Hello everyone!  I am with Klein Educational Systems and if you received a check IT IS A FORGERY and the letter with it IS A SCAM.  We are not in any way associated with the people perpetrating this scam.  Please file a MAIL FRAUD Claim with the US Postal Service.

http://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/forms/MailFraudComplaint.aspx

Thank you!

I recieved the same kind of letter last week, my bank told me if it is a con then I can press charges, to all scamed we can possibly form a civil suit. an possibly meet Mrs Barbosa and Mr. Sperling in person.

Total scam, dont bite.

I forgot to mention that I after investigating everything and finding out it was a fraud, I called the # on the letter (450-675-0574) and requested to speak with the assignment coordinator "Ms. Sheila Barbosa" and whoever answered said "speaking".  I told her that I had received a letter about becoming a mystery shopper.  She asked for my representative ID # and I gave it to her.  She then asked me if I had a checking account and when I told her yes, she told me to go ahead and deposit the check and started giving me further instructions.  I interrupted her and informed her that I had done some research and discovered that the check they had sent me was fraudulant and that I had contacted the BBB, when she promptly hung up on me.

I also received a fraudulent check but was wise enough to investigate before I cashed it.  The amount of the check was for $3975.00 to become a mystery shopper.  They want you to deposit the check into your checking account, spend $200 at Walmart, Home Depot, J.C. Penney, or spend a night in a Best Western or Days-Inn, and the next part of the assignment is to wire a large sum of money back to them.  I researched the information from the company on the face of the check and they sell heating and air conditioning products.  I called the company and spoke with someone who told me that I was the 6th or 7th person who called him this week about this.  He said that it was a fraudulent check and that that checking account had been closed for over 2 years.  

I then called the BBB and was basically told to just rip it up and throw it away and count my blessings because I had not cashed the check and that a complaint would not be filed because of too many other complaints already filed where people had actually cashed the check and were out the money.  When the check gets deposited to your account and the money gets wired to them, they are actually getting YOUR money because the check they wrote to you was a fraudulant check on an account that no longer exists.  

Here is some of the information I found on this company:

"While the bank may find initially that the check appears legitimate, BBB experience shows that weeks later, after the funds have been transferred to the consumer, the check is found to be fraudulent or written on a stolen account and the consumer is left owing the money back to the bank. Between April 1 and April 30, 2008, BBB serving New Jersey received nearly 350 requests for information on the firm and processed four (4) complaints to the company. Mail sent by BBB to the PO Box was returned by the post office. Phone numbers supplied for the business originate in Ontario, Canada. If you have been contacted by what seems like a fraudulent secret shopper company, please contact the BBB. If you have sent a money transfer to Canada, contact PhoneBusters in Canada at (888) 495-8501."  

The envelope the mailing came in was post marked from Canada, the name of the company on the letter was Frontline Consumer Research Group, and the company on the check was located in Texas.  

Hope this information helps anyone else from getting scammed.

I just recv'd one of these checks so it's a scam?

Sent me a fraudulent check on my name.