Am I being scammed, or am I just paranoid?

I was looking for a job, so I posted my resume on Craigslist (couldn't hurt, right?). I was promptly contacted by someone who's looking for someone who's looking for someone to run errands for him. I would be buying things for him and de levering them to various places, mostly charities. This is his job description:
Hello, its good to hear from you hope all is well with you,my name is
Ken Biller and I have been involved in to various welfare and
community service programs. I am occupied most of the time because of
the nature of my job, so it is imperative for me to have a worthy
assistant who can monitor and keep me up to date with my activities.
The reason why I find it hard to perform these activities is because I
am handicapped and I have am hearing problem so I use an aid. Well the
Job entails handling my new personal business plus charity and
errands.

Personal business
As for my personal business, I work for some very rich and
wealthy people and help them do some evaluations, I would love to talk
more about this but I'm not obligated to due to confidentially. I am
forming a new business venture which deals with marketing and selling
products but I'm still undergoing registration and this might take a
while so we might have to wait and I will like for you to work and
handle this

Charity and errands
I give a lot to charity but as I said before that because of
the nature of my Job and the condition I am in I find it hard to do a
lot of this things so I need to know if you can handle this and if
you can be a trust worthy person and can be very accountable. You
will mostly donate money on my behalf. Also the errands are involved
with this charity work.

You will be paid $400/week So if you agree let me know
then ill get you your staff code ID and also a list of items that you
will estimate the prices and you will deliver the items on my
behalf(when the time comes). I will give you transport fee and if you
have a car I will pay your gas money so please let me know if your
interested. Thanks

(I replied yes)



Now that you are ready to work I will like if you can start tomorrow
your staff code ID is (RC06780NX). I will fill you in on how its going
to be. well because of the nature of my work and my present condition
that I'm handicapped and have an hearing problem so I use an aid, I'm
hardly exposed to the outside life so I will prefer to do payments
through direct online deposit also understand that my bank would
handle all transactions through me and they would have to merge my
account with one of the reference banks that I would ask you to open
in. After doing this we will both have access to the account mine, but
you would be the one incharge of the 2 merged accounts so you can
monitor the transactions and ensure all goes well. Please let me know
if you understand and agree, even if you don't agree please let me
know maybe we can work something else out. And as for the items you
will purchase you could get them at the walmart nearest to you or if
you get a good supermarket around you can buy them there I will give
you the address of the orphanage home to drop the items. And also as
for the donations I will give you the address and how ever you will be
sending the money to the orphanage or cancer foundation. So I need to
know if you agree so we can proceed

PLEASE FILL THE APPLICATION FORM BELOW:
-First Name
-Last Name:
-Location:
-Cell Phone Number:
-Sex Age:

Note- this form is for me to have your number and name and where you
are located for official purposes

Thanks


Here's where it gets suspicious: He asked me to open a bank account where he would pay me and wire the money required to buy the stuff. ( I will get 400 per week, plus gas money and whatever the cost is for the materials, good pay for a college student)

I live in Texas, he says he lives in Baltimore.
Does this sound suspicious to you?

It's a scam, and a particularly dangerous one for you, as it can bring you a whole lot of trouble.

The scammer is trying to recruit you as a mule. Money will be transferred into your bank account--but that money does not belong to your "employer." It will be transferred from phished or hacked bank accounts or credit cards, or the proceeds of fraudulent checks. By withdrawing the money and purchasing things for the scammers (or forwarding money for them), you are laundering stolen money.

Eventually, the real owner of the money will discover it has been taken, or the bank will determine that any checks were fake. When that happens, the trail will lead straight to you. As for your "employer?" He has used a fake name and fake information with you, and in reality, he is sitting in another country, far out of reach of local law enforcement. But you can be forced to pay back every penny you withdrew and spent, out of your own pocket (not to mention a variety of fines and fees.) And, as an added bonus, you could end up being arrested for a felony--because even if you weren't the person to steal the money, you are still an accomplice.

The reason he says he has a hearing problem is so that you won't call him on the phone (but he asks for your phone number?), and the reason he doesn't want you calling him on the phone is that you'd recognize that he is not from Baltimore but from some foreign country.

Yes, it is a fraudulent individual trying to scam you!
re: staff code ID is (RC06780NX).
The exact same staff code is visible in a Mystery shopper representative employment scam that has been posted on the 9th of June 2012.
Have a look at viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40895 and scroll approx half way down the page. The scammer used the names Kurt Cole and Dean Kurt.