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Job Scam: Fake Bestmark Offer is a Fake Check Scam
- 1-28-2010
- Categorized in: Fake Check Scam, Job Scams
Watch for recruitment emails from mail2recruiter.com. *Correction* mail2recruiter.com is a free email address provided by another vendor- no name mentioned because we are not going to do any free advertising here.
This scammer is impersonating bestmark.com - everything "appears" to be from "bestmark.com" but you are asked to communicate with him through the email address at mail2recruiter.com. This email isn't from Bestmark.
And this is not a money mule scam, but a fake check scam. The scammer uses "bestmark" because of the nature of bestmark's business, hoping that you will believe that its really a "mystery shopper" job offer.
Let me teach you how to spot this scam. Its highlighted in red below.
This is a quick summary so that it will get into your head:
1) Issue you a Check $2,500
2) Ask you to "keep" $245 as salary plus expenses.
3) Transfer Cash to someone else.
Other than this, the rest of the email about surveys are all BS.
Did someone say "You will never know until you've tried it?"
Well, there are people who have tried similar offers and are sharing their experience all over the web. It may not be from this exact email, but its so easy to modify the content and send a different version everyday. Its "Free", the scammer paid almost nothing except for the scam domain name. They can change their names, their story, and their target (this time its bestmark). They have no overheads. They are the ones getting paid 100% at your expense.
-----Original Message-----
From: BESTMARK [mailto:info@bestmark.com]
Sent: 28 January 2010 09:43
Subject: (Mystery Shopper) Acknowledge this email and send your application
to Joyce Spring.
BESTMARKR is presently recruiting a "limited" number of MYSTERY SHOPPERS.
POSITION TITLE: Regional Mystery Shopper
AVAILABILITY: Open
START DATE: Immediate
COMMISSION: $200 Per Survey
Attention: Esteemed Customer,
Following the successful assessment of your application, you have been
selected as a Secret Shopper for your region. We strongly believe you have
got what it takes to carry out the various surveys in your regions and hope
we would not be disappointed. A cheque will be deivered to you in place of
the Credit card details as earlier requested. You are expected to re-confirm
the below applicatin for us to proceed.
YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSIBILITY:
To conduct a hidden survey on the nearest MONEY GRAM outlet in your location
by forwarding a fixed amount from the cheque that will be issued to you in
another 3-5 days to a mystery consumer in another region who is conducting
the same survey at the "RECIPIENT" end.
A cashier's check of $2500.00 will be issued and should get delivered to you
via regular mail within the next 3-5 days.
Your income is 200 on the check.
You're to deduct another $45.00 to cover the Money Transfer Charges at the
MONEY GRAM location to the Mystery Consumer.
RATINGS OF THE MONEY GRAM OUTLETS SERVICE:
You are to simply rate the MONEY GRAM outlets service on a scale of POOR,
FAIR, GOOD and EXCELLENT by simply observing and recording the parameters
below:
Service:
Friendliness:
Efficiency:
You are to simply send us an e-mail with your rating of the store /depot
under the parameters above with the reference number of the funds sent.
NOTE: ITS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THE RECEIPT OF THIS EMAIL IF
YOU TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THIS PROCEDURE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ACCEPT THIS
PAYMENT.
First Name:
Middle Name:
Last Name:
Address Line 1:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Age:
Home Phone Number:
Cell / Mobile Phone Number:
E-mail:
Re-submit the above application to this email address and call this number
for confirmation:
Tel: (914) 930 0439
Email: joyce@mail2recruiter.com
Warmest Regards,
Joyce A. Spring.
BESTMARKR
5605 Green Circle Drive,
Suite #200, Minnetonka,
MN 55343-9602
Website: www.bestmark.com
Email: applications@mail2recruiter.com
BESTMARKR "THE LEADER IN CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE INNOVATION"
Can someone help me please,i dont know what to do.I got an email from a guy named gregoire lagarda. H e said he was from bestmark, turns out bestmark employs no such person by that name.
Anyhow i deposited the check he sent me today,it was for 2,340 dollars and 40 cents. He previously sent me instructions that i was to keep 300 dollars for myself and send 2000 dollars to an address in the UK by western union.
I also am having the bank do a check verification, they say they will let me know tomorrow, i know its a fraud
Here is my dilemma, if i withdraw the check and send them money , I will owe the bank 2340 dollars when it comes back for insufficient funds,and i dont know if i can get the original check back to tear it up.
When i got the check thru ups , there was a sending address from San Antonio Texas.
These people have my address, are they a drug cartel or what, CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT TO DO?
I received a check from Bestmark in Minnetonka, MN for $1467.00. $300.00 to survey Western Union and a retail store. Placed the check in my acct and asked the teller is this check looked fake. She said no. I did further investigation and found this website and found out the check is fraudulent. I have reported it to my bank and post office and will file a poilce report. Thankful to my bank for placing it on hold. These people are good so be prepared and do your research before thinking about putting it in your acct. Take it directly to the proper officials
Bestmark is a real company, but they wont send that kind of email out and wont send monet ahead of time. Also the email address is not from bestmark, I got one and it was aol account, even though it displayed as customersupport@bestmarks.com ( the real bestmark does not have s and end). If you hit reply, like your going to reply and look at the email address you will know its fake
I received a letter from bestmark with a check for $1,467. I was suppose to take out 300, western union 967, service fee was 100, retail shop was 100. It was signed Mildred Lambert. Phone number of 818-666-9604.
The check looks real and I almost cashed it. But on the cashiers check under the banks name it doesn't have a phone number for the bank. Can't read the person who signed it. It looks like Saueta Alledesde. Just a heads up people.
i actually did mystery shops for the real bestmark and they bounced my damn check and messed up my unemployment by claiming that they are actual employment, which they are not, and that i "quit" my "job." you idiots are giving your money away and should know better. i did the right thing including absurdly long surveys for 14 damn dollars called "reimbursement" and got screwed.
I also got a cashier's check from Bestmark dated Nov. 28,2011 the same day I received in the mail. It was for $1,530. It had a water mark at the back of the check. It looked so real. When i went to go try to cash it they told me it was a scam. They tried verifing the chck ansd they couldn
Hey Everyone, I just receive an email from Brian White. He says he is the HR manager at BestMark and chose me as a mystery shopper, etc. etc. etc. When I get the information in the mail, I am taking it to the post office to report their fraudulent activity.
Hey, damn im reading everybodys comment. And I got the same travelers check, I new it was too good to be true. and mine said it was from Rachael Newman. Im sooo glad that i checked dis website before cashing dat damn check. I cant afford another bill. Thanks everybody for your advice...
its a scam.The one i got is from a Rachel Newman.Its a joke. I called the number 1-806-839-7943.Just throw the check away
Bestmark is also a scam. They've changed their policies so much it's almost impossible to get full compensation. The most you can hope for is reimbursement when you have to front the money for a dinner shop or a small purchase. I shopped for them for years with no problem but they've gotten greedy over the last year. This last time they took off so many deductions I will be happy if I get anything (and my reports never received deductions in the past). Many of my mystery shopping friends have had issues with them as well. They started out with good intentions.
i also got a letter saying ti's from BESTMARK and they are paying $300 for every mystery shop. I applied directly to their website. I ignored the personal letter/email asking for important information.
Wow...they havent caught these people yet? This has been going on for years.
save your envelopes
take to post office and turn in as postal fraud
it is federal offence to send counterfiet checks thru the mail
If comes from Canada then is INTERNATIONAL postal fraud
POST OFFICE does investigate
exactly same as I got today, glad I gogled it. Well, I am about to give that dude a ride :), I just love to scam scamers :)). Is there any way to report them?
I didn't get a check or cashiers check I got money orders. I went to a site called Snopes that post information on fauds, and found slightly matching information. So I went to the BBB sight to check out Bestmark, they are a ligitmate company but it is listed there that someone is using their company in fraudulant behavior in a check scam. I contacted the company.
WTH!!! I just got my SCAM LETTER in the mail yesterday; I knew it was to good to be true. So I decided to do some research myself and comes to find out that little TRICK name Theresa Baker wrote me a check for $1,460.00 just like she did some of you. I called her, just to see what other like she wanted to tell: and she said call us back once you have cashed the check so we can know. BITCH you must be out your mind, You got me twisted big time! Please dont get caught up with they attemping to commit fraud asses!! Please dont!
I recieved a letter from Service Check which was a scam. The lady,s name is Theresa Baker. Luckily I did not spend any of the money, njust returned iot to the bank. If should be against the law for people to buy checks and put someone else,s bank name to get money theirself. They need to get out and get theirself job a job and qut taking off innocent people
hi i received the letter and check today so i called this theresa baker who couldn't even pronounce her own name correctly she said the samething deposit it and call when it clears they are jamaica or some island the language is horrible the number is (818) 539-6046 when i first called she answered then hung up because i think she forgot the name of the company dumb ass scammer whats up with using the same name im sure they read whats on this site just beware and for those that where scammed maybe look into getting a lawyer so you dont have to pay it back in full but make payments remember it still was not your money so dont be mad at them for wanting it back try to make an agreement so you dont go to jail peace and god bless
Hey its me again, I'm reporting this to the FBI and lets hope that they can stop these people. This site should take you to your nearest FBI station http://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field/listing_by_state locate your nearest FBI location and email them. Laters.
I got the same letter from a Theresa Baker dated Feb 07,2011 but this time she try to make the phone number seem real, it was (952)583-3173. I did a little research and found out that the real number for BestMark was (952) 922-3890. I call them and they said the check is fake as soon as you say cashier's check, they know its fake. Well as all of you know BestMark don't send out checks and ask you to send or transfer money to anybody. I read almost everybodys' comments and was wondering what can we do about this??? I mean there is alot of people out there getting scam and there will be more unless theses people are stopped! Anybody know what we can do???