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Offers / RE: bogus offers for secret shoppers
« on: November 07, 2011, 05:38:06 pm »Message ID: 443785
HIya community!
I just wanted to inform everyone that through a 3rd party.... not sure which survey I did... other than to check into the idea of secret shopping.... I mysteriously was mailed a check with a large sum on it from Madrid, Spain. The company claimed they were a secret shopper company but it was a scam. Anyone who receives that kind of check and tries to cash it will instantly get arrested. These companies are bogus. They change routing numbers on the checks and then tell you once the check is in your bank account that you have to mail the money right back to them. They are STEALING FUNDS FROM AMERICAN BANKS!
The check I was mailed was from a scammer trying to represent REALITY BASED GROUP. The ACTUAL company, when doing a Google search shows up as an internet company in Texas. The letter for the secret shopping company claims RBG is out of Washington D.C..... and the bank out of Chicago.... but the check itself is mailed internationally from Spain. VERY FISHY.
I am not in any way trying to bash any of the companies on here. All I know is that yes.... your info CAN be given to other companies and something like this can happen. DO NOT CASH THESE CHECKS!!! YOU WILL GO TO JAIL!!! If you get something like this... SHRED IT and don't touch it.
Just looking out.
I just wanted to inform everyone that through a 3rd party.... not sure which survey I did... other than to check into the idea of secret shopping.... I mysteriously was mailed a check with a large sum on it from Madrid, Spain. The company claimed they were a secret shopper company but it was a scam. Anyone who receives that kind of check and tries to cash it will instantly get arrested. These companies are bogus. They change routing numbers on the checks and then tell you once the check is in your bank account that you have to mail the money right back to them. They are STEALING FUNDS FROM AMERICAN BANKS!
The check I was mailed was from a scammer trying to represent REALITY BASED GROUP. The ACTUAL company, when doing a Google search shows up as an internet company in Texas. The letter for the secret shopping company claims RBG is out of Washington D.C..... and the bank out of Chicago.... but the check itself is mailed internationally from Spain. VERY FISHY.
I am not in any way trying to bash any of the companies on here. All I know is that yes.... your info CAN be given to other companies and something like this can happen. DO NOT CASH THESE CHECKS!!! YOU WILL GO TO JAIL!!! If you get something like this... SHRED IT and don't touch it.
Just looking out.
