A new scam we received in the mail....watch out!
It looks very official, but of course, it's not.
The heading is: AVIS,510 w Parkland Drive, Sandy, UT 84070
Phone: 1-514-5823354 (no such number)
I google-mapped the address, and it's a vacant field! LOL!!!
This letter came with a cashable cheque for $3998.00, made out to my husband.
He was offered a "job" secret shopping places like Walmart, K-Mart, HomeDepot, Sears, JCPenny and BestBuy, and is to be paid a starting salary of 450.00 per week, which will increase to 550.00 after 3 months of working for them.
Too good to be true?
There's more.
He will be trained in a financial transaction by evaluating various banks and other money transferring agencies like Moneygram or Western Union...lol...it's getting better, right?
There's more gobbledy-gook about US Agents, investment complaints, etc, etc, and it's all very official looking.
Pretty good so far, eh? I bet people fall for this all the time!
A cheque for $3998.00, and it's not void or anything, it's written for the Bank of Montreal in Toronto, and all we'd have to do is cash it!! Really?
Not so fast!
On the back of the page, if you read the fine print, he's to TRANSFER, through Western Union 1, $1750, to a John Se.
And transfer thru the same entity, $1458.00 to an Angela Landry.
Oh, you just KNOW what's going to happen, right?
The cheque will bounce, but because someone attempted to cash it, it'll bounce, and they'll still be held responsible for paying out the other two people!
Yes, there are some simplistic questions to fill out regarding his "experience" with Western Union, but by then the damage is done!
But what I wonder, is, if some naive person actually DID cash the cheque...I'm assuming it would bounce...how could this scam hold him or her responsible for transferring money to the other 2 people?
Well, I'll report it to someone, probably in the US since it comes from there, or Canada (although when you try to report something, all you can do is fill out a page, and they don't promise to ever get back to you since they're sooooo backlogged!)
So...just be on the look-out for this scam and don't cash the cheque! LOL!!!