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Around East Texas 06/25/07
 

 

You may have seen ads in the classified section of your newspaper that start out "Earn Easy Money and Have Fun Doing It." A Center woman fell for it, but says there's nothing fun about it. Misty Knight has much more fun with her children and she doesn't want that taken away. She fell for one of those "secret shopper" ads. Then the scam began. This is how it works. First, she would check on the service

 provided at local stores, like Wal-Mart, but her so called bosses could care less. They would send her counterfeit checks for thousands of dollars.

Knight is hoping that she won't have to pay back all the money ... (scroll down page)

 

 

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