Make Me A Damn Taco

Hey all,

Recently, I have been job hunting through Craigslist and I applied to a bunch of jobs. I got a reply from this one. (quote means the scammer email and plain text is me replying the email). Now from here, its obvious that this is a scam. But I keep getting this long email and I dont know how to tell him to fuck off...

*UPDATE*

Scammer has a similar job post on these sites

http://greatjobsoverseas.com/healthcare-jobs/office-manager-abilene-texas/ ---> Texas

http://www.market4free.com/classifieds/ads/jobs/admin-office/29340272 ---> Minnesota

http://california-job.us/tag/hanfordcorcoran/ ---> California

Part time office assistant Date: 2011-06-13, 9:55AM CDT Reply to: job-v7yvb-2437495273@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] This is a part time position, (20 hours per week), with a great established company! Hours: Mon-Fri. 10:00am-2:00pm Requirements: Please be prompt and reliable, with proficient computer skills For consideration, please e-mail your resume Compensation: $19/hr

So I replied with this email

Hi, I saw the ad for the Part Time Office Assistant position on craigslist and I am interested in it. Attached in this email is my resume. Thank you

get back to me Hello how are you doing and hope you had a nice Day , Thanks for your interests in the PA position, I will deeply appreciate all genuine efforts to help me monitor and keep up to date with all my activities. I most very often get my hands occupied because am working with many companies both states and outside,so it is imperative for me to have a worthy assistant who can monitor and keep me up to date with my activities. As my assistant, your activities amongst other things will include: Make travel arrangements and submit expenses for Attorneys Order office supplies, Running personal errands,Check Processing Filing documents,faxing,printing and typing letters Web research, Internet search skills and posting ads Quality communication etiquette skills and good organizational skills Serious sense of humor required and mandatory to work with me Ability to handle highly sensitive and confidential information Perform duties with accuracy, quality, and integrity You can only apply for this position if you own a printer and personal computer. Basic wage is $400 a weekly About me: My name is Mr john burnworth , i have a family of 2 and i am a contractor .I travel a lot,hence the reason why i need an assistant to handle affairs for me on the home front when i am away on business which is usually quite often. This position is home-based and flexible you can be in any location,working with me is basically about instructions and following them, my only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, I need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings.There is also a very sensitive issue on trust and accountability which I believe will resolve itself as time goes on. This is only an introductory e-mail, as time goes on we should be able to arrange a proper meeting to get things started officially when i return ok.. I do have a number of things you could help me with this week if you will be available for me. This can act as a stable foundation to our working relationship. Note:This position is home base office work you can be in any location and work with me from your home/office. Let me know your interest if you are ready to work with me from your home/office Mon-Fri @ 10am So Fill This Application And Email It Back Here Asap!!! Full Name______________________ Street Address______________________ City, State, Zip Code__________________ Cell Phone Number (___)______________ Home Phone Number(___)_____________ Email:________________________ ____ Current Job:________________________ Hope to hear from you again. John

Hi Mr. John Burnworth, I have included my particulars in this email. Thank you.




This reply I got ringed some bells because of many spelling errors and the number of okays he used...

Application received ...get back to me I received your application,I'm sure you'll understand I tend to have a very busy schedule at this point. Please note that this position is not office based for now because of my frequent travels and tight schedules, it's a part-time, work from home basis and the flexibility means that there will be busier weeks than others, so it's a little difficult judging the exact number of hours you'll be doing per week.If you can manage your time properly, this job may even give you some extra while you do something else on the side for now. As I have said, I'd want us to get a head start with things as soon as possible. I do have a pile up of work and a number of unattended chores which you can immediately assist me with, I hope we can meet up with the workload eventually. Permit me to use this week to test your efficiency and diligence towards all this, also to work out your time schedule and fit it to mine. I really need to find the perfect person for this job, I'm confident you can take up the challenge and on the long run we should have a relatively sound working relationship between us. I am glad you are willing to work with me and i promise to be a good boss.I am also glad on the commitment in working. I have been checking my files and what i would want you to do for me this week is to do shopping for office equipment/printing materials for my new office thats am setting up sson ,A check will be mail to you from a Client this week , the money is needed to get some Tools need for my new office. and maind you i will meet with you in the nest 8days okay so you dont have to worry your self on how we are to meet okay. So the payment you are receiving is for my Client and the Money is Needed to furnish my New Office , the Money is needed to get some Equipments and tools into the Office . So once you received the Check all needed of you to do is for you to deduct your money for a week Payment from it and i will send you the nest of what to shop and send the remaining money to the Manager to arrange those Tools inside the Office , I want you to email me back soon as you received this message for me to be rest assure you are still with me . I await your mail.. Thanks

Hi, I am still interested in this job. Thank you

payment update .....your urgent reply is needed Hello how are you doing today hope all is well with you over there? am glad that you are willing to work with me and i want you to know that i will give you the best okay and why i need you to do this for me cos am on a business trip which i will be back soon as i have said in the email i sent you last. So now i want you to know that the payment i was talking about has been sent to you and its a check of $2750 okay.... the check is from my client in Illinois okay and the bank the check came from is First National Bank of Omaha. And the check will be delivered to you tomorrow beaning Friday okay by 10 30 am at most the ups is going to deliver the package to you and its coming from ups okay that's the courier service that will deliver it to you okay amount on the check is 2750 okay ...... All you need to do is to get back to me as soon as you receive this email that you are still with me then i will send you the tracking number of the package okay ... and you may ask why i sent you a check of 2750 i want you to shop for the office equipment and then take out your fist week payment okay then the rest of the money you will send it to my manager via western union cos there are some equipment i need him to get from Michigan okay as am talking to you now he is in Michigan now okay and he ran out of cash that's why you will be sending some money to him from the check you received okay You maybe asking why dint i send the money direct to my manager instead of asking you to send some money to him well he called me that he ran out of cash and there is no way i can send him check cos he cant cash the check there, he is in a hotel okay. Am explaining all this to you so you can understand why you are sending money from western union okay ......... So soon as you receive this email i want you to get back to me then i will send you the tracking number and the instruction on what to buy and where you will send the rest of the money to okay thanks and hope to read from you JOHN.

WTF? He is sending money to me without meeting? Fuck, how do I get out of this??? I am pretty sure I will be held responsible for fake checks and be in deep trouble. I have not responded to his email yet, but if the check arrives tomorrow, I may have to report this to the police so that I wont be screwed over. Should I even respond to this email informing him that I will report him to the police or ignore the email?


Please LP, I need your input on this. I know this was long to read but here is the cliff.



Cliff Notes


1) Applied job on craigslist via email
2) Received reply from some dude claiming he is busy so he needs a part time office assistant to handle business
3) Dude wants to send me money to buy office supplies for his new office cuz his 'boss' is broke
4) He tells me he is sending me a check without meeting me in the first place
5) He has my resume that includes my address and phone number

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I went into my bank account and saw more monies! Unfortunately I still have some money left on AP. I have no idea when we can get it out. I wish I never deposited money there. It was a dumb decision. I never got to get the cash bonus from pokersource.com and I only had 30 days to grind the bonus(I was only 1/3 away from getting it).


On the other note, I have been job hunting like crazy and I got so many rejections. I am so broke right now that i want to sell everything I own, especially my guitars and take the money and play 1/2 at a local casino cuz I seriously dont even know if I will get the job for the summer. I am graduating next semester and have no clue if I can afford to go to grad school.

Sorry for the rant, I was so tilted after today's interview for a full time job. Apparently my interviewer was a retarded squirrel who thought CS and Stats majors are the same and said that I was a weaker candidate compared to others cuz I didn know C++, Java, and php (no shit, Im a stats major, we use SAS and R only for analytics!). At the end, I was like fuck this shit, I am not interested and the recruiter said we might consider you for other positions, and I was like whatever and hung up on the phone. The sad thing was that after applying to 30 over jobs, this was the only interview I had and I never applied to it...


Anyway, i got 1458 FPPs in my stars account. What should I do with it? I am looking for items to sell online for a good price.

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Hi LP!

I am hneaz and I play NL10. I am currently a senior at University of Illinois and friends with fellow LP members such as edzwoo, Jas0n, acckerman, k40cheddar, and TilICollapse, whom I met all at the Illini Poker Club.

I have been at N L10 since July 2010. I realize that I was leaking a lot and mass tabling way too much thus losing about 20+ buy ins in the last 7 months. My mindset was achieve Silverstar and earn Stellar Rewards as well as cash bonuses and I would be ok. I was still rolled for NL10 from playing NL50 HU shortstacked and cashing out at the Sunday Million (I was staked by a high stakes friend and kept $100). I almost called it quits and just focus on school but i realized that you can never quit poker. I am studying statistics so I am always thinking about poker.

In order to improve, I decided that I should ask for help from TilICollapse. I was sweated before by some people and it helped a lot but I decided to be sweated by TilICollapse because of his insane win rate at NL 400. I played 6 tables during the sweat and I was able to concentrate very well than when I used to 12-16 table before.

I went up 2 buy ins in less than 500 hands and I was playing more aggressively by 3 betting more, using position, stealing blinds and just playing smart poker. One thing that really helped was reasoning out my moves such as why I am doing this and what I am trying to accomplish. 6 tabling NL10 is really awesome because I am not playing like a robot.

Below is my graph in the last 3 days. I played looser after the sweat just to experiment the new style I am adopting. I used to play 12/10 before and I know I am still leaking somewhere and I hope to improve my game. My goal is not only beat NL 10 but be a disciplined player who can take bad beats like a man and understand why I am making moves in different situations. I think that discipline is key in becoming a bette player.





My stats. This is a very small sample size so dont judge by VPIP and PFR stats. I hope that my VPIP, PFR and 3 bet% will fall in the future. I was playing to see what worked and what did not work.

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