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TIFU by giving a scammer my SSN

To start, I have been trying to find a WFH job because I need the money to be able to afford rent and bills and because I plan on going back to school online, so it would be a lot easier to get a WFH job. I have filled out so many job applications, I don't even remember who all I applied to. Well, last week, I got an interview invitation from someone at an investment bank for a payroll clerk job, which is one of the positions I applied for at several other companies. I was ecstatic because I thought I got something. Well, they sent me a link to the Chief of Human Resources to her Microsoft Teams account. I set up an interview for a later date and when that date came, we had our interview through chat and not through video call like I thought it would be. (I know, I know, major red flag that I should have picked up on.) Well, I was asked some standard interview questions involving metaphorical scenarios and my experience. It all looked very legitimate, even in the subsequent emails that followed after the interview. In those emails included a request for a photocopy of my government issued ID and contained PDF files of an employment acceptance form, a W-4, and a direct deposit slip. In those forms, I was to provide my bank routing and account numbers and my Social Security number, which are standard when filling out forms for a place of employment. What followed were a few days of training that included working with templates on Excel spreadsheets and a FedEx package containing a check for $1980.26 and a list of work materials that I would need for the job. Here's what tipped me off, though. The return address on the form wasn't labeled from the head office in New York that I was led to believe. It was labeled from somewhere in Massachusetts and on the company line, it gave the name of a church. And on the check itself, it was a cashier's check from a bank in Florida that the company doesn't even work with. Then, I went back and looked up the email I was being contacted from and according to Google, that email has no connection with the company itself. Then, I went onto the company's page and emailed the Chief of HR that I was supposidly talking to on Teams and asked if that was her I was speaking to on Teams. She responded a day or two later and verified that she never spoke to me and I was not in their systems. Next, I went to all the job platforms that I'd been applying on and I never applied for this business or this position. Finally, I spoke to "Chief of HR" on Teams one more time and started asking question after question. The last question I was able to ask was for them to clarify that they are who they say they are, to which they promptly responded, "Okay, you're asking a lot of questions. Take care." That was the nail in the coffin that I gave my personal information to a scammer.

TL;DR: I got hit by a recruitment scam and now some schmuck in Florida has my name, phone number, email address, a picture of my ID, my SSN, and all my banking information.

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