🚨 Employment frauds typically prey upon the gullible or the desperate whose burning desire to secure lucrative work blinds them to the scams about to be run on them.
My sister received a letter in the mail from a company called The Shopping Group. The letter stated that she had been selected as a secret shopper and received a check for $2,900.00. The letter stated she was supposed to go her bank and cash the check and then she would Western Union $2,371.00 to a fake relative of hers in Canada.
The pressure put upon him to get the check cashed and the monies from it shipped off within two days works to keep him from discovering that the check he was given was counterfeit. Once this information comes to light , our hapless “mystery shopper” is left on the hook with the bank for the value of the rubber check. As to how a cashier’s check can bounce, as we explain in our article about “” frauds, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Whereas in the traditional “secret shopper” con, those defrauded by it are out only the value of their payments for goods or services they naively sent off to the scammers who smooth talked them into trying this profession and so limit their losses to only a few hundred dollars, this newer version involving the cashing of checks can leave those who fall for it poorer by thousands of dollars.Remember that anyone can place a newspaper or online ad.
Don’t pay a company to hire you, not even if such payment is presented as your buying necessary training materials, obtaining required certification, or registering with databases of available mystery shoppers. Remember, if the process involves your sending your “employers” money, it’s probably a scam.
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