Last week my hubby told me that he was asked to do a secret shop for a company that was going to evaluate Wal-Mart and Western Union. There was a television news story about this type of situation a couple of years ago about this secret shop being a fraud, so I told my hubby that it is a scam designed to make us lose money. Western Union does not participate in secret shops. Well, he didn’t believe me and we had a big fight about it. And I mean big. Screaming, ranting, name-calling big.
So in today’s mail we received the package and my hubby opened it, saw what it was and handed it to me. He didn’t say a word about it, he just handed it to me. Inside was a postal money order for $990 and a letter directing him to cash the money order at his bank, go to Wal-Mart and spend $50 on anything he wanted, then go to Western Union and wire $724 to a person in the Philippines.
I called the Post Office to report the fraud and they put me on hold for forty-five minutes and then disconnected me. So I drove up to the local Post Office with then entire package and told the Post Master on duty what was going on. He looked at the money order and told me that it was a very good fake money order. The best fake he’d ever seen! But he also said that there was an email he received from their fraud department about fake money orders for $990 being circulated and he was pretty sure this was one of them. He called his fraud hot-line and talked to them. You could tell by his side of the conversation that they wanted him to arrest me!
It ended up with him “confiscating” the entire package (I turned it in to report the fraud for crying out loud!) and thanking me for reporting it and sending me on my way. Doubtful that they will be able to catch and punish the perpetrators, but I hope that they do!
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