Resident warns of mail scam

At first glance, it looked legitimate.

A USPS priority envelope Green River resident Linda Fitzgerald received contained a check for $994 made out to her name and a sheet of instructions for what appeared to be a secret shopper assignment. Fitzgerald said she had done some secret shopper work in the past, but the envelope and its contents didn’t involve anything she had signed up for.

At that point, the small details started to look suspicious. Fitzgerald said the amount of the check stood out to her as she never received such a large secret shopper check, but the check itself didn’t have a co...