They get you to cash the phoney money order or check at your bank and wire the money to them via Western Union or Moneygram. When the check bounces your bank account is debited so you wind up paying them for nothing.
Hello Evaluator,
Congratulations, we thank you for your response to our email. We would like to let you know that you have been selected in your area. Thanks for the response and expression of interest. We do have all the required details needed and we are happy to congratulate you on your new employment. So I have documented a file for you and it's in record.
Shopper's Guide wants you to run a survey on two prominent companies in your area.
The 1st is a Moneygram Location
The 2nd a Restaurant
There has been reports about laps in the services of their Management and some of their staffs,the complaints were based on reports which their customers forwarded anonymously and Phone calls which were also made to the head office.The Moneygram location was reported for evaluation, Negligence for the following reasons:
I) Customers have reported their money missing
II) Slow services
III) Unbalanced transfer charges
The 2nd company was reported to be rendering
(I) Poor services
(II) Rudeness to customers
(III) Excess charge
(IV) Late opening time and Closing before time.Your Secret Evaluation would be
Note: You Are not required to use your money upfront for any reason. We would be sending funds for the survey.
1) To make a transfer of funds from this Moneygram location to our Mystery shopper, and the funds would be picked up by another mystery shopper at the exact location Which a customer reported her funds missing.
2) You would have to record the time at which you go to the location and how many minutes it took you to get service.
3) You would be sent a check/Money order which would cover your payment of $235 and also for the duty. As soon as you receive the check/money order, you would cash in at your BANK, and deduct your $235.00, and use the rest of the money for the services.
4) Upon receiving the funds, the locations address would be forwarded to you, and also the Name and address of whom the Mystery shoppers transfer would be made to. You would have to keep a comprehensive report on every activity you carry out.
5) You would also provide me with the name of the cashier that attended to you. Note: Please, confirm that you did received this message so that the we can process funds that would be sent to you for the assignment.
We want your total Co-operation, Support, Availability and Trust. Please confirm(Acknowledge) receipt of this email, by writing back before we proceed.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation in order to start work soon.
HEAD OF SERVICE
DANIEL BLOOMBERG.
I received a overnight mailing folder. On the outside the return address was 'Cassie's Closet'. Inside there was a cashiers check for the amount of $23500.00. The enclosed letter congratulates me my first mystery shopper job. The details were take to my bank and cash or if the funds aren't available at the time wait 2 days and withdraw all but $200.00 (my payment) take money to any western union and wire it to a listed address. Contact the phone number given or send email to address listed
ReplyDeleteconfirming receipt of check and job instructions. After doing the job contact them again to tell what western union was used. The reason for using western union were due to complaints for a list of reasons about employees, wait time, how treated, etc
and report the experience in detail about the job. I had never applied for a mystery shopper job so I don't know how my info was obtained. I knew it was a scam but I held on to the mailing folder with the contents. Fast forward 3 weeks later I received phone call from fraud dept of my bank asking me to confirm if I had i tried to charge various amounts for various things and all showed the purchases were to companies in China. Fortunately all attempted charges were declined. Then I called the bank that I have a visa from and asked them if any charges were attempted on my visa. Again it was basically the same thing and all charges had been declined. I had my accounts froze and shredded my credit cards that were involved. I have to believe the mystery shopper scam and the attempts to charge items to my cards are from the same scam. I have always done the majority of my shopping online and was lead to believe it was the safest way because all info is encrypted. That is no longer the case. This is the 2nd time I have had fraudulent charges but those were not declined. I was refunded all money and was told that either to use a major credit card because you are protected or to use cash cards with small amounts so if there are fradulent charges you wouldn't have a great loss if it were to happen.