. Total I forwarded his $2700 and lost an additional $237 with cash advances. The next day the bank came back and said that the check was fraud and all the money that I forwarded was my own and Robert Megan got away with it all.
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