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Scammer's website www.gbw.solutions
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location RI 02908, USA
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
Scammer's address 1007CalleNavarra Carolina PR, Carolina, PR 00983, USA
Country United States
Victim Location NJ 08724, USA
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
Scammer's address 600 12th Ave. S, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Scammer's email Not applicable
Country United States
Victim Location GA 30338, USA
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
On January 30th, I received a text that I assumed was from GBW, indicating that I'd been approved for their Secret Shopper program. I was to receive my first assignment by US Priority Mail within 2 days. The package arrived February 1st, but as I was in DC, I did not have an opportunity to open it until last night. Once I reviewed it, I felt certain it was a fraud:
The package contained a cashiers check for $2900.92 and instructions (replete with significant grammatical errors and on home office style paper) to deposit the cashiers check. I was to keep $400 and use the remainder to purchase $2500 in eBay gift cards (denominations of $50 or $200) and send screen shots of the cards--with the pin/access code scratched off and visible--to the number from which I received the text message. If I did it all very quickly, I got a bonus. Frankly, it suggested a scam to me: I deposit a fraudulent check, then rush to buy gift cards and send all the information needed to use them to an anonymous phone number. I suspect that the check would bounce (it's from a tiny credit union in St. Louis) and by the time I realized that, all the value of the gift cards would have been wiped out. Instead of making $400, I'd lose $2500.
Instead, I decided to report the whole affair for what I think it is--a huge scam. I am even more convinced of this point because, when I went back to review the initial LinkedIn message I received, it was no longer attributed to the contact I knew and trusted. I was now attributed to an anonymous linked in member.
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location UT 84097, USA
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order
A week later I get this letter in the mail with a check for $2900. The letter stated I needed to go to Walmart and buy $2500 worth of Walmart Gift Cards. Then send images of those gift cards to [email protected]. The other $400 would be for me to keep for my labors. The check Remitter is Jesus Muratalla. Bank name is "The First State Bank". The shipping package has a sender name and address of Vindhya Reddy, 5 Richland Ln, Campbell PA 17011.
I obviously have not cashed the check. If I did, I imagine I'd end up losing that $2900 due to the check bouncing. But it would probably work long enough for me to cash the check and send the Walmart gift cards.
Also, the person that messaged me on LinkedIn messaged me again a couple weeks later saying her LinkedIn was hacked.
They claim to be a survey company called GBW but that's not who they are. on GBW's website they have a disclaimer but at least one company has been identified as a scam who's posing to be them. So beware!