SCAM - Fake Company - using BMA's name
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Absolutely a scam! Not legitimate Mystery Shopping Company (MSC) sends any large amount of money ahead or you doing any work, no matter what they say is the reason. A week after your bank lets you draw funds from that deposit, they will discover that it is fraudulent and YOU will be liable to the bank for the missing funds! You may even have your accounts frozen and be reported to the police. You could have your name placed on a list that will make it hard, or impossible, to open future accounts with most banks!
DO NOT deposit/cash that check! Also, search the forum for the word "scam" and you will find terrible stories of the problems created for shoppers and for some legtitimate MSCs whose names are being used by scammers!
DO NOT deposit/cash that check! Also, search the forum for the word "scam" and you will find terrible stories of the problems created for shoppers and for some legtitimate MSCs whose names are being used by scammers!
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
I had the same thing I'm new I signed up and was told a check for 2200 was sent out I'm glad I know it's fake now before anything happens
The Moderator is correct. BMA is an actual legitimate company! To avoid scams/scammers, stick with MSPA member companies. Call companies directly and speak to a live person. Do as much research as possible.
Emails will come from the domain of legit companies (example: JohnDoe@bma com) whereas scammers will sometimes have gmail accounts or other email accounts.
Just remember, no one sends money before you do the work! This is the oldest mystery shopping scam in the book! Most shops pay in the low two figure range, not the low four figure range! Don't cash it. Don't!
Please send BMA a copy or forward the email to them. If you can, paste it here so newbies can recognize scam letters and that NO MSC sends you a check for $3,000! Ever! 
I've heard that if you receive a fraudulent check or money order in the mail you should take it to the postmaster because it is mail fraud. I would also alert the MSC that someone is using their name to commit fraud.
So if they send me money for transportation for a Western Union and money gram assignment don't do it? Because I am supposed to make a transaction I believe.
BMA is legit from what I am seeing
Even if it is only like 30.00?
BMA mystery shopper@gmail.com? This one did not mention sending money...
What is the website you signed up on? Or did you provide information to them through email? Did you provide your SS# or EIN#? If they send you money and ask you to cash or deposit it and then send some of the money to someone else, be aware this is a SCAM. About a week or 10 days later, the check, postal money order, or money gram they sent you will turn out to be no good, and your bank will come back to you for the full amount.
This is a classic scam and it is not how legitimate mystery shopping companies work.
It is also common place for scam artists to use the name of a legitimate company so when someone like you researches the company you are more inclined to believe it is real.
Ask yourself this, how many companies will send money up front to a stranger off the internet? What guarantee would they have you would do the job instead of absconding with the funds?
Ask yourself this, how many companies will send money up front to a stranger off the internet? What guarantee would they have you would do the job instead of absconding with the funds?
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"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
I have not received funds don't know that I will but I won't be scammed and nobody gets my info I got one of those checks 8mnths ago and got burnt for 3000.00 in 2009 thank you good looking out....
No I won't pay to work or get ripped off.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
Emails will come from the domain of legit companies (example: JohnDoe@bma com) whereas scammers will sometimes have gmail accounts or other email accounts.
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