I have been applying to jobs on CraigsList lately and I replied to one for a personal assistant for a lawyer in my area. I wrote a cover letter in the body of the e-mail and sent my resume in word format.

Quote:

Hello There, Thanks for your interests in the PA position, I will deeply appreciate all genuine efforts to help me monitor and keep up to date with all my activities.I have had a previous PA who has been very commendable in her activities and who has been part of my life for the past 6 months, she has since returned to her country. I sincerely hope I will be able to find someone again who will be as efficient as she has been. I'm Andrea Jones, 45 yrs of age, originally from London, but I have spent a whole lot here in United State. I'm a lawyer by profession and I have been pretty successful in a handful of ventures I get involved in; from the Angel Investment Network in Canada and United State to various welfare and community service programs, I most very often get my hands occupied, so it is imperative for me to have a worthy assistant who can monitor and keep me up to date with my activities. As my assistant, your activities amongst other things will include. *Running personal errands, supervisions and monitorings. *Scheduling programmes, flights and keeping me up to date with them. *Acting as an alternative telephone correspondence when I'm away. *Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf. *Handling and monitoring some of my financial activities. Basic wage is $500 a week This position is home-based and flexible, working with me is basically about instructions and following them, my only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, so I need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings.There is also a very sensitive issue on trust and accountability which I believe will resolve itself as time goes on. This is only an introductory e-mail, as time goes on we should be able to arrange a proper meeting to get things started officially. I'm currently in Canada now for a summit, however, I do have a number of things you could help me with this week if you will be available for me. This can act as a stable foundation to our working relationship. Hope to hear from you again. Cheers. Andrew Jones ( Esq.)

I immediately recognized this as a scam and have ignored the e-mail but now he has my resume which had my name and address on it. What should I do?

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Very interesting. I also replied for a job listed on Craigslist just like that.
However I did not sent my resume, I never send a resume unless I am able to google the company and see if it is legit or go to there website. I just wonder what they would ask me to do. Has anyone ever follow thought with this job post?
When I read the email, I could tell it was a scam.
Below is the reply David James sent me.




Hello There,
Thanks for your interests in the PA position, I will deeply appreciate all genuine efforts to help me monitor and keep up to date with all my activities.I have had a previous PA who has been very commendable in her activities and who has been part of my life for the past 6 months, she has since returned to her country. I sincerely hope I will be able to find someone again who will be as efficient as she has been.

I'm David James, 45, originally from London, but I have spent a whole lot here in United State. I'm a lawyer by profession and I have been pretty successful in a handful of ventures I get involved in; from the Angel Investment Network in Canada and United State to various welfare and community service programs, I most very often get my hands occupied, so it is imperative for me to have a worthy assistant who can monitor and keep me up to date with my activities.

As my assistant, your activities amongst other things will include.

*Running personal errands, supervisions and monitoring.
*Scheduling programs, flights and keeping me up to date with them.
*Acting as an alternative telephone correspondence when I'm away.
*Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf.
*Handling and monitoring some of my financial activities.
Basic wage is $500 a week

This position is home-based and flexible, working with me is basically about instructions and following them, my only fear is that I may come at you impromptu sometimes, so I need someone who can be able to meet up with my irregular timings.There is also a very sensitive issue on trust and accountability which I believe will resolve itself as time goes on. This is only an introductory e-mail, as time goes on we should be able to arrange a proper meeting to get things started officially.

I'm currently in the UK now for a summit, however, I do have a number of things you could help me with this week if you will be available for me. This can act as a stable foundation to our working relationship.

Hope to hear from you again.

Cheers.
David James.
+447024010828

This position is home-based and flexible. your activities amongst other things will include;

*Running personal errands, supervisions and monitoring. Scheduling programmes, flights and keeping me up to date with them.
Acting as an alternative telephone correspondence when I;m away. Making regular contacts and drop-offs on my behalf. Handling and monitoring some of my financial activities..


Requirements:


- Must be atleast 19 years of Age.
- Excellent Communication Skills


•Compensation: $500
•Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
•Please, no phone calls about this job!
•Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.