[Vision2020] Shopping Jobs Agency SCAM

[Stephanie Kalasz]

MOSCOW POLICE DEPARTMENT

118 East 4th Street

Moscow, Idaho 83843

Tel: 208-882-COPS    Fax: 208-882-4020

 

 


PRESS RELEASE

 

SCAM ALERT!!! 

 

A Moscow citizen recently came forward and gave the Moscow Police
Department information she received in the mail.  Here's how this scam
works:

 

You receive a letter in the mail from a phony organization called,
"Shopping Jobs Agency."  Inside the envelope, you will find instructions
on how to become an employee for the agency with the title "Mystery
Customer".  The lure is a realistic cashier's check for a large amount
(in this case $4998.00) is made out to you.  The letter goes on to
explain that you can make an easy $400.00 on your first probation
training assignment by using this money to purchase merchandise at local
businesses then report back to the agency about your shopping
experience.  Sounds pretty good doesn't it?  

 

The hook is that before you can deposit the check, which is no good
anyway, 

you must call a telephone number and speak to an assignment coordinator.
This assignment coordinator will be a polished individual thanking you
for accepting employment with the company.  But, before you can be an
employee you must give them personal information that a normal place of
employment would ask.  They will need your Social Security Number,
Driver's license information, and of course they will want to direct
deposit the $400.00 you made into your bank, so they will need your bank
account information.   By the way, did I mention they will ask you to
send a large portion of the money back to them so they can trust you as
an employee?  Of course this will be your own money since the check is
phony.  

 

The victim if hooked, will go to the bank and deposit the check. Within
several days the bank will call you and state the check is no good, and
now the "Shopping Jobs Agency" has all of your personal information and
money.

 

Please remember, if you receive similar correspondence in the mail and
it sounds too good to be true, it's probably a scam.    

 

DANIEL L. WEAVER
Prepared by: 

            Chief of Police
Officer Rick Whitmore - Crime Prevention

 

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