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 to post. The "job" you are advertising is really a "cash the fake check" type job scam. When a potential victim responds to the scammer due to YOUR ad that YOU posted using YOUR home computer, the potential victim is told by the scammer the he/she has a job cashing checks for some business or as a personal assistant.
When craigslist realizes YOU posted the fake job ad, YOU get the visit from the local law enforcement agency asking why are YOU hiring people to cash fake checks? The real reason the scammer can't post on craigslist is because he has already been ip banned, which you will be if you post those fake job ads. The victims are suppose to cash the fake checks and send the cash back to the scammer via Western Union or moneygram.
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. 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 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. 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", "fraud craigslist job ad Western Union" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
I'm sure it's a scam but don't see how it would cost you now -- unless he can get into your computer and personal information through your gmail account. I expect a cost to you will pop up later, or maybe he'll want you to post ads and you'll never get paid. I seriously doubt that he gets thousands of responses to an ad or you'll get a thousand a day, unless it sounds too good to be true, because it is.
Ebay charges to post ads to sell items, so I expect they charge for job ads, if they even have them. Once the ad is listed, you have to pay - but you won't have received any money from him. Maybe that's part of the scam.
Maybe he hopes you'll misunderstand the letter and think you'll be paid $5 for every response instead of every job. Whatever, I seriously doubt you'll ever see a dime, and you could spend your own money posting ads. I think you should forget it and look elsewhere for a job.
If you want to see what's going on by playing along for a while, I recommend you set up that gmail account using a computer at the library and not your computer.
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