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10-15-2008, 06:29 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Salem
Posts: 1,906
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Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
Yesterday my son received a mailing from National Market Vision containing a check for just under $4000. The enclosed letter advised he had been selected as a Mystery Shopper, and contained instructions to WIRE $3000 of the funds BACK to National Market Vision, spend a few hundred as he secretly shopped and evaluated stores, and to retain the balance as payment.
Uh huh.
Don't fall for it, folks. By the time the check you received bounces, you will wired the $3k and your bank will expect you to cover it.
OC
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10-15-2008, 06:41 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hillsboro, OR
Posts: 2,425
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Re: Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
lol, what will they think of next.
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10-15-2008, 06:42 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gervais, Or
Posts: 2,636
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Re: Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
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Originally Posted by Old Coot
Yesterday my son received a mailing from National Market Vision containing a check for just under $4000. The enclosed letter advised he had been selected as a Mystery Shopper, and contained instructions to WIRE $3000 of the funds BACK to National Market Vision, spend a few hundred as he secretly shopped and evaluated stores, and to retain the balance as payment.
Uh huh.
Don't fall for it, folks. By the time the check you received bounces, you will wired the $3k and your bank will expect you to cover it.
OC
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Just cash it outright (Yea right!)  Then send them a money order for the 3k and keep the 1 grand!
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10-15-2008, 07:25 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: vancouver
Posts: 773
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Re: Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
the person who would be out is you about 8k when the check didnt clear
and paying the bank back for the money they advanced you
that would suck
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10-15-2008, 08:19 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Redmond Oregon
Posts: 2,805
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Re: Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
Turn the notice over to the Attorney General's Office. They follow these groups and try to shut em down.
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10-15-2008, 01:21 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Aloha
Posts: 3,445
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Re: Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
pretty brazen to send an actual fake check in the mail to an unknown person. Wouldn't that be mail fraud?
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10-15-2008, 08:46 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: beaver creek
Posts: 204
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Re: Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
take in to the post office the post master gen will look at it and try to stop them its mail fraud
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10-15-2008, 09:03 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Jefferson Owner/Operator of the Kalena
Posts: 21,774
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Re: Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
I googled National Market Vision and they did not show up. SCAM, but if there were a company, I bet they sure would like to know about this fraud.
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10-16-2008, 12:15 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 2,931
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Re: Scam Alert - "Mystery shopper"
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Originally Posted by veilside180sx
lol, what will they think of next.
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County refund checks for 100 bucks... you have to spend 50 of it in local stores, 50 of it at local gas stations, 50 of it at local garage sales, and return 150 of it to the State to cover 'the taxes'. 
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