Good day,
I am currently unemployed and answered an advertisement online for a work-from-home position as a bookkeeper for a computer peripherals company. The reply-to email address was Sharon. [email protected]. After emailing them my rsum, I received an IM from Sharon. Nick28 interviewing me for the position. The interview seemed to go well and I was pressed to open a checking and savings account to receive direct deposit of my salary from the company. I told Sharon. Nick28 that I'd open the account after the holiday and needed to check out a few things first.
Today, still not having opened the account, I was contacted by Sharon. Nick28 (IM text below).
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 8:05: 40 AM): Hello you there?
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 8:05: 41 AM):
Ruthie (1/5 10:24: 41 AM): Hi.
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:24: 57 AM): how are you doing?
Ruthie (1/5 10:25: 18 AM): Fine, yourself?
Ruthie (1/5 10:28: 05 AM): Hello.
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:30: 24 AM): am here?
Ruthie (1/5 10:30: 39 AM): I here, U?
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:31: 34 AM): okay
sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:31: 42 AM): so have you set up the account?
Ruthie (1/5 10:32: 29 AM): Was called away unexpectedly this weekend. Will be back tonight, so no account yet.
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:32: 54 AM): okay
sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:33: 13 AM): once you have it set up Email me with the account information okay
Ruthie (1/5 10:33: 53 AM): To? And what's your address, phone, etc.?
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:34: 16 AM): Email it to my Email
sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:34: 27 AM): sharon. [email protected]
Ruthie (1/5 10:34: 46 AM): And what's your address, phone, etc.?
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:36: 14 AM): i will provide you will that okay
Ruthie (1/5 10:36: 32 AM): Fine. What is it?
Sharon. Nick28 (1/5 10:38: 17 AM): Address: 1492 Eatonton Rd Ste H Madison, GA 30650
Ruthie (1/5 10:39: 58 AM): Thanks!
I signed off, looked up the address given, and found a phone number. Upon calling the Radio Shack at that location, I was told no one knew Sharon. Nick28. I called Yahoo Customer Care to report this and was directed to their site where I reported this scammer. I'm also reporting this to the online job site where I found the advertisement.
I was to have a deposit made to my new accounts I was to open, remove part of that deposit as a "Starting Bonus", and send the rest of the deposit to someone to buy accounting software required by the position. I have had a narrow escape of becoming a statistic of those defrauded by scam artists. I have not escaped having my job search interrupted by these foul people. The time I've invested in pursuing this putative position could have been better spent elsewhere.
I've asked Yahoo to please disable Sharon. [email protected] before someone else wastes more than their time.
Sincerely and a bit more cynical now
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