PTV America Imposter

Victim Location 75241

Total money lost $4,700

Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order

I was texted by a so called Michael Ross. He said he was from the Zip Recruitment team. Zip Recruiter is a job search site I put my resume’ on. The so called Michael Ross asked me if I had Skype or Google hangouts. I said no and he asked me to download skype. After I downloaded Skype, he asked me for my Skype ID. He then told me to get on a chat with a so called Gabriel Sanchez. The company I was supposed to be hired by was PTV group. The so called Mr. Gabriel Sanchez told me he was sending a check by mail. The check was in the form of $4,800. He talked to me every weekday by Skype from Nov.4-Nov.11. He told me to contact him when I got to the bank. He asked me to deposit the check into the ATM. He also told me to send the deposit slip by picture. I told him the ATM didn’t take checks. He told me to precede into the bank and deposit it. I deposited the check. They made $1,800 of the funds available. I didn’t know that the check was fraudulent. The bank did not catch it. The so called Gabriel Sanchez told me I would have to pay the vendor for the software needed on the computer I was supposed to work from home on. Gabriel Sanchez had me transfer funds via google pay, cash app, and Venmo. There were two payments of $1500 made via google pay. $500 made via Venmo, and $1,000 made via Cash App. Gabriel Sanchez told me to send the money to the name Herlinda Salazar. The cash tag names were for cash app- $lindybay; Venmo- @Herlinda-Salazar, and googlepay- [email protected] The transactions went through and came out before I realized the check was fraudulent. The transactions sent my account in the negative. My account total was -$3,494.35. With the return check fee it was -$3,509.35. My dad took out a loan to bring my account current. The so called Gabriel Sanchez had me send screenshots along the way. He also had me send two forms of id with the job offer.