Dear Sir/Madam,
Our Consulting Firm needs mystery shoppers From any where in Canada, as part-time worker. No application fee Required,Applicant must be 18 years and above, must check email 2 -3 times in a day to read updates from us and be honest. You will earn $300 on each transaction by being our mystery shopper.Your employment packet include business evaluation form and a training Instructions which will be sent to you via email
after you have received payment.A Paycheck or money order will be sent to you for the first Evaluation by our finance company,you are to deduct your $300 commission, and the rest will be used for the evaluation at the store that you will be instructed to go.This Evaluation can take place five times or more in a week so you can end up earning for yourself close
to $1000 or more in a week.
1. Business evaluation form: This is the form you are required to fill after you visit any shopping mall in your area as directed,you will be given the store name and address which you are required to evaluate its customer service and quality
control after their services are rendered to you. You will be required to fill a form to rate the employee(s), the form will be given to you after the evaluation at the store.
2. Training Instructions: You are hired to evaluate the quality of services of the store or mall that will be selected by you and very nearest to you . You are needed to rate the employees.Interested shopper should please Enclose their information below for you to start with us.
First Name:
Last Name:
Full Contact Address (P.O.Box Not Required):
City:
Province:
Postal Code:
Home Phone:
Cell Phone:
Age:
Sex:
Email Address:
Present Occupation:
Marital Status:
Best Times To Call:
Thanks for responding, We will wait for your full details .
P:S: After you have emailed your information to us ,You should endeavor to check your email 2-3 times in a day to read updates from us.
Best Regards,
Sincerely
Consultant / HR Manager
Mary Stewart
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www.mysteryshoppercanada.orgI applied for jobs and received this email offering me a mystery shopper job.It asks for my info is it a scam?
100% scam.
There is no mystery shopper job.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "supply company" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
When you refuse to send him your cash he will send increasingly nasty and rude emails trying to convince you to go through with his scam. The scammer could also create another fake name and email address like "FBI@ gmail.com", "police_person @hotmail.com" or "investigator @yahoo.com" and send emails telling you the job is legit and you must cash the fake check and send your money to the scammer or you will face legal action. Just ignore, delete and block those email addresses. Although, reading a scammer's attempt at impersonating a law enforcement official can be extremely funny.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.
If you google "fake check cashing job", "fraud Western Union scam", "check mule moneygram scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.I applied for jobs and received this email offering me a mystery shopper job.It asks for my info is it a scam?
100% SCAM
First of all, real mystery shopping pays $5-10 per shop. $25 is the most I've ever seen offered for an assignment. There is no mystery shopping in the world that pays $300
Second, no mystery shopping company contacts random people by email to offer them a job. You always have to contact them directly or be referred by a current shopper and go into their office to fill out an application and attend a training/orientation before you are offered any assignment
Third, you can tell this is not a professional email from a legitimate company by the poor grammar and punctuation used. No real company would ever send out an email that looked like this
Fourth, it's against the law for any employer to ask your age, sex or marital status
The fact they mention a money order is all you need to know this is a money laundering scam -- one that can land you in prison or at least bankrupt you
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DO NOT send any personal details - this is all anyone needs to steal your identity. Report this ASAP to the site where the job was posted and to the Anti-Fraud Centre for investigation
http://www.phonebusters.com/english/home鈥?/a>I applied for jobs and received this email offering me a mystery shopper job.It asks for my info is it a scam?
100 percent scam. You are going to be asked to evaluate Western Union or Moneygram by sending money to somewhere overseas (I'd bet on Nigeria). They send you a fake cheque to cover what is being sent, but by the time your bank bounces the cheque, you're out the money.
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