Scam Victim Story: Desperately Seeking Employment

This is the true story of a young adult person going through some difficult life circumstances who fell victim to a employment scam that might seem quite blatant and obvious. How is that even possible? Let's see what we can learn...

If you want to help H directly, here's the GoFundMe (no pressure or begging from either me or H - this is provided only because I know some people would otherwise ask for it):
https://gofund.me/037b5036
(of course, I am aware that, at H's decision, the GoFundMe details break the anonymity I have preserved in the video - I just decided to keep it as the format for this series)

More information on fake check (cheque) scams:
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/202...
https://takefive-stopfraud.org.uk/adv...