Complaint Review: Chrisland Children's Foundation - London W2 1HD Nationwide

At the time when I received the mail from them, I thought it's my chance to get a job in United State. After I reviewed their offer, I started to think: " Isn't it a free lunch? there is no free lunch." I'm not familiar with the scam in United State simply because I'm just an international student here. I can read and speak English but you might give me too many credit at checking English grammar, haha :). The signs of it might be a scam are the offers are too good to be true and why should they trust me? What if I am another scammer? Those are the same as you just mentioned. Actually, I have to say, I applied 4 or 5 jobs at craiglist.com. Most of them said that they received my resume and will send me e-mail if they would like to arrange an interview. I got one from "Chrisland Children fundation", which is scam, and I got another e-mail from another children fundation( sorry, I forgot the name of it and had deleted the e-mail.) said the exactly same thing in e-mail asking you cash the checks. This was also another job that I applied on Craiglist. Come on, at least use another story to cheat people. Fortunately, I go Ripoff report and have many people to answer my question. Thank you Ed, and thank you all the friends whom answered my question.

I receive TONS of emails with the same theme: "...we need an accountant to process payments as we don't have the means to accept cash in USA..." They want all kinds of information from me, including if I'm divorced and what nationality I am. (What legit job does that?) I checked one out, and received several Walmart cashier checks in an express envelope in only 2-3 days! I wondered why they would trust me with so much money?! I could just cash them and keep it all. I was supposed to deposit it, and send 90% back to them. So I took a little trip to my bank and spent some time with a banking specialist. I asked if the cashier checks were real, as the little icon that was supposed to fade when heated with your breath or by rubbing DIDN'T disappear, and I also took copies of all the emails and correspondence between me and them. It turned out to be a scam - and the worst thing is this: If I'd deposited those checks (if the teller let it slip past her, they're not as stupid as some people think) I would have gone to jail for cashing phoney cashier checks, PLUS I'd have sent off money to those scammers! Now, there could be a problem, in that if someone didn't have enough money to send them, and assumed the cashier checks were real, they'd bounce a check, causing more problems for themselves. If they did have enough money to cover the check, they're out of their money - all the while staring at gray bars in a cold cell. None of these scams are in the United States - they're all in foreign countries, and their emails don't have proper spelling or grammar. I've been researching work at home sites for years, and I've been scammed by those I've tried - except this cashier thing - I reported it to the bank (which hadn't seen that one yet) as well as the local postmaster. All work at home stuff on the internet is a scam. None of them are real.

Thank you Mr./Ms. Stargazer. I had already rejected the checks before he/she send to me. I wrote an e-mail and said I can't work before my work permission arrive. Also, I want you to send me a real contract which has my legal rights and explain why I can't find your organization in Google. It was the third mail I wrote but unfortunately, I had given my personal informationat the second mail to him/her, I didn't figure out it could be a scam at that time. After the third mail, I have no response so far. Hope my information won't be used in illegal purposes. Thanks again Mr./Ms Stargazer.

Anything like that on craigslist, in a email is a scam. Google the email they want you to return your info to. Don't EVER give them your info. You can go to jail for cashing these checks. You can also check these scams out on www.snopes.com. Anything from Nigeria is a scam too.