I feel like I am dealing with the same individuals...I too received emails and my job's scope of work morphed into the following and I beleive that you may have been sent a check that they had me send out. You definitely should report them. I will be reporting the information to the proper outlets over the next few days. I would contact the company that supposedly endorsed the check and see if they know why you would have a check made out to you from them and if it's authorized. Can you confirm if the check is for $3,000? What does the signature look like? What company is the check written from (I.e. St. Mary's College, All State International, etc). Please see the following solicitations that I received from HGC Marketing, LLC;
FIRST PROPOSED JOB:
Dear Applicant,
The position for the first survey is filled already but we have another survey going on now. Below you will find the full details of what the survey is all about.Get back to us with the required information if you are interested.
HGC MARKETING LLC. is an Evaluation and Survey company involved in helping Companies achieve market leadership, and after 4 years of experience serving hundreds of clients, we have developed particular strengths in the following areas.
Conduct market research to determine what our client's target markets requires. Evaluate and analyze competitive products and services. Discover market opportunities.
All of this go a long way in helping our numerous clients achieve market leadership. Our company is currently conducting a research, we are surveying the U.S financial market for an existing European financial institute interested in expanding its operations to the U.S.
About The Survey.
You will be required to complete two survey forms. The first survey require that you actually try out the services the above companies render as a customer and give us feedback on your overall customer experience with them. A check to cover all expenses needed to conduct this survey will mailed via Fed ex to you. The second form will ask general questions regarding your use of the above companies and your interactions with them after conducting the survey.
such as: 1) How long it took you to get services. 2) Smartness of the attendant. 3) Customer service professionalism.
Your pay per survey conducted is $300 and will be included in the check that will be mailed to you for the survey, each survey takes a maximum of 2 hours to complete. This is a serious task and we need only serious minded people to participate.
Should you be interested in participating in this survey send us a reply containing the following information.
Full Names: Contact Address(P.O. Box not allowed): City: State: Zip Code: Home Phone: Cell Phone: Email Address: Age: Present Occupation:
We shall get back to you after receiving these information to confirm your participation in the survey.
Yours faithfully, John McCarthy Marketing and Research Co ordinator
HGC MARKETING LLC 367 Prospect St. Stoughton,MA,02072
SECOND PROPOSED JOB:
Good Morning,
This is to confirm you have been selected as our Survey / Evaluation agent in your area. You will be evaluating a Money Gram outlet in your neighborhood.
Please note you will be required to visit One Money Gram outlet within your neighborhood to patronize there services as a customer by making a transfer and give us feedback on your overall customer experience with them by completing a questionnaire.
A check to cover all expenses needed to conduct this survey will be mailed to you via Fed ex before or on the survey date and your pay on every survey conducted is $300, which will be included in the check that will be mailed to you for the survey.
Respond ASAP to this email on your acceptance and willingness to carry out the survey for the company confirming the required information where the funds should be mailed to.
Your Full Names Full Postal/Contact Address (P.o.Boxes are not allowed) City/State/Zip Code Home/Cell Phone Numbers
Thank You and hope to hear From you Today. referring
Yours faithfully, John McCarthy Marketing and Research Co ordinator
THIRD AND FINAL PROPOSED JOB:
Hello,
How have you been and how's work with you.Sorry for not contacting you all these while,I was in an accident and had some injuries so I had to stay in the hospital for a while but I'm better now.Since I was the one in charge of the survey I had to handle it myself.
I'll like to propose a job to you,we recently added a service we call TradeSure ,this service is similar to that of an escrow ,in simple terms we verify payment being sent by a buyer to a seller and forward the payment to the seller on completion of the transaction .We have a number of clients already signing up for our service because it is affordable .
Buyers who use our service send us their sellers payment in the mail , we receive them and then have them verified using the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system before forwarding them to the sellers.
This process is a lengthy one and takes a lot of time . This is why we have requested that buyers send us their checks electronically so we can verify payment almost immediately and have it printed out and sent to sellers.
As our Off Site Assistant you will be responsible for:
? Collecting mailing supplies ? Receiving and mailing out correspondence on our behalf. ? Printing out payments (Checks) and mailing to corresponding seller using our courier account . ? Keeping company files CONFIDENTIAL. ? Any other related duties as may be reasonably assigned by the Accountant.
You will have a lot of time doing a regular job this will be more like a part time job. But understand that we only want an individual who will be Diligent and Swift in carrying out its duties. We shall provide you with all the equipment and supplies you will need to have all the duties outlined above carried out .Your monthly salary shall be $800 .Send us an e-mail acknowledging the offer if you would like to take up the position.
Regards, James
I wonder if you have received or are supposed to be one of the recepients of these checks. I'm interested in your feedback and it appears if are stories are related then we have opur tru answer to this scam.
If the check is deposited to your account, the funds will clear in a couple of days, you'll withdraw the money, keep your cut, then the check will finally bounce back to you and you'll be responsible to cover thet $2,500 plus dollars...I think..sounds like the scam.
Let me know.
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