Another Mystery Shopper Scam

BOBJONES_3

Hi all

Here is yet another scam doing the rounds. Once again, they advertised on a job site.

The mail address they are using is [EMAIL="moonsolutions1@gmail.com"]moonsolutions1@gmail.com[/EMAIL].

cheers
Bob

How are you doing today? with the cash of 4500 pounds in your hand you
will be able to evaluate your services as a mystery shopper now and
remaining money will be include use for the second assignment.We want
you to perform the first assignment now...

Here is the assignment you have to do today when you got the 4000
pounds cash:You are hereby instructed by the management to go to a
Moneygram Money transfer store close to you for the service
evaluation.

WHAT YOU ARE TO DO AT THE ELECTRONICS STORE AND MoneyGram OUTLETS...

1: You are to deduct your 500.00 pounds which is your evaluations fee.
2: You are also instructed to go to an electronics store to buy an
"IPHONE 3GS" that cost 400 pounds and you are to send me the report on
how the attendant in the store reacted towards you at that time of
purchase.
3: You are instructed to ask for a MoneyGram store that is closed to
you and you will have the remaining balance of the total amount
transferred to Our other Mystery shopper information below:

Names:Mrs Victoria Williams
Address:34 Bristish Avenue
Lagos Nigeria

4: You are to act as if you are sending the money to a member of your
family or a client.
5: You are to study all activities that is going on within the
MoneyGram section in the store which will be useful to use as your
report
6: All information giving to you at MoneyGram is required of you to
send back to us such as:

i. Sender's Name which will be your name
ii. Refrence Numbers (8 digit)
iii. Amount sent
iv. Amount charged for transfer of funds by MoneyGram
v. Receiver's Name and address which should be the details provided to you

Further more you are not to go to the MoneyGram store or the
electronics store to write what you see their but to only examine what
you see, Immediately you leave the electronics store and MoneyGram
you are to come and give a report on
how it goes....
Hope you can have your assignment done today as
soon as possible and send me the details requested so that we can
have your report forwarded to the management for approval and to
prepare to you another assignments in no time

Best of luck,

I will be waiting to hear from you as soon as all services have been completed.

Best Regards,

mizzbiz

It's barely masked for what it is!

Anyone who takes part in this deserves to lose money - some people have to pay more than others for lessons in common sense.

nikki2804

Well hopefully when people see the Nigeria address they'll click. The whole thing just screams scam. Although id be tempted to wind them up and pretend id done it but then ive got way to much time on my hands lol.

rachael_s

Had a phone call from my 18yr old stepson today who replied to this ad on Gumtree. Having received a cheque for over £4000 he was quite happy until I told him it sounded like a scam. While we are all old and sensible (?) enough to know these things are too good to be true, some people aren't. Some of these websites need much tighter controls on their ads.

By the way, does anybody actually understand how this scam works - because I don't!!!

Wings_of_Ambition

I imagine its something along the lines of the £4000 cheque bouncing.... which can happen even AFTER you've cashed it.... by which time you've already transferred a substantial amount of money to Nigeria through the Moneygram store you were 'assessing'.

Tbh, anything on gumtree with the word Nigeria in it is likely to be a scam, and it surprises me somewhat that an 18-yr old couldn't see that it was dodgy.

rachael_s

Just got it! It would appear the cheque he received today came from a builder's merchant - I'm guessing that the poor builder has no idea he's just written a cheque for £4500 from his stolen cheque book!:rolleyes: