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They contacted me via Email, talking about an open work from home job position for "goods checker" at a company they claimed to be associated with called Cargosphere LLC. I was unaware that they emailed me since their messages appeared in my spam folder. It wasn't until about a week later when they called my phone, that I found out that these people were trying to reach out to me. The lady on the phone referred to me by name, and when I asked how she got my contact info, she said they found me on indeed.com. At this point, I was suspicious, because I had no recollection of applying to a job for this company, and I couldn't find it anywhere on my applications board on indeed.com. The lady told me that they were offering $4,000 a month guaranteed salary, plus a $30 bonus for each VIP package that I handle, and the job would be monday-friday with bi-weekly pay after a 30 day probationary period, in which I would receive my first paycheck afterwards. It all seemed too good to be true, but at the time, I was unemployed and actively looking for work, so I decided to go through with the supposed "job" they were offering. What really gave away the scam was that this was a job in which I had never applied for, nor have I even heard of. The lady who interviewed me on the phone didn't actually interview me either. She just asked if I had access to a printer, and if I was able to receive packages and sign for them, as well as send them through the post office for shipping. After that, she sent me a link to their dashboard website, where the majority of my work was supposed to be found. I signed up for it and went through the hiring process which required a selfie, and front and back photos of my driver's license. I was told that my account would be activated in 2-3 hours, and I would be receiving packages in 3-7 days. However, after I was contacted by the "supervisor" who sent me emails about instructions on how to do the job, I noticed a ton of typos and grammar errors. Some of which, made it seem like it was written by a middleschooler. It was only then that I decided to call them out for their scam and cut off all contact with these people. I had a suspicion that they would be having me trafficking fraudulent, and possibly illegal items at that point, and they seemed oddly defensive when I called them out over the phone. They insisted that I stick with them and they would send me legal documents to prove that they were a legit company. Since then, I've learned to be more wary of these types of employment scams that seem too good to be true