Since: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Email Address: humanmanagerhotmail.com

Post Title: Personal Assistant

Location: minneapolis / st paul

States affected: MN - minnesota    

Notes:
I recieved a job positon as a PA from this guy named Johnson Benson from craigslist. He offered to pay me $500 a week. Please do not fall for these scams! I am a now a victim of a scam involving landering money.Now I am liable for all the money that I have deposited in my account. I have no job, and no money. I stopped right after transferring the money, after reasearching more about the fake orphanage he wanted me to send the money to. Here are some of the emails.


Good Morning PA ,

These is to acknowledged that your information has been received , You have been accepted and employed as my Personal Accounting assistance .

As you know this is a part-time home base job for now till i get back to the state , If you have any other job at the moment, you can still keep to your job .

You will start work next week , I will keep you informed as soon as i make the list of what you have to do for me next week and email them to you , but the first on the list is the orphanage funding that i usually do every month , do this every month to 3 orphanage home , you will be helping me out in purchasing some items which will be donated to the orphanage home .
I will email you the list of the items to purchased at the store and all the necessary information on how to get it mailed out to the orphanage .

Ensure you check your emails daily so you can keep in contact with me because i will be communicating with you mostly through email , it Nice having you on board as my PA while am away, I will be getting back to the state in couples of weeks , i hope to meet you face to face soon .

Thanks and do have a great day.

Mr. Johnson Benson





From: humanmanager@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: customer service/Sales Associate
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:08:13 +0000

I'm looking for someone that can be trusted and reliable, someone with good understanding and working skills.

I am Mr Johnson Benson,51 yrs of age, I'm an Investor and I have been pretty successful in a handful of ventures I get involved in; from Canada and United State to various welfare and community service programs.I most very often get my hands occupied,so it is imperative for me to have a worthy assistant who can monitor and
keep me up to date with my activities.This position is home-based, private and flexible, working with me is basically about instructions and following them. My only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, so i need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings.

As my personal admin/financial assistant, your activities among others will include:
*Create and modify documents using Microsoft Office
*Running personal errands, supervisions and monitoring.
*Scheduling programmes, flights and keeping me up to date with them.
*Acting as an alternative telephone correspondence while I'm away.
*Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf.
*Handling and monitoring some of my financial activities..
*Basic wage is $2,000 a month.i.e $500 a week

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
*Good planning, communication and organization skills
*Must be honest, reliable & dependable
*Excellent verbal & written communication skills
*Must have strong problem solving skills
*Must be organized & extremely detail oriented
*Experience working with the internet, email, MS Excel and MS Word
*Ability to multi-task and self manage/24/7 mindset
*A willingness to do whatever needs to be done is a must

NOTE: The above qualification requirements can also be learnt if you are willing to take up the challenges.I'm sure you'll understand I tend to have a very busy schedule at this point as I am presently in Scotland for a summit.I will be back in Six Weeks time.I think you're the right person for this post, 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. 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 the coming 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 and i am confident you can take up the challenges. On the long run we should have a relatively sound working relationship between us.I'm online most of the time as I am hard of hearing so I prefer we contact each other through E-mails but if there is need for me to call, I will be glad to do that. 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 is to run some errands out to some of the orphanage home which I do every month. The funds will be in form of Cashier check/Money orders, it will be sent over to you from one of my clients and i have some list to email you once you received the funds. You will make some arrangements by buying some stuff for the kids in the nearest store around you so you can mail them out. I will get you more information on that.

PLEASE FILL THE APPLICATION FORM BELOW:
First Name :
Middle Name:
Last Name:
Full Street Address(not PO BOX) :
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Cell Phone Number:
Home Phone Number:
Email Address:
Age:
Occupation:

Once I have received your application form, I will get back to you with the task for the week ahead. Please understand that you will also be paid ($500 a week) as well as its important for me to make the necessary steps before i get back from my business trip. I hope i am clear with that?

NOTE: This position is home-based and flexible part time job, you can be in any location, work from your home doing all the activities.

Johnson Benson.


**** At this point I felt suspicious and told him that the job was not what I was looking for. He replied back saying..


Hello PA,
Thanks for getting back to me with an update,i told you right from the start this is a part time job and its not going to disturb your job in any way...well just want to call your attention into this cos you have a payment issue out in your name and sent to you address already,i will get back to you with the details later today so just get this done and if you don't what to continue with this no problem.I will explain better to you in my next email.Have a lovely day.

Johnson Benson.

** so beause he had already sent the check, I felt obligated to finnish the job, and wanted nothing more to do with it. So i continue w/ the assignment. Down below is the first assignment he emailed to me.

First Assignment
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Good morning PA,
How are you doing , hope you had a great morning, am very sorry for taking so long, it's been due to health issues, I am pleased to inform you that the funds for the orphanage and your weekly payment has been sent and you will be getting it today via UPS service, this is the tracking number (----------).The payment was sent to your home address, so ensure you stay at home so you can sign for the delivery of the package and proceed with your first assignment.

However, I have been contacted by one of the orphanage/charity home,the administrator of the organization told me about one of the kid under there care that as a heart disease , she made me to understand that the kid need to undergo a surgical heart transplant which as to be carried out next week, i promise the organization administrator that i will do anything i can to help out by providing some fund to them along with the normal monthly contribution i use to do .Have been given the list of the items they need, The items are much and it will cost a lot of money to get them ship, so i reached an accord with them that they need to get all those items them self Have made it known to them that i have a new personal assistance that is working with me.You will have to deduct your weekly payment of $500.00 from the total amount you have on the check payment,the remaining fund is to be share for the orphanage home which is the balance .

Note : you will have to deduct the transfer charges from the fund you are transferring through western union,do not pay for the transfer charges with your money .
Below is the Orphanage administrators Western Union information to transfer the funds to:


Receiver Name:Lysett Fabre
Street; 2081 63RD ST
City: DOWNERS GROVE
State: IL
Zip code: 60516


Kindly get back to me with the Western Union M.T.C.N #s,Total Amount sent, the Sender's Name and Address use for the fund transfer,all this information will have to be emailed to me , i will need to pass down those information to the administrator of the
orphanage homes .

I will be waiting to read back from you asap and i also want you to try to help me look for toys for kids of (10yrs - 15yrs) i want you to email me what you think will be good present them, also want you to help me check for holiday in Hawaii,California i.e, good hotel and services in Oahu.

Take good care of yourself and have a blessed day.Waiting to read from you soon .

Thanks,
Johnson Benson

** I was not able to transfer the amount of money right away, so I notified him I won't be able to do it tomorrow. He replied...

Good morning PA,
Happy weekend,how are you doing?Thanks so much for getting back to me with an update am so happy to have you as my PA deep inside me am so grateful,just make sure you transfer the money to the orphanage/charity home(Lysett Fabre) first thing this morning and get back to me with the western union details so i can get the details across to the administrator of the organization so they will get everything set for the surgical heart transplant of the kid.i got the lists of the toys and the hotels but i want you to finish your first assignment first and you will proceed with your second assignment.Thanks so much for your dedication.

Johnson Benson.

** And After I transfered the money I then began researching. Which I should of done in the frist place.. Yes, I know I am stupid... I went straight to the police called my bank, and now I'm in this big mess! The guy wrote me another letter saying that I will recieve a check today, but I haven't heard from him since yeterday. The police told me not to reply to his emails anymore.. so i decided not to. Because of this I think he figured that I knew what was going on. this was his last email to me.

Hello PA,
How are you doing over there?Yes the transfer went through and they got the money so the surgical heart transplant will start tomorrow and you will have another payment there tomorrow also via UPS.I will get back to you with the details of your second assignment tomorrow and the ups tracking # for the payment....presently i cant be reach on phone am in a conference meeting.i do check my emails every minute PA.The first package you have there was there any email or contact that came along the check?if yes, can i have it?and please do no contact any body expect me..

Johnson Benson.


*** These people are great con artist.. and yes I felt for it. I still don't know what will happen to me, but I am pretty sure that I will be liable for the money, as far as the investigation.. I have no clue. I hope that whoever that person is, sooner or later he be caught and rott in hell! It just shows how corrupted people are! I am innocent victim. And now I pay the consequenes.

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