Victim Location 49285
Total money lost $8,200
Type of a scam Employment
I was originally offered an interview through an application I submitted through Indeed. I accepted the interview, and was requested to down load an app called Wire. Interview was conducted that afternoon. The next morning, I received an offer letter. The pay rate was higher than I expected, so my family and I did some digging while we waited for confirmation on the pay rate. We were able to the job on the company website, the email with the offer letter and direct deposit form were from someone we could verify from multiple sources as the HR director of Trescal, and we were able to confirm that the hiring manager I was apparently working with on wire, was a hiring manager for Trescal. At this point we had nothing to be suspicious of. The day after my paperwork was sent in, I was informed that I would have an initial out of pocket expense of $1870- which would I would be reimbursed for in full. I was also told to expect funds to order my computer, phone, and printer through their vendor.
It was requested to send the $1870 through a money transfer to the vendor conducting the install. I was able to verify that the person I was to send money to, did work for a tech installation company that does start ups and technology for new hires. So I complied and transferred funds as requested through a bank transfer and gift card purchased. Checks were sent to me to deposit to cover all of my tech as well as my reimbursement. These checks were made available in my bank account the following day and I was told to use those funds for gift cards to cover the tech order as well as any installation for the phone, and laptop. Assuming I was in fact using the company’s funds, I complied. Later that day, the checks sent bounced due to insufficient funds. I contacted the hiring manager, and was told that a direct deposit was on the way. Once finance had scheduled the direct deposit, a direct deposit confirmation was sent to me. I complied with the rest of their request assuming the funds were in fact on their way. This HR manager also provided the company account information to pay off anything I had to put on my credit card to get the gift card purchases completed. The payments I made on my credit cards, with the account information sent to me have now been returned, and the direct deposit that was sent with the confirmation sent to me, were never recieved.