Today I received a total of $4,000 doing nothing.
By cmofi123
@cmofi123 (344)
United States
January 24, 2011 8:49pm CST
Wouldn't you like to get that kind of money.
Well to me it came from heaven. As I retrieved my mail and sat to see what I got, I found two checks paid to me totaling nearly 4,000 dollars.
The job is simple. I will be a mystery shopper and evaluate stores like, BestBuy. Home Depot, office dpot, Costco etc. I have $81.00 to spend on whatever I want, the rest of the money I have to transfer it via Western Union and my salary is $350.00. Yeah for me.
So here is the catch.
The company called (Urban Trade Management Group) is nowhere to be found, not even on ripoffreport.
The address on the checks is real but it belongs to another company. Which I called and it is a verified company. But nothing to do with UTMG
Second I called the number on the letter and the guy was really rude and he claimed that it was a call center not the questionaire center placed me on hold and then hanged up on me. I called again and all I got was the pre-recording.
I contacted commerce bank and all the commerce bank that I could find and none had the same routing numbers as the checks.
So, like my friend saids, "If it quacks like a duck and sounds like a duck, It must be a SCAM"
People be very aware they look real feel real and we are all on the need of MONEY these days. I posted the pictures of the checks and the letter that I got. Apparently they got my information from an online survey that I filled out.
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18 responses
@trader22 (232)
• Jamaica
25 Jan 11
The scam creativity has been step up. Greed and the need for money is the driving force behind all of this.
@jodylee (946)
• United States
26 Jan 11
Greed sure is disgusting. Too bad so many feel it, so bad we are all so attached to the dollar. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle :)
@angie94 (1)
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26 Jan 11
I just Got One And Thanks For Letting Me Know what is going on, I was Just Looking Up on It and i found what u had to say about it. I tryed to call the number and it dont work they are useing use to send there money somewhere else and im not in this i hope they get the man that is doing thos case its wrong and i hope he get some REALL TIME AND JAIL
@rosekiss (30380)
• Eugene, Oregon
25 Jan 11
It certainly does sound like a scam, so be very careful. I was sent a check once that looked legitimate too, but instead of checking it out, I cashed it and put the money in my checking account. Well, to make a long story short, it was a fraudelent check, and I was really upset as I needed the money at that time, and I thought I had hit the jackpot so to speak. Evidently, they were reported, because they never sent me another check, and really, I have never ever received anymore checks like it since then. The amount I received, was $2500.00, and it was sure needed, but I had to pay a fee because it was a bad check, and I wished I had checked them out first, but i have certainly learned. If I ever get anything like that again, I will just trash it, and not try to cash it. There are just way to many scammers out there that don't have a conscience whatsoever. I hope you don't do anything with the check, as you won't get the money that is for sure. Good luck to you, and happy mylotting. 
@FrugalMommy (1438)
• United States
25 Jan 11
These are really common scams from what I've seen. They will send you a fraudulent check hoping that you will be dazzled by the dollar signs and cash them without doing your research first. Once you've done that and spent/wired the money, and your bank finds out it's a bad check, you're on the line for the money plus the bad check fees!
Do you know how to go about reporting this attempted scam? The first thing you need to do is go to the United States Postal Inspection Service website and fill out their Mail Fraud Complaint form. Here's the direct link: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/forms/MailFraudComplaint.aspx You should also report it to your state's Attorney General's office, and you can file a complaint with the FTC on their website.
@housechaos7 (609)
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25 Jan 11
Aww there are alot of these scams secret diner,secret shopper etc i have had many emails reguarding them and they are scams its a shame but you will have to put it down to experiance and thanks for sharing the information.
@screwdriver (643)
• Philippines
26 Jan 11
Its a Scam. Nbody will give you that big amount without you doing anything. Every time I received emails like that. it goes directly on my trash bin..Lol
@agrim94 (3805)
• India
26 Jan 11
Hi cmofi 123
Thanks for the information and you are right about what doesnt feel right and doesnt sound right has to be wrong. Now with recession all over world except india and china and more and more people are being laid off so it is a golden opportunity for scammers to scam as people are ready to take any job right now.
@la_chique (1498)
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25 Jan 11
Be very careful, as others have said this sounds like a scam. You dont want to put money in your account to find you are being arrested for being a criminal, or having to repay with interest. No one would just give away that kind of money.
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
25 Jan 11
If they come with requesting any bank details or bank transfers or anything related to it, please don't provide. Also, stop inappropriate online transactions also for some time. We need to be careful on such things and there are many cases already experienced by people and only thing, it is not come into public.
Take care.
Thank-s
@kiran09290 (25)
• Poland
25 Jan 11
These site are paying until they reach there goal amount.They get scam when they are not having much response or members.Firstly they pays you because they want members.
@visavis (5934)
• Philippines
25 Jan 11
that is a very sad experience and hope you can overcome that. but thanks anyway for the reminder so that we here in mylot will be aware for that modus. Like other mylotters said there are many online scam and bad people online. so we are now aware next time don;t decieve any amount offering that were not sure if real of not... thanks again. see you around
@zenaida23 (40)
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25 Jan 11
Its like total fairy tale coming true! well they are so many different kind of scam being created by people who are just darn too good to make the people to believe on their scam, these could be explain simply because people have a lot of needs and wants which are not really important but the effect is they are driven to do these things just to fool people around.
Another reason is those people have nothing to do with thier lives and who are damn lazy to do work for sustainance in their everyday lives. luckily just few people are just being fooled and to those who are recently experiencing it right one advice friend... Use your common sense and protect yourself by thinking it very carefully!
@margeryann (1845)
• United States
25 Jan 11
My husband got the same thing in the mail before. They told him to test western union and send a certain amount to who ever you want . Buy a product for a certain amount and write a review about it and keep the rest of the check or something like that. I was wondering about it so I looked it up on the internet and it was a scam.
That is scary. I also got an email before from another country from where I'm from. I'm in the Us. They said that they wanted me to work for them . They needed someone in the Us so their customers could mail me some checks and I would cash them for them and keep 10% of it and mail them the rest of it.I got leary of that because that could be money londering even if the situation was legite and if not I could be cashing the money and then find out the money isn't in the account and have to pay it all back. Pretty scary all of the scams around . I see lots of them in my email.
