| What started out as excitement about a new job | | | | arrested and have to spend time in jail. |
| quickly turned into a financial and emotional roller | | | | It is cases like this that show how significant the |
| coaster for one Texas woman. In July of 2009 a | | | | need for Scam Education and Awareness is, not only |
| stay-at-home mother from Pasadena, Texas was | | | | for the average American, but for bank employees |
| offered a job by someone claiming to be with a | | | | and law enforcement. With the right questions, not |
| company called Formations House processing | | | | only could the bank employees have seen the |
| paperwork for their clients. She was ecstatic, and in | | | | warning signs of a scam and warned this woman, but |
| this economy who would not be when they found | | | | they would have also realized that she was not the |
| not only a source of income but a way to do so and | | | | one that needed to be behind bars or prosecuted. |
| continue to stay at home with her young child. | | | | With the right questions or a search warrant, the |
| She began to receive packages in the mail with | | | | police could have seen that she was not the one |
| instructions to process the checks in the package. | | | | manufacturing these counterfeit checks that were |
| She was instructed to keep a portion of the checks, | | | | good enough to fool bank employees. They could |
| for her payment, and then to forward the rest of | | | | have reviewed the information on her computer and |
| the money along with some paperwork on to a man | | | | in her home to see that she is a victim of this scam |
| using the name of Stanley Clarkes. | | | | and not the perpetrator. |
| On July 23rd she entered the bank to bring in | | | | This young mother's story is far from over. She will |
| another check that she had received, and when she | | | | now have to endure court proceedings and pay for |
| brought them to the teller her whole world turn | | | | legal fees all to prove that she is innocent. I hope |
| upside down . . . the bank employees brought her | | | | that the law enforcement and government officials in |
| into an office, called the police and pressed charges | | | | Pasadena, Texas will step in on this matter in order |
| against her for forgery. She was devastated. To add | | | | to assist her and her young daughter. Beyond that |
| to this, her young daughter was with her at the time | | | | we ask for your support and partnership in a Scam |
| and she had to witness her mother being told that | | | | Education and Awareness Program in Texas, and |
| the check was a fraud, the job she thought she had | | | | across the country so that stories like this will not |
| was a scam, and that now she was going to be | | | | happen to others. |