Metro Atlanta mother scammed by fake work from home job

ATLANTA — An Atlanta lady says she labored for greater than a month at a make money working from home job that she thought was respectable, till she by no means received paid.

As a single mom of 4, Sonya Scott says she was particularly in search of make money working from home alternatives and was excited to seek out the job as a delivery and packaging specialist.

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“It promised good cash, a month-to-month wage. I’ve by no means labored on wage earlier than, so I mentioned let me try to see how this goes. This may very well be good for me,” Scott mentioned.

As a substitute, the paycheck by no means arrived.

When Scott requested about it, she was locked out of the web portal and the telephone numbers stopped working.

“It simply actually set me again. Payments are extra behind than they have been earlier than and I don’t have something to pay them with,” Scott mentioned.

The faux enterprise now has Scott’s private info. She gave them her social safety quantity together with her W-4 and even her checking account info for payroll.

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The job concerned receiving and delivery packages, however the US Postal Inspector warns that job seekers ought to at all times be skeptical of those delivery make money working from home jobs. These packages are doubtless both stolen items or bought with stolen bank cards.

“Give it some thought. What respectable firm goes to ship you gadgets and ask you to reship them? Why wouldn’t they simply do it themself?” Postal Inspector Andrea Avery mentioned in a video posted to the company’s web site.

Whereas trying by way of the paperwork the faux firm despatched Scott, Channel 2 Client Investigator Justin Grey discovered paperwork that appeared to include private info for one more Atlanta resident.

There was a doc, allegedly signed within the presence of a notary by Lewis Hensley. Her Georgia driver’s license was connected.

However Grey tracked down the true Lewis Hensley. A person, not a girl. It was his identify and handle, however not his image or appropriate birthdate on the ID.

“Does it make you involved what else is on the market now?” Grey requested. “Yeah. Yeah, positively,” Hensley responded.

Again on the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Channel 2 Investigates confirmed you ways subtle a few of these make money working from home schemes may be.

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In 2020, scammers used the identify of Mike Teate’s actual Dekalb County enterprise and his actual handle to arrange a faux make money working from home firm.

“My LLC is an lively LLC. It’s not dissolved in any approach,” he mentioned. “But it surely has completely nothing to do with this firm that’s scamming folks.”

Sonya Scott is submitting complaints with the Georgia Lawyer Common and Federal Commerce Fee.

Lewis Hensley froze his credit score after we knowledgeable him of the faux ID in his identify.

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