The company contacted me to do mystery shops for $300 a shop through my email. This is what my email said: Dear Shopper:- Thank you for signifying your interest to partake in mystery shopping & confirm your information by replying via email. Your identity would be kept confidential and you would be paid 300$ for every assignment you carry out.You would be given full details of every activity you have to carry out and your payment would be included in your acceptance mail. If you receive this email twice please note that its not a mistake just to make sure it delivered and please confirm the delivery. Regards Kevin Stark After some research I found other rip off reports on Kevin Stark. Do not send him any information.
After the long weekend, I received 2 mails with cheques saying I had been chosen as a mystery schopper. I did answer a survey before that I will try doing it because I love doing field research. I thought this was the one since the company cheque was from a legit company. My training pay was 400, shopping budget was 100 and asked me to send 1860 to Viviane Farah and Sylvia Ashe in Distrito Federal Mexico. Cheque must be deposited in your bank account it said, so I did. I waited for the cheques to "clear" or made sure that the funds were already cleared and available. But my bank is one of the biggest in Canada, and when funds were made available, that was the only time I did the assignments and the money transfer via western union. I would have not proceeded to do so if the bank did not make the funds available as when my bank account in my former country does.
Then my husband told me that he was declined when he used our bank cards and he found that odd. Personally, I could not access my online account so I went to a bank branch and was told that I can not use my bank cards until everything was sorted out. I am just glad that we are not spenders and am getting ready to lose an amount of money. This was a terrible birthday for me...but I have learned not to be gullible. So, we had to reroute our other incoming pay to another bank and our debits to another bank.
I recieved a letter in a plain enveplop with no return address. Upon opening the letter I found a cheque inside and a letter telling me that I had been selected to be a mystery shopper and that I would receive $400.00 compensation for completing two 'assignments'. The first was to make a retail purchase at a specified store for around $100.00. The second was to send a wire transfer for $1860.00 via Western Union to a 'mystery shopper' in Mexico City, Mexico. To say that I was at first excited would be an understatement.
To make sure that the offer being given to me was on the level I phoned my bank since I happened to bank at the same financial institution as the 'cheque' was drawn on. You could imagine my disappointmet when my contact at the bank told me that the cheque was fraudulent. That in fact the company, Cavalier Tool was in fact a legitimate company but that the cheque was drawn on a ficticious account.
Since i'm on a disability pension and have NO extra cash I'm glad I did my due diligence and research before I cashed or deposited this 'cheque'. I've turned over the letter envelop and all, to the police where I live. Since this attempted rip off was done through the federal mail system the consequences for the perp's is going to be substantial. I urge anyone who has been the victim or attempted victim of this fraud to report it to the police and post it to the net. It seems that nowadays the international past time is trying to rip off your fellow man or woman as the case may be.
Stand up for your rights because no one else will and report any scum bag who tries to rip you off to the proper authorities. If we all take action then maybe one day we can reduce this type of fraud and get the perp's off the street and in jail where they belong!
Mystery Shoppers, Inc. Reviews
The company contacted me to do mystery shops for $300 a shop through my email. This is what my email said: Dear Shopper:- Thank you for signifying your interest to partake in mystery shopping & confirm your information by replying via email. Your identity would be kept confidential and you would be paid 300$ for every assignment you carry out.You would be given full details of every activity you have to carry out and your payment would be included in your acceptance mail. If you receive this email twice please note that its not a mistake just to make sure it delivered and please confirm the delivery. Regards Kevin Stark After some research I found other rip off reports on Kevin Stark. Do not send him any information.
After the long weekend, I received 2 mails with cheques saying I had been chosen as a mystery schopper. I did answer a survey before that I will try doing it because I love doing field research. I thought this was the one since the company cheque was from a legit company. My training pay was 400, shopping budget was 100 and asked me to send 1860 to Viviane Farah and Sylvia Ashe in Distrito Federal Mexico. Cheque must be deposited in your bank account it said, so I did. I waited for the cheques to "clear" or made sure that the funds were already cleared and available. But my bank is one of the biggest in Canada, and when funds were made available, that was the only time I did the assignments and the money transfer via western union. I would have not proceeded to do so if the bank did not make the funds available as when my bank account in my former country does.
Then my husband told me that he was declined when he used our bank cards and he found that odd. Personally, I could not access my online account so I went to a bank branch and was told that I can not use my bank cards until everything was sorted out. I am just glad that we are not spenders and am getting ready to lose an amount of money. This was a terrible birthday for me...but I have learned not to be gullible. So, we had to reroute our other incoming pay to another bank and our debits to another bank.
I recieved a letter in a plain enveplop with no return address. Upon opening the letter I found a cheque inside and a letter telling me that I had been selected to be a mystery shopper and that I would receive $400.00 compensation for completing two 'assignments'. The first was to make a retail purchase at a specified store for around $100.00. The second was to send a wire transfer for $1860.00 via Western Union to a 'mystery shopper' in Mexico City, Mexico. To say that I was at first excited would be an understatement.
To make sure that the offer being given to me was on the level I phoned my bank since I happened to bank at the same financial institution as the 'cheque' was drawn on. You could imagine my disappointmet when my contact at the bank told me that the cheque was fraudulent. That in fact the company, Cavalier Tool was in fact a legitimate company but that the cheque was drawn on a ficticious account.
Since i'm on a disability pension and have NO extra cash I'm glad I did my due diligence and research before I cashed or deposited this 'cheque'. I've turned over the letter envelop and all, to the police where I live. Since this attempted rip off was done through the federal mail system the consequences for the perp's is going to be substantial. I urge anyone who has been the victim or attempted victim of this fraud to report it to the police and post it to the net. It seems that nowadays the international past time is trying to rip off your fellow man or woman as the case may be.
Stand up for your rights because no one else will and report any scum bag who tries to rip you off to the proper authorities. If we all take action then maybe one day we can reduce this type of fraud and get the perp's off the street and in jail where they belong!