Victim Location 70816
Total money lost $2,400
Type of a scam Employment
An email was received inviting me to participate as a mystery shopper. Knowing that many companies do use these, I responded as interested. As the instructions attached indicate, I was sent a check for $2,400 which I was told to deposit and then withdraw $2,200 and send $2,100 to an address in Manila, Philippines. This was done and the report submitted. Then a couple of weeks later I received a notice from my bank that the check was fraudulent. I then emailed the one I had reported to and asked to have this corrected. I then received a second check just like the first. Today, when I presented it to my bank, I was told the bank didn’t exist and that this was a scam. I also received a second request to participate. Guess they thought they could get me twice.