I received a letter of acceptance with a letterhead with this entity's name informing me that I had been hired to participate in their paid "Mystery Shoppers Program" and that the enclosed check of $1,386.30 was to be deposited into my account and I was to do two assignments: 1) to wire $950.00 to a Mr. William Bright at London, England, UK through Western Union Services; 2) to go to any of these stores: Walmart, Costco, Home Deport, Office Depot, Bestbuy or Sears and to spend $541.30 shopping and once done to fill out their Assigment Evaluation Form and fax it over to the Scam Artist name Andrew Yamada (Supposedly the Account Manager). These two assigments were done Friday and Sunday, when I checked my bank account it was negative in the amount of approximately $1.171.00. I was skeptical about this, but I had filled out a lot of paperwork online with Mystery Shopper, Inc. And I thought that this was them. Also, my bank told me that they were holding this check for two days and when it cleared in two days, I was under the impression that it had went through and it was valid. Today my bank tells me that the goverment rules for them is to hold them for two days (it used to be 10 days) but the Fed gives them feedback five days later if it bounces. The banks should advise the consumer that the Fed takes five days to give feedback about funds being withdrawn from other entities. It's not our fault, it my bank would have held this check for 10 days this would not have happened.
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