COUNTERFEIT CASHIER'S CHECK, JUST FOR YOU

THE BANK WAS HAPPY TO GIVE ME A COPY!

There is perhaps not one of you who has ever seen a counterfeit cashier's check.  My first experience was on November 2, 2011.  The one I'm talking about is pictured above.  Every time I have ever terminated a transaction involving final payment, I always demanded that the payment be made by cashier's check.  I never in my business life thought that a cashier's check could be challenged.  In fact, I remember one time when I went to the bank where I am still a "loyal" customer with a cashier's check and heard the teller say that there would be a 24 hour hold before the funds would be released.  My jaw stiffened and my eyes iced over and I, through furiously controlled clenched teeth demanded to know why.  She just smiled and said, "Well, sir, that's the policy.  This check is for $1,200.00.  We put these on hold."  That was it.  If you don't like it, there's a bank half a block down the street, go there.  So, I took it.  
Those of you who read these rambling thoughts of mine, read yesterday what had happened to me as I was applying for online, work-at-home, gainful employment.  The upshot of it was that the "company" sent me a $2,865.00 dollar check to buy equipment and supplies.  Why?  Officially, I don't know because they never had the chance to tell me.  I asked.  I was told, "Bring the check to the bank.  Tell me that it is there.  Email me the receipt and then we will start your training."  I was never told what the supplies were, what receipts I had to produce for the expenses.  NOTHING.  Soooo, I took the check to the bank, filled out the deposit slip, signed the check and went to the teller's window.  When I got there, I said; "Before you do anything else, please investigate the validity of this check."  She looked at the check, looked at me, asked, "Where did you get it?"  I said, "From a company on the Internet."  She nodded, turned to her computer and started pecking away.  After five minutes she turned to me, asked me to have a seat and that I would be told what the final decision about the check is after a few minutes.  
Well, after 15 minutes I was told by the customer service manager, "This is counterfeit."  I was not surprised, just very happy that I had been right in my actions.  She asked me to get her all the evidence I could.  I said I would do that.  So I did.  I asked for a copy of the counterfeit and she willingly gave it to me.  I sugared the pot a little bit by telling her that I am an active blogger.  She liked that.  So, that is what you see at the head of this article.
I have to make one more observation.  In the last ten days or so, I have come face to face with so much evil that it is difficult for me to understand.  I have been able to observe exceedingly complex structures of businesses that are constructed simply to perpetrate fraud on society.  They are high tech destruction machines.  They are convoluted and shadowy, buttressed by well developed stories and protected by carefully calibrated responses to whatever challenge may be hurled at them.  The amount of intellectual, emotional and physical energy that is required to build and maintain these structures is astounding.  It's all the more disheartening that these complex endeavors have but one goal, to deceive honest people and induce them to part with their hard-earned money in favor of fraudulent and underhanded disciples of Lucifer.  It is one time in my life that I thank God that I have a strong willed aversion to come-ons.  I am not impervious, but I maintain my carapace carefully and keep it up in front of me every day.  Sad to say, you all should do the same.  
P.S.  If you did not yet do it, go back to the cover-letter email and open the PowerPoint show.  It is one minute and forty-five seconds long.  It is not something that someone sent me.  It is a show that I authored for the good of all my friends based on my personal experience.  You will not have to click on anything.  Open it, sit back and learn.  Send it to everyone you know.

CON - ON - $ - I BEAT THE ARTIST !

FAKE $ 

You're not going to believe this.  I'm going to tell you anyway.  I applied for a telecommuting job over Craigslist.org and I seemed to have been blessed by a bona fide job.  It is still only the first day and I am carrying a smidgen of doubt, but Belle and I are praying that all will go well.  I have been hired as an employee, not a contractor.  I was given some tasks to accomplish and I did them.  Here is the third one that I was told to do.  I share it with you because I find it interesting.  The ideas (Thoughts) that flowed are all yours to enjoy.  Starting tomorrow, I guess, I will have a three day training period.  Yes, I have been told that I will be paid for it.  So, here are the results of the task.
Task C

State Advantages and Disadvantages of Online work from home with examples.

Introduction

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Online work from home are a reality that many people would like to live but that few are able to realize.  I am not going to be able to make statements that will be universally true for everyone, but I will try to make my statement as valid for me, personally, as well as valid for other people.

I do not want to seem pessimistic, but I will start by talking about the disadvantages.  The reason is, that psychologically, people, in this case, you, will remember the last things that are said longer than the first things.  Since I want you to remember the better things longer, I will save them for last.

Disadvantages

I can think of some disadvantages of working at home.  One of them is the fact that the refrigerator and the cookie jar are ever close at hand.  This is not good for a person who has to have some exercise in life.  So, to exercise, the home worker goes to the refrigerator and snacks, and snacks, and snacks.  Soon, the boyish or girlish figure is gone and clothing no longer fits.

The second one is the lack of regular exercise during working hours.  There is no large office space to visit or to oversee.  A person like I am gets so involved with the work to be accomplished that exercise is hardly ever taken.  Not good.  
The third disadvantage is the fact that for many hours of work the spouse of the home worker is home.  Now, we all know that the spouse has things that have to be done.  The dishes, the floors, the vacuuming, the windows, and the yard.  Now those things are what are called disadvantages.
The fourth disadvantage is that some people get sloppy in their personal hygiene.  They get out of bed, visit mother nature, brush their hair with their hand, run to the kitchen to start the coffee and go right to the computer to see what happened overnight.  It is not good to fail to take care of yourself.
The fifth, and last disadvantage that I want to name is the fact that it is psychologically proven that people who work in a group produce more efficiently than those who work alone.  There is less temptation to be distracted when you work in a group and there is also more drive to let yourself be influenced by friendly competition to do more.   None of that is present at home.

Advantages

Now the good stuff.  One, you do not have to wear a shirt and tie.  In fact, if you do not want to, you don't even need a shirt.  

Then there is the second advantage of being able to eat all you want, when you want.   The third advantage is convenience.  People can work at home and take care of an older parent or a sick spouse or child while still being able to accomplish the tasks that must be accomplished for the employer.  The fourth advantage is the fact that age, especially a large accumulation of it is more comfortably accommodated at home.  It is possible to walk more slowly, to hold on to the furniture and the walls, have a more comfortable chair, etc.  This is important for many home workers, not to mention the need to use the xceramic fixtures more often.  The fifth advantage is the comfort that the home worker has of having all the important resources close at hand.   You know, the ones with all your own marginal notes in them.  If I want to spend thirty minutes on Google to find an answer, I can do that.  If I run into an unfamiliar web-site, I can spend some time learning about it and make up the time before I go to bed.


The biggest disadvantage is that you never know if the company hiring you is honest and legal or not.  I have perused the Internet and I have to admit that I am somewhat worried about this situation.  I have small hints that are making me hedge my bet before I celebrate.  I have to write this to prove to myself the reality of my feelings during this process.  I spent a lot of time proving to these people that I know what I am doing.  I hope that it has not been for nothing.  I will be online with them tomorrow again.  I'll see what is going on then.

Conclusion

There comes a time in life when the advantages of online work at home outweigh the disadvantages.  Whether they really do, in fact, outweigh the disadvantages is not important to the person who wants to do it this way.  The plain and simple reason why I want to do this is because I now have the freedom to apply for a job anywhere in the world.  That, for me, is the real reason why I turned to this way of working.  It suits me.  I love the world and I love all the people in it.  I love being freed from the prejudice of my "previous experience."  I can work for anybody, no matter where.  I can make my acquired knowledge my biggest asset for anybody, anywhere.  That is why I want to do this.

REALITY


Here's the conclusion.  I had been told that I would receive a check to help me buy some equipment and supplies that I would need to do a good job.  This morning, promptly before 10:00 AM the check came by FEDEX, overnight mail, if you please.  It was for $2,865.00, made out to me.  I was online, so I asked for a list of the things I was expected to buy with such a pile of $.  I got a run-around answer, the gist of which was, just cash the check and I will tell you once you get back to your computer.   Hmmm!?!  OK.  So I went to bank and told the teller this: "Please investigate this check before you even think of processing it."  She asked where it came from.  I told her.  She processed it on her system.  Shook her head.  Brought it to the security manager.  She invited me to sit down while the security manager looked into it.  In fifteen minutes I was told that the piece of paper that had been sent to me was a counterfeit check.  The story is too long for this venue, but the lesson is there.  Be careful.  If I have time, I will write the whole thing.  For now, enjoy this and thank God that I listened to the pile of small hints that I observed along the way.  I hope and pray that I find time and energy to share it with  the world.
I am glad that the only harm I feel is that of working to do such a nice piece of writing for sleazy boneheads who never read it.  They had me do it to keep me on the line long enough to receive their printed toilet paper.