they got me for 3000.00

http://www.wdtv.com/news/59517607.html

Link to the news report showing a video with the EXACT letter I received today.

I got an email from craigslist saying that their company overseas wanted to hire my company to do secret shopper work and that it would take a few days to send a letter with all the details. I said what the hell, why not, i would see what the letter said, see if it is legitimate. I got the letter almost a month later, just yesterday. I got a check, looks real enough, or $2995.00. At first i thought wow, then i read the letter that came with it. It had scam written all over it. I was wondering how they trust to pay me two payroll, a total stranger they know nothing about, right off the bat. Then i was to wire $2220.00 to Tom Gonzalez after contacting him to activate the check,blah blah blah. I knew that it had to be fraudulent based on the fact that they were so trusting to begin with and secondly because if they just wanted to check to see if i was capable of doing the job by wiring money, why such a large sum. $50 would have been fine to wire, right. Then i figured that it is a large sum because once you deposit the check and it clears and you wire them the money, you end up losing the amount you deposit when th check is found to be bad. I wonder if the companies thay have listed on the letter as employesr that pay tem to do the secret shopping is aware that they are being used for fraud.Companies such as walmart, bestbuy, mcdonalds, costco, ikea, western union, exxon mobile. When they firat emailed me they said they were the international branch of ikea. That was something else i ddn't understand, why would a furniture company do secret shopping for walmart and the other companies. I was under the assumption it would be for ikea only until i got the letter. Then they said not to contact anyone about it because it will have a bias opinion, they say that so that you won't blow their operation out of the water. Well i was never going to deposit this check but i think i will post some craigslist ads to warn others.

I got a letter from NATIONAL SHOPPING SERVICE, stating i'd been selected as a mystery shopper and a check for $2,995.00 was with it. The letter stated $600 was for me, for my evaluation and training pay, $100 to be used toward purchase at Sears, $100 to be used towards purchase at Walmart, and $1,995 to be wired at a Western Union to a woman name Louise Flanary in London.Even though I knew something didn't smell right, I wanted it to be true so I used the web address and sure enough it was to NATIONAL SHOPPING SERVICE.The address, city, state and zip code, all matched, but then I noticed the phone number was completely different.I read there cite and was amused to find out they don't mail out check's just like that.YOU "the shopper" have to come out of pocket on the assignment, send them the receipt, and they reimburse you, and it can take several weeks for them to do so!I knew right away some one was trying to scam me.The check looked legit. It had JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA  Syracuse, NY., and NOCO ENERGY CORP FUELS DIVISION  2440 SHERIDAN DR  TONAWANDA, NY 14150.I wonder if the company named on the check is aware of this,or if they're a part of the scam.Why is it so hard to nab the scammers, when they have names of suspects from the wire to forms?

got a letter from Global Career Employment Assurance, Inc, "located" in Baldwin , WI but postmarked in Canada.  Correspondence included a check and asked to call this number.  I shredded the check...It had Scam written all over it

This number is linked to the secret shopper scam coming out of canada.