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I was contacted by this company via Social Media...it sounded interesting, they sent me application...next thing I know, I receive a Cashiers Check for $3400. w/ instructions to deposit check, and when check cleared (Cashier Checks clear immediently if you have the funds to cover in your personal acct which I did), I was to withdraw $2800. text my "coordibator" and get information as to whom I was to send 2 $1400. Money Grams. I within the States, the other outside the country. Was also given a bonus job, of checking out a major retail store. The balance of the $600. Was my compensation. Not bad...However, I had trepidation about removing the $2800. then sending a the money orders...who was to say a stop payment were to be put on the Cashiers check...then I'd be out $2800.
My "coordinator" was a bit pushy...only interested in whether I'd withdrawn the $2800. I sent him an email voicing my concerns. No reply, sent a other text, asking whether he'd gotten email. No reply. Then, today received a message from our bank that the $3400. Had been withdrawn from our acct, due to Fraud/fictious and we were charged $5.
I intend to contact the FBI and the FTC to notify them of this, as I was contacted via the internet, it's doubly bad.
Employment Scam
05/19/2012 Mystery Shopper Employment Scam - BEWARE you will not only become a victim, but also prosecuted for : mail fraud, Internet money laundering, cashing/ depositing/ passing a forged cashier's check/ money order, liable for the check's amount $2870 to be reimbursed to your bank where you "deposited" bogus cashier check. Market Force Hiring Manager "Frank Adams" has a ton of alias names "Frank Adams, Frank James", "Claude Jackson", "Lawrence M. Barry", all perpetrating the same "Mystery Shopper employment scam" since 2005- present May, 2012. An official looking cashier's check will arrive at your address by USPS express mail, priority mail, UPS express or other 24 hour mail carrier. Check inside will be under $3000 ie: $2870, you will receive email "employment" instructions to deposit this cashier's check in your bank account. You're instructed to "mystery shop a Walmart and Western Union" At the Western Union you will instructed to wire transfer $2870 ( minus your wages, shopping, transportation fees) buy a wire money transfer for $2495 and pay Western Union $ 191 fees for the wire transfer. BEWARE IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL BE A VICTIM, liable for the counterfeit $2870 prosecuted by your bank, loose the $191 Western Union fee, and have your face/ person photographed & documented on no less than 2 major corporate security systems Wal Mart's and Western Union. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM...turn the cashier's check or money order to USPS inspectors promptly & report the attempted fraud to your State Attorney General's office.
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Market Force Information, Inc. ripped me off. If you ever decide to work here, you will most likely end up regretting it. Seemed like a great idea at the time-- even fun perhaps. Getting paid for your opinion, experience at writing AND reimbursed for your meals? Hey, I love writing and I give my opinion freely-- so why not get paid for it all, right? Hmph!...
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Exactly the same thing that I experienced. I deposited the check into a savings account I set up primarily for this gig (suspicious that this was a scam all along). The check went into an 11 day hold because their bank was based in Louisiana, out of state. The contact person who texted me was upset that it was going to take 11 days and told me to just go ahead and do the shopping job (along with the wire transfer) while the check cleared. I told him "no way in hell" .
5 days into the check hold, Chase comes back with a Fictitious result and reverses the deposit.
The whole thing was a scam.