Scam attempted almost victim.
I myself fell prayed to a scam recently it was a company by the name of Kroger and they wanted to hire me to do things here in the city I live. They mailed me cashier's checks to purchase equipment to use. They wanted me to deposit the cashier's check electronically to my ATM, fortunately my ATM rejected it. I then turned and called the banks that these cashier's checks were issued upon, they ended up being totally bogus. I was drug along for almost a week with this individual on Google Hangouts assuring me that the check has been sent and that they wanted me to be online every morning at a specific time. But when I found out the scam was on I confronted them and I have not heard a word from them since. I retained all the conversations I had with these people and I also retain the envelopes that were sent UPS and FedEx to my home and I also retain the two cashier's checks that were bogus I fortunately never exchanged any vital personal information with them checking accounts or anything so beware.
The individual(s) who performed this scam simply used the Kroger name, I guarantee it was not a Kroger employee or any affiliate of Kroger. Kroger stores are everywhere in Columbus and they offer union jobs and employees pay union wages out of their checks. This is a scam that has been going on for several years - I almost got scammed by a similar situation in which they sent United States Postal Service money orders to me via FedEx. Long story short, it was for a babysitting job through CraigsList. Thank God I went to my bank and asked them to verify authenticity of the US Postal money orders and they informed me that they were bogus, kept the money orders and called the police to file a report. I was not involved in any of this part of it. And, since it was a scam I led the sender to believe that I deposited the money orders and was ready for the next set of instructions from them - I played their game right back.
Thank you for the heads up I appreciate that and I'm sorry you has to go through that mess man oh man you can't be too careful
hi mike, good to know you that you saved yourself. below is the link for the readers to understand similat type of frauds. http://www.fakechecks.org/prevention-faqs.html
These is another type of fraud where they ask you to send money in anticipation of their servics OR to pay charges to send you inherittance/ winning money. Once money is sent nobody will respond you thereafter and the victim will not receive any money as winning/ inheritance. That is called Nigerian Fraud. I clarify as receiving fake chq is not the only way of fraud, even they victimise without using any banking instrument.
This kind of thing happened to me thru a supposedly loan company I gave the bogus checks to my local police department they took care of it for me so please be careful on that kind of thing too
This kind of thing happened to me thru a supposedly loan company I gave the bogus checks to my local police department they took care of it for me so please be careful on that kind of thing too
Kroger is a wellknown grocery store company, I can understand why attention from them might seem important at first. The use of google hangouts for communication is a definite red-flag. I have to say that anytime I have gotten email with instructions to set up a hangouts room, I have "run, not walk(ed) away from it. Never had one of these from a company in the us, it's been an Asian "company". It may sound biased but to me, a company using google hangouts for professional communication, really any google software other than their search-engine or mapping package doesn't create any faith in their reliability.
They also contacted me , asking the same thing. Giving me monies up front, so I wouldn't be out of pocket any money. But THANKS to social media I declined the offer , even though they made it sound so good !! That just shows that things that look and sound to good to be true , usually are !! Thanks !! Vickey
Hey I'm Larry hayes and I went through the same thing here in my hometown town with this same company
I had the same experience, I received a check which I felt it was too large so I went to the post office and they took care of the issue
i know some people is not that smart to fall for something like that i for myself had over $13,000 in bogus check that was send to me with that same scam a few of them they really wanted to do bodily harm if i did not give them their money what i do is before you deposit into your account call the bank on the check to find out it its real or fake and all the$13,000 checks that i got were all Phony