I this job a scam?

Is this job a scam?

How are you doing today?. Am Glad to Inform you that a payment has been sent to you which is your First Assignment and it would be delivered today via USPS. Below is the transaction Details:

Tracking Number: 42073069940550169932000*******
Bank of check: Fremont Bank
Signed by: Jacques Loveall
Amount: *****


Once you receive the Check, take it to your bank and have it deposited it will clear under 24 hours. However, I am donating this funds to an orphanage home in Philippines. I contacted the orphanage home, and I was given the list of the items to be bought, the items are much and will cost a lot to get them shipped, so we have reached an accord, They will be getting the items themselves. Once the Check clears, you are to deduct $625 your first week pay and $30 for GAS and send the remaining Money through Western Union Money Transfer to the information Below.

Below is the Western Union information to send the Money.

Receivers Information:
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Receiver's Name: Angeline Taclob
Receiver's City: San Jose
Receiver's State: Batangas
Receiver's Country: Philippines
Receiver's Zip Code: 4227


Note: You are to send in US Dollars

The Western Union charges are to be deducted from our funds, When the Money has been transferred Let me have the information's Below:

1. Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN):
2. Total Amount Sent:
3. Amount Charged By Western Union:
4. Your Full Name and address as on the Western Union Slip:

I will be waiting to read back from you ASAP today and i also have some other assignment for you to do by next week.
I want you to be rest assured that I'll never stress you at all in any assignment given to you and I promise to pay your fees weekly as we both agreed.

Take good care of yourself and have a blessed day.

Thanks.
Alan Walsh

Welcome to Scamwarners slipnut.

Yes it's a very common scam and you'll be sent a forged/counterfeit cheque and your first salary will be your own money, and what you send the scammer will be your own money as the cheque will be returned unpaid to you in due course.

There's no such job as paying in someone else's cheques to convert them to cash. That's what banks do and the scammer should go to his bank, but his bank won't let him pass a dud cheque more than once, and nor will your bank. If you just lose all the value of the cheque you'll be lucky. They could shut your account and call in the police for passing "counterfeit paper".

If you haven't paid the cheque in to your account, just rip it up, or mark it forged because you don't want the police to find it on you. If you've paid it in to your account don't touch the cash and notify your bank what's happened. Then they'll appreciate that you've warned them what's happened and that you aren't trying to scam them.

It is most definitely a scam. The check will eventually bounce and you will have to repay the amount sent.

You should file a fraud report with the US Postal Inspection Service as well, since the fraudulent checks are being sent by US mail.

No real job involves sending money by Western Union. What's the email address of who sent it? Is any website involved?

Thanks for the quick replies.

Here is the email- [email protected]
here is the phone number- 2405427388

I reported this to the bank from where the check was written.

Hopefully your report will get the compromised account addressed sooner rather than later.

I would still recommend filing the USPIS report. As strange as it may seem, they are actually the most likely of any agency to get some action taken, in this scenario, as sending the fake checks through them is a clear case of mail fraud. They may be able to slow them down by shutting down scammers' shipping accounts and possibly even taking printers out of circulation.