Are job offers through text message a scam?

100% scam, all of them, you are correct.

There is no job.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The scammer don't want to call you for 2 reasons, one, those scammers barely speak English and if they called, you would realized it was a scam. And, 2, calling someone costs the scammers in cell phone minutes and scammers hate to spend any money, texts are free.

The next text will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement offical can be extremely funny.

If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:

1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.

2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.

3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.

4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.

5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.

6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.

Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.

If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "money mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

Text Job

I recently applied for a Part-time Teller position on Craigslist and got a response back from a Vannessa Crossby from BWA Property Management telling me I was the perfect applicant for the job but I needed to fill out an on-line application with a verification code. I googled her name and company and cannot find anything on the internet to verify this is a legitimate company. I m glad I didn t send in my resume right away and only responded with a letter. I believe this is a scam as well. What a disappointment.

Received Job offer from Swiss Group Life, Identifying herself as Mrs Jennifer Nichole, message came in from ph# 2677378641

Yes! I received a job offer from CitiTrends wanting me to work from home, but first I had to purchase a long list of office equipment from their vendor, which they said they would send me a check to deposit in my bank to cover the expenses. They said to wait 24 hours for the funds to be ready after depositing and then to use the funds to make the purchase via Western Union or moneygram...red flag! I was supposed to start training the next day but they never showed up on Yahoo Messenger as planned. Luckily, all I gave them was my name, address, and phone number. They asked for my bank info for direct deposit of my paycheck but I told them just to mail it to me. Whew!...that was a close one! I did think it was weird to get an invitation for an interview via text and then have an interview over Yahoo Messenger! What conniving, dishonest, cowards these people are!

"Abbott Healthcare Inc.", they wanted me to go into yahoo messenger for an interview. They kept texting me that's when a red flag went up I never knew an employer to be so persistent, they got my information from Indeed.com. I deleted their information and ignored their texts.

YES! Anyone who has a serious offer knows how to follow directions.

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you shouldn't have to include your phone number on your ad, email address would be better and you can somehow track the sender of the email

am been getting those tx every day