In response to a multitude of internet employment opportunities, I received a letter from Service Performance Group with a check for $1310.00 US enclosed. The letter offered me the opportunity to be a "secret shopper" at Walmart; as a trainee to start with two separate assignments. First I was to deposit the check in my bank account which I did. I examined the check closely for security features and watermarks etc. The bank accepted the check and accredited it to my account. I went to do the first assignment which was to send via walmart2walmart money center $800.00 to Walmart in Atlanta. The second assignment was for me to spend $100.00 as I wished for myself. Plus the remaining $400.00 was my pay for doing the two assignments. So I first went to transfer the $800.00 with $9.50 as a fee for the transfer to Atlanta. The transaction was declined. I contacted my bank and went back and forth with my bank and Walmart. Finally my bank froze my account and the transfer was denied. The bank fraud department associate told me that I may have to pay the $172.66 that I spent of my supposed $400.00 pay plus 4 NSF charges totaling $140.00 AND I may be responsible to repay the $1310.00 bad check for putting it in the bank though the bank witheld the deposited check for 3 days and then credited it to my account as valid. BEWARE.
Service Performance Group has been in business since 1992 and is a charter member of the Mystery Shopping Providers Association. Scammers will use the names of many different mystery shop companies sending out bogus materials including a check to cashed (a bogus check) with the bogus shop requiring a wire transfer of money. This is where the scam is happening. The bogus check will never clear your account meanwhile you go ahead and wire transfer the money - good money directly from your own account. When the check bounces - and it will - you are now out the money you sent. You will NEVER find the real phone number of the named company on these bogus materials nor will you find the real company's website URL or email address. Don't fall for it.
Do you homework. Look up the company's name on the Internet and give them a call to confirm it is a bogus check you have received then toss the materials. If it is too good to be true....
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In response to a multitude of internet employment opportunities, I received a letter from Service Performance Group with a check for $1310.00 US enclosed. The letter offered me the opportunity to be a "secret shopper" at Walmart; as a trainee to start with two separate assignments. First I was to deposit the check in my bank account which I did. I examined the check closely for security features and watermarks etc. The bank accepted the check and accredited it to my account. I went to do the first assignment which was to send via walmart2walmart money center $800.00 to Walmart in Atlanta. The second assignment was for me to spend $100.00 as I wished for myself. Plus the remaining $400.00 was my pay for doing the two assignments. So I first went to transfer the $800.00 with $9.50 as a fee for the transfer to Atlanta. The transaction was declined. I contacted my bank and went back and forth with my bank and Walmart. Finally my bank froze my account and the transfer was denied. The bank fraud department associate told me that I may have to pay the $172.66 that I spent of my supposed $400.00 pay plus 4 NSF charges totaling $140.00 AND I may be responsible to repay the $1310.00 bad check for putting it in the bank though the bank witheld the deposited check for 3 days and then credited it to my account as valid. BEWARE.
You were scammed
Service Performance Group has been in business since 1992 and is a charter member of the Mystery Shopping Providers Association. Scammers will use the names of many different mystery shop companies sending out bogus materials including a check to cashed (a bogus check) with the bogus shop requiring a wire transfer of money. This is where the scam is happening. The bogus check will never clear your account meanwhile you go ahead and wire transfer the money - good money directly from your own account. When the check bounces - and it will - you are now out the money you sent. You will NEVER find the real phone number of the named company on these bogus materials nor will you find the real company's website URL or email address. Don't fall for it.
Do you homework. Look up the company's name on the Internet and give them a call to confirm it is a bogus check you have received then toss the materials. If it is too good to be true....
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received the same instruction so this was very helpful