by David Jansen
Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:46 am
This is a mystery shopping scam. The scammer will pay you with false checks or overdraft bank transfers. In case of the latter you'll be asked to transfer the balance via western union or money gram. Note that the senders address has a domain of a legitimate mystery shopper company. The scammer has spoofed that email address, he can't receive emails on that address. If you would go to the website of mysteryshopping.com, you will find a scam warning. You can find more information about mystery shopper scams here: http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=3250
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From: "Mystery America"<[email protected]>
Subject: Mystery Shopping Offer - Respond
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:37:20 -0600
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ABOUT US: Mystery America is a market research company, we use Mystery shopping or Mystery Consumer to measure quality of retail service or gather specific information about products and services. We work with some of the largest, reputable businesses in the world; from fast food to petroleum, technology or fashion retailers and more.
POSITION TITLE: Mystery Shopping
AVAILABILITY: OPEN
START DATE: Immediate
COMMISSION PER ASSIGNMENT: $100
JOB DESCRIPTION: You will be required to conduct an all expenses paid surveys and evaluation exercises on behalf of Mystery America. Your job will be to evaluate and measure quality of retail service or gather specific information about products and services.
As our mystery shopper posing as normal customers, you will expected to perform specific tasks such as purchasing a product or using a service.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: You will be hired to evaluate and audit other firms and corporate bodies by fronting as potential customers in order to determine the level of professionalism and expertise with which staff relates with their clients.
We presently have a couple of outstanding contracts, which means you will be directed to the outlets you are to survey by either purchasing products or services or simply meeting with customer service and make inquiries in person.
You will be directed to outlets, firms and corporate bodies to report on their staff's activities by forwarding us a mail with a record of your experiences such as:
1) The product & services paid for.
2) How long it took before you were attended to.
3) How the attendants and employees related with you.
4) Customer service professionalism level
PLEASE NOTE: You will be provided funds in form of checks and wire transactions in advance of any survey to cover expenses.
You do not require any special skills for this opening, however in order to apply for this job you MUST ensure you have access to your E-mails two (2) times a day and must READ and RESPOND to all notifications within 18-24hrs.
MYSTERY SHOPPER APPLICATION: If you would like to Mystery Shop for us, please complete the following form. Required fields are indicated below. You must answer these so we can process your request and accept you as a possible shopper.
Full Names:
Address Line 1:
Address Line 2:
City:
State:
Age:
Zip Code:
Home Phone Number:
Cell / Mobile Phone Number:
Bank Name:
Current Occupation:
Have you had any previous expertise in surveying:
ALL APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO Mr. Peter Wells via his e-mail address: [email protected]
Communications & Human Resources Center, USA.
1211, Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Email: [email protected]
To ensure that you can receive email messages from the Mystery America, do add "[email protected]" to your Sender Safe List, or contact your IT administrator to update your firm's email software.
?2006-2010 The Mystery America, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036.
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I'm glad that you have reported the crime, and thank you for posting to tell us of your experience. Was it this same scammer detailed here? If you have additional information, please do post it. (make sure to remove your own information when doing so).