Amazon Poser

Victim Location 38478

Total money lost $144

Type of a scam Employment

Received voicemail to check out amazonrecruiter.com for a work at home job. Since I have been looking for a part time job and there are some from Amazon online, I decided to check it out. There was an article featuring a picture of the founder with the words work at home on the wall behind him. The article was saying this job requires access to the internet and little else. After reading about the success of many people making hundreds and thousands of dollars a day, it sounded too good to be true. Hint hint. I was supposed to call 801-893-6040 to get my username and password to continue creating my own website. When i called the number, I got a voicemail stating their business hours.

I thought they were closed. A few minutes later Joshua Roberts called me because I left my name and phone number when i got the voicemail. He said I needed to set up a budget and some goals for my new website. He needed to transfer me to the budget office and then he would speak with me again and I would be done. I answered all the questions and there were MANY. Financial, personal, whatever he asked. He GAVE the last 4 of my SSN,my debit and credit card numbers, how much a month I made, did I have any other credit cards, what was my limit. I got to thinking he wanted an awful lot of sensitive info. I asked why he needed so much info. He said that he wanted to make sure that I would be able to fund this. I said you mean I have to fund all of this. I said that I wanted to cancel. He hung up. While i was on the phone with him, I received 3 emails welcoming and congratulating me. There was supposed to be a 60 day money back guarantee. I called 888-793-3429 and told the lady that I wanted to cancel. I asked When would I be getting my money back. She said that I would only be getting 40 percent back. Luckily, I only paid $47 and $97 dollars. I realized that this was a scam and I had given them all my info. Freaking out.