Got a letter that was post marked in Madrid. The check was for nearly $1900 with a letter that said I had been chosen to be a mystery shopper. I was to deposit the check, take out $350 for my time and use the remainder on two assignments. First assignment was to wire a majority of the money to someone in Spain through western union. Second assignment was to spend the remaining $50 at Walmart and report how I was treated, etc. Check was drawn from HSBC bank.
HSBC has been alerted to this. I gave them the check and the letter. The check looks VERY real and the routing number is an HSBC routing number. Also, if you google this company, no other scams come up (nothing comes up for Mintel International - but a mystery shopping company called Mintel DOES come up), so this is likely someting relatively new.
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