Total money lost $1,864.70
Type of a scam Employment
I answered an ad on facebook on March 4 or 5 from a company called Canada Shoppers to become a secret shopper and earn $400.00 a month. I filled out an application. They asked for my email address and phone number. I received an email from a Tony Hamilton who worked for Human Resources at Shoppers Canada stating that they had accepted my application. He asked for my mailing address so they could send me out a Cheque so I could begin my first assignment as a Secret Shopper Agent. I received the Cheque on March 15. It was in the sum of $1864.70. I was to deposit it and then send a picture of the bank teller receipt as proof of deposit. I was instructed to email it to Canada Shoppers at [email protected] Then Tony Hamilton called me. The phone number he called from was; 1 647 638 9175 and said that he received it and that he would send my first evaluation assignment by email which I received on March 17 On my first evaluation it stated that the cheque payment that was sent to me included the $ 400.00 that I was to keep for myself. I was to go to a Shoppers Drug Mart in St Albert, Alberta. I was to be a secret customer and evaluate the performance of the teller at the post office in shoppers drug mart. I was instructed to send a moneygram in the amount of $ 1000.00 to another secret shopper evaluator agent by the name of Kinzie Sparks in Atlanta Georgia so he/she would have the amount required to conduct other evaluations. The only other information attatched to that name was a phone number; 14042511415. So with the money exchange and a $ 75.00 transaction fee the total came to $1421.53 and I was to keep the remaining $400.00 for my earnings.I sent my evaluation report and took a picture of the receipt and emailed it to [email protected]
I received a phone call from my bank yesterday informing me that the cheque that I deposited from Forresters Financial did not go through and that my account was overdrawn.