<prompt> Human: Crying my eyes out right now. My mom has been job searching for months now. She has been through a tough time in life. Single mother of four, one of whom had special needs. She passed away two years ago. My mom has been financially struggling for the longest time. She has enrolled in Uni. to earn her engineering degree. Shes almost done- a year and a half to go. Shes 55 year old. Anyway, she got a job notice from a company scam. They gave her a 2900 check to deposit so she can go out and buy them iTunes gift cards, so she did. The check was a bad check and basically she gave them 2900 dollars worth of iTunes gift cards. I wish I can help her financially, I really wish I could, but Im only a teacher and supporting my own family. I have enough so that her balance is not in the negatives, but it just hurts that she has to go through this. I filed a report with the federal trade commission. The bank said they cant do anything and they want their money obviously. It was charged on a debit card. I cussed out the company via email. What else should I do? I dont think anyone has gotten their money back from these scams. And what hurts the most is that she didnt even tell me about this job opportunity! Anyway, anything else I should do to help clear this mess? Assistant: How does someone get coerced into buying iTunes gift cards for a job in the first place? I want to know how the scammers did it because Ive seen a lot of these stories posted here and other subs and I cant wrap my head around how you can convince someone to buy iTunes gift cards for a job...Human: They basically give you a check. You deposit it into your bank account. You use the money to buy gift cards. You send them the gift cards. They take out the money from your account because the check didnt have money in it in the first place. You lose three rand since you dont have that money anymore and its your problem to pay the bank back. Its no coercion.  <response>: We understand how the scam works, we dont understand how people convince others to buy gift cards. Like, what kind of job requires that? How would a company make money by giving people money to purchase gift cards for them? 