Mystery Shopper Scam

[Bluemoonbaldboy]

As I had only been able to find part time work following major knee surgery last year I was looking for ways to boost my income. About 2 months ago an Advert appeared in The Chester Chronicle offereing mystery shopper work. I emailed off to the address given on the advert heard nothing the got this reply this morning

Dear Secret Shopper,

You have been invited to be our Mystery shopper/Survey Agent.

Shopper's Guide wants you to run a survey on two prominent companies in your area.

The 1st is a Western Union Location
The 2nd is a Restaurant

Your first assignment will be the Evaluation of Western Union outlet while the 2nd assignment will be on Restaurant dining.

Both locations addresses will be assigned to you in due time.

There has been reports about lapses in the service of their Management and some of their staffs,the complaints were based on reports which their customers forwarded anonymously and phone calls which were also made to the head office.The Western union and Restaurant locations were reported for evaluation, Negligence for the following reasons:

I) Customers have reported their money missing
II) Slow services
III) Unbalanced transfer charges

The 2nd company was reported to be rendering

(I) Poor services
(II) Rudeness to customers
(III) Excess charge
(IV) Late opening time and Closing before time.

Your Secret Evaluation would be (In a STEP-BY-STEP manner):

1)You will be sent an assignment fund which will cover your commission of £300 per assignment and also for the duty.

2) After receiving the assignment funds, the Name and address of whom the Mystery shopper's transfer will be made to will be forwarded to you.

3) To make a transfer of funds from western union outlet to our Mystery Shopper, and the funds will be picked up by the Mystery Shopper from the other location.

4) You will have to record the time on which it took you to process the service.

5) You will also have to provide me with the name of the cashier that attended to you.

6) You will be receiving 2-3 assignments per week depending on how fast you are in handling/processing and completing your assignment.

7) You will be paid £300 per duty and it will be increased depending on how fast you are in completing your assignments.

8)You will have to keep a comprehensive report on every activity you carry out during your assignment.

9)NO FUNDS ARE REQUIRED FROM YOU.

To get started,kindly fill in the form below with your details and we will get back to you shortly with an assignment:

First name:
Last name:
Full Home Address:
County:
Post code :
Cell Phone:
Home Phone:
Current Occupation:

After you have emailed your information to us ,you should make sure you check your email at least 2-3 times a day to read updates from us.

Thank you and i look forward to working with you.

Hiring Manager,
Vincent Wiggins
Esso Customer Satisfaction Survey

The Western Union bit had already triggered alarm bells in my head yes they are a honest business but are used by scammers (like the old send money to Nigeria on eBay one) then my full details at the bottom really did have me thinking major scam here so I googled the company name and found this http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=34731933
Looks like they are working round the local papers so if you see this sort of ad with an email ending .....shp@consultant.com don't do it and ignore the email you will get glad I fully looked into it before I sent them any details

 

[simmers]

There's another scam going around where someone will knock on your door to say that they're doing surveys on bums, and to show them.
Don't do it, it's a con, they just want to see your bum

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

There's another scam going around where someone will knock on your door to say that they're doing surveys on bums, and to show them.
Don't do it, it's a con, they just want to see your bum

PMSL

 

[BlueTony]

There's another scam going around where someone will knock on your door to say that they're doing surveys on bums, and to show them.
Don't do it, it's a con, they just want to see your bum

It's not a con, just a hobby ;-)

 

[law74]

There's another scam going around where someone will knock on your door to say that they're doing surveys on bums, and to show them.
Don't do it, it's a con, they just want to see your bum

I had that one round here recently, she was about 21 and very good looking, but I had to tell her that I was in full time employment, fully up to date with my mortgage, owned my own car and lived alone, so there were no bums in my house and suggested she look elsewhere.
maybe I should have asked to see and take a photo of hers just to warn people.

 

[SophieH]

As I had only been able to find part time work following major knee surgery last year I was looking for ways to boost my income. About 2 months ago an Advert appeared in The Chester Chronicle offereing mystery shopper work...

I've been mystery shopping for about 3 years now so if you're interested I can give you some details of genuine companies. PM me if you like. A word of warning though, the assignments are getting harder to come by due to the recession and a lot of companies have really cut the fees. In some cases you don't even get a fee just a contribution to a purchase. It's ok if you're going to be in an area and want something or can find something you might want to buy but not really a serious money maker these days. When I first started out I was doing on average 20-30 visits a week but now I'm lucky if I can get 2 or 3 a week.

Good luck with it if you decide to sign up. Just don't nick my assignments ;)

 

[simmers]

As I had only been able to find part time work following major knee surgery last year I was looking for ways to boost my income. About 2 months ago an Advert appeared in The Chester Chronicle offereing mystery shopper work...

I've been mystery shopping for about 3 years now so if you're interested I can give you some details of genuine companies. PM me if you like. A word of warning though, the assignments are getting harder to come by due to the recession and a lot of companies have really cut the fees. In some cases you don't even get a fee just a contribution to a purchase. It's ok if you're going to be in an area and want something or can find something you might want to buy but not really a serious money maker these days. When I first started out I was doing on average 20-30 visits a week but now I'm lucky if I can get 2 or 3 a week.

Good luck with it if you decide to sign up. Just don't nick my assignments ;)

Do you have to show them your bum?

 

[Bill]

There's another scam going around where someone will knock on your door to say that they're doing surveys on bums, and to show them.
Don't do it, it's a con, they just want to see your bum

made me lol.

 

[mammutly]

I had a bloke round last week saying he was from Camelot. Came in a nice car with a nice lady. Both of them had photo ID ( which set alarm bells ringing straightaway!). Said I'd won the lottery! (hahahaha). Claimed my mum had bought a ticket to surprise me and it had wom over £4 million! (as if!).

But the lengths these people go to! Not only did they have ID, but they put someone on the phone who sounded exactly like my mum! ( fucking wums) and they even had a pre printed check with my name on it!!! Would you believe the cheek of the fuckers?? They even had a few fake reporters and a bloody TV camera in tow!

Could I get rid of them? could I fuck! Kept trying to give me their fake cheque and sticking cameras in my face. In the end, I signed a 'form' ( like it was real - Ha ha !) saying they could give their fake £4 million to charity or whoever the fuck else they liked as long as they did one.

That got rid of the bastards, although they even put some bullshit story in the papers about it after. (WTF???)

I wouldn't have minded but they had my mum ringing up in tears about it later because they'd taken her in with their saddo scam aswell!

Didn't get me though! Oh no.

Just goes to show though - you cannot be too careful!

 

[davymcfc]

There's another scam going around where someone will knock on your door to say that they're doing surveys on bums, and to show them.
Don't do it, it's a con, they just want to see your bum

lmao