Complaint Review: Precise Marketing Company

I responded to a craigslist ad in the bay area asking to do a survey for WORK PLACE STRESS. They asked for my address and I provided and Desiree Molly started to email me. At first she emailed me to let me know that the check of $3,000 will be arriving through FedEx and that I should cash it and do the survey. So I verified that the check was real, contacted Chase Manhattan Bank and verified that the account is real. And it was. So I proceeded to cash the check. Then I was standing there at the MoneyGram station, I was listening to the message that stated NOT to send any money to strangers. That alarmed me and I figured this must happen all the time. I backed out of the deal with I emailed the contact person and she started to be mean. I checked into the phone number of the person that sent the check, it was a dotcom answering service for Falcon Peak Consulting out of Colorado but the phone number provided is based out of Connecticut.

She was telling me that I should proceed with the survey and send the money through. I couldn't. Then the next day she kept hounding me that I should send it through Western Union instead to another person through the same Zip Code. Instead, I deposited the money back into my account. I know that my bank will be taking that money back out of my account sooner or later.

I think my gut feeling saved me from this SCAM. I've read other reports regarding the same company. I am just waiting for the bank to take the money back out.

I was trying to earn some extra cash on the side but all I got is a head ache and stress as to what is coming next.

I haven't heard from my bank at this point.... I am just waiting to hear that they taken the money out again and I'm ready...because I didn't fall for the SCAM and hopefully others wouldn't either.

Almost114
antioch, California
U.S.A.