My brother was looking for a job on Google.
Someone wrote him back with an offer. They would come to the area on a trip and he would be their on-call driver for a week.
Somehow the email instructions included names and addresses in Florida and California and some foreign place. Odd.
So then they said they would mail him a check. It would be his pay and expenses. He should cash/deposit the check and then Western Union the rest to a place in California or something.
I told him this was the oldest scam on the internet. Send a bogus check for far more than what was needed and ask them to send the rest back- before the check actually clears.
It took a long time to convince my brother that it was a scam. He took their check (which nowhere mentions WHO the money comes from) to the bank and insisted that they check it out thoroughly, they called the issuing bank (which was in neither Florida or California or where ever)
I told him that he could be in trouble for passing bogus checks and stuff if he did what they asked. The account either was empty or non-existent. It was a scam of course.
I’ve read about this bogus check, please return a money order scam. As many creative ways that people have of doing good, there are probably double that for doing evil.