Logistic Marketing Group Martin Cloud, Coordinator; Deborah Reid, Director of Human Resources. Cloud became offensive and angry when asked about the legitimacy of the check sent to me by his company. He became furious when I told him that I would be depositing the check he sent me into a newly Williston Park, New York
I was sent a job offer and check in the amount of $2,400.00 on April 1, 2012. The offer was a Consumer Services Evaluator's position. If I took the offer, I would deposit the check into my checking. Immediately, call Martin Cloud, then he would send me to designated businesses and department stores to evaluate their services. Western Union was the satellite for this scam. The scammers attempted to make it seem that I would make $340.00 up front and would be given $170.00 up front to go shopping at stores to be designated by Martin Cloud. The $340.00 amount and the $170.00 amount were already included in the check.
It is clear on its face that the job offer and check are not legitimate. It is highly questionable that a company would send money to someone to deposit into his/her checking account without that person having earned the money already. This company sent me a $2,400.00 cashier's check written on a Capital One Bank negotiable document with Capital One Bank's symbol on it. It seemed real. But I remembered that nothing is "free." Nobody pays anyone in advance!
I was directed in the letter sent along with the check to deposit the check into my checking account. I was further directed that on the following day, I was to withdraw from that same checking account, all but $340.00. The money withdrawn was to be sent through Western Union to Martin Cloud. Why so much? Also, some of the cash withdrawn was for me to go shopping. I would keep the merchandise that I purchase, but would only go to the stores that Martin Cloud assigns to me. Sounds fishy to me. Who's working with Martin Cloud at the stores he was to send me to?
The really hilarious part about this scam was that Martin Cloud did not appreciate my very insightful questions I posed to him when I called him and had a conversation over the telephone about the legitimacy of the transactions and the $2,400.00 check, especially. When I told him that I was quite leery about his offer and would not deposit the $2,400.00 check into my checking account where my own money resides that I use to pay my bills and live off of, but would open a new account to deposit the check within, he became furious. He told me that I didn't have to do it if I don't trust it and that since I had so many questions, I should forget it.
I already knew that this was a scam - money offered up front without earning it first; having to deposit the check into your personal checking account; having to withdraw all but $340.00 the very next day of depositing it which would not give the check, even if it were legitimate, a chance to clear the bank; sending such a large amount of money back to Martin Cloud. Why not send $25.00 or $50.00, for example? Please beware of such frauds.