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February 04, 2015 03:04PM
I received this today. I checked my bank account and a deposit was made yesterday. It looks highly suspicious, but also legit. Any thoughts? I have an enquiry into Gapbuster.


Dear Michael Turner.
(Shopper Code: number removed by OP)

Payment to your account for CAD16.15 has not been released due to incorrect beneficiary account details.
Kindly provide your bank account details as per below table for us to manually update the details for you.

Beneficiary First Name:

Beneficiary Middle Name:

Beneficiary Last Name:

Bank Name:

Bank Country:

Bank Account:

Bank Swift:

Bank Street Address:

Bank City:

Bank State Province:

Bank Postal Code:


Thank you in advance, and sorry for inconvenience caused.

Best regards,

Hashimah Hussain
Customer Service Officer
USA, Canada & UK Shoppers Team

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Mike T
Looking for shops in Western Canada

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February 04, 2015 04:04PM
Scam... Why would you have to email them your details when you can update it on the site? confused smiley

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February 04, 2015 07:25PM
I received this reply back when i asked them about it

Hi Michael.
Thank you for your reply.

I was just following up on this case today due to long weekend here in Malaysia.
Since you have confirmed receipt the said amount, I will now close this enquiry.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Best regards,

.
Mike T
Looking for shops in Western Canada

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February 05, 2015 07:27AM
Hi Michael,

Just came across this thread, would like to assure you that Hashimah Hussain is a customer service officer of the Canada Shopper Team.

Regards,
Dannie
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February 05, 2015 08:56PM
Every communication with GB is laced with terribly broken English and confusing phraseology. They all look like emails from a Nigerian prince.

Still... Legit company. Just very very foreign (to Westerners).

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February 06, 2015 02:01AM
Apparently these type of emails are commonplace.. they email asking for bank info and passwords for their website. I initially said scam because I really don't know any other MSC that asks for your password on their own site or banking info. Very strange.

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March 13, 2015 05:19PM
@miketfse wrote:

I received this today. I checked my bank account and a deposit was made yesterday. It looks highly suspicious, but also legit. Any thoughts? I have an enquiry into Gapbuster.


Dear Michael Turner.
(Shopper Code: number removed by OP)

Payment to your account for CAD16.15 has not been released due to incorrect beneficiary account details.
Kindly provide your bank account details as per below table for us to manually update the details for you.

Beneficiary First Name:

Beneficiary Middle Name:

Beneficiary Last Name:

Bank Name:

Bank Country:

Bank Account:

Bank Swift:

Bank Street Address:

Bank City:

Bank State Province:

Bank Postal Code:


Thank you in advance, and sorry for inconvenience caused.

Best regards,

Hashimah Hussain
Customer Service Officer
USA, Canada & UK Shoppers Team

Hi Michael,

The information requested by Hashimah, is when payment is going to be paid for a single shopper only. When we process the whole market, we do not require this information. Also we have updated our payment system for Canada, which can be through PayPal or Bank account. If bank account we ONLY need name, Account, and ABA/Routing number.

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Daniel
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March 13, 2015 05:24PM
@dixiewhiskey wrote:

Apparently these type of emails are commonplace.. they email asking for bank info and passwords for their website. I initially said scam because I really don't know any other MSC that asks for your password on their own site or banking info. Very strange.

Thank you for your feedback. I would like to explain more on the part when CSO ask for Password, the reason they ask is that CSO cannot see shoppers password's. This can only be accessed by the Operations Manager, so when a shopper has issues with the website and assistance required they sometimes do ask shoppers. However, this is not a common action done by us. Banking details was requested by most to make separate payments, so to pay 1 shopper and not the whole market for example. When we pay the whole market we only need Name, Account and ABA/routing number.

Thanks,

Daniel Edward
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