909-366-3151

scammer posing as employer for Southern Environmental Law Center. Called Tess Benjamin and was informed he is not an employee and that this has been an ongoing scam.

Called posing as an employee Coinbase Global Inc needing an administrative assistant.  Said his name was Thompson Silva.  Had a gmail email account and not company email.

Scamming calls, phishing emails avoid!

Emailed me multiple times stating there was a job opening, COMPLETE SCAM!!!!

SAME! Except the name was Jaron Myrres

Scammer who is targeting university's as a person working for "Coinbase" looking for a personal assistant to go and buy bitcoin from an atm for them. Name was Nakisha Thompson.

He is posing now as Mike Jorell and wants to send me a check through email for me to deposit in my account.

Sent me an email through an admin's email at my school claiming to need an assistant. I gave him my address thinking it was a legit job until he told me they will send me a check digitally to deposit into my account to buy some bitcoins. He is going by Robert Brundidge
Senior investment director
(909) 366-3151.

(909) 366-3151/ infocareers101@gmail.com. Email and phone number he used to contact me via school email

Emailed me through a professor at my university to be a remote assistant for Henry Gosebuch

Very similar experience to the ones described here. Contacted by Mike Jorel, a senior investment director at Coinbase, saying that a "professor" at my college said he knows someone looking to fill a job and was sent an employment letter from Tess Benjamin at Southern Environmental Law Center after inquiring about the job.

emailed me through a professor, thought it was legitimate until he said A Tess Benjamin wanted me as a personal assistant and upon looking at her profile said it was a scam.

Got an email from my school administration about the job opening.  I talked to who I thought was Mike Jorel and was excited to hear I got the job until my mom searched up his name and found this chain about the scam. My bubble of excitement burst but better late than never. $35/hr is too good to be true for a college undergrad. Hope people see this before they fall for this too.

Contacted me as a professor looking for an assistant via mamu65901@gmail.com with the name Donald White. Was asked to send a receipt of the bitcoin cash as well as to send some mails on their behalf. There was no interview, the offer letter was provided and once accepted, I received my first task which was to visit a bitcoin ATM and to buy some bitcoin and email the receipt because it was required for a presentation. Despite being taught about various security practices as well working in the cybersecurity industry, I almost ended up falling for it. I highly recommend especially jobs posted as remote to be considered with much carefulness. High pay is one of the major factors that is used to get people to fall in such traps. Your personal information is valuable, kindly think twice or consider sharing such events with one or two because there are times where we consider our financial crisis as highest priority, others might help provide a reality check or serve as a wake up call.

Mike went through my university to look for a “reliable administrative assistant”. First, “Mike Jorel” said he worked for a cryptocurrency company, but when I got a letter confirming my status as an employee, it was through Southern Environmental  Law Center, and the letter was also typed in various fonts and signed my someone else. Then, Mike went on to tell me that my first task was to visit a bitcoin ATM, sent me $2,850 through email to print and deposit. He said to keep $350 as payment, and the rest was to be purchased in bitcoin. However, on the check itself I noticed yet another company name “The William J.J. Gordon Family Foundation”, signed by yet a different name. All of these companies are from different states and all documents has different names on them, none of which actually containing the cryptocurrency company he claimed to work for, nor his actual name. He said he needed a receipt from the bitcoin ATM for a presentation he was giving and was very set on getting it done that same day. I told him I wasn’t going to buy anything until the check went through fully with my bank (my bank only deposits a small percentage at a time when it’s so much), and he said I could just use what was there to get bitcoin. I thought it was weird that he didn’t really press too hard on the amount used on bitcoin, especially because so much more of that entire check would just go directly to me. I’m still waiting on the check to clear, but I have a feeling it will bounce before that happens. If this were to happen, and I did wind up buying bitcoin for him, I would’ve been out over $2,000 and he would have a receipt for bitcoin money. For some reason, this man is “hiring” people to buy bitcoin for him because he’s not able to. None of his statements added up, and the pay was much too high to seem reasonable. I was suspicious the entire time but felt I could gather as much information as possible before ignoring him. Please report Mike if you come into contact him. I know I’ll be talking to my school’s career center to inform them that they didn’t look into him close enough before sharing this information with people.

Yes this happened to me too ! He said his name is Jaron Myrres though ! I’m sitting here on the phone with my bank trynna to see about this check right now ! I kind of figured it was probably a scam it got my hopes up …

This is the check scam.  See #6

Job Scam:

How can you tell if this job offer is a scam?

1.  All communication is by e mail, text, or instant message, very rarely by phone conversation.

2.  There is no personal interview, or sometimes no interview at all, or they might want to do the interview by instant messenger or Skype.

3.  It is a work at home position many times because the office in your area is not built, rented, or established yet, or it is a pet sitting or home care job usually for a disabled child.

4.  The job is for an area that you are obviously not qualified for, or they want to immediately put you in a “managers” position, executive assistant, personal assistant, etc.  The job requires you to sell something even though you have no experience, such as insurance or it requires you to sell something to other people and then recruit them to sell for you (multilevel marketing aka Ponzi scheme).

5.  You need a bank account to receive and deposit checks (money laundering), or you need to receive packages and resend them (illegal contraband). You need to receive checks and repackage them and resend them (mail fraud), or you need to send checks out to people (part of the Craigslist scam, again you can be charged with mail fraud among other things).

6.  They will send you a check for an amount well over what you should be getting and tell you that you need to deposit the check and send the money through some way such as Western Union or Greendot money card to pay for something they should be paying for themselves.  Take the check and the envelope it came in to the post office and have them forward it to the postal inspectors.

7.  They will ask you to pay for something upfront, such as office supplies (which of course have to bought from their supplier), or in the case of acting or modeling, will tell you that you need to pay for "head shots", or other type pictures up front (again from their photographer) in order to be eligible.

8.  The pay and benefits are way beyond anything you would normally earn, or the benefits are totally unbelievable as to vacation, sick pay, etc.

Emailed me through a professor's email at my school offering a job as an assistant for minimal remote work at $400 a week.  Sounded too good to be true.  I wondered why the email he said to contact didn't match the one that had actually contacted me and after further inspection, I learned that this man didn't work for my school and then found this chain.  He had also asked for a personal email, not wanting to communicate through my school email.

Went by the name Jaron Myrres.