Victim Location 32174
Type of a scam Employment
Posting on LinkedIn Jobs for a vinyl warp opportunity with Starbucks Coffee to promote the service in the area. Vinyl wrap is where they pay you to have your car wrapped in a company’s advertisement for you to be a mobile billboard. Applied for position with LinkedIn, received an email that appeared legitimate to answer a few questions such as average miles driven. Received an email about seven days later saying I was accepted for the position and the check was being FedEx to my address. It did arrive by that means and I was instructed to deposit it in my bank account and notify them upon completion via text from a phone number provided to me. I was to keep my first week’s salary of $400 and transfer the balance via a money transfer app to a name that was provided to me. I questioned the legitimacy of the check and contacted the text prior to deposit. They got very aggressive telling me to either deposit the check or send it back to them. At that point I knew this was a scam and told him to cancel the check. He stated if I didn’t send it back he would call the police. I took the check to VyStar Credit Union (the supposed financial institution identified on the check) and they immediately stated it was a fake check and asked me to surrender it to them. They provided me a copy in the event I wanted to file a police report but stated that this occurs so often there is little the police can do. I sent a text to the scammers stating their fake check was surrendered to VyStar and if they had any questions they could contact the credit union. I never hear back from them again.