Hello; I had thought that I had a job. It turned out to be a scam. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS.

Attention: Sir/Ma'am,

I got your Resume and application on www.ziprecruiter.com,after further scrutiny made on your curriculum vitae/resume am pleased to inform you of the available position.

I'm looking for someone that can be trusted and reliable to work with as my Personal Assistant(PA).I am a Medical Specialist,I work with healthcare firms as a freelancer,due to the nature of my job,I travel frequently,I need someone to handle my schedule when I'm not in town. Every instructions will be given to you via email and phone calls,until I'm back I travel a lot that is the main reason why I need you to be my personal assistant and I want you to start immediately.

Your weekly pay is $750(CAD) with a reasonable sign on bonus.

The position is home-based and the working hour is flexible, working with me is basically based on instructions and following them,I need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings. As my Personal Assistant,your activities among other things will include;

• Creating orders/pick slips/invoices.
• Reaching out to Foster homes on my behalf.
• Running errands on my behalf.
• supervisions of my clients while i am away.
• Scheduling programme,flights and keeping me up to date with neccessary details.
• Acting as an alternative telephone correspondence I am hard on hearing that is the reason why computer works for me.
• Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf.
• Handling and monitoring some of my financial activities as the case maybe.

I'm sure you'll understand I have a very busy schedule at this point. Please note that this position is not office based,because of my frequent travels and tight schedules, it's a part-time work from home job and the flexibility means that there will be busier weeks than others. I have reviewed your Resume I would like to give you an immediate trial.I have been checking my files and schedules and would need someone urgently to run some errands for me this week/next week. I will have some funds sent to you from one of my clients to complete the errands and would get back to you with more information on that,send the above Contact Details to confirm your interest in the job offer :

I accepted the position thinking it was P/T work at home and I could do this without interfering with my daily position.

Hello, Congratulations to you on the new job. This is a legitimate Personal Assistant job that I'm offering you and I hope to have your 100% loyalty and co-operation. Your quick response to e-mails and effectiveness will be required. I'd want us to get a head start with things as soon as possible. I do have a pile up of work and a number of unattended chores which you can immediately assist me with, I hope we can meet up with the workload eventually. Permit me to use these week to test your efficiency and diligence towards all this, also to work out your time schedule and fit it to mine. I really need to find the perfect person for this job, I'm confident you can take up the challenge and on the long run we should have a relatively sound working relationship between us.

I am glad you are willing to work with me and i promise to be a good boss. I have been checking my files and what i would want you to do for me is to run some errands out to some of the foster home which I do every month.

The funds will be in form of Certified Company Check or Cashier check,it will be sent over to you from one of my clients and i have some list to email you once you received the funds.You will make some arrangements by buying some stuff for the kids at any nearest store around you, and mail them to a particular orphanage home information that I will provide in my next email. You will receive the check payment as soon as possible and will come along with your first pay. I will get back to you with the tracking number of the check payment once it is mailed to you.I want you to reply me back as quickly as possible as I want to always have your response in a timely manner,email me back to confirm your interest.

Regards, Eric Higgins
Construction Engineer admin@lintottarchitect.org

Further instructions followed and I did what I was asked of. On Monday, I check my checking account and the check that I deposited bounced and I was stuck paying back 2500.00. I had already taken out the funds and sent them by Money gram and I am now stuck paying back the 2500.00. The guy in the e-mail that I was supposed working for is no where to be found.

PLEASE BE AWARE OF THIS SCAM.