Minnesota Forum

The victim advised that on Monday, he received a text from a company called Adjuvant Partners LLC telling him that they liked his resume and wanted to set up an interview for a position. An interview was setup later that day and was conducted over Microsoft Teams and was a text only interview with no phone call or video. On Tuesday, the victim received a check for $2100 via email from careers@ adjuvantpartner.info (no s after partner unlike other email) and advised the victim that the money was for equipment purchases and instructed him to buy apple and visa gift cards with the money. He sent pictures of receipts and gift cards back to the email address. Later on the same day, the company then sent him a check via email for $1500 and advised that the money was to be used for computer software. He then purchased apple gift cards and again sent pictures of the receipts and cards back to the email. On 02-01-24 at 0700hrs, he reached out to the company via the email address he received, and they explained that they had to start the background process with them. He provided basic information and provided his DL to them, but stopped when they started to ask for SSN number information. He then located the number for Adjuvant Partners LLC online (which is a real company) and found out through them that scammers were using their company to scam people as they were not involved. He then notified his bank, who informed him that the checks that were deposited were not going to clear, and the loss was $3600.