"Job" text scam.

[Mike C]

I just got this one today. I've had similar ones before. Notice her name is Sophia but she is Emily in the Telegram app. I don't belong to any of those apps either.

Edited May 19 by Mike C

[ChrisBcritter]

What's the job - Tonight Show host, or Chicago alderman?

Edited May 19 by ChrisBcritter

[1972coronet]

3 hours ago, ChrisBcritter said:

What's the job - Tonight Show host, or Chicago alderman?

Stuffing envelopes or - more 'an likely - sending out spam texts like the provided example.

[Dave Van]

Last time I applied for a job was around 1982 so if they found my resume it was in a old desk!!! I ignore all media NOT coming from my contact list. Thx

[Mike C]

I just got this "unpaid traffic ticket" scam today. I don't have any traffic tickets. And there's item #4. No toll booths in GA and if there was, how are they going to know it's me?

EDIT: I just got another one from a different email address too.

Edited May 27 by Mike C

[FoMoCo66]

I just got my first scam last night (surprisingly). It was for Amazon purchases I haven't made and the person copied a bunch of others to make a groupe chat, I don't think that's how Amazon would do it. I just ignored it.

[Mark]

I get scam e-mails at work all of the time.  Most are from "employees" asking how to change their direct deposits over to another (their) bank account.  I only make changes when I get signed forms in person, so the e-mails get dumped right away.  No reply = not giving them any clue of how to fine tune their scam.  I have gotten a few from a guy who passed a couple of years ago.

We also got "check washed" a couple of times last year.  Someone got a check we used to pay a vendor or utility, changed the payee name, and deposited it in their account.  We got refunded on the first one but I don't know if the bank recovered the money.  Second one, they got greedy and raised the check to an amount that didn't match anything we had outstanding at the time.  I caught that one and stopped it, and I believe the person responsible was found.  I'm thinking these incidents start either at a utility or bank where someone intercepts the check and passes it along to someone else, with that person rewriting it.

Edited May 28 by Mark
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[bobss396]

I get those group texts often. I report them as spam, block the number and delete them.

[HomerS]

I got two EZ Pass toll warnings from two different e-mails ten minutes apart.