Has anyone ever accepted a work at home job from craigslist?

100% scam.

There is no job.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money and maybe your freedom.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "assistant" and will supply you with stock ads of fake "cash the fake check" type jobs. You are suppose to post the ads, the victims contact the scammer, he sends them a fake check to cash and they send him their money via Western Union or moneygram. When the victims realize they were scammed, they report YOUR post to craigslist and now you are ip banned from ever posting there again. Being ip banned is the real reason that scammer can't post his ads for fake jobs.

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.

Any "paycheck" you receive will be fake and will bounce. In fact the scammer might try to steal more of your money by saying he "accidently" sent a check made out for "too much money". Then he will demand you cash that 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. 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.

Now that 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 and texts from his other free email addresses and paid-for-in-cash cell phone number 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 and the emails themselves 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 partial 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.

7 "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.

7) Job asks you to post ads on ebay/craigslist or on forums advertising merchandise, programs or other websites

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 job posting ads scam", "selling on ebay fraud Western Union" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

It's a scam that can land you in jail

You know all the people who come on Yahoo claiming how they got scammed and lost money through a fake job, fake car, fake apartment, fake puppy, etc scam they fell for on Craigslst. Who do you think places those ads? The people running the scams? Of course not. They look for suckers to do this for them. When the victim files a police report the investigation only leads to one place -YOU. You are the one who placed the ads from your computer and you get arrested

There is no legitimate reason why anyone would ask another person to post ads on Craigslst unless they were involved in illegal activity and were looking for someone else to take the fall

Oh, and you won't ever get paid either

Be careful; there are a lot of scammers from Nigeria; they , the scammers, are notorious for being unscrouplous and unethical and low cheap skates and the scum of the Earth. They are wicked and evil.

Dont give your personal information such as your social security number nor any money what so ever.

Smells like a scam to me; looks like a scam maybe it is a scam. Be cautious anyway. Craigslist is almost worthless since it is free then many evil people try to take advantage of the naive and gullible.

Do not become a fool..

You will be dealing with someone that is using stolen credit card numbers. The packages will be shipped to your home using your name. Any check you get from this person will be counterfeit (fake). ^ it can clear your bank, but can bounce months later since it's out of the country. The police will arrive at your home in about 3 weeks. They will arrest you. They will not believe you did not know you were involved in a scam, because just about anyone with any mental capacity could see this. Stay clear from Craigslist sites for jobs. If you fell for this one, you would fall for other ones. Many harder to spot. Find a real job, from a real employer, at a real location. Just because you are not paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.

You can count on 100% of work-at-home jobs posted on craigslist to be a scam.

Did they ask for a resume or job application? Did they interview you? Did you have to fill out a I-9 tax form? If any one of those answers is a no, you got a scam on your hands.

If you're interested in making some money from home, I'd recommend survey sites like global test market, or audio transcription sites like scribie (although I hear that's the lowest paying of all audio transcription sites, havent tried any yet personally).

There are actually a lot of crazy weird gigs you can find online. My friend's mom literally gets paid to click on links and ads. You should always be cautious though, and mr. Buffy staffordshire seems to have the right idea. Whenever unsure, look into it. We have amazing tools like Google and other sites at our disposal.

People post their own adds on Craigs list---why would they pay someone $300 a week to do that???? Its a scam.

Ehh that seems like a scam...