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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 12, March 23, 2014, Article 30

'MYSTERY SHOPPERS' RECRUITED TO PASS COUNTERFEITS

Why pass counterfeits when you can hire patsies to do it for you? Here's an interesting twist on the age-old game of shoving the queer. -Editor

Two women from Georgia and West Virginia conned people, including at least two in Western Pennsylvania, into laundering counterfeit money orders and checks from Nigeria by telling them they were acting as “mystery shoppers,” according to court documents.

When the victims' banks learned the orders and checks were counterfeit, they demanded payment from the victims, prosecutors say.

The Nigerian conspirators would send bulk shipments of counterfeit U.S. Postal money orders, MoneyGram money orders and bank checks to Shawn Foote, 47, of Atlanta, prosecutors say.

Foote recruited Walker and Mason to help her con people into thinking they were acting as mystery shoppers when they used the counterfeits, with apparent values of $850 to $975, to make purchases.

To read the complete article, see: 'Mystery shoppers' conned with counterfeit money orders, checks, indictment says (triblive.com/news/adminpage/5791222-74/money-orders-counterfeit#axzz2wkIMNLFb)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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