Comments on: Did you receive a mail today from Tim McCarron or Richard Thompson or David Bennett from Fidelity Investments? http://www.419legal.org/blog/2008/02/25/did-you-receive-a-mail-today-from-tim-mccarron-or-richard-thompson-or-david-bennett-from-fidelity-investments/ The Latest on Email Scams, Phishing and Internet Fraud Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:45:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Anonymous http://www.419legal.org/blog/2008/02/25/did-you-receive-a-mail-today-from-tim-mccarron-or-richard-thompson-or-david-bennett-from-fidelity-investments/#comment-11363 Anonymous Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:06:07 +0000 http://www.419legal.org/blog/2008/02/25/did-you-receive-a-mail-today-from-tim-mccarron-or-richard-thompson-or-david-bennett-from-fidelity-investments/#comment-11363 I received mail from <strong>fidelity investments</strong> asking me to be a secret shopper and enclosing a cheque for over $4000. Here's the funny thing: I was going to be a secret shopper at Money Gram and Western Union! And I was going to send a portion of the cheque they sent to various people listed in the letter after I deposited the "cheque" into my account. It's underwritten by a few corporations, for example <strong>Xog industries</strong>, which exists at the address they state, so that's some thorough scamming going on, but I kind of doubt an oil company would want to know if Western Union has good customer service, call me crazy! The letter was sent from Canada, but Fidelity Investments is based in New York, New York...on Wall Street no less, according to the letter head. So it seems that even our mail has been outsourced. :) So careful with this one. It's worded very well, only has a few grammatical errors in it, and seems logically sound (you deposit the money and withdraw it). But it's a scam. I received mail from fidelity investments asking me to be a secret shopper and enclosing a cheque for over $4000.

Here’s the funny thing: I was going to be a secret shopper at Money Gram and Western Union! And I was going to send a portion of the cheque they sent to various people listed in the letter after I deposited the “cheque” into my account.

It’s underwritten by a few corporations, for example Xog industries, which exists at the address they state, so that’s some thorough scamming going on, but I kind of doubt an oil company would want to know if Western Union has good customer service, call me crazy!

The letter was sent from Canada, but Fidelity Investments is based in New York, New York…on Wall Street no less, according to the letter head. So it seems that even our mail has been outsourced. :)

So careful with this one. It’s worded very well, only has a few grammatical errors in it, and seems logically sound (you deposit the money and withdraw it). But it’s a scam.

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