shopperpro

Okay so you may or may not have read that I was send a scam email. I reposted the email and how I knew it was a scam. If you haven’t read it you might want to take a little peek now before continuing. Go ahead - I’ll wait.

I actually replied to this email and asked them what company they represented. Imagine my shock when I got a response back and the company named, we’ll just call them Company XX, was one that I already shop for!

I immediately logged onto Company XX’s website and found a link to their help desk. I forwarded the email to them and filled them in on my experiences to date. They quickly got back to me confirming that it was a scam.

Meanwhile I wrote back to my little scam artist and let him know that I had filled out an application on the website he provided, but I hadn’t seen any jobs listed on the job board like the one he described. Would you believe he actually replied back that these are ’special’ jobs and not publicly posted. Well if you consider a mystery-shopping job that will cause you to cash a bad check, and possibly be prosecuted by your bank special I guess this qualifies.

Onto my next email - it’s another one from Company XX. They thanked me for letting them know and gave me some links to report my little scammie friend. I headed over to http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx which is the Internet Crime Complaint Center and got to detail my experiences to date. I haven’t received anything in return, but frankly, I don’t expect to as I never received any of the bad checks or lost money.

That’s about the it. I pretty much consider the matter closed now. I still have a chuckle or two when I think about the ’special’ job though.