Aloha from God's Country, Waianae, Hawaii. Much to my dismay, I was almost the victim of a Mystery Shopper scam earlier this week! My husband Eric brought home the mail from our PO Box and I almost threw it out, but curiosity got the better of me and I opened it to find a check made out to me in the amount of $2446.70! We looked at it and at the letter that came with it; WOW! The letter came from Atlas Copco Drilling Solutions LLC, Garland, Texas. Now what does a drilling company have to do with mystery shoppers? The letter said I was to be paid $300 for going shopping at KMart, Walmart or Home Depot and spend $100. Then I was to wire by Western Union a total of 1876.70 to two different people and pay the service fee of $170 for both. Of course, we get to keep what we bought with the $100! A number was listed to call to activate cashing of the check. "Jerry" answered the phone at the other end, asking me if I understood my assignment. Of course, I said excitedly and could my husband be a "Mystery Shopper" as well? Jerry said when they received my report back (which was to be faxed immediately upon completion of my "tasks") they would mail out an application for him. So off to the bank I go, asking the teller how long would it take for the check to clear. Long story short (or too late already?! lol) thank you Jesus, the teller was on top of it and told me that the check looked like a scam, she went into the back office and came back stating the routing numbers didn't match up to the bank name and why would a drilling company need mystery shoppers? If the check was a scam our bank accounts would be closed! I called and gave Eric the bad news, he took it really well, I mean we really believed we would be shopping and even discussing what we needed the most! He called Jerry and told him he knew he was running a scam. He got hung up on. When I got home and called I said Hey Jerry! This is Linda and I want to know how your scam works, do you get the money I am sending through Western Union? Let me know, how do you do it? He mumbled something and hung up. So I call right back and get a message that I have reached a voicemail box that had not been activated yet! I gotta admit, I thought I was more streetwise than to fall for a scam like that and my feelings were hurt! But thanks to a bank teller that was on top of her job, we are not digging ourselves out of a big financial mess! If you google scams, you will see the mystery shopper scam. I hope that Jerry is out of business and if anybody knows how to report mail fraud or whatever please let me know, I would love to see these people get theirs.
Congratulations to me for catching up with Technology! I now can "tweet" but I am not done yet with my profile. So you can now follow me on Twitter at:
https://twitter.com/LindaSorensen3
I have no idea who the other 2 Linda Sorensen's are. Would the two of you please get in touch with me?
I also started to update my Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/AlohaLei.D
I am so happy being back online! Thank you Lauren for your very generous donation to our Animal Rescue! That will be food for the cats, litter and flea meds for the dogs. (We shop in bulk!)
Check out my future blogs for is it fact or is it fiction type blogs. I have had a very interesting life and I would like to find out if what I write, you think I am writing fiction or fact!
Stay Cool!
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