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Lisa Cristofero
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Senior Office Assistant at First District Court

So I was too was bamboozled...

Okay so I am reading a lot of other peoples messages that have been scammed.It really is so mean and soulless what these con artist do to people like us trying to get a job.Okay so it started with me this week when a woman named Jessica Mead emailed me through job case.She said she was a hiring manager from Human Resources and worked for Fidelity Healthcare.She proceeded to tell me about the available positions and told me to look at the companies website www.fidelityhealthcare.org and how dedicated they are to their patients.So she interviewed online through the app called Hangouts.I was hired for the job and she began to tell me about training and equipment I would need to purchase for the job.By the way it was a work at home job.So she sent me paperwork to be filled out and a tax form.I sent her back ALL my personal information.Now the next day she contacts me and tells me they will be sending me a check so I could purchase the equipment needed to perform the job (it was data entry pos.) So fast forward I get the check go to the bank to deposit it and what do you know...the CHECK WAS FAKE..!! I was mortified not only did I feel like a fool I was talking to this lady (if she was even a lady) all week and it sounded so legit.So of course I immediately text her and tell her the check is fake...she responds by saying just deposit it,so I am like did you hear what I said it is not a real check..I will try to wrap this up but oh I could not wait to get home and give her a piece of my mind.Not like she cared but it was satisfaction for me.I told her how can you do this to people are you that heartless?? Now I told my whole family about this because I was excited to finally get a job.When I told my dad it was a scam he is old school Italian he is like "that is own your fault you should of known better" Anyway yes so I was punked and made a fool of.But I will get over that but now these freaken losers have all my information..name,address social security number.So I had to call social security to red flag my social so no body can use my identity.Well I just want to get it out their to be aware of this company.But like I told her this Jessica Mead obviously its a fake name but I asked her or who ever I was going back n forth with I said is it really worth messing with someone's life for a few dollars??After that I could not send her anymore messages..This is why I hate this technology for finding jobs because there are untrustworthy animals in this world..!So that is my story and if I helped one less person from being scammed than all this babbling is worth it.

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almost 9 years ago
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You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Look at the bright side at least they were unable to steal any money from you and you were able to flag your social. It could have been worse. It happens to more people than you think

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