{"id":1380,"date":"2010-08-08T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2012-10-06T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T19:27:10","slug":"mystery-shopper-western-union-counterfeit-check-scam-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/1380\/misc-projects\/exposed-scams\/mystery-shopper-western-union-counterfeit-check-scam-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Shopper Scam | Western Union Scam | Counterfeit Check Scam | Fake Check Scam – Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Mystery Shopper Western Union counterfeit check scam has been around for many years and is recently on the rise again.\u00a0 There are many variations on this particular type of criminal scam.\u00a0 The typical formula for the Mystery Shopper\u00a0scammers is to send you a letter in the mail informing you that you have been selected as a Mystery Shopper candidate to evaluate Western Union’s customer service level.\u00a0 Counterfeit checks, bad checks, fake checks\u00a0or forged checks are also included in the letter.\u00a0 Your Mystery Shopper “job” is to\u00a0cash those counterfeit checks, bad checks, faked checks\u00a0or forged checks and send the majority of the money \/cash through the Western Union money transfer \/ transaction system\u00a0under the fake job assignment of \u00a0evaluating Western Union as\u00a0service providers.\u00a0 Your payment for this fake Mystery Shopper assignment scam is that you get to keep the remaining amount of the counterfeit check, bad check, fake check\u00a0or forged check that you cashed.\u00a0 Besides being ripped off by these criminal scams, cashing counterfeit checks, bad checks, fake checks\u00a0or forged checks can get you arrested and even convicted of a felony.<\/p>\n

I recently received a letter in the mail notifying my that I had been selected as a Mystery Shopper candidate.\u00a0 The letter informed me that I would pose as a potential customer sending a Western Union payment as a Mystery Shopper to evaluate Western Union’s services.\u00a0 The Mystery Shopper scammers request that you contact them immediately upon receipt of the letter so that you can speak with an assignment co-ordinator and validate or activate the enclosed check.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of destroying the counterfeit checks from this scam I decided to expose these particular criminals\u00a0and put them out of business for good hopefully.\u00a0\u00a0These particular\u00a0Mystery Shopper scam criminals were\u00a0operating out of Ontario Canada, specifically in the Toronto, Ontario\u00a0and London, Ontario areas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I legally recorded a series of 4 conversations with these Mystery Shopper counterfeit check scamming criminals on my business telephone knowing full well that I was talking to check counterfeiting criminals who were trying to involve me in a crime and of course steal money.\u00a0 There were actually 5 recorded conversations, but I cannot use the first conversation for legal reasons.\u00a0 The first conversation is not that interesting anyway.\u00a0 The criminals are sizing me up and assessing how suspicious I am.\u00a0 The 4 recorded conversations are split into two parts so that they could be shared on YouTube.<\/p>\n

I want to sincerely thank the London, Ontario Police department for their assistance in catching these criminals.<\/p>\n

* No information has been provided or disclosed about how to successfully track and catch these criminals.\u00a0 If you are a check counterfeiting criminal you are wasting your time by watching\u00a0these recordings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a>Mystery Shopper Scam Exposed – Criminals Busted (1 of 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mystery Shopper Scam Exposed – Criminals Busted (2 of 2)<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video \/ Audio Recordings The Mystery Shopper Western Union counterfeit check scam has been around for many years and is recently on the rise again.\u00a0 There are many variations on this particular type of criminal scam.\u00a0 The typical formula for the Mystery Shopper\u00a0scammers is to send you a letter in the mail informing you that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[247,244,248,246,245],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exposed-scams","tag-mystery-shopper-bad-check-scam","tag-mystery-shopper-check-scam","tag-mystery-shopper-counterfeit-check-scam","tag-mystery-shopper-fake-check-scam","tag-western-union-check-scam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}