Patrick Ramos Rick Cranford & Patrick Taylor Caregiver Add on Craigslist sends you money and has you send it elsewhere. Scam! Alaska

I replyed to a add on craigslist in febuary 2014, for a pvt caregiving position in sacramento with Patrick Ramos. Patrick Ramos claimed to be a drill supervisor in alaska and his mother jessica had a stroke and is now living with him. She has Cerebral Palsy. She wants to come live back home. He will ask your adress to make sure you are close enough to her house. He offers 20 a hour for mon-sat 9-5. He even sent me several emails saying that he was a bit uncomfortable with doing all this over the web but it was recommended by a dear friend. Most everything would be discussed like contracts and such when they both arrived in a couple of weeks. He just needed a few grocieries and a new pair of white sheets and some wash cloth's. And a Wheelchair needed to be taken care of before they got here. So he said he would send some money for me to take care of these things. 

I recieved two checks amount of 2,980 and 3,980. He said I could keep 750 as pay for these chores. 200 aprox would be for the groceries. The rest to cover the wheelchair. The checks where from The bank of New York Mellon. Signed by authorized agent Thomas M. Gowell Jr. Air Liquid. They came via fed ex from Alicia Lauren of Los Vegas. Note, he told me his finacial advisor would be sending me the checks. Alicia could be his secretery. drill supervisors make 100,000 a year. makes sence. I deposited the checks on the 17 and 19 of feb 2014 and both cleared in my bank on thursday Feb 20, 2014. Eager to get the wheelchair here in time I asked how to get the wheelchair. I was told to pull out 6100 in cash and send it to the "shipper" of the wheelchair via fed ex overnight. I sent it to a fed ex location 2288 S. Nellis Blvd las Vegas NV. A Arlene O'Neil had to pick it up before 1030 on 2/21/14 and sign for it. 

The next day I told him he needed to provide me with the information of his flight details and his mothers house to prove that this was all not a scam. also he asked me to send another 500 to the shipper. I haven't heard back from him since. I called the bank of New York Mellon at 230 pacific time and the bank was closed. I called the emergency line only to have a guy with a thick accent answer. I could hear his budies in the background. He said he was security but could not help me with my fraud problem and to call the bank on monday.  Now its saturday 2/22/14 and I am writing this after finding another acticle on this cite containing the exact same scam. The checks for me haven't bounced yet. I hope this article helps stop this.