new check scam going around

[FroggyinArk]

a few weeks go my dw quit her waitress/slave job and started looking into starting doing product service rep work in retail. for those unfamiliar, that is a person that goes into stores, sets displays, changes product, checks status of product, who is subcontracted by hte manufactorers as thier representative. this also can entail mystery shop and stor evaluations.

shortly afte she started looking and applying an ad appeared in our local paper looking for work from home lerical and product service reps.. so she called in

did a short phone interveiw and gave the guy our address so he can send her the first "job assignment"

a week later she recieves a bussines envelope from "secret shoppers"

included are a check for 2850.00 dollars and a set of instructions and a bunch of forms to fill out so she can complete her training assingment.


they wanted her to evaluate a large sum money transfer service.

by cashing thier check, keeping 300 dollars in payment for her srevices and then transfering the 2550 to a fictisious relative in ontario

of course we arent that stupid, so she goes to bank who verifies check is legit, but drawn on a clearing house account, so it will be at least 15 days before it cleared . so we deposited hte check.

later that night something about the wordng in the letter trhat accompanied it rang off to me so i started searching and discovered several rip off report pages about this company.

the check will clear hte intitial clearing house. the money will be deposited, then the clearing house sends hte check to original bank where it bounces, of course htis takes at least another 15 days... so 30 days after deposit you get a reverse draft for hte ammount of the check, which you either have to repay the bank, or face felony theft by fraud charges.

so we went to the bank, reclaimed hte check, went to local paper offices and got the ad info, took all this to local cid guys who forwarded it all on to the fbi.


so we werent caught by hte scam, but cid told us at least three people here in our small town had been.


soo as a public service if you get mail from secret shoppers, based in canada, with the name linda flemington, or paul johnson and a large check, take it to the police not the bank.

 

[L107ANGEL]

Holy hell Frog!! Glad you caught on

 

[sharlon]

They should have known better than to mess with you and Jules!

 

[Suzie Zoo]

Hmm... do you know for sure that the phone interview and the check are related? Is it possible that the phone interview was legit?

The reason I'm asking is... my friend got the exact same check in the mail with the exact same instructions. But never spoke to anyone... it just showed up in the mail one day last week.

I work for a bank and I can't tell you how many scams there are. After she got it in the mail, we were talking about some of our former customers (we aren't in a branch anymore) who might have received that and thought it was legitimate.

*sigh*

People make me sick.

 

[lucyanna girl]

Froggy, off topic here, but, how is your eye?

Penny

 

[donall452]

I just got the smae thing in the mail today. The envelope did not have a return address. I called the credit union from which the check is from, Sooper C. U., and the auto voice said I was calling intergrated payment services. I check the address on terraserver.com and its the middle of an intersection.

My wife asked me what should we do and my reply was I'll take it to the legal authorities.

 

[JR6ooo4]

I just got the smae thing in the mail today. The envelope did not have a return address. I called the credit union from which the check is from, Sooper C. U., and the auto voice said I was calling intergrated payment services. I check the address on terraserver.com and its the middle of an intersection.

My wife asked me what should we do and my reply was I'll take it to the legal authorities.

A little off topic, but never trust the little arrow on those satelite view maps.

Mikeeee