Victim Location 32603
Total money lost $1,000
Type of a scam Employment
So I had received an email from my University of Florida email address from another @ufl.edu address about a job opportunity. The school usually will send out random job opportunities for students that are trying to make a little extra money so I clicked on it. It was a modeling job and I clicked on the link and received an email from a different person on my regular email. The person gave me more details about the job then asked me for some pictures and my measurements such as my shirt size, pants size, etc. I sent the pictures and sizes and they responded later saying I was a good fit for the shoot. They later told me the name of the company that I was going to be shooting for and told me the date and location of the shoot and reassured me there would be no nudity and even told me I could bring a friend if it made me feel safe. When they told me these details I was told I was going to paid 500 dollars for the shoot, 300 to be mailed to me before and 200 after the shoot. They sent the check to me but the supposed agent claimed that the company accidentally paid me all of the money (1420) and that only the 300 was supposed to be mine and the other 1120 was supposed the go to him and the management team. He asked if I could send him the other 1120 and me being the nice person that I try to be, I sent the money after I deposited the check. What I didn’t realize is that my bank automatically put the funds into my account before they cleared the check. So later the bank realized there weren’t actual funds in the check but it was too late for me to do anything because I had already sent the money to the people. That was the last I heard from them.