Thank you for sending your resume,
Your interest about the job has been received. This might seem a little different from the position placed on INDEED, However it is due to the need for an urgent replacement for my Personal Assistant. I really need someone urgently to take up the position as my personal assistant I am looking for a friendly, simple & trust worthy personal office assistant, You can take it as a full time or part time job depending on your choice. The hours will be between 4 to 5 hours daily, which can be increased if you want and this will give you free time to go on with your regular job, Below are job Descriptions.Your Duties:(personal assistant)*General work*process mails*Data entry*Receive calls*Book appointments & Flight reservation*shopping, E.t.c or any other reasonable duty will be allocated to you.
My name is Tobias Roland(A Scholar and advocate), I am an Artist and i travel a lot to do and sell art works, I also buy ideas, Artifacts, antics and materials from ancient cities and I have got so many clients as companies, individuals and governmental institutions and private museums.I have been pretty successful in my businesses, I get involved in several art businesses in United States,Canada & Australia. I'm most very often get my hands occupied, so it is imperative for me to have a worthy personal assistant.
Due to the nature of my job, It requires frequent traveling so i need someone to handle my schedule when I'm not in town, Every instructions will be given to you via email and Text for now until i am back, I travel a lot so that is the main reason why i need you to be my personal assistant and i want you to begin work immediately.
Kindly Let me know if you're still interested and I'm willing to offer you $25 hourly with a reasonable sign on bonus, I want you to answer this brief questionnaire below, Please answer them to the best of your knowledge.
* Have you ever worked as an personal assistant before?
* Are you taking this as a primary Job?
* If you want to make this your secondary job ( How many Hours does your primary Job Takes? )
* Do you have Professional Reference?
* How Many Hours are you wiling to Devote to work for me?
* What do you Understand by Privacy & Code of Conduct?
* Explain Petty Cash Transactions?
* Describe yourself?
* Are you willing to give your best shot at working with me?
I will be expecting your prompt response.
Sincerely,
Mr Tobias
Then on Saturday July 25th, I received a text stating same thing and to also check my email for job offer if still interested. I responded and then recieved this:
Dear ,
Thanks for your response , After the review and consideration of your answers to the questionnaire your application is successful and you have been accepted to work as my personal assistant, I would have love to meet you before we start but I'm currently out of town for an important business in Canada and i wont be back until 2 weeks but i currently have work for you to take care of so i want you to start immediately and when I'm back, We will setup a meeting.
I will provide you with the equipment s you will be working with and it will come with internet facilities, You will be given a sign on bonus (supplies e.t.c) for this job which will be included in the funds you will receive for the equipment.
Every instructions will be given to you on what to do with the equipment immediately you receive them, Here is the list of the equipment that will be ship to you to be working with.
EQUIPMENT'S:
The Following would be ship to you by my shipping agent in other to start working with me.
* HP business machine Notebook Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPUT2330 @1.60GHz 1.60GHz
* Printer, Scanner& Fax machine(ALL IN ONE) and does not take space
* Microsoft Office and Microsoft Operating Systems (Service Pack 2)
* Laptop hard-case
* Kasper sky Internet Security application installed on the Laptop
* A cell phone on which you would conduct only my business
I will also provide you with the funds to handle the shipping/cost of the above equipment to you so you don't have to use your personal funds. Working for me with the provided equipment is very necessary because there is a wide range of software installed on the system to protect data, ease duty, also enhance speed and accuracy of any work you're doing on it, The special features also calculate the number of hours you work daily so that i can ascertain the bonuses that will be given to you at the end of every month.
Please provide answers to the following schedule.
1. How many hours are you willing to Work per day?
2. What time range? If you wish to work more than 5 Hours per Day, then let me know.
3. Payroll Interval? ( Weekly or Bi-weekly )
4. Payroll Method ? ( Check )
5. Banks Name?
IMPORTANT : Kindly provide your Name, Address & Phone number the funds should be issued to in other to handle the shipping/cost of the equipment's and your sign on bonus.
Name...
Address/ Apt No... No PO. Box
City
State...
Zip Code....
Home Phone #....
Cell #....
Email.....
5. Banks Name?
I will be waiting for your prompt response, I look forward to a great working relationship with you.
Sincerely,
Mr Tobias
I responded with skeptisim and asked for more information about the company he has and a website etc...He texted me I will call you today which was Sunday as I withdrew job acceptance, but I HAVE NOT HEARD BACK FROM HIM. I will also state I have NO BANK, I use loadables so I am not sure if this is what disqualified me or the fact that I told him to Google me I have a medium sized following on social media and when I announce my new job on FB people will look you up. I have not heard back. I texted him twice and have emailed him four times with no reply.
I Googled him myself with no results. I am not sure what is going on but this just did not sound right and if he tries this again, at least now there will be something online about him and his so called job offers. this aint right to offer someone such a position and use Indeed a reputable website to lure people into job offers only to possibly steal information, and I do not have anything suspicious going on yet, but this seemed off to me so I thought I would just add my 2 cents on the matter. I will say this could be legit and something happened to him or he is tied up in Canada nd Internation business, However, if it appears to good to be true, it probably is and this job offer sounds amazing right?
So this is more like and FYI and a Caution, I do not have proof he stole from me or that this job offer is not legit and he decided to go with another candidate but is to afraid or does not care to let me know. I just feel something is not right an wanted to share this socially.