A reply to an inquiry I made about a job post:
Hello,
Thank you for your quick response,i want my son (Micheal) for the tutorial..A boy of 8yrs,more so for accepting the offer and its okay by me,I have made contacts with my son concerning the arrangement of the tutoring which he told me is OK by him and i want you to know that i am going to pay for 1 month,which should be $150…00/hr and extra $150 incase anything is needed like materials needed to teach him(which i have in mind) And am planning that you will be teaching him 3 times a week,which is 1 hr per day in total for the payment per week will be $600 in total,so get back to me with your’s the total fee for the subject which is English and if can teach hi Mathematis i dont mind and when you will be available to teach him during the week So my son will be coming down for summer by September 28th and i want him to study more about what he need to know while he is in the states and he speaks a little bit English you need to work on spelling, writing, little pronunciation and reading,but presently am in United Kingdom,am an architest by profession i design structure for private companies and home use,presently am in United
Kingdom working for a private company but will be back home soon…So i want you to know that i will be sending you the payment inform of check for the tutorial while i will also pay the Traveling Agent that will bring him across to the state and also the my nanny in my house in state would bring him down to where ever you believe it will be comfortable for you to have the tutorial maybe a library that is close to you,so as soon as you get the money cash you will deduct cost of tutoring of the lesson and send the remaining balance to the Traveling Agent that will be bring him across to the state which the information will be giving to you later.Regarding this,kindly send your full information to receive the payment so it can be made out on-time.So hope i can trust you that you will teach my son good academics and some moral respects so that they can be good to their self in the future,i hope i can count on you for the tutorial and the money to be sent to the Guardian my son would be coming down to stay with the nanny that would bring him down anytime you have a class with him and the tutor would start by September 29th……my son speaks a little bit English and he is in grade one….i would await the information….so i can proceed on the payment asap.asap.
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Will be waiting to read your mail soon.
Regards.Mike.
My response:
I apologize if I am wrong but this seems to be a blatant returned fake check scam, where you give me a check for a large amount of money, I cash it, take my cut and give the rest to a local contact. The check never clears as it is fake, the account is overdrawn, or from a stolen account and my bank charges me the full amount of the check plus fees.
If you are being honest, and I’m willing to put faith that you are, we can still do business as you propose but with one small change. You wire me the funds via western union. Either the full amount or just my portion, I don’t care.
I didn’t feel like reporting it. I haven’t actually been scammed and there isn’t much law enforcement can do even if I was scammed. The best thing I can do is post the incident here so others are informed to be aware.