Description

I was offered a job via text message which directed me to download a "signal app". Text back & forth with someone by the name of "********* Jones" she later asked me to start communicating with "***** ******" thru the "Skype" app. Lucas sent me "hiring paperwork" to my email & asked me to scan it back to him. This "paper work" had my email, home address, copy of my drivers license & social security number etc, I scanned it back to him. Later in the week he told me that he would be sending me a check for my "work equipment" by FedEx, gave me a routing number to track it. He came back on Skype to notify me that the check would not be delivered & proceeded to ask me for my banking info. I text him back & told him that I did not feel comfortable doing this. He told me no worries, he will send the check to me in my email thru a pdf file. He did. & I went to my bank & told them exactly what had been said & done. The bank told me that the check was not real & "***** ******"/"********* Jones" are SCAMMERS!!! I was advised to freeze my credit report. Change my Drivers license number & attempt to change my Social Security number if possible. This is a horrible thing for someone to do. Especially when I am so desperate to find a job for me & my kids.