WALMART has issued an urgent warning about a secret scam targeting its loyal shoppers.
Scammers are taking advantage of paying customers now more than ever as the multinational retail corporation speaks out to protect consumers’ pockets and identities.
Phishing schemes are conning Walmart shoppers into giving their personal information to fraudulent promotional ads that are claiming rewards and recruiting them into being secret shoppers.
There was a 29 percent increase from last year’s phishing attacks and a 400 percent increase for wholesale and retail businesses according to the 2022 ThreatLabz Phishing Report.
Walmart warns shoppers: “Never deposit a check you receive in the mail from a ‘mystery shopping company. No legitimate business will pay in advance and ask you to send back a portion of the money.”
“Remember, if it sounds too good to believe, it is!”
The Walmart mystery shopper scams share a common thread in how they approach their victims – Linda De Simone from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Bianca Baluyut from Elk Grove, California both shared similar stories on how they were scammed.
De Simone and Baluyut both received letters supposedly from Walmart recruiting them to be secret shoppers.
De Simone told BRProud.com that: “She also received two checks—one on Oct. 1 and the other on Oct….
