Job cheque overpayment scam

[color=#FF0040]From: Seamus Terson ([email protected])
How you doing and thanks getting back to me about the general assistant position .we need a general assistant who can work 4 and like 20hrs a week .time and day will be schedule .

All you need to do is just to help with house work .cleaning and tidy the apartment and assist with general house duties as my wife is pregnant due to have a baby in may.

We will offer £300 a week for the 3 days work and 4-6 hrs a day and extra hours may occur which the payment will be sorted out as wages will be paid by cheque every friday of the week.

Please can you confirm if you can do the job and we will contact you shortly.

Thanks


Hello, sorry for getting back to you late and we just want to let you know that we have giving you the job.
We are still making arrangement for the apartment once we get the agreement sorted out we will give you the address so you can meet the agent up and pick up the keuys from that which definaltly by weekend and which will be close to the address you provide with not less than 10 miles away.
We will be arriving nect week saturday but once you got the keys we will like you to start as we painter and furnitures coming to the house so you can monitor everything till we arrived.
Thanks very much.
How you doing and i just want to let you know we are close to the agreement by Wednesday you will received the keys of the apartment which you will be contacted on Monday the apartment is based at
Cefn Mably Park, Michaelston-Y-Fedw area.

The landlord will call you and i need to start the job as soon as possible once you received the keys as some repair need to be done.

Juts to let you know a payment will be send to you to sort out some repairer on Thursday which is been arranged so i will like to confirm if i can get it into your account or i can send it through the post so you cash it out and get them paid which will include a week wages as well.

We will arrived next week Sunday at 19.20pm.

So please get back to me so i can get it sorted out for you by weekend.

Thanks
Thanks for getting back to me and i will like you to do me a great favor. first thing tomorrow around 9am i will like you to go to the bank and take out £920 and send it to this roofing company as follow by WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER and on ref pls but CAT 1212

Williams Adams

Dope construction Company

Elephant and castle shopping center

London

SE1 6SY

Please send me the transfer code latest by 10am in the morning so they can come on Saturday for the repiars and take off the £300 first week wages and the rest keep it save in your account we will collect it on arrival.

thank god i knew something was up and contacted my bank, he still keeps emailing me.

I'm so glad I found your post, I've had exactly the same emails as you, except for the last one asking to make the payment to the roofing company. What did your bank say when you spoke to them? I've already spent some of the £300 that I thought was my weeks wages...

Welcome to Eater, strathmore29!

You need to talk to someone at your bank immediately. Don't spend any more money, and don't send any Western Union transfers to the scammer. You should print out all of the emails between you and the scammer.
Hang tight for some advice from a mod.

Ok thank you. Don't suppose you have any idea what's likely to happen about the fact that I've spent some of the money? I haven't actually had any emails from this person for over a week now, which seems strange that they haven't even given me any instructions for what to do with all the money (not that I'll be doing anything now anyway)

Welcome to ScamWarners strathmore29. I cannot tell you exactly what will happen, but Helen is correct. Print out the emails you have received and go to your bank and explain what has happened. You will at the very minimum have to repay the money you have used.

The difficulty is the cheque you received was a forgery and eventually the banking system will realize this and they will come back to you to correct the problem they have. It is now your problem. If they believe you intended to defraud the bank with the forged cheque, you will be spending some time explaining this situation to the police.

It is best to be proactive and go to your bank.

If you receive any more emails from the scammer, do not do anything he says. He is the one who has set you up to have difficult encounters with your bank and the police. You may want to contact the police in your area and let them know what happened. Many police jurisdictions have fraud squads which deal with people who have been victims like you have been.

Do NOT tell him that you have posted information about him here. He will use what he can learn here to scam better. Just stop communicating with him. Nothing good will come from being in contact with him. He may threaten you and say that you are stealing from him. He is trying to scare you and get you to give him real money for his forgery.

Block his email address and do not communicate with him.

Do post up as much information as you have about him here. Post this emails to you (take out your personal information). Post up the headers to the email you have received. We want to keep him from hurting others too.

Ask more if you have questions. Please let us know how this works out for you.