Victim Location 30809
Type of a scam Employment
I was contacted supposedly from a friend on LinkedIn. It was a way to make $300.00 each time by signing up to be a secret shopper. They wanted to know if the following stores were in my area: Best Buy/Walgreens/CVS Pharmacy/ Target/Apple Store. They asked me to give them my basic information, name, address, phone #, email. I received a letter and a check for $2,450. I was supposed to deposit the check in my account and then contact them for my first assignment by texting 410-870-5525 and also emailing them at [email protected] I understand I would have been sent out as a secret shopper to purchase items and then send these items to an address. After that the they gave me would bounce and I would be the the money I spent on purchasing the items. The letter was signed by Ben Flynn, Kinesis LTD.
I did not attempt to cash the check and thus didn’t loose any money.
A letter with the check had a return address: *** ** *** *** *** *** *** ** *** The check was from German American Bank, P.O. Box 810, Jasper, IN 57547-0810 # 999218, Signed by Daui Brown