- Report: #1146273
Complaint Review: Menke & Associates Inc - San Francisco California
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Butterflychaser -
jacksonville, Florida,
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Menke & Associates Inc
PO Box 98765 San Francisco, 94111-4916 California, USA
Phone:
877-509-1090
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Menke & Associates, Inc Offered a Job that does not exsist San Francisco California
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I received a letter in the mail on 5/12/14 from Menke & Associates, offering a position called: Trainee Independent
Private Evaluator. Enclosed was a check in the amount of $3,880.00. On the Customer Evaluation Form it included
details of what I would do with the funds after I cashed it.
I was to purchase 6, $500.00 ($3,000.00) Greendot or Vanilla Reload Packs at various locations where they are
sold. The stores I was to shop at are Rite Aid, CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens, and Dollar General. I was to keep
$800.00 for my evaluation and training pay. I could purchase $50.00 worth of items from any of the stores and
could keep them. There was a service charge of $30.00 to purchase the Reload Packs.
After the Reload Packs were purchased, I needed to call and provide all 6 Reload Pack numbers with an agent prior
to faxing the form I received.
I called the phone number on the letter to activate the check before depositing it into my bank to ask questions. The
person I spoke to was explaining what I would do and then asked for the check number so he can activate it.
I told him not yet.
I got on the internet searching for any information I could find out about the company or any reported scams. I
decided to call the bank that was on the check so I could verify if this was truly a valid checking account. The
representative requested the 9 digits of the account number and the check number. The representative said they
could not verify the check number I gave him. He asked if I could fax him a copy of the check so he can look into it.
I faxed all the information to the bank and received a phone call eastern standard time at 2:00 pm on 5/13/14 to
let me know that the check was not valid and was turning the information I provided him over to begin an investigation.
He suggested I call the local authorities to report this.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
John
San Francisco,California,
USA
Greendot Scam
#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, October 13, 2015
The letter and the check that you received in the mail was not from our firm. Rather, it was a forged letter and a forged check that was designed to make you think that it came from our firm. The purpose of this scam was to have you deposit the forged check so that the scam would not be traceable to the people who forged the letter and the check.
You did the right thing by calling the bank and asking if the check was valid. Several other recipients of similar letters did not do this and were able to cash these bogus checks. As a result, our firm lost several thousand dollars before our bank discovered that these checks were bogus.
