A college student in Long Beach who applied to a paid internship via the job-searching site Indeed was told she handed landed the job — then scammers stole thousands from her.
It was music to her ears. The Cal State Long Beach student landed a paid internship to do social media for Greylock Capital Management LLC.‘The Power of Habit' Author: Giving Yourself More Gifts Can Help You Save More Money. Here's How
Smith says she was instructed to deposit the checks into her account with school's First Federal Credit Union. Then to use Zelle to transfer some of the cash and pay for a laptop and other items she would need for remote working from one of Greylock’s distributors."They were telling me they didn’t get the money, so after that I was told to do Bitcoin, send it through Bitcoin, and I did that," Smith said.
They never cashed the largest check but Smith owed nearly $4,000 and had 45 days to come up with the cash. Smith’s debt is gone, but she’s still shaken by the lesson learned: that even cash-strapped college students are targets for scammers.
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