Money transfers increasingly dangerous for consumers

Alan Schiller just wanted to make a few hundred extra dollars when he responded to a Help Wanted advertisement looking for market researchers posing as shoppers. What he got instead was a bit part in a series of multimillion-dollar scams that U.S. regulators say was met with a blind eye within MoneyGram International. The scam cost Schiller thousands. On March 19, 2008, the Arlington, Minn., resident cashed a $2,990 cashier's check from a company called Master Research Inc. and, following written instructions, wired the cash through a MoneyGram office in Mankato, Minn., to a man in Bristol, New Brunswick. For this, Schiller was told he would receive $300, according to documents provided to the Star Tribune. Posted in: Check Fraud