Mystery Shopper
Complaint 8124 Details
- Date Occurred: 06/28/2013
- Reported Damages: $1,951.50
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The complaint is against an online dating profile
The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity
The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity
The company or person contact no longer exists
International boundaries
I received a email about becoming a mystery shopper. We were getting ready to go on vacation and I thought that I could do something quick and earn a little more spending money. I was sent a check and told to cash the check and evaluate the company where I cashed the check and then go to the post office and mail the remaining cash to some person and keep 200.00 for myself as the payment for services. I was to evalute the Post Office worker when I went to mail the envelope. Well I cashed the check at my neighborhood grocery store and 1 week later they got the check back as no good. I do not have that kind of money just laying around and now I have to pay the grocery store their money. I do not have any extra money to pay them so I am at the end of my rope.
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- Posted 08/07/2013
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My wife almost got roped in by the same scam. She was contacted via email by a guy named Duncan Timothy who got her contact information from a job search site. My wife was unemployed and was looking for honest, legitimate work through several online recruiting networks.
Long story short... DHL delivered two $850 USPS money orders to our house, out of which my wife was supposed to keep $170 and forward the rest through Western Union. The "Mystery Shoppper" assignment was supposed to be done at the Western Union store.
I had a bad feeling about this whole deal and looked it up on the internet under "Nigerian Money Order Scam". My wife ended up taking the two checks to our bank and leaving them with the bank president to verify their authenticity. Surprise, surprise... a week later we get a phone call from our bank saying the checks were counterfeit and that they had been turned over to the FBI and SEC. Good thing we didn't deposit them!
Meanwhile, Mr. Timothy was emailing us every day asking for a status report. After stalling him for three days, he finally threatened to "contact our local police authorities and report the $1,700.00 theft". To which I replied that the authorities had already been contacted by us. Never heard from Mr. Timothy again after that. :) -
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- Complaint Against Mystery Shopper
- Complaints Filed: 114
- Reported Damages: $221,541.74
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