[Laurawilcox]

Just a heads up on a sophisticated SCAM that I just received. It was described as Whole Foods using a marketing company to do research on how their customer sales are doing. But then this was the following letter. I thought you just find it interesting of how much more deaths of gotten from the olden days.

[retiredguy123]

I don't get it. What is the scam?

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I don't get it. What is the scam?

It's hard to read the letter but the gist seems to be that you cash the check then take $1,500 of it to buy gift cards. Take a picture of the front and back of the card and email the photos to someone.

Whoever you sent the photos to will use the numbers to extract the $1,500 from the gift cards. The cards in your hand will be worthless.

Chances are the check will turn out to be fraudulent and your bank will ask for the $1,500 back plus penalties.


$400 for simply buying gift cards??? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.