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October 01, 2009 03:27PM
Has anyone heard of Evans Monitoring and Research Group?
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October 01, 2009 03:57PM
No, and when I Google the name I come up with a company that evidently is doing research in bloodwork. Was this an email solicitation to do shops? Did it offer you big bucks to do shops (i.e. more than $25)? Did you contact them or did they find you 'out of the blue'? Do they want to have you sign up via email? If any of the above you answered 'Yes' to, the chances are very great that it is a scam. A large number of scammers are using the names of other companies to try to get your personal information and/or your $$.
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October 02, 2009 01:42AM
They sent me a check for $3,000, 2,200 to mail to someone via Western Union, 500 for self and the rest to pay for the WU transfer and to shop in JCPenney WalMart Or Home Depot and do evaluation on WU and store.Did not deposit check.
They found me through a survey I did on the net.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2009 01:44AM by kunje7.
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October 02, 2009 02:50AM
That is a scam Kunje.

President of the Independent Mystery Shoppers' Coalition.
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October 02, 2009 02:51AM
Kunje7,
sounds like a scam to me. run don't walk to the trash can.
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October 02, 2009 04:27PM
If you haven't trashed it yet, take it to your local Post Office and inform them. This is fraud! The company will get in major trouble! Also, contact the FBI....Whatever you do, DO NOT CASH IT! You will be out the money, it is not a good check, it will bounce!
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October 02, 2009 04:56PM
Babbsi Wrote:
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> If you haven't trashed it yet, take it to your
> local Post Office and inform them. This is fraud!
> The company will get in major trouble! Also,
> contact the FBI....Whatever you do, DO NOT CASH
> IT! You will be out the money, it is not a good
> check, it will bounce!


The "company" can only be prosecuted if the feds find them. The real issue here is that they rarely are. They escape with people's money, instead. Report it, then forget it. And do remember that whether you are talking about mystery shopping, selling things or eBay or Craglist, etc., if it sounds too good to be true, is is NOT true. No legitimate firm will every send a check to you and request you keep part, and send them the rest.

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October 02, 2009 06:58PM
So true "dee shops", guess the feds "won't" find them and prosecute them if no one reports them!
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October 05, 2009 12:19PM
The company is a division of a Surgery center in Georgia and the telephone number is a number in Canada.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2009 12:20PM by kunje7.
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October 05, 2009 12:25PM
Gave a copy to a friend who is an investigator with a police department on the east coast and she told me it was a scam.
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October 05, 2009 12:56PM
Babbsi Wrote:
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> So true "dee shops", guess the feds "won't" find
> them and prosecute them if no one reports them!


I am not sure what you mean by this. I was only pointing out that these scams can continue because it is so hard to track and find the perpetrators. I did not say "no one should report them." I believe they should. However, I think that if people are sitting around thinking that will stop it from happening to another victim, it is unrealistic.

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October 05, 2009 03:21PM
These guys crawl out of the woodwork and out of the sewers when economic times are tough. In 'normal' economic times they prey on the elderly with pigeon drops and other con games. The internet has given them a wealth of opportunities and the economy has made the time 'ripe' for them. I was reading the other night that Homeland Security is hiring 1000 internet security folks whose mandate will be not only blocking/stopping hackers but gather they will also be going after scammers. Scammers are rife on Craig's List these days as well as Facebook, My Space and other social networking sites plus of course the old standby, email and pfishing expeditions.
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October 06, 2009 05:23AM
Now that would be a job that would bring me out of retirement.

My buddy with Border Patrol keeps trying to get me to apply at Customs. Maybe I can apply for this instead.

Flash Wrote:
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> These guys crawl out of the woodwork and out of
> the sewers when economic times are tough. In
> 'normal' economic times they prey on the elderly
> with pigeon drops and other con games. The
> internet has given them a wealth of opportunities
> and the economy has made the time 'ripe' for them.
> I was reading the other night that Homeland
> Security is hiring 1000 internet security folks
> whose mandate will be not only blocking/stopping
> hackers but gather they will also be going after
> scammers. Scammers are rife on Craig's List these
> days as well as Facebook, My Space and other
> social networking sites plus of course the old
> standby, email and pfishing expeditions.
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October 06, 2009 02:40PM
It would be delightful to see a few of them dealt with so harshly that it discouraged others from preying on the unwary. And the hackers stuff is really getting to be a problem. Apparently Microsoft is 'investigating' a hundred thousand (?) Hotmail passwords being hacked and posted on the internet, apparently mostly from Europe.
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October 06, 2009 04:04PM
In all seriousness, I think companies and consumers are totally unprepared for the myriad of ways that those who really want to can steal computer data.

I remember working with someone who was then one of the country's premier data security consultants in the 1990's. He was a supersmart geek who went to Harvard, was bored to tears, and dropped out (a la Gates...) and went on the know how to crack anything, and did it on payroll to help companies find the flaws in the systems...then consulted to everyone including the NSC. The stories he had. Most of us do not really want to know how vulnerable the systems are.

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October 06, 2009 04:17PM
There was a story floating years ago that may have been apocryphal that years ago with algorithmic work for codes there were two teams on the government payroll, each one attempting to create codes that the other team could not crack. It made sense to have as talented group a group as possible propose and an equally talented group try to break. It just seems to me that former hackers now grown to responsible adulthood should be employed trying to hack to make stuff better. It will never be perfect because we know that smart programmers have left 'Easter Eggs' in software as a joke that were not detected until the product was released and the route to the 'Easter Eggs' leaked. I would not be unthinkable that programmers leave backdoors into the software for future access that were not detected and then there are the unintended backdoors that the companies releasing software don't find until after product release.
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