I received this email from ACE mystery shopping company which I will paste below. I really really really get the feeling it is a fraudulent attempt to capture my banking information because. I checked my records and I haven't performed an assignment for them in nearly two years. WHY? I asked myself would they be sending me a check ? I am offering this information to all the shoppers who like myself are overworked and underpaid !! If it is genuine please correct me and if I am made aware of it I will post a retraction.
Ray


EMAIL CUT AND PASTED BELOW..........

Hi Ray,
ACE Mystery Shopping has gone to direct deposit! Your payment for December shops was sent to your email address in January. Since you have not collected your funds, I sent another reminder email sent this morning. I wanted to make sure you did receive it.
We had to move very quickly with a new payment option, as a shopper copied our checks and have been attempting to cash over $60,000 worth of checks written off of our account. We had to move quickly, as we had to cancel our bank account, destroy all of our checks and open up new accounts.

The good news, is it's easier and will help us process payments more quickly.
Here is how it works. We send you a payment that you will receive to your email address on file. You will receive a digital image of a check in the body of the email and a green button that asks you to "instant deposit". Click on that button and it will ask you to instantly or manually verify your bank account. If your bank is online with the provider (abut 98% of banks)...then it will ask you a couple of questions to validate and the money is on its way to your account. If it asks you to manually verify, then we will make 2 offsetting micro deposits to your account which you will have to return next day and and verify...and then the money is released. No personal or financial information is asked for or stored. This will only have to be done once. Afterward, all deposits will be auto deposited without you needing to do anything.
Please look in your spam folder for the email instructing you how to pick up your direct deposit. The email will come from a domain that includes @checkbook.io (but the email was from me).
Thank you!
Julie Simbro
ACE Mystery Shopping

Of course it is spam. NEVER click on a link from anything fishy. You may want to send the real Julie an email letting her know of this scam.

I can't believe we still get posts about this kind of thing on here. Come on people, use some sense when you see this kind of thing. It's all over the internet and TV that these are definitely scams and yet people keep falling for them or at least having to ask whether they're legit.

...So the typos weren't enough for you?

Double post

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I'm sure Julie will be along soon to comment.

scheduling@acemysteryshopping.com

Try that email address to find out if it's legit.

Sorry for the typos - but yes, that email was generated from our system. We actually had a shopper basically start their own check printing business.....using our checks! This also happened to Alta 360 and it is the same person signing the checks. So, we had to move fast and find an alternative method of payment. We decided to use Checkbook.io to facilitate our direct deposits. This is not necessarily a permanent solution, but we had to do something to make sure we paid everyone on time. This all happened a just over a week before payments were to go out.

@xfixer wrote:

I checked my records and I haven't performed an assignment for them in nearly two years. WHY? I asked myself would they be sending me a check ?


Ray - I think you did a sports bar/wings shop in North Plainfield, NJ in Dec. That would be what the payment was for. It was processed in late Jan and then I followed up with those that hadn't claimed their payment yet.

Jlie,

Thank you for straightening me out yes I remember well the shop and it is possible the report was filed under an outside schedulers folder so I will claim the monies sorry for the false alarm. My apologies to all.........

@JulieACE wrote:

Sorry for the typos - but yes, that email was generated from our system. We actually had a shopper basically start their own check printing business.....using our checks! This also happened to Alta 360 and it is the same person signing the checks. So, we had to move fast and find an alternative method of payment. We decided to use Checkbook.io to facilitate our direct deposits. This is not necessarily a permanent solution, but we had to do something to make sure we paid everyone on time. This all happened a just over a week before payments were to go out.

That's terrible!!! I hope you prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. That had to have been a logistics nightmare for you. Also, kudos for handling it so quickly so that everyone could get paid on time.

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