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Complaint Review: Works Intelligent Services - Provo Utah

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  • Works Intelligent Services 6787 South 678898 East Provo, Utah USA

Works Intelligent Services Fraud, check scam, work from home scam Provo Utah

*Author of original report: Correction

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A couple weeks ago I received a letter from Works Intelligent Services.  It was a letter stating that I was conditionally hired to get paid to mystery shop in various locations. Attached was a check for $1400.  After reading over the letter it seemed legit.  I tried to search for the company and didn't find anything on line.  That raised my first suspicion.  The letter instructed me to call my account manager, Allan Touga, at 1-888-973-6593.  I called and spoke directly to Allan who then activated the check and instructed me to deposit the check and to call him back as soon as it clears the bank.  It took 2 days for the check to clear but I however forgot to call him.  When I checked my bank account the followign day it appeared that the check cleared but the next day was reversed back plus a $15 fee from my bank.  I called Allan Touga back to explain this and he became rather agitated with me on the phone that I was supposed to call him as soon as the check cleared and that I had to do the job that morning.  I have a regular full time job I go to during the day and I was busy that day.  The job was to go to a Western Union and wire $1100 including fee to Works Intelligent Services and I was to keep the $300. I was told subsequent jobs would pay $400 each for the first 3 months and then $500 each thereafter And I could do as many jobs as I want.  He told me he would look into it and call me back.  He never did call me back.  

I did a little more deeper digging and found out how scams like this work. The checks look legit and the victim deposits the check. After the check clears the victim then goes to wire the funds directly to the scammers.  A day or two later what you thought was a legit check gets returned.  Thus the victims account being debited for actual money directly to the scammers.  And the victims bank charging a fee for The returned check.  I got lucky because I waited a day longer and the supposed real check was just returned plus a $15 fee.  I never went to wire any money via Western Union.  I received a copy of the check back from my bank and the stated reason was that the check was Altered/Fictitious.  I called Allan Touga back to inform him that I am onto their scam and will report them to the FBI, the AG in Utah (probably really not there), FTC, BBB, etc.  He didn't engage me in any further conversation and hung up.  I called him back a little later and he didn't answer.  It appears a lot of these scams originate in Canada.  

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AUTHOR: Johnny - ()

POSTED: Monday, September 22, 2014

Correction:  Above website is supposed to read www.worksintelligentservices.com

 

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