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Leslie Thomas
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Senior Retail Energy Consultant Field Energy Specialist at Solar Industry

SCAM ALERT - Again

I was contacted by a company seeking to employ me as a "Secret Shopper" for banks and other financial institutions. They sent me a $2,785 Cashiers Check in the mail - asking me to cash the check... keep my $285 fee - but go to the bank, and deposit the remaining cash into a checking account at Wells Fargo. I deposited the Cashiers Check, did not cash it. They texted me the account number to deposit the cash into, and provided me the account holders name. I contacted them via text - telling them I had followed everything exactly as they had asked. I knew something was up... so I never deposited any money, instead I contacted my bank, found out the Cashiers Check was a fake - and then went to Wells Fargo - explained the scam to them... and they contacted the Account holder to see if they were in on the scam... when they realized they were in on the scam, they froze their account - no access to any funds at all!!! Be careful out there. Wells Fargo Manager told me they got another scam - similar - but the girl ended up losing $10,000 in this one. So be extra careful!

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Mariah Bliss
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Oh wow, I'm so glad you told the community to look out for this! Never accept checks from an employer before you've even done any work - that's a surefire sign it's a scam!!

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