mystery shopping scam or not

Oscar the grouch · 25-10-2011 12:35PM

Scam.....

Its a test to see if you know how to usea a comma or full stop

seamus · 25-10-2011 01:10PM

There's a similar but even more vicious scam where they tell you that you will be receiving payments from local people for the company's goods by cheque. You lodge the cheque, hold back 10% for yourself and fire on the balance to the company.

They start you off with small cheques of €300 and you build up a "trust rating" with the company, so if you lodge the cheque and send on the money quickly, your trust level increases and they send on bigger and bigger cheques of €5k and €10k.

Problem is that they use forged or stolen international cheques or money orders, which can take a few weeks to do the rounds before they come back to your bank rejected. In the meantime you've cashed a load of cheques for these people.

An alteration on the scam is to actually send small legit cheques to begin with of €300 or so. So you actually get €30 out of them and you begin to trust them. Eventually they say that you're trustworthy enough, send on for or five cheques in quick succession for huge amounts (like €30k in total) and the mark is then waaay out of pocket.

Pataman · 25-10-2011 01:15PM

UrbanSea wrote: »

When you arrive with the money,they'll close the door behind you,take off your clothes,and next thing

BAM

cock in the ass

GREAT Where do I sign up????

Did I say that out loud??

mikki99943 · 25-10-2011 05:12PM

thats a scam . no genuine mystery shopping company will ask you to cash any cheque .
if you are interested in mystery shopping there are many genuine companies out there . i can list a few for you if you message me as boards deleted the information i put up previously

Brian Cleary29 · 25-10-2011 10:12PM

mikki99943 wrote: »

thats a scam . no genuine mystery shopping company will ask you to cash any cheque .
if you are interested in mystery shopping there are many genuine companies out there . i can list a few for you if you message me as boards deleted the information i put up previously

I have not yet received a cheque from this bloke but he uses a rocket mail account this is the mail I have got back from him after I told him I brought cheque to the bank

Hello Brian,
Why would your bank put the check in a Fraudulent account? That is not okay as there is nothing wrong with the check. The information you asking is too personel as you know we are secret shopping here. What is happening now?

OakeyDokey · 25-10-2011 10:17PM

Scam!! I was a mystery shopper for years and never heard of anything so ridiculous!

Stay off gumtree.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 25-10-2011 10:34PM

Its a scam but play them along like i did. I gave them my work address to send the cheque to. They sent me an Ulster Bank cheque for €1000. My sis works in Ulster bank and she contacted her fraud section who said the cheque was genuine in that it was real but the serial number had been tampered with and changed. The cheque was posted from Vilnius in Lithuania. Anyway i emailed them and told them i had lodged the cheque and was waiting for it to clear. He emailed me back and gave me the details of the moneygram account. I was to forward €600 and keep 400 for my self. After a week i emailed him and told him the cheque had cleared and i had the cash but that i couldnt get to the post office for another few days. He replied asking that i send the money as soon as possible. I kept making up excuses about why i couldnt send the money at that time. My little brother joey got very sick and i had to stay in hospital with him as we were orphans and he had no one else. I then was beaten up by a bunch of circus workers and had to have my leg amputated. I sent him pictures of wads of cash and told him as soon as my new bionic leg was fitted i would run to the post office and send the moneygram...i think he twigged at that point that he wasnt going to get any money. He threatened to report me to the FBI and told me that he knew the govenor of my town and he would have me arrested for fraud! I emailed him pictures of money for weeks after it telling him to come and collect his money in person...i never did get a reply.

Delancey · 25-10-2011 10:51PM

CJC999 wrote: »

Its a scam but play them along like i did. I gave them my work address to send the cheque to. They sent me an Ulster Bank cheque for €1000. My sis works in Ulster bank and she contacted her fraud section who said the cheque was genuine in that it was real but the serial number had been tampered with and changed. The cheque was posted from Vilnius in Lithuania. Anyway i emailed them and told them i had lodged the cheque and was waiting for it to clear. He emailed me back and gave me the details of the moneygram account. I was to forward €600 and keep 400 for my self. After a week i emailed him and told him the cheque had cleared and i had the cash but that i couldnt get to the post office for another few days. He replied asking that i send the money as soon as possible. I kept making up excuses about why i couldnt send the money at that time. My little brother joey got very sick and i had to stay in hospital with him as we were orphans and he had no one else. I then was beaten up by a bunch of circus workers and had to have my leg amputated. I sent him pictures of wads of cash and told him as soon as my new bionic leg was fitted i would run to the post office and send the moneygram...i think he twigged at that point that he wasnt going to get any money. He threatened to report me to the FBI and told me that he knew the govenor of my town and he would have me arrested for fraud! I emailed him pictures of money for weeks after it telling him to come and collect his money in person...i never did get a reply.

Love it !!

Brian Cleary29 · 25-10-2011 11:09PM

Delancey wrote: »

CJC999 wrote: »

Its a scam but play them along like i did. I gave them my work address to send the cheque to. They sent me an Ulster Bank cheque for €1000. My sis works in Ulster bank and she contacted her fraud section who said the cheque was genuine in that it was real but the serial number had been tampered with and changed. The cheque was posted from Vilnius in Lithuania. Anyway i emailed them and told them i had lodged the cheque and was waiting for it to clear. He emailed me back and gave me the details of the moneygram account. I was to forward €600 and keep 400 for my self. After a week i emailed him and told him the cheque had cleared and i had the cash but that i couldnt get to the post office for another few days. He replied asking that i send the money as soon as possible. I kept making up excuses about why i couldnt send the money at that time. My little brother joey got very sick and i had to stay in hospital with him as we were orphans and he had no one else. I then was beaten up by a bunch of circus workers and had to have my leg amputated. I sent him pictures of wads of cash and told him as soon as my new bionic leg was fitted i would run to the post office and send the moneygram...i think he twigged at that point that he wasnt going to get any money. He threatened to report me to the FBI and told me that he knew the govenor of my town and he would have me arrested for fraud! I emailed him pictures of money for weeks after it telling him to come and collect his money in person...i never did get a reply.

Love it !!

I can't stop laughing is there any way of gettin this fella caught what will i do with the cheque when it arrives guards or bring it to the bank to dispose of it

Solnskaya · 25-10-2011 11:19PM

hmmm. I spend a lot of money every week on stuff, and i always pay by cheque. Two of every ten people I deal with reckon I'm pulling a fast one and refuse my cheques. I walk away and deal with someone else. Not all people who deal in cheques are dodgy, some are just flush and busy. Somtimes it pays to just have faith and go with it. Somtimes it doesn't. The trick is knowing the difference. Over on adds I offered on a machine, and asked the seller to deliver-I would pay by cheque on delivery. He refused, thinking I was scamming him. I wasn't. Then again, maybe this op scheme mentioned is a scam, but it could be fun finding out...

northernpower · 25-10-2011 11:25PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAH43TZYGt4

why would anyone want to scam me?

nibtrix · 25-10-2011 11:30PM

Brian Cleary29 wrote: »

what will i do with the cheque when it arrives guards or bring it to the bank to dispose of it

Just don't lodge it! Even though you won't be sending him the money, you would be charged a fee when it bounced in a week or so. I would recommend giving it to the bank it's issued from and telling them you believe it to be fake.

Brian Cleary29 · 25-10-2011 11:32PM

Will I send the cheque to you so and you can handle the implications and having cheques doesn't mean your flush it just means you have no cash

Kimia · 25-10-2011 11:37PM

What I don't understand is why anyone would ever do this?

So he asked you to lodge a cheque for him, and wait until it clears, and then send him back the money?

If you're getting paid for being a personal shopper then they should pay you, no?

Why would you ever be sending him cash?

How utterly bizzare.

Reamer Fanny · 26-10-2011 12:28AM

CJC999 wrote: »

Its a scam but play them along like i did. I gave them my work address to send the cheque to. They sent me an Ulster Bank cheque for €1000. My sis works in Ulster bank and she contacted her fraud section who said the cheque was genuine in that it was real but the serial number had been tampered with and changed. The cheque was posted from Vilnius in Lithuania. Anyway i emailed them and told them i had lodged the cheque and was waiting for it to clear. He emailed me back and gave me the details of the moneygram account. I was to forward €600 and keep 400 for my self. After a week i emailed him and told him the cheque had cleared and i had the cash but that i couldnt get to the post office for another few days. He replied asking that i send the money as soon as possible. I kept making up excuses about why i couldnt send the money at that time. My little brother joey got very sick and i had to stay in hospital with him as we were orphans and he had no one else. I then was beaten up by a bunch of circus workers and had to have my leg amputated. I sent him pictures of wads of cash and told him as soon as my new bionic leg was fitted i would run to the post office and send the moneygram...i think he twigged at that point that he wasnt going to get any money. He threatened to report me to the FBI and told me that he knew the govenor of my town and he would have me arrested for fraud! I emailed him pictures of money for weeks after it telling him to come and collect his money in person...i never did get a reply.

This might the best boards post I have ever seen

Delancey · 26-10-2011 12:35AM

Kimia wrote: »

What I don't understand is why anyone would ever do this?

So he asked you to lodge a cheque for him, and wait until it clears, and then send him back the money?

If you're getting paid for being a personal shopper then they should pay you, no?

Why would you ever be sending him cash?

How utterly bizzare.

The scam works like this - he sends you a cheque and in due course you send the money back to him less your pay , that is how the victim supposedly gets ' paid '.

Improbable · 26-10-2011 12:36AM

justryan wrote: »

This might the best boards post I have ever seen

There are plenty of these types of stories. www.thescambaiter.com is one such site. Lot's of people post about stringing scammers along and some of them are absolutely fantastic. Take a look at the "Anus Laptops" saga.

mystery shopping scam or not

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