Is There An Online Application To Apply For A Job At Staples?

Offered a job as someone who takes care of a payroll list working from home.. legit job?

• so i was offered a job from a craigslist post that sent out.. the job is to take care of a company payroll-check and dispatching them to a list of clients.. i shall be working at home and all i needed to get was a check paper from staples.. i havent taken it yet, nor have they sent me a phone number to call them by to make sure things are legit.. i am unsure yet of how they will the payment be done.. the application form was like this: Application Form First Name : Last Name: Full Street Address(not po box) : City, State, Zip Code: Cell Phone Number: Home Phone Number: Email: Yahoo Messenger / MSN id Nationality ___________________________ Current Job:____________________________ If you are under age 18, do you have an employment/age certificate?Yes ___ No ___ PAYMENT TERMS * How will you like to get paid. is it Bi- Weekly or Monthly ? * Can we trust you with our co-workers payroll list ? POSITION/AVAILABILITY: How often do you check your email:______________ So have you guys heard anything about this? is this a scam? i mean they have not ask me to pay for anything or send them money.... or is this a legit offer?

• Answer:

  100% scam. There is no job. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you spend your own money to purchase a new printer, ink and blank check paper. You then print fake checks and use a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number to send the fake checks to victims who think they have a work-at-home job cashing checks sending most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company". Any check you receive to buy the supplies or as a paycheck will also be fake. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. When you refuse to print his fake checks and send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. You could post up the email address that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. 6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs: 1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one. 2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order. 3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity. 4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone. 5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram. 6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site. Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason. If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "money mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.