I personally was confronted with on Craiglist dc I was sent 4 money orders made out for $850 each. I turned them over to the Fairfax Police Department VA. The sender wanted me to wire $3000 to them and evaluate the wire service and make a purchase at walmart. I determined that the money orders were not real!!!!!!!
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National Notary Now
Watch Out For Mystery Shopper Scams
National Notary Now Issue # 114 — January 2009
With times being leaner for everyone, many Notaries are looking for new kinds of work to supplement their incomes. However, the Nevada Attorney General’s office recently warned consumers about ads claiming to hire “mystery shoppers” that are actually a scam to cheat applicants.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto recently issued an advisory about the scam, which hires victims to evaluate a money transfer service as “mystery shoppers.” The grifters send authentic-looking business or cashiers checks with a face value of up to several thousand dollars, then ask victims to deposit the checks into their accounts and wire a portion of the “funds” to a designated address while keeping the “balance” as payment. When the check inevitably bounces, consumers are out both the money they wired and any fees for the overdraft.
Examples of genuine mystery shopping involve activities such as visiting a business to perform normal activities like purchasing products and then providing feedback on the experience. To avoid scams, the Mystery Shopping Providers Association has a Web site (www.mysteryshop.org) with information on how to locate legitimate companies for work opportunities. The MSPA states on its site that legitimate companies will never promise large sums of fast cash or require consumers to pay an up-front fee to become a mystery shopper.
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