@SoCalMama wrote:
Members of this forum have been phished. There have been a few extortion attempts. Others have posted
@HonnyBrown wrote:
teddmom, with all the red flags that you saw, how/why did you fall for it?
@teddmom wrote:
I can’t sleep, I just keep rehashing what happened and wondering how it didn’t sink in.
@MsJudi wrote:
Can you think of it as if you went to a casino..had a bad day...and lost $1000?
@Book wrote:
@SoCalMama wrote:
Members of this forum have been phished. There have been a few extortion attempts. Others have posted
Extortion? Would you care to elaborate?
@SoCalMama wrote:
No because you don't know how to properly quote. I never wrote that. Try again.
@Book wrote:
@MsJudi wrote:
Can you think of it as if you went to a casino..had a bad day...and lost $1000?
A housewife who tries to earn extra cash doing mystery shops then gambles $1000 in a night at a casino - this scenario sounds worse than the original situation.
The OP just made a mistake and lost some money. The other week I paid $8.00 for a book I already have. Mistakes happen. No need to dwell on mistakes. Just don’t repeat them.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
Intentionally purchasing an $8 item that you already own in no way equates to being scammed out of $1,000.
@MsJudi wrote:
You can return your book and get your $8 back. Losing $1k in a casino or giving $1k to a scam artist are regrettable mistakes in judgement. Both happen and both are regrettable and neither can be recouped. However, both can be placed in the past and learned from. Moving on
@Book wrote:
@SoCalMama wrote:
No because you don't know how to properly quote. I never wrote that. Try again.
Hmmm... I would kindly suggest that you don’t quote long paragraphs of someone’s comments - then add a little sentence at the bottom. When skimming through comments on an iPhone it makes it difficult to see who is writing what.
Please target what you quote instead of quoting a random mass of paragraphs. I believe most users of this website would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
@sandyf wrote:
The scams will probably increase in the coming months both within and outside of the mystery shopping world. Scammers best targets are those who have an issue already.
@ajhand9 wrote:
I understand that you feel stupid, but I really appreciate you reporting this as thoroughly as you did because it helped me not fall for the same thing (which I was close to). I got the text just like you did. And when I got the confirmation email that I'd been approved for six shops, I did one more search for bestmark, adding "jessica mckenzie" to the search, and found this. So thank you very much. I just kept thinking it was too good to be true. But it bothered me that they specifically wanted me to get a $200 eBay gift card rather than a smaller denomination.