Alan brown Parmalat bakery hired me online to work / sent me a check without even starting said it was to see how fast I can complete a task Nationwide/ int

 I applied online for a job that was posted on Craigslist for my city said they were opening an office here soon an was needing someone to handle office tasks an errons. two days later I was told that I got the job and that I would be receiving my frost task in a day or two the following day I got an email that said you will receive a check for a certain amount deposit it in your account deduct your pay amount and then you will send the remaining amount thru Western Union to the following info that I will instruct you once you have deposited the check but I need your phone number so I can call you with that info instead of sending it email this is a task to see how fast you reply to my emails an how efficient you are on completing a request when I tried to cash it four places said they couldn't due to the code reader wouldn't read it I told him I couldn't he demanded that I use the ATM an deposit it thru mobile banking instead I choose to do nothing after I researched the info on the check it never gave a company name just a bank and chambers of Western Union payment systems so I thought that was odd now I found out it's a scam