Dodgy job offer

dodderangler

Put myself on job site and got some bloke emailing me sayin he was a attorney and needed someone to fill in for his receptionist while she was on maternity leave for 6 months and basic wage was 400 a week
Was just gonna be scheduling meetings and sorting out payments to companies
Anyway he said that he would send me a cheque first to be lodged into account for 2 weeks payment and bonus and for travel fee
Week later get a cheque from a construction company for 3grand
Noticed how dodgy it seemed brought to the Garda and told them they said its a huge scam and explained how it works
Basically if I lodge it in take out money and then the fella will say he sent too much and will ask for money to be sent back to him like 500 quid let's say then my cheque will bounce a few days later and il owe money out to bank
Thank god I copped it but just wondering has anyone fallin for something like this as the Garda said if ten people a week fall for it that bloke is Making easy money every week

MrStuffins

Only a complete and absolute idiot would fall for something so retarded as this!

Luckily for these scam artists, people are, in general, brain-dead f*ck-wits!

Captain Darling

Sounds legit.

southcentralts

you took a payment for work you had not yet done, who was scamming who I wonder?
But seriously nice job catching him out, not everyone is so lucky.

hondasam

Unfortunately some people do fall for it.

MrStuffins

southcentralts wrote: »

you took a payment for work you had not yet done, who was scamming who I wonder?
But seriously nice job catching him out, not everyone is so lucky.

Luck has nothing to do with it when people get caught out by things like this in fairness!

validusername1

dodderangler wrote: »

Thank god I copped it but just wondering has anyone fallin for something like this as the Garda said if ten people a week fall for it that bloke is Making easy money every week

So even though he tried to do this to you, the guards aren't going to do anything about it? And just let him try it again on many other people?

ArtyM

Heard of this before, where cheque was for payment of an advertised car, to be collected at a later date - same deal, too much sent, followed by a request for the excess to be returned. Cheque bounces many days later.
At least the car scam is more believable, cant see the job one working too often.
Glad you didnt fall for it though.

dodderangler

validusername1 wrote: »

dodderangler wrote: »

Thank god I copped it but just wondering has anyone fallin for something like this as the Garda said if ten people a week fall for it that bloke is Making easy money every week

So even though he tried to do this to you, the guards aren't going to do anything about it? And just let him try it again on many other people?

The Garda said a bloke like this would have numerous amounts of emails and can be very hard to catch but they prob don't even bother trying but I don't know if they have guards out there trying to catch them or not

Lionel Messy

The only job i'll take is a blowjob.

Reamer Fanny

validusername1 wrote: »

So even though he tried to do this to you, the guards aren't going to do anything about it? And just let him try it again on many other people?

What are the gardai going to do if the scammer is more than likely operating out of Nigeria?