work from home

I have contacted 4 people for work at home jobs. the first I worked for, for 5 weeks . Got paid 100.00 and was promised to get paid for services after next three weeks. they still owe me 1000.00 for services.
next three ask me to be personal assistant. Two of them sent checks that were not excepted by bank. the third sent me cashiers check because I asked for cashiers check instead of regular check. When I called the
bank to see if it was legit I found it was not. wrote back to all three and have not received any response. all sad situations.
bftd

Most of these work at home jobs are scams, ( I get sent a lot and never reply to any of them)

They are looking to recruit money mules, and believe me if you had cashed those cheques you would have been in trouble.

ANY work-from-home job that involves

- cashing checks or money orders and forwarding the money
- receiving and forwarding payments through your bank account or credit cards
- receiving and forwarding packages
- printing and sending checks
- receiving payments through Western Union or Moneygram
- ordering merchandise and then shipping it overseas


is a SCAM.

But wait--there's more!

All of these "jobs" involve fraud and/or money laundering--taking the profits of a crime and turning them into untraceable cash and/or merchandise for the criminals. Participation makes you part of a criminal conspiracy. If you get involved with one of these jobs, not getting paid is the least of your problems. It is also very likely that you will find yourself facing one or more of the following:
-Owing the bank large amounts of money
-Having your bank account frozen and/or closed
-Being blacklisted by all major banks and not able to open a new bank account for months to years
-having your credit rating destroyed
-being arrested
-being charged with a felony-which can permanently affect your ability to get a job, your ability to get credit, and even restrict your rights to vote or own a firearm.

It is highly advisable that you stop attempting to cash checks for strangers. If your bank has kept a record of your earlier attempts and you DO manage to successfully cash one of these checks, chances are they will show NO leniency with you based on your earlier attempts. They will demand every penny back, plus will charge you a variety of costly fines and/or fees, and may contact the police to have criminal charges filed.

If your first "job" involved any of these activities, you could still find yourself in trouble. Make sure you keep all correspondence related to that "job", and consider proactively filing a police report or a report with IC3 to document that you were not deliberately participating in a criminal enterprise.

Please post the emails (including those from the first job). If anyone else has been recruited by those fake companies, we want them to find the emails and know that it's a scam; if there's a website or domain that the scammers have registered, we want to kill it.

There are several gangs that set up websites pretending to be outsourcing companies, art dealers, chemical manufacturers, interior decorators, or whatever and to need someone to forward money from the customer's company to the company's country. This is all lies. Real companies open bank accounts in different countries or otherwise transfer the money through banks. When we find out about these sites, we report them for fraud.