Mystery Shop scam?!

Hi!
I was trying to find information about an email address, [email protected] and came along this site!
I saw an ad on Kijiji asking for mystery shoppers, and I kind of wanted in on it, so I applied!
This was the first email from them
Prospective Mystery Shopper,

Mystery shopping or a mystery consumer is a tool used externally by market research companies or watchdog organizations or internally by companies themselves to measure quality of service or compliance to regulation, or to gather specific information about products and services. We are looking for a couple of people to help us with a Mystery shopper project on Part time basis, we are seeking a talented individual to join our Personal Shopping team have branches in United States Of America,United Kingdom,Canada And Australia. You have been selected to participate in this assignment.


JOB DESCRIPTION
1. You will receive funds for the assignment.
2. You will receive instructions for your assignment via email on the location
and details of the task.
3. You to complete the task quickly and quietly.
4. You will be asked to visit the business location for doing business be it
restaurants, shopping stores etc.


Please Re-Confirm your interest in this position by providing the following information below...

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

First Name:
Last Name:
Street Address:
City, State, Zip Code:
Cell Phone Number:
Home Phone Number:
Age:
Have you done this before...? If yes Where?

AVAILABILITY:

Days/Hours Available
Monday .............................................
Tuesday ............................................
Wednesday ..........................................
Thursday ...........................................
Friday .............................................
Saturday ...........................................
Sunday .............................................
Hours Available: from _______ to ______

This is a 100% Legal Job Opening.Your identity would be kept confidential as the job states (secret/mystery shopper) you would be paid $300 for every duty you carry out, and bonus on your transportation allowance, and funds would be given to you if you have to dine as part of the duty, Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service in a wide variety of shops, stores, restaurant and services in your area.No commitment is made on this job and you would have flexible hours as it suits you.

Best Wishes and Regards,

That is from [email protected]

Now, I got this email today, from a [email protected]
WELCOME TO THE COMPANY( ACKNOWLEDGMENT )


How are you ?This is to acknowledge and inform you about delivery of
payment to carry out your first assignment through USPS services which
will delivered to your delivery address next week.

Kindly follow an instruction as mentioned below regarding
your first task:
1. You are required to have the payment deposited at your local bank
account and as much as the payment got cleared in your account
immediately proceed with your next task.Kindly mail back immediately
as much as payment check got cleared to your account for next step to
take okay.

What's your take? They don't have any valuable information, but still, kind of freaks me out!

Something about the writing tells me it's likely West African, in which case it's a scam. If one of the businesses you're supposed to mystery-shop is Western Union or MoneyGram, it is certainly a scam.

-Brand new mystery shoppers will not be paid $300 for a job, ever.
-Real mystery shopping jobs do not involve you being paid in advance. In a real mystery shopping assignment, you would spend your own money, complete the task, and then you would file a report and apply for reimbursement. You would not be reimbursed until the report is approved. Typically it takes weeks to receive your money.

Only in the imaginary world of scammers do companies and individuals send out money to random people based on a promise of completing a task. The sad reality is that people would take the money and not complete the task, and the company would soon be bankrupt, because they would not be able to deliver to their customers.

Even without the African English pointed out by VX these things tell me 100% scam.