CL Scam, what can he do?

Hello all!

Thanks to Google, was able to find this site.

I was on CL and found this job posting that stated Forklift Warehouse. This looked like a regular job add, but the only thing that I did not see was a company name, which sparked my attention at first but my current job I got through craigslist did not have a company name either and it was legit. So I went ahead and sent in my resume that included just my name, address, phone number, recent work history and school history.


I get a email that states this.

Hello,

Thanks for your response. I am replying back to your message concerning the job posted for a Warehouse worker in which you're interested in, went through your Resume and I’m quite impressed and think you are the right person for this job. Unfortunately I am out of the state at the moment on a short Business trip so there won't be any Interview in Person.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
You will be a Warehouse Inspector you will walk in to any warehouse which we will be disclosing to you soon and your responsibilities include inspecting, testing, sampling, and sorting products or goods being manufactured. The manufactured products can include a large range of items, including food, machinery, equipment or pharmaceuticals. Depending on the type of manufacturing environment, having some technical knowledge would be of great help to you. In this type of profession, there are quality standards that are strictly followed, and daily or weekly production goals to be met. If a manufactured product does not meet quality specifications, you’re to investigate and reports production line failures. And you're required to have a high school diploma or GED.You must be able to stand on your feet for long period of time, these physical requirement is very important for the inspector, you will be working 2 days in a week and you're to choose any 2 days of the week from Monday to Saturday that will be preferable to you and will be working 4hrs in these 2 days and that will be from 9am-12pm and I will be offering you $400.00/week and you will be doing these for 8 weeks. Method of payment will be a cashier check or a Money order.If you're interested kindly get back to me with the following information:-

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
PHONE#:

I will be looking forward hearing from you and then proceed on the next step forward.

Warm regards,

David Sandton

I said to myself, well....my resume included all of that so what would hurt to just send it again? Another thing that sparked my attention. So I sent it and here's the next message.


Hello,

How are you doing today? I am glad that you are interested in being my warehouse officer. After reviews of your details, I am glad to inform you that the position has been approved and consider the job yours! As my Warehouse Manager you will be helping with assembling, receiving, sorting out and making out payment on my behalf since I'm currently not available.You will be properly briefed in order to carry out every task appropriately. I will make arrangements in sending you the paycheck for your first salary, with extra funds which you will use in getting some things done. I will notify you on further updates regard the instructions, how I want things handled and when the payment had been mailed to you. Thanks for the assistance, I really appreciate it. Would make sure we have favorable working ethics and great future plans.Let me know as soon as you get this email.

Thank you
David Sandton

Then my reply to this was "Read it and awaiting your reply". He then sent me

I will get back to you with further instruction within the next few days. so , please be consistent with your email.


After that email I was like woah, hold up, What company is this anyway? This is when I finally realized this was a scam, well I think.......because what employer would go this long and not saying the company name?

My question is this, what can he use with this information? Is he able to do any fraud with just the info I provided him? What can he do? This just happened, I will keep this updated on his next email



His email address is [email protected]

Thanks for your support and help.
vbulljon
Registered Member

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Joined: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:52 pm

This does sound suspicious, but the usual scam jobs involve handling money. Could you post the full headers of the emails? They should tell where the email is sent from. Perhaps he's phishing.

Welcome vbulljon,

As my Warehouse Manager you will be helping with assembling, receiving, sorting out and making out payment on my behalf since I'm currently not available.You will be properly briefed in order to carry out every task appropriately. I will make arrangements in sending you the paycheck for your first salary, with extra funds which you will use in getting some things done.

You already realize this is a scam. This scammer took more effort to disguise the true nature of the scam, but the text in red tells us that in the end it is nothing more than a standard fake check scam.

He wants to send you a fraudulent check, have you cash it, and then send him cash or merchandise before the bank discovers it is fake. Later (possibly weeks to months down the road) when the bank discovers the check was fraudulent, they will come after you for the money, and he (who used fake information anyway) will be long gone.

All he wanted was to send the fake check to you. He isn't really looking for anything else, so general information like name, address, work history won't be of any real use to him.

I too have been in touch with this same guy and decided that something did not sound okay and googled it. I made it a little further than the other guy. This is the e-mail that I received this morning...
Hello,

This is to inform you that the funds for your first assignment has been mailed out and you will receive it in mail today or tomorrow,here is the tracking number (910196901038690293****) you can track it online at www.usps.com . However,as soon as you have received it,get it processed at your bank for instant cash and when you have the cash with you, deduct your one week upfront payment(400USD) and get the rest across to the furniture company as part payment of the furniture's I'm purchasing from their company for my new warehouse.


Meanwhile,the fund should be sent via moneygram money transfer to their head office in CA, below is their account manager details for the money gram transfer.

Receiver's Name : Candee Martin
CITY : Huntington Beach
STATE : CA
zipcode : 92649


Please note that the transfer charges must be deducted from the remaining amount after deducting your weekly upfront payment. Below are the transfer details needed after you might have sent the fund.

Sender's Name

Sender's Address:

Total Amount Sent(LESS THE TRANSFER CHARGES) :

Reference Number:

Or scan the receipt to me for better understanding in order for her to get the funds and start making arrangements. I hope you understand the above instruction and will be able to handle everything well and promptly. I will subsequently give you instructions on how to handle your other payments and assignments. Do get back to me as soon as you get this message .
I await your response.

Best Regards
David Sandton

What do I do with this, I have a tracking number and all for the package.

Thanks for anyone help.

Hello nyrface1132 and welcome to scamwarners.

What do I do with this, I have a tracking number and all for the package.

The check will be fake as Dotti stated above your post. Do not cash it or deposit it. With the check you can tear it up, write fake all over it (keep as a reminder) or turn it over to your local Law Enforcement. The UPS package you can do the same.

I completely understand that it is a scam but if I can do something to prevent him/her from doing it to someone else I will. Thanks for the advice.

Just as you found it here, hopefully the next person targeted by this scam will also search the Web and find it here. Also, if the scammer used any websites or domains which he set up (which is unlikely as he didn't use a company name), please post them here with enough evidence that we can shut them down.

This David Sandton also tried to scam me. He is currently trying to scam people who want to be mystery shoppers.

Welcome to ScamWarners cooldude71, please post the email address this scammer is using. The name they are using is not their name, it is a name they have chosen to try to sound legitimate. Thank you for the information.

This is the following address David Sandton is using

David Sandton
Critique International, LLC
1969 Corporate Square
Longwood, FL 32750
425-906-4719

This outfit is still up and running. Received the same from this email today
Now they are looking for loaders/unloaders/forklift operators.
deborahperkins63@hotmail.
Don't have a physical address as I decided to investigate and found this forum first.

K