This started about two months ago when I answered an Email offering work as a mystery shopper. I have worked as a mystery shopper in the past so getting a message of this type did not set off any alarms. However, the message asked me to send a reply with a lot of personal information, including my DOB & SSN. I smelled a rat and sent back a reply asking them to take me off their mailing list. That was a mistake! Now I am getting three or four Emails a day that my AOL spam blocker will not block asking me to help catch dishonest Western Union agents by cashing money orders and sending funds to the Philippine Islands. Today I received from a Angel Morgan in Miami FL, via USPS Express Mail, two money orders for $985.00 each and instructions to cash them at my bank, ONLY, keep 12% and wire the remainder to a Laura Kahn in the Philippines. Already being suspicious, I checked and confirmed that this is just a scam and that the money orders will bounce after I deposit them and send the cash off to the "dishonest agent". The time needed to determine that the money orders are bogus would insure that my bank account would take the hit and I would be out $1,970.00!
Anyone with even modest skills in the English language would smell the rat after reading their lengthy letter and instructions because of the poor sentence structure and incorrect grammer.
I am going to take all this to the local Postmaster at the USPS to report the mail scam, but I doubt that it will do any good or stop these crooks from stealing from gullible people!
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