I applied for a mistery shopper in which I found on *****slist.com a couple of months ago.

The reason why I tried it, is because they do not ask you for any personal information such as SSN or CC information.

So I went about doing it.
The agreement was, that they were going to send me 3, 500.00 in a check.

I was supposed to cash it at a bank, and use 3, 000.00 of it to wire it to Money Gram ($100.00 for the transfer) and 200.00 of it to McDonald's.

They told me I was to do both of those jobs, and to write up a full report of the time I was in there doing the transfer (at Money Gram) and ordering food (McDonalds).

I already knew, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
So I wasn't planning on cashing the check when I got it.
I was going to tell the scammer I cashed it and get the address of the person he was going to give me for the money transfer that I was supposed to do for Money Gram because I was going to go downtown to the FBI agency to tell them it was a scam.

Instead, when the check came in, the bank that it was issued from was a couple blocks away from my house.

Small note: The address it came from was a different place then what was on the check. The place on the envelop did not exist in New York. It was a fake city.

So, I go to the bank, and I ask to speak with a teller.
I explain to her that I aquired this job off of the internet and that I think it is a fake. I want to know if the check is.

So I look to my right, and there is a plaque with this woman's name on it reading, "SCAM BUSTER!"

Hey, this is just my day!
She looks at the check and right away tells me, FAKE!

She told me she will go and make sure, which she did and came back and asked to scan the items I recieved (check and envelop). She was very helpful in letting me know how she knew the check was a fake right away.

She explained to me that the little marks on the bottom of the check were in the wrong sequence.

She also looked up the account in which the scammer was using and noticed that there were many cashed check with that account.
She put the account on freeze and told me it will now be investigated.

So sad other people were scammed into this.

She explained to me that if I was to cash it, I would have been given the 3500.00 in my hand.
But I would have then had to pay the 3500.00 back to the bank plus all the fees the bank wanted afterwards. She said it would have been a total mess.

I would like to put this up here for everyone to see not to get scamed by:
Secret shopper scammers.

This place used the name as Best Mark Inc

I asked if I can just do McDonalds (because I read you should never do any transactions for Money Gram) and the person (who only contacted me through the internet) told me I must do Money Gram too or I do not have the job.

I did go home and email him and told him, "I cashed the check, now who do I wire the $3000.00 to?"