Victim Location 29732
Total money lost $12
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
I received an email from a “Donna Cunningham” offering me a work from home position. They directed me to google hangouts and did a very convincing online interview. I received a welcome phone call from someone who said his name was Michael Perez. I have included the number above that he called me from. The bad thing is that Angiodynamics is a legitimate company based out of New York. Mr. Perez’s area code came up as New York. They directed me to the actual website of the legitimate company and told me about the business which checked out. Now Angiodynamics has a big red notice on their website that people have been using their name and even the names of their employees for this scam. They do not offer work from home jobs. “Donna” sent me employment papers and W4’s to fill out. Yes, they have my identity and social. They overnighted a check in the amount of $2835 supposedly from their finance department to allow me to set up my home office with the approved equipment and software. My bank put a 5 day hold on the check, thank goodness. Then the bank called and said that the check was fraudulent and charged me a $12 return fee. Donna apparently wanted me to draw the money out of my account and pay their “software provider” before the check bounced. Good job PNC protecting me from this scam. I pretended that I did not know why the check had bounced and asked Donna if she knew what the problem was. She said she would put a “ticket” in to their finance department to see what was wrong and in the meantime, could I send $40 to software person so I could start my training. Ha, ha, no!!! I have a copy of the check from the bank if you would tell me who to turn it in to.