Marketdata Research Group, Inc. Marketdata Research Group, INC. will pay you $4000 to shop at Wal-Mart and stay at The Best Western. Huge Scam. Houston Texas

A good friend of mine recieved a letter in the mail today with a check for almost 4,000 dollars. He brought this to my attention and showed me all of the easy steps that he had to do in order to recieve the money, those of which included sending another "representative" 3,200 dollars, spending $200 at Wal-Mart or The Home Depo, or staying a full night at the Best Western hotel chain or another hotel, I don't remember the exact name.
Rather weary of this, I told him we should check it out before jumping to conclusions, after all, who wouldn't love to get paid to shop and stay at a hotel? It sounded too good to be true. It certianly didn't take long for us to realize it was a scam. The letter, that was fully endorsed and included a check for $3,988.00; complete with an account number, and routing number was from a company in Texas, however the envelope and stamp were sent from Canada, and one of the companys in the letter were located in Kansas.
We called the number included in the letter, we share a joint account, and she informed us to deposit the letter in our account and call her once it clears; I was very skeptcal of this. We haven't made any actions on this, however, we have contacted our lawyer and we're going to have him look into it.
If you recieve this letter, dis-regard it, don't let them get you like they've almost got so many other people. :)

Samantha
grove city, Ohio
U.S.A.