Exposing secret shopper scams

Your day starts out like this: you get a check in the mail for $2,400. A company wants you to be a secret shopper; buying gifts cards and rating your experience.
After buying thousands of dollars in gift cards, the company wants you to send them the card numbers. The problem is, the check used to buy the cards is counterfeit.
WTOL 11 found a certain secret shopper scam.
Using the number they gave us to send the gift card information, we decided to give the scammers a taste of their own medicine.
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[@davide.b8027]

If you fall for this, you deserve to be out 2k. Come on, people.

[@lolamontez7782]

So what if you just cash the check and keep it?

[@samanthabaptiste1815]

I just did that. And I didn’t know it was a scam. If u did what happened u ok

[@lolamontez7782]

@@samanthabaptiste1815 I almost did. My bank verified it and everything. But I called the bank on the check to be sure & they told me it's fraudulent. It will bounce & you will owe all of that money.