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Possible phishing scam involving GFK via Email

August 15, 2017 10:39PM
Got an email saying they paid me by error via Pay Pal and said they are from GFK with the name of a person who works there. when I called the actual GFK phone the person's name was Jasmine on the GFK 800 # in the list of extensions but the email had a different first name of Carey.The last names were the same. I checked my Pay Pal account to alert Pay Pal if this had occurred, and no payment was made anyway from them since months back. The email instructed me to refund the payment I got from them.
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August 16, 2017 12:02AM
Those 2 people do work for Gfk one is a scheduler and one a director hope that helps
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August 16, 2017 12:06AM
Why did you create two threads for this?

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August 16, 2017 02:39AM
@isaiah58 wrote:

Why did you create two threads for this?
It was an error and it won't let me delete one of them.
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August 16, 2017 02:43AM
I left a message and got no return call. I never received any double payment from them. The phone in the email was 609 480 9557. I did not call that number, I called their 800#.
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August 16, 2017 02:13PM
I got the same email a few hours after I had received a double payment from GFK.
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August 18, 2017 04:01AM
I received the email too. I was pretty quick to think it was legit, and then thought even if legit, it was a curious way to resolve an alleged accounting error. Did you ever get a resolution?
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August 18, 2017 04:08AM
wait, there's a Callie Medina, And the email is from a "Cary Medina". Suspicious!
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August 18, 2017 12:39PM
The employee is Carey Medina, not Callie.

This would not be the first time GFK had an accounting error resulting in duplicate or over payment. I really don't understand how it could be a scam unless the email was requesting the money be sent to a different account. If it is the same as the time it happened to me, I just needed to reverse the payment through PayPal directly back to GFK.

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