Is this a scam? I was looking for tutoring jobs on Craigslist...?

Question

This is an email I got from the person who was looking for a tutor...

Hello,
Thank you for the email, i want my daughter for the tutorial. She is a Girl of 14 yrs and very smart.Thanks for willing to accept the offer and its okay by me. I have made contacts with my Daughter concerning the arrangement of the tutoring which she told me is ok by her and I want you to know that i am going to pay for 1 week in advance, Am willing to pay $50 per hours and $150 per week, because you will just teach her 1 hour in a day, am planning that you will be teaching her 3 days a week, you will only teach her English writing and spelling, i want her to be good in speaking english and Math.

Also to tell you that we dont live in the states, We live in China and my Daughter arrived to United State on 13th August for summer holiday, but i dont want her to just wasted her stay and holiday in United State so i decided to make her engage with her education while she staying over there, also i want her to study more about what she need to know while she is in the states, she will be staying with her guardian and the woman take her around state to visit family and friends.

About My Daughter: My Daughter name is Charlene.. She's with her Nanny and her nanny will always bring her for the Lesson. I am Originally from China so she is not good in English but understand a little and she will stay with the old woman at moment, the woman not working and she dont have her personal bank account, so i have arrange with my client in State to issue payment for both of you.

I want the tutor to begin next week. Am just using this as a vacation and also make her know more about other country... So i want you to know that i will be sending you the payment inform of CHECKS for the tutorial while i will also pay the Nanny that will be taking care of Charlene while she is there for the lesson, so as soon as you get the Payment cash you will deduct cost of tutoring of the lesson and send the remaining balance to the Nanny that will be taking care of Charlene which the information will be giving to you later.

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 Daughter good Academics and some moral respects so that she can be good to herself in the future, i hope i can count on you for the tutorial and the money to be sent to the Guardian.
So, Just let me know if you can be able to lecture her there and if yes, reply me back with your info so I can send the payment down to you as soon as possible.

NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY
STATE:
ZIPCODE
AGE:
SEX:
CELL PHONE NUMBER: (VERY IMPORTANT)

Will be waiting to read your mail soon.
Best Regards!
Wang

Answer 1

100% scam.



There is no job.



There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.



The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "nanny" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.



Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.



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Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.



Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.



6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:

1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.

2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.

3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.

4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.

5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.

6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.



Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.



If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "check mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Craigslist Tutoring

Answer 4

This is a Nigerian money mule scam. They pay you with a stolen/counterfeit check and want YOU to send them (or the "nanny") real money back through Western Union or Moneygram. Four weeks later your bank contacts you to say the check bounced and you owe the bank the entire amount of the check, and there is no way to get your money back from the scammers. And you will never hear from them again after you send the Western Union payment. The police can't help as the scammers are overseas, usually in West Africa, where US law enforcement has no jurisdiction



NEVER for any reason give your home address to anyone you have not met face to face. And it's illegal for any employer to ask your age or sex



NOBODY hires a tutor they have never met. Nobody pays anyone before the start work



Report this to Craigslist and to the FBIs IC3 division http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx



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Answer 6

I almost fell victim to such a scam. I responded to an email from someone, and the name on the check was not the name in the email. I became suspicious and then learned that by depositing a bad check, one can actually lose money. If I had deposited the check I would have lost over $2,000. But luckily, I realized it was a scam before it was too late.

Answer 7

Notify CL about this person. He is a thief. He sends this email out to 200 people per day. CL wants to shut him down. He sends you a counterfeit cashiers check for too much money and then asks for you to keep your share and pay the rest to the "nanny". 2 weeks later your bank will call to say that the check was a forgery and for you to return ALL the money. There is no daughter. There is no nanny.

Answer 8

Your posting is not understandable. What exactly did she respond to, what personal information was sent, how do you know it's a scam and what check are you talking about?

Answer 9

YES it is. They want you to cash a fake check and have you send them the balance. A week later your bank will inform you the check is fake and you'll have to pay for the cash withdrawn.

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