Direct Research Services, Inc. A letter came in the mail. I was picked to be a "Secret Shopper", and included was a check for $3,500.00. First task was Money Gram for $3,000. I did research on Company name...no luck there. Plano Texas
Beware of scams that you receive by mail, which is what I received. Even though I wasn't dooped I wanted to make people aware of this scam.
The so called companies name is "Direct Research Services, Inc." located in Plano, TX. The letter I received stated I was picked to be a "Consumer Service Evaluator", and a check made out to me for $3,500.00, which I was to deposit into my bank account. The check was from Allstate Life Insurance Company in Topeka, KS.
I was to do two tasks. The first was to go to a Money Gram store and do a Money Gram transfer of $3,000.00, and the second was to go to Walmart and spend $80.00 and keep what I bought as long as I saved all receipts and then fax all the information to them (Direct Research Services, Inc.). The $300.00 that was left was suppose to be for my first week pay.
I did my research and went on my computer to find no listing in Plano, Texas for "Direct Research Services, Inc." Nor did I when I did a reverse phone number look up on the number on their letterhead. It stated that the phone number was cell phone number...no name listed, but that it was actually a cell phone number for someone in "Quebec, Canada". I didn't need to go any further and new this was a scam.
If anyone receives these types of letters in the mail, please be aware that it is a scam. I was lucky and did not fall for it.
Tami
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.
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Laurie
Haslet,Texas,
U.S.A.
These scams use legitimate sounding company names and Banks with BOGUS ADDRESSES
#2Consumer Comment
Tue, December 02, 2008
So they appear to be legitimate. So just because it sounds like a household name
- the addresses if provided are never valid for the business or the bank.
For instance I received a suspicious email recently and posted it here too. Looked like some kind of phishing scam email.
(search on Spotscale.com)
ROR is the first place I tried to find complaints about FAKE $250 Starbucks giftcards.
Lots of links in the email to use - but I avoided those and did a google search on the website and tried to directly connect with www.spotscale.com -I was not surprised to find it did not exist.
I also tried to map the physical address in Canada they provided in the email.
Although there was no street number - just Queen Street South Bolton, Ontario Location did not exist. Turns out Queen street is a valid street name - but runs East-West Not North-South.