Martin Olasky, PhD and Intellishop and LinkedIn
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I just lost $1470.56 to an online fraud by a person/people using the name Marvin Olasky, PhD and Intelli Shop. They hacked in to the LinkedIn network and sent out emails via one a well known connection who happens to be one of my connections. Because the recommendation was supposedly coming from one of my trusted connections, I fell for it and volunteered to be a "Secret Shopper" in my town and receive a $300 commission to do so. The criminals sent a check to me, issued from Wells Fargo with a with a bogus name on the checking account of Ekaterina Bugaeff, 439 Grand Blvd, San Mateo, CA 94401address, no phone number, along with a forms to fill out when I completed my "shopping assignment". I deposited the check of $1938.00 from Wells Fargo into my savings account. My bank called Wells Fargo to verify funds, but while Wells Fargo verified that Ekaterina Bugaeff had an account there, they would not verify the funds. So I waited three days and received the confirmation from my bank that the check had cleared and was good. I went to Walmart and did two cash transfers as per the instructions from "Dr. Marvin Olasky"; one to Hawaii for $700 and one to California for $750 (plus $10.28 transfer fee each). I also spent $100 at the store as instructed and kept the extra $300 and change as my supposed commission for the shopping task. I completed all the forms and emailed back to the Intelli Shop/Marvin Olasky email for the completion of the assignment. Today, my bank told me that the check was bad and they deducted the $1938.00 plus penalties from my savings account. I have no recourse on the $1470.56 that was transferred via cash. Wells Fargo will not even take a report from me that their client/checking account is being used in this way. Do you have any suggestion for how I can at least blog about this to get this scam out to stop other people from falling prey to this? I may fill out the FBI complaint form and will file a police report here in my small town, but these are criminals who most likely are not even in the US. Thanks