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My initial experience was almost identical to the person that posted complaint 1100809. I applied for a remote assistant job on LinkedIn, received an email asking me to fill out a questionnaire, and then, without any type of interview, was offered a job with a fishy contract for a high salary rate. The job was offered to me by Gordon DeVol of Design Resource International LLC. I didn't notice this right away, but the initial emails came to me from [email protected] (resources, not resource). The contract was written on a letterhead for DRI Wellness. Out of curiosity, I went ahead with accepting the job. They set me up with an email address and MS365 login to yet another business name DLR Pro Group. By day two the job was obviously fake. The only interaction was through Teams chat; no video or voice calls. There was no real work. They did ask me to buy them iTunes cards but backed off when I made it clear I wasn't going to front them the money for the expense. They also asked me if I had any debts I'd like them to pay off, they'd give me a "consolidation loan", to which I also said no. The only thing they seemed to want me to do was to print and mail checks for them. They sent me checks they ordered from QuickBooks that could be printed using a desktop printer, but gave me little to no work to do in the days it took for the checks to arrive. When the checks did come, they had legitimate account information on them, but instead of the business's name as the header, the checks were printed with my name and home address. At this point I decided it was no longer worth playing along out of curiosity and cut off all communication with them. You know those scams where they send a fake check for too much money and ask the recipient to pay them back? I'm pretty sure their intention was have me be the person that printed and mailed those checks and was ultimately set up to take the blame for them. I've since reported the incident to the issuing bank, the FTC, and the FBI (IC3). Other person's and business names associated with this scam are Pedro Galindo, Galrod Group International, Galrod Groups, Design Resources International, International Design Resource Inc, DRI Wellness, DLR Group, DLR Pro Group.