Who called from 2898923527

Scam!!

I recieved a check and a job description as a seacret Shopper for Cambridge Marketing Group as a seacret shopper.  To activat the check i was to call a Mark Armstrong at the 289-832-3527 number.  It asked me to send $1445.00+$126 send fee to a Theresa Roper in NY NY.  To see how my service was at a western Union Branch.  Seems fishy to me!

THIS IS A SCAM. The FTC warns about the secret shopper scam here http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt151.shtm and here http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre40.shtm If you fall for it, there are endless ways you can be screwed. One of the worst is they ask you to test Western Union wire services by sending you a check, you cash it at your bank and wire the money to them, and they can pick up your cash from anywhere in the world regardless of where you send it to if you give them the Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN) for the wire. The check is fake but it will take days for your bank to find out and in the meantime, your cash that you wire them will be in their hands (wires takes short hours to complete). Your account will be in the red when the check bounces and you may be prosecuted for passing a bad check. THIS IS A SCAM.

My daughter received the same letter and was to send 1438 (+126 send fees).  She deposited the check, but waited for it to clear before attempting to send the money.  The check was a counterfit.  (So thankful she waited, it could have been a huge disaster for her financially).

We called the BBB, who is going to send us a package including a form to fill out to alert the post office of the scam.

I got a letter and a check ( 1988.00) telling me to send 1568.00 to a Amy Falcon. Well needless to say I did try and cash it at a local Walmart and they told me that it was an invalid check. My bank even told me that they would not take it....Why ....................hummmm......its a Fake Check..........Sham on people who do these kind of scams...........