Feb 26, 2015
I got a text from the same number, except for he claimed to be George Lucas, from care.com. He claimed he was from Canada, and was moving down for business and needed a nanny for his two year old son. His wife was pregnant. He wanted me to do grocery shopping and care for his son on my own time for 15 hours a week, he said he was going to pay me 20 dollars an hour. This is a high price, but I am a poor college student, so I agreed. He said he was going to send me 400 dollars for my first weeks payment so I didn't work for anyone else, I agreed and ending up turning down other legit job offers. I then got a check in the mail for 2945 dollars roughly and he said he wanted me to deposit it at an ATM and send the extra money through western union to his land lord. I said no, he was getting pushy. I told him I quit. He gave me this huge sob story, I felt bad for him and having never being a victim of a scam before agreed to help him. However, I did it my own way which in the end saved my [***] because when the check "cancelled" i.e., he took the money from my account, I was able to cancel and block everything, only having to pay the bank the fees for the canceled check and processing fees. Which still sucked. My bank also told me he tried to write checks through my joint accounts that are attached through my parents. He continued to text me, wanting me to work for him. I texted him, said I knew what he was doing and am reporting him to the police. He never responded since.
I have been getting multiple messages from people claiming they are with care.com, but they just text me, I'm not sure how they are getting my number, as it is not listed. They are usually very pushy and all seem to have the same outlook.com email source. So watch out for that.
I hate people like this, he cost me money, I feel stupid, and I turned down legit jobs for this loser.
I don't think reporting him to the police will do anything, I just hope this doesn't happen to anyone else.