Tosha Waggoner, 33, of Newport, Mich., would love to land a job. But she wasn`t sure that depositing a $6,000 check that arrived out of the blue was the right way to get one. Admittedly, her job hunting prospects have been bleak after she gave birth to a daughter in April, when many businesses had closed their doors during the pandemic. Her fiance isn`t working either, but he`s going to a union trade school for masonry. They could use the money, like most people during the economic downturn. `It was a straight up check,` Waggoner said. The instructions, sent in August by a supervisor named Michael, indicated that she`d need to deposit the $6,000 check to buy gift cards, take photos of the...
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