AzRich
June 29th, 2009, 09:25 PM
In these times I suspect people are more apt to fall for stuff like this, so I thought I should share this letter I just got today. I cut & pasted this from another forum I posted this on. Be careful!
Got a letter today in the regular mail addressed to me. No return addy. It purported to be from this company - www.crg2000.com . Which, is in Wiggins MS according to the letter. Odd, it had a Canadian postmark. And a check from a bank in NM..
It's a secret shopper company saying they got my name (somehow) and have 2 assignments for me if I'm interested. What happens is they sent me a check for just shy of $3k to test a Money Gram location near me. I'm supposed to send $2475 to someone and rate the experience. They even gave me a checklist for evaluating the experience. Pretty shoddy checklist BTW.
The letter states that I have a week to do this first assignment. Then they want me to do a second assignment at a K-Mart/Walmart/Sears ... etc.
So I guess someone would deposit the check and send the money before finding out the check is fraudulent. There's a phone number with a 647 area code which is Toronto IIRC. The message saying the phone isn't in service is in both English and French. I called it a couple times to see what the goober would have to say about all the obvious questions. And maybe I enjoyed listening to the French version of the phone not being in a service area :)
I've scanned the letter & check before I give them over to the PD. I also contacted the web site as it's an apparent legit company! Even though that site doesn't look to professional :)
I wanted to share this story as I didn't find anything on it via google. I suspect s/he's already made money because the phone number went un-answered.
This was the only thing I found on it -
http://www.callcenteraddict.com/Mystery-Shopping.pdf
Got a letter today in the regular mail addressed to me. No return addy. It purported to be from this company - www.crg2000.com . Which, is in Wiggins MS according to the letter. Odd, it had a Canadian postmark. And a check from a bank in NM..
It's a secret shopper company saying they got my name (somehow) and have 2 assignments for me if I'm interested. What happens is they sent me a check for just shy of $3k to test a Money Gram location near me. I'm supposed to send $2475 to someone and rate the experience. They even gave me a checklist for evaluating the experience. Pretty shoddy checklist BTW.
The letter states that I have a week to do this first assignment. Then they want me to do a second assignment at a K-Mart/Walmart/Sears ... etc.
So I guess someone would deposit the check and send the money before finding out the check is fraudulent. There's a phone number with a 647 area code which is Toronto IIRC. The message saying the phone isn't in service is in both English and French. I called it a couple times to see what the goober would have to say about all the obvious questions. And maybe I enjoyed listening to the French version of the phone not being in a service area :)
I've scanned the letter & check before I give them over to the PD. I also contacted the web site as it's an apparent legit company! Even though that site doesn't look to professional :)
I wanted to share this story as I didn't find anything on it via google. I suspect s/he's already made money because the phone number went un-answered.
This was the only thing I found on it -
http://www.callcenteraddict.com/Mystery-Shopping.pdf