Victim Location 70592
Type of a scam Employment
I received an email saying that I was 1 of 2 potential people that they would hire to work from home. Then he sent an email that I would be receiving a package in the mail, that never came. He wanted to know how far I lived from the post office, wanted me to go and get 100 first class envelopes (which he said were free). He then sent me a link in a text to order checks. I went to the site which was an amazon site, but they were $21+ and I asked him if he expected me to pay for them. He then sent me an amazon gift card for $40, I ordered the checks. He also kept telling me about his wife who had cancer, but in one text put that he’d almost lost her and that she is Stage D (there is no such stage). I’ve looked him up on the web and his name was there, I clicked on the site and it was “under construction”! He has contacted me daily by text and I have spoken to him once and he is a foreigner, I could barely understand what he was saying. The job is supposedly to work 3 days a week, approximately 3 hours a day from home on my computer printing checks for other companies that he represents. I’m also to mail these checks. I have never met this man and I prefaced the fact that I had never done payroll. He said that he would train me. He also had some automated system call me with a secure number to supposedly get online. He then asked me for the number. I asked, ‘I thought that number was for me to securely get onto your website? And if you sent it to me why do you need it.’ However, I really did want the job as a single mom it was the perfect hours. He then said that the number I gave him was wrong, which I know what they told me. He then asked if I had any other number besides this one, I said I do not. Now he has a local number (Lafayettte, La.) and I told him upfront that my computer was being worked on and they said it would be ready February 26th. They couldn’t get to it any quicker because of Mardi Gras. The last text I received from him today was did you call Mardi Gras and see if your computer was ready. This is the exact text I sent back to him
I’m sorry but you have a Lafayettte number. Where is your company located because Mardi Gras is not a computer company, it’s a 3 day holiday!
He has yet to respond. I believe this is a scam and because it was perfect for a single mom, I ignored the many red flags that if you’re reading this you can clearly see them.
The only other information I found out about this guy on the web is a picture of him (I suppose) & his wife sitting on a sofa supposition at his offices in front of his company logo, not Hector Financial Payroll LLC, but Hector Financial Group (which does have a local address, phone number) This picture may not even be the man I spoke to but it was the only other piece of information I found on the web associated with *** ***