abbott labs

my wife responded to a craigs list posting for an admin assistant/data entry position on march25th 2015
the add was for a data entry position posted by [email protected]. The job was suppose to be working for abbott labs Chicago Illinois. Working from home, starting training wage offered was $11 per hour, with upgrade to $24 after training. the interview was an on line chat with a christine becky . my wife was offered the position (35 hrs per week, with benefits after training) & was also contacted on live chat by Willam Richie 64 @ yahoo,com(supervisor) On the 2nd day on the live chat she was informed she was to recieve a check for $2400 to purchase material (software) to facilitate her computer to accomplish the job... this threw a red flag up.
I contacted the Revdex.com and obtained Abbott Labs phone # and contacted their H.R. dept. in abbott park ill.,and was told they most likely would not have listed a job posting thru craig list. my wife got back to them and said this sounds to good to be true they broke ooff contact shortly after ... we hope this was not a legit job offer but could not get any info from abbott if there actually was a real posting (we were told to check abbot .com global job board. check it out & let me know... [redacted]