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Sunday
April 18, 2024
Found very educating.
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Jesse
April 18, 2024
Thank you for informative articles like these. It shows your commitment to "we the people"
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Al Hartman
April 18, 2024
Thanks for your info!
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Eileen Tuominen
April 18, 2024
Great information. Thanks.
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Beverly
April 18, 2024
There is always great information provided, and all consumers needs to be aware of the scams.
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Susan Marie Eads
April 18, 2024
Thank you for the update! I was scammed by a car wrap company a couple months ago. I knew better but Still Fell for it! If it's too good to be true, it's FAKE! If you are to deposit a check and return a portion, it's FAKE. RUN DON'T ATTEMPT IT & SAVE YOURSELF AND YOUR ACCOUNT!
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Georgia Trehey
April 30, 2024
In reply to Thank you for the update! I… by Susan Marie Eads
Please don't feel embarrassed. Scammers are very good at their jobs. Too bad they don't use their skills in a legitimate business.
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Shlawn Burrell
April 19, 2024
Thank you so much for the information! Very valuable information in deed!
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Donna
April 19, 2024
My husband fell for the ol deposit this check scam. As he sat in the drive thru at our bank, a number of police cars surrounded him! He was escorted into our bank and questioned. What an embarrassing nightmare. He, of course, was found to be innocent but gullible. Ha!
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Alanna J Mozzer
April 19, 2024
Another clue is that the company that is pretending to hire you will have a website that shows no evidence that they are also looking for clients. Clients are the companies that pay for the mystery shop.
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Fabulous Jones
April 22, 2024
No, REAL mystery shopping company sends you checks to cash to BUY anything. I've been mystery shopping for over 5 years. If you mystery shop a restaurant or grocery store you use your OWN money to make the purchase. If your report is acceptable with the proper receipt the company will reimburse you and pay you your shopping fee with whatever payment method and on whatever pay schedule they use.
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Lisa
April 23, 2024
Thank you for this information!
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Nancy
April 24, 2024
I accidentally applied for marketing job on a “fake website”. The scammers said the assignment it was for Walmart and the scammer sent me the check before any service had been performed. The scammer sent a check drawn from a salon. The instructions were to send a gift card and “keep the rest”. I contacted the company the check was drawn on strongly suggest to close that checking account.
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Donna Pizer
April 24, 2024
I am a senior and feel we are easy targets. This information help me to stay on top of the latest scams and many of the old ones. I share your web site with all my friends!
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Christopher gastelum
April 30, 2024
I seen how scammers work once they get a gift card number the go online and use lunth algorithm decoder to generate the last four numbers mostly the exp date will be used the same so after that they call a bank merchant number to process a one dollar payment once they get a valid payment they know that that card number has money .. my name is christopher gastelum and I stand with exposing these scammers as im a victim of identity theft and its bin hard to fix but gods on my side
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Gloria Grant
May 15, 2024
That mystery shopping scam is what got me I lost $2,522.89 and now I have to pay my credit union back for the money I took to the bank. I feel really stupid and now I am paying the cost for that loss to me and the credit union. People do nasty things to others who try to do good as citizens but look at what happens to the innocent. Now I have to move my funds to a different bank all because of people like this so-called Lewis Timothy. I will forgive this man like Yeshua said no good comes from bad.
Gloria,
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