Thomas Britt-l.holland gmx Secret Shopper

On Feb 27, 2012, at 9:40 AM, "William Hunter"<[email protected]> wrote:

> Attn: Prospective Shopper,
>
> The company has issued out a payment to you for your first assignment which means your payment of $200.00 has been issued to you with some funds which you will use in executing this Assignment.
>
> 1ST ASSIGNMENT:
> Assignment (A) Wal-Mart Evaluation:-
> Assignment (B) Western Union Evaluation:-
>
> IMPORTANT NOTE:-
>
> You need to acknowledge the recipient of this package via email as soon as you receive it. And also send reports via email as soon as you complete your first assignment today.
>
> You will be Evaluating Wal-Mart store and Western Union outlet in your City.
> {EVALUATE THE NEAREST STORES}.
>
> INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:-
>
> You are instructed to Cashed the payment at your Bank for record purpose and then go ahead with Wal-Mart Evaluation and Then Western Union Evaluation. The payment you received covers all expenditures including evaluation, shopping, transport and your compensation (Total Assignment Payment $250.00 for walmart/western union) for these surveys .You are to purchase Goods of your
> Choice for your own Use not more than $50.00 at any Wal-Mart store close to you and also you will be using Western Union services to send the balance to another Mystery shopper to carry out he's own Assignment (We want to confirm the differences between Local transfers and International transfers)
>
> **************************************************************
> REPORTS REQUIRES GUIDELINES
>
> (1)How long it took you to get services.
>
> (2)-Ambience/Outlook of the Shop/Outlet
>
> (3)-Smartness of the attendant
>
> (4)-Customer service professionalism
> (5)-Reaction of personnel under pressure
>
> (6)-Information that you think would be helpful
>
> (7)-Your comments and impressions.
>
>
>
> ***************************************************************
> As a secret shopper your job is to observe any thing useful going on in the outlet. Make sure you observe everything you see in there because you would be asked some other questions when you return. So then you would go ahead and make a western union money transfer to another mystery shopper for another assignment. We want you to deduct your payment of $200.00 and have the remaining
> funds sent to the information below for proper preparation of our next Mystery Shopper. (Minus the western union fee $50 and also the $50.00 for whatever you will be buying at Wal-Mart)
> ***************************************************************
> TRANSFER THE REST OF THE FUNDS THROUGH WESTERN UNION TO THE BELOW INFORMATION:
>
> Receiver Name: Rahimat Arolambo
> Receiver Address: 342 wills drive
> City: Chicago
> State: Il
> Zip code: 60609
>
> REQUIRED INFORMATIONS AFTER TRANSFER IS COMPLETED VIA WESTERN UNION:-
>
> 1. Senders Name and Sender Address =
> 2. 10 Digits Money Transfer Control Number {M.T.C.N} =
> 3. The amount transferred in dollars=
> 4. Amount to be received in dollars=
>
> Upon completion of your evaluation, you are to send us the information that you use in sending it as it appears below via email to the following email [email protected].
>
> Yours Sincerely.
> William Hunter

The Scam is the money orders are counterfeit!!

I just received the same "prospective shopper" letter. I checked the MoneyOrder through USPS's moneyorder validation phone number but it wasn't really necessary since it didn't have the ben franklin watermark,'

The only difference between yours and mine was the receiver name. Any chance anyone know anything on the receiver address?

342 will drive, chicago, IL 60609

On Feb 27, 2012, at 9:40 AM, "William Hunter"<[email protected]> wrote:


> TRANSFER THE REST OF THE FUNDS THROUGH WESTERN UNION TO THE BELOW INFORMATION:
>
> Receiver Name: Rahimat Arolambo
> Receiver Address: 342 wills drive
> City: Chicago
> State: Il
> Zip code: 60609
>

The Scam is the money orders are counterfeit!!

Out of curiosity, did you save the envelope that the fake money order was sent in?
There is a long number on the USPS Priority Mail slip 32 numbers long just under the words Click-N-Ship. If you type that into the the USPS website it'll show you what area it was mailed out from. The one that was sent to me was from California. I'm seeing what info I can compile on this scammer to see if there's any correlation that can result in identification.

The sender will most likely not be the scammer, and neither will the WU recipient. The scammer is most likely not even in the country.

Scammers typically use victims to send their fake checks. Most often it will either be a romance victim, who thinks he or she is helping their lover to pay legitimate debts, or a fake job victim, who believes he/she has a job as a payroll representative or company agent. The victim is receiving and forwarding the steps, or the scammer is actually providing account information and having the victim print the checks and send them out.

If the money order was sent to you via USPS, then you should go ahead and report it as mail fraud, as the mailing account is also likely compromised and USPS can investigate and handle it.

So far that's what it's looking like. The sender is definitely female in the City of Industry area of California. And the emails are bouncing through yahoo from Ghana. Half way tempted to package a trojan in zip file and send it to them as a need to open to get a fake MTCN.

Any rate.... Where do I report the mail fraud for USPS?

Report it at your local post office. They will be interested in the money order for sure.

I know this is not suggested but I found out about my scammer:

His name is Michael Davies (maybe) but he definitely lives/operates out of Ghana (various email headers all point back to Ghana and he's demonstrated knowledge o Ghana.

http://www.michael-owen-davies.com/Story.html

He has a history of scamming women romantically through dating websites:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=p ... 6&bih=1321

The best collection of his scams is here:

http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/male_scammers/f3162.shtml

FBI (IC3) has a file on him. If you have any accounts of him ripping you off please go here and report it:

http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx