Description

I am a 20-yr-old college student with no car and about $4000 in my checking account. I received an email that appeared to be from my university (but was actually from a gmail account) for a job which I then applied for. I was given 4 checks to deposit for a total of approx $5000 (which all turned out to be fraudulent) and told to transfer money which I did. They kept asking or more and more and when the transfers via zelle, cashapp, etc, started to be turned down by the apps, I was given two more checks to deposit ($5000) and told to go buy Apple Gift Cards. I did this. It all happened very quickly (within 2 days) before my family got involved and I stopped contact with them. I lost $8200.