Comments on: Derby House Fabrics Bookkeeper Job Scam!

By: Eddy Salomon

Eddy Salomon — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:34:59 +0000

You’re welcome!

By: houh

houh — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:32:55 +0000

thank you very much!!

By: Eddy Salomon

Eddy Salomon — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:46:45 +0000

Houh,
Don’t feel stupid. It happens to the best of us. Just learn from the experience. If you haven’t cashed the money order, you should be fine. This con artist will probably move on to another victim. But be mindful they keep your information and may sell it to other scam artist. Or they may try to contact you in a few months or years to try to scam you again. Just stay in the know. Study our scam pages: http://www.workathomenoscams.com/scams from top to bottom, watch the video listed there, read the comments. The best way to avoid scams like this is to become educated on how they tend to work. Because they pretty much repeat themselves.

Focus on our trusted resources like our jobs page and recommendations page and you should do just fine:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/jobs
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/recommendations

You might want to read our work at home guide as well:
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I hope this helps.

By: houh

houh — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:21:07 +0000

Guys, I\’m so stupid…. I don\’t know why I didn\’t look this up before… I received a Mystery Shopper email from gabrieldarcyayy@aol.com and I replied to this email with my information…. what do I do?! I received a money order from him but have not cashed it yet. Please tell me what I should do. Not too long ago, he called me on my cell phone, I have his number in my call record and tried to call him, but it seems that he\’s never available… I was wondering what would happen if I gave him my information. Please help. Everything here is helpful information, thank you all for sharing. Now I know that I need to be more careful.

By: krista F

krista F — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:45:29 +0000

@Michael:
There was an ad listed in our local paper for nanny needed, was told to contact via email….reply comes back that nanny position has been filled but contact their friend Gabriel Darcy because he is looking for part time help. He wrote back asking me to cash checks for him!!! YEA RIGHT…I\’m sending both email addresses to attorney general.

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:54:24 +0000

@Phyllis: I also work as a mystery shopper for multiple authentic companies. I received this exact e-mail today. I thought it sounded fishy - not only do very few mystery shopping jobs pay this much, but I am almost never contacted by a company unless I have applied for a position via their website. When I noted the e-mail address did not contain the actual company name, I knew it could not be legit. I googled it and found your sight. Thanks!

By: Eddy Salomon

Eddy Salomon — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:04:34 +0000

Phyllis,

Great observations about the actual email. I really hate when the con artist mis-use legitimate companies or opportunities like mystery shopping because the misinformed run around assuming that whole industry is a scam because of one bad apple. Hopefully many more people will do their research and come upon this article like you did.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:42:56 +0000

Here’s what Gabriel Darcy’s up to now. I received this email today and googled his name; you’re the first site to come up – thanks for confirming my suspicions.

1. Note the clumsy wording – the company title should be plural, incomplete sentences, addressed to “Candidate”; the word “venture” should not be capitalized, etc.
2. email id does not reflect a corporate entity.
3. I work as a secret shopper. The companies I work for do not initiate communications via email. Applications and all communications (except for while on specific jobs) are completed on their website. They usually have a good standing with BBB.
4. Mystery shopping orgs do not send out blanket emails requesting shoppers. I was contacted directly once via email by a legitimate org, but it was clear from the start that they were responding to an application I had filled out on another legitimate site (I could list my info there for others to see, but in order to apply for specific jobs they wanted me to pay – I didn’t pay, but a couple jobs came to me anyhow, hah!).
WARNING TO MYSTERY SHOPPERS:
——————————————————-
Fri, August 6, 2010 8:09:40 PM
Mystery Shopper Wanted
From:
Gabriel Darcey
Add to Contacts
To:
Dear Candidate,

We are actually looking for a Mystery Shopper who will be working for our company.(Lapmat Service Concept.)

Mystery shopper needed earn no less than $150.00 need extra income!become our (Mystery Shopper):earn (No Less Than $150.00) Per Venture:it is very easy and very simple:

No application fees:

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS TO CONTACT THE EMAIL BELOW,

gabrieldarcyayy@aol.com

Full Name:

Mailing address (including City, State, Zipcode):(NOT PO BOX)

Contact Phone number:

Age:

Email:

Your response would be highly appreciated

Warm Regards,
Gabriel Darcey,
Genral Manager,
Lapmat Service Concept

By: Eddy Salomon

Eddy Salomon — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:52:36 +0000

Tiffany,

Thanks for sharing. Many of the con artist use very similar wording in their emails and make slight changes. It’s great you were still able to recognize it as such. Feel free to post the scam email when you get home if you want.

Thanks again.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:28:05 +0000

i recived a email similar to the one in the article. it was from a different company. this company does not have an website, maybe not even an email from what i noticed when i searched the company. this company is in the US. the name of the company is Evergreen Textiles. the name in there was Rick Butler. from the way it was worded it does seem like a scam. i’m unable to copy to here, i’m using my mobile phone