Lafayette woman’s tearful warning about a fraudulent job offer

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – A Lafayette woman says she was offered a bogus job on social media, and tears up at the thought of what she could have lost.

Tiffany Daniels is looking for a job to help support her family. On Wednesday, a woman claiming on Facebook to be Natasha Glass said she will give her one.

“She said, ‘OK, I need someone to run a few errands in the city. Can you work as my administrative assistant and earn about $300 weekly?’” said Daniels. “And I was like, ‘$300 weekly,’ I mean, who is going to say no?”

Daniels asked for more details.

“Picking up orders, then transferring funds, then paying bills,” Daniels said as she described Glass’s job description.

The message said Glass found Daniels on a Lafayette jobs posting Facebook group, but Glass was not a member of that group nor was she a friend of Daniels on Facebook. In fact, requesting to become a friend with Glass is not even an option.

These were all red flags to Daniels.

“But she seems normal,” said News 18’s Kayla Sullivan as they scrolled through the profile of Glass. “You can see what high school she went to, you can see where she used to work.”

But Daniels replied, “Nowadays you can add those life events in, you don’t have to have an actual Facebook account up and running from the date that you started.”

Perhaps Daniel’s smartest move was googling it. The search popped up several news reports of a situation almost identical to hers.

“She actually got a hold of the county sheriff’s office, and they said to stop emailing the guy because it was a scam,” Daniels said in reference to one of the victims in a news story.

Lafayette police said no one has reported this fraudulent job offer so far, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening here locally. Daniels did not report the incident to authorities. She just wants to get the word out.

“To think that people are willing to make that kind of a choice with people, especially when they have kids, and they have responsibilities, and to not even care about the aftermath of leaving somebody’s family without food or being able to pay their bills,” said Daniels as tears streamed down her face.

That’s why while Daniels is still on the job hunt, even on Facebook, she will be more careful going forward. She hopes others will be too.