My story is similar to the others listed here: someone posing as C&C Market Research (as C&C seems to be a legitimate company) sent me a check and instructed me to secret shop various locations. I was to keep $500 as my compensation and use the remainder to purchase gift cards and a cashier check for a charity in Florida. The check would not cash at the bank, so I began to do a little research. I am so glad I didn’t spend the money prior to the check processing! They encourage you to complete your assignment in 12 or 24 hours to receive a bonus. I have cancelled the check deposit and reported it to the police. The Fraud Department state’s they had just spoken to someone else that had lost $6000 to this type of scam. I hope that people find this review before falling victim!
I was notified by email that a letter and cashier's check is coming for me to do a secret shopping and report back to the company my findings. I was to shop Walmart and spend $50 and then Send a Money Gram to a person in Texas o $640. The cashier's check was for $990. I was very hesitant to do this but was assure that it would be good. I had 48 hours to get this job complete and was told by the person who text me that the check would clear in 48 hours and that I could do the job after that time. It sounded ok to move forward with the job so I deposited the check and waited for the 48 hours and then withdrew the $640 to send by money gram and did the shopping for the alotted amount of $50 sent the money gram and then checked my bank balance to make sure all was good. The $990 was put on hold and the reversed due to the check being returned. I contacted the phone number by text and was advised that the money was there and that it would be ok. I figured that I could have hit the wrong key so I tried again only to find that the check was returned. I contact the person that gave me the instructions and he said the money was good, not to worry. How could I not worry the money that was in my account is now gone and I have things of my own bouncing everywhere.
Yes I do worr as this scam will cost me $300 in overdraft fees and money I don't have thanks to my stupidity and trusting others. I was able to stop the money gram from being picked up on the other end and getting the $640 back and put it back in the bank account to accout for some of the money that is missing to cover expenses. Don't trust anyone when it comes money, I won't anymore. I feel quite stupid. Please be careful out there. I am not sure how got my phone number and email address but had their fun with me, lieing that they would take care of me not!!!
Sent me a cashier's check in the amount of $2240, congratulating me on being hired as a secret shopper. The instructions that came with the check instructed me to cash the check and send western unions to 2 people that lived in 2 different places , from 2 different western union locations. Payment for completing this training would be $240 for an hour of work. The check is uncashable and I could have been arrested for fraud. Total ripof .
Dennis is offering Secret Shopper jobs. Instead of sending you on an assignement the first assignment is to wire money. He sends you a check (mine was $2,240.00) tells you to deposit it in your own bank account, then wite funds to two different people - Christie Hoff in Plainefiled, Illionois and Linda Nichols in Patoka, Illinois and to keep $240 for the services you provdid after you complete the wire and a survey.
I called the bank the "Cashier's Check" was written off of - AcademyBank - they could not verify that the check was written off their bank.
I sent a copy of the fraudlant check, a copy of the email and a copy of the instruction letter to the Loss Prevention/Fraud Department of the bank.
So I got a package to become a mystery shopper and my 1st assignment was to wire money to 2 different people in 2 different states. In the package was a check of $2240 where $240 was my commission and the balance was to do the wire transfer. The contact person was from new york but the mail came from florida. The 1st name of the guy was the same but the last was different. The check was writtin on a local bank in la whereas the contact guy was in a different state. That was a red flag for me. When I googled the company it's a scam. What do I do cause im not cashing this check in my bank like the direction says
C&C Market Research, Inc. Reviews
Secret Shopper Scam
My story is similar to the others listed here: someone posing as C&C Market Research (as C&C seems to be a legitimate company) sent me a check and instructed me to secret shop various locations. I was to keep $500 as my compensation and use the remainder to purchase gift cards and a cashier check for a charity in Florida. The check would not cash at the bank, so I began to do a little research. I am so glad I didn’t spend the money prior to the check processing! They encourage you to complete your assignment in 12 or 24 hours to receive a bonus. I have cancelled the check deposit and reported it to the police. The Fraud Department state’s they had just spoken to someone else that had lost $6000 to this type of scam. I hope that people find this review before falling victim!
I was notified by email that a letter and cashier's check is coming for me to do a secret shopping and report back to the company my findings. I was to shop Walmart and spend $50 and then Send a Money Gram to a person in Texas o $640. The cashier's check was for $990. I was very hesitant to do this but was assure that it would be good. I had 48 hours to get this job complete and was told by the person who text me that the check would clear in 48 hours and that I could do the job after that time. It sounded ok to move forward with the job so I deposited the check and waited for the 48 hours and then withdrew the $640 to send by money gram and did the shopping for the alotted amount of $50 sent the money gram and then checked my bank balance to make sure all was good. The $990 was put on hold and the reversed due to the check being returned. I contacted the phone number by text and was advised that the money was there and that it would be ok. I figured that I could have hit the wrong key so I tried again only to find that the check was returned. I contact the person that gave me the instructions and he said the money was good, not to worry. How could I not worry the money that was in my account is now gone and I have things of my own bouncing everywhere.
Yes I do worr as this scam will cost me $300 in overdraft fees and money I don't have thanks to my stupidity and trusting others. I was able to stop the money gram from being picked up on the other end and getting the $640 back and put it back in the bank account to accout for some of the money that is missing to cover expenses. Don't trust anyone when it comes money, I won't anymore. I feel quite stupid. Please be careful out there. I am not sure how got my phone number and email address but had their fun with me, lieing that they would take care of me not!!!
Sent me a cashier's check in the amount of $2240, congratulating me on being hired as a secret shopper. The instructions that came with the check instructed me to cash the check and send western unions to 2 people that lived in 2 different places , from 2 different western union locations. Payment for completing this training would be $240 for an hour of work. The check is uncashable and I could have been arrested for fraud. Total ripof .
Dennis is offering Secret Shopper jobs. Instead of sending you on an assignement the first assignment is to wire money. He sends you a check (mine was $2,240.00) tells you to deposit it in your own bank account, then wite funds to two different people - Christie Hoff in Plainefiled, Illionois and Linda Nichols in Patoka, Illinois and to keep $240 for the services you provdid after you complete the wire and a survey.
I called the bank the "Cashier's Check" was written off of - AcademyBank - they could not verify that the check was written off their bank.
I sent a copy of the fraudlant check, a copy of the email and a copy of the instruction letter to the Loss Prevention/Fraud Department of the bank.
So I got a package to become a mystery shopper and my 1st assignment was to wire money to 2 different people in 2 different states. In the package was a check of $2240 where $240 was my commission and the balance was to do the wire transfer. The contact person was from new york but the mail came from florida. The 1st name of the guy was the same but the last was different. The check was writtin on a local bank in la whereas the contact guy was in a different state. That was a red flag for me. When I googled the company it's a scam. What do I do cause im not cashing this check in my bank like the direction says