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The one in quotation mark is what the scammers posted to my school email. The 1st Step: "Good day!!! Our Affiliate American Red Cross needs a Donation Assistant. This is a Part time job and quite Flexible. A Donation Assistant is needed to perform various tasks like research, logistics, making or receiving payment, keeping records and processing paperwork when necessary. Position: Donation Assistant Job Type: Part-time Remuneration: $750 weekly Hours: Average of 6hrs weekly N.b: Inconvenience allowance of $50 payable separately For more info kindly contact Dr. Shelby at ([email protected]) along with your phone number for further information. Please Note: This position is available on a first come, first served basis. Best Regards. Student Recruitment Coordinator." They posted a job opportunity to my school email, Community College of Aurora, which appeared to be from the American Red Cross. Since i graduated May 2024, I was looking for a job opportunity by referring my school email. Those scammers posted a job opportunity by pretending the American Red Cross. They were two of them. I did communicate with them via phone text and email. The way they communicated with me was exactly seems true. I hesitated at the time and I questioned them, but they answered me my questions which seems correctly. The basic reason that I accepted them as a real company was my school email. I trusted them since it was sent to my school email and thought they weren't scammers. However, after losing $3000, I discovered they were scammers. They emailed me a job description and duties. Then they sent me a check that was going to be send to American Fosters. They directed me to deposit the check either by mobile bank or at branch or at ATM. After I deposited the check the fund becomes available into my account on the next day……..the check they sent me was $3,750 and instructed me to donate $3000, and deduct $750 as my labor payment. The check was sent from donor company. After the check cleared, I sent $500 to 6 accounts as they ordered me. After the check that they sent me is available into my account, my Bank returned-unpaid check. And than my account balance dropped below zero. They pretend American Red Cross Company and scammed me. The second basic thing that deceived me was my Bank because the bank made the fund available into my account after one day of deposit. If the bank were not made available, I couldn’t lose my money. The bank returned-unpaid check after 48 hours. Those scammers are everywhere and they are changing topics regularly. Do not trust anyone online. Before you do anything, be careful with what you’re going to do. Investigate it before taking action. I lost $3000 and struggled to pay my mortgage and other expenses now. I can call those scammers are the worst devil. Scammers are devil.
Dollars Lost
$3000
Targeted Person's Location
CO, USA - 80012
Scam Type
Employment
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Business name
American Red Cross / imposter
Date Reported
December 13, 2024
Scam ID
921538
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