Email blasts offering fast cash to wrap your car in an advertisement for Monster Energy Drinks are nothing but slick scams according to the company’s corporate office.
In an email to News 6 Thursday the company confirmed the email was delivered by impostors:
“The email … is not from Monster Energy. It is part of a scam and we urge you not to participate or respond.”
News 6 viewer Shirley Blake of Orlando says it all appeared to be legitimate and “very easy.”
Blake says she signed up to make “some money for the holidays.”
The offer was $300 a week if you would agree to have your car wrapped in a Monster advertisement.
A few days after she applied for the job a counterfeit check was delivered via mail for $2350.
“It comes from Eddie’s Accoustic Stucco in Los Angeles, California," Blake says. "There is nothing about Monster.
In fact the check was from a credit union in Montana not Monster Energy Company.
She was supposed to deposit the check keep $300 and send the rest to someone in California she never did.
A spokesman telling News 6, “anyone contacted by the impostors should “preserve any and all communications with the scammers (for example, emails, checks, envelopes, and package tracking numbers). Such information may be useful to law enforcement agencies.”
Additional information about the scam maybe found on the Federal Trade Commission’s website and the Better Business Bureau’s website.