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I am on several work at home lists, and I have done mystery shopping. I fill out things online often as well. In today's mail, in addition to my giftcard from Gather, I found a check for $1390 dollars. It said it was for a paid training for a mystery shopping company. I was to deposit it, spend it as they were instructing, send money wires, and send them receipts plus an evaluation form. Problems: Street names spelled wrong, missing capitol letters, the company exists, but has a different function. Solution: We took it to the postmaster, who is forwarding it on up. It is a form of Postal Fraud, and they will go after them. This is the most convincing scam I have seen so far. How about you, would it have fooled you?
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GardenGerty (14042) | 3 months ago | I wanted to save others who are more trusting.
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| ayaz_chishti (2) | 3 months ago | Thats great and it will help others.Great effort.
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2. jillhill (6722) | 3 months ago | I am very leary of anything like that....very so I don't think I would have given it a second look if the name or address was off.....I would have sent it directly back to the post office....or remailed it myself. There are alot of scams out there...I wish they would spend their time doing something good with their brains instead of thinking up ways to bilk people!
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3. JoyfulOne (3079) | 3 months ago | Wow~ I hadn't heard of that scam yet. Thanks for the warning! Yes, they are getting really clever with how they present their scams to look like they're legit. I also have done mystery shopping for reputable places, so I'm probably on the list too. I check out each and every place I do stuff for, just to make sure they're on the up and up. There are so many doing this kind of thing, they no sooner catch one and there's a new bunch every day. I haven't been fooled yet, but close to it a couple of times. The ones I find I turn in too. Thanks again for the warning!
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GardenGerty (14042) | 3 months ago | These claimed to be in Canada. But their fax number was in the state of Washington. The bank was on Jemmy (yes) Durante Blvd. The actual address if you spell it Jimmy, then it is a quarter horse club.LOL
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4. gabesmom (1030) | 3 months ago | Beware of those scams. Never deposit a check without making sure that it is from a legitimate source. Fraudulent checks would clear before anyone finds out that there are no funds to back them up. You will end up paying for the bounced check and may even get reported for depositing one. The banks do not have the capability of finding out beforehand which is sad. The burden, of course, falls on the consumer.
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GardenGerty (14042) | 3 months ago | I had a friend who lost a lot of money doing something similar. A myLot friend.
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5. xlyingxwhispersx (596) | 3 months ago | Wow! That's crazy! Sometimes I get things like that in the mail. Checks for large amount of money, and my uncle said if you deposit the check, they mess with your bank account and things like that. Its kind of scary because I really thought I got a huge check for sometime, and it was fake! You have to be really careful with things like that!
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6. thebohemianheart (970) | 3 months ago | Unless I am expecting a check from some place specifically, I just send them through the shredder. I have gotten a couple of those. I look it over, shake my head and get rid of it. I kind of thought it was an advertising scheme, never thought about it as mail fraud. I certainly won't shred one like that next time. It will go directly to my postmaster. Thanks.
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7. weemam (6707) | 3 months ago | It probably would have pal at first, but like you I would have been very skeptical and checked it out, I would have been so disappointed too:( xx
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8. susaneverson (4870) | 3 months ago | Hi GardenGerty. I honestly don't know if it would have fooled me or not. I don't, as a rule, fall for scams of any sort but that is not to say I never will. Some scams out there as so obviously a scam I don't know how it can fool anyone but some are set up very cleverly and could fool most. So I can not say it would not fool me but I can hope it wouldn't. I also would have taken it to the law to check out if I suspected fraud. Susan
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GardenGerty (14042) | 3 months ago | This check even had a water mark when you held it up to the light.
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9. raydene (4818) | 3 months ago | Sweets, Do you remember me telling on here that my son recieved a certified check for a car he was selling. He was to cash it and pay a person that would come to get the car...I called the bank it was drawn on and they said it was a scam! With seling on ebay I only accept paypal payments! xoxoxoxoxoxox
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GardenGerty (14042) | 3 months ago | Sounds like a good plan.
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10. TessWhite (1222) | 3 months ago | Glad you didn't fall for it. Last year we got a check that said we had won an out of country lottery in the amount of 2700.00. The problem was it was a computerized real check on a bank in my state. I knew it was a scam, but wanted to be sure. We took it into the bank and they were surprised it was on a real check with routing numbers and everything. They called that bank and learned that the person who owned that account had been ripped off somehow and the checks were being forged in their name. Thankfully we hadn't tried to deposit it.
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GardenGerty (14042) | 3 months ago | All kinds of twists to these scams.
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cher8558 (201) | 3 months ago | Hi friends, Do you know what really bothers me about these scams, as you say, some are really legitimate looking. I am disabled. I cannot work and haven't been able to for the last 11 years. My poor husband is doing everything. Paying the mortgage, the phone, heat, hydro, you name it. I feel so useless. When these scams come in, someone like me so want to believe it. We so need that money and it is totally unfair to get people's hopes up like that. People like me want it to be so bad that I get lost in the (If its too good to be true, it usually is). I know that to be true, but sometimes I just DREAM. Cheers Cheryl
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TessWhite (1222) | 3 months ago | I know how you feel Cheryl. I too am disabled and got very excited when we got the check. Even though I knew it was probably fake. Money is so very very tight here. Its a sad thing to get our hopes up like that isn't it?
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