They Tried To Scam Me!

I started mystery shopping this past September. I'd always been interested in it, but had heard a lot about scams. A few years back, I got a postal money order with instructions to deposit it and then send half to a provided address. I brought the check to the post office and they confirmed it was fake.
Well, I must have clicked on the wrong email again or something because someone just sent me a check for $1865.00. They want me to deposit it, keep $200.00, then send the rest to two different people via a moneygram. Even if I believed the fee was real, I know better then to be paid first. They are claiming I'm supposed to evaluate how Walmart processes moneygrams.
Well, I've never been inside a police station, but I'll be bringing what they sent me to my local one this week.

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Good for you. I am so glad you didn't fall for any of that baloney!

What was the result?

The cop told me they had no way of tracing the check so there wasn't anything they could do. He told me to just shred it.

As a very experienced shopper, I know NEVER to sign up with a new company by filling out a form on their email message. However, this one sent me to their site, which had all the usual security symbols, so, I signed up. Next day, they offer me the $2000 up front Western Union deposit scam shop, so, I didn't reply, and wrote them off. A few days later, I receive a Priority envelope containing a check for $2000 and NO INSTRUCTIONS!!! Oddly, the message part of the check says, "7844 Thornton Pkway Safeway." That address is not in HI (I live on Maui). Any advice, other than shredding? My neighbor got stung similarly, after I told her about MS, and lost $2000; I'd love to help her and future victims, but, how?

MauiMs

Obviously don't cash the check. Call or go by your local police and/or Postal Inspectors, give them the check and let them handle the situation.

I also received a check in the mail, it was priority mail and in the amount of 5000 bucks (just shy of). There were no instructions, nothing at all. I am sure I know where it came from which is a guy I was chatting with regarding a job. I caught on immediately after I filled out an application that this was a scam and I blocked him. I called this issuing bank and they told me that it was an internet job scam going on with that check. They had many inquiries about it and at that time she told me the FBI was involved. I don't know what these idiots think. I did come in contact with a woman who actually cashed one of those mail scam checks. She is still paying for it. Beware of scammers they are for sure out there!

What I wonder the most about scams is that maybe someday they will correct their English and sentence structure. I just got an IRS Scam, they make me laugh! They should write this is a SCAM on the top page.

That's pretty amazing to be sent a check for $1,865.00 to you from a total stranger. That is pretty trusting of them....gee... I mean, not knowing you and telling you to cash it and keep $200 and send the rest off.... That's also amazing, walking into Wal-Mart for 10 minutes and getting paid $200 for a shop. It's also incredible they are paying you in advance!

Usually these checks are a Trojan Horse of cleaning out your checking account! These Scams are used on elderly or greedy people. There are videos on YouTube and other sites explaining how greed helped one older grandma empty her $600,000 Retirement using the "Check and Money Gram Scam". Few companies pay you in advance, the amount of your payout is a personal Red Flag, please don't fall for getting your bank accounts cleaned out!

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