| Secret Shopper Anonymous® LLC |
| Money Scam |
| 12th of Jul, 2012 by Dahlia27 |
I have been job hunting on Craigslist for several months. I found a posting for a Customer Service Representative, which would have been right up my ally. I first sent an email for them to confirm the company and posting before sending personal information in case it was a scam. They replied with an ad for a Secret Shopper. Although I could tell the English was very well I sent my resume anyway and just omitted my SSN and then got this:
How are you today and how is life with you and the family? hope cool?
The company has issued out a payment to you for your First Assignment as a Mystery Shopper Here is the tracking number for the payment (423806915001050) which means your payment of $500.00 has been issued to you with some funds which you will use in executing your first Assignment.
I am emailing you to confirm you will be receiving your First Assignment as a Mystery Shopper Today till Next week on the 16th VIA FEDEX courier service and I want you to watch out for the package and Follow the Instructions below carefully and get back to me with all Assignment Reports and Information via email upon the completion of your assignment and If you miss the package, kindly check your Door step or Mail Box
You will receive this one or twice a week so please avoid any delay and get this done with no delay so we can proceed on Next Assignment.
As soon as you confirm the delivery payment any momoment from now via FEDEX, you are advice to take the check to your financial institution (Bank) to have it deposit and the payment will be available for Withdrawal In 24 Hours and As soon as the fund as been credited your account, then you are advice to carry out your assignment and submit your result to us via email.
Here Is The Final Update & Instructions On How To Complete Your First Assignment
Note ** You are advice to run a survey on two prominent Companies in your area,which is Wal-Mart & Western Union
BELOW IS THE EXPENDITURES BREAKDOWN:-
Money to be Received via FEDEX..........$2950.00
Your Assignment Salary ...... $500.00(for your commission)
Wall-mart ............................$50.00( to be kept by you)
Western Union .............. ..... $2,400.00 MINUTES WESTERN UNION CHARGES FROM $2,400.00 sent to Larry Lotten
Below is the breakdown of how the payment will be spent and you are to take note of the following activities
(1) You are to deduct $500 for your commission from the total payment received, after completion of first assignment.
(2) You are to make a purchase of any electronic item worth $50 from any Wal-Mart location in your area (to be kept by you) and is now your duty to take note of the following activities at the wall mart location
i) How long it took you to complete the shopping and report on service, quality of product
ii) Name of the agent / his or her attitude towards customers.
iii) Poor working skills and customer relation
iv) Slow services and cleanliness of the establishment.
Remember: Any item you purchase from the Wall-Mart store should be kept by you for your personal use since we are only interested in the accurate information from your survey
(3) You are required to proceed to any nearest Western Union location in your area with the remaining balance to perform your transfer assignment,after you might have deducted your $500 commission, and $50 for the Wal-Mart duty
Immediately after your Wal-Mart assignment, you are required to proceed to the nearest Western Union location to perform your transfer assignment.
You are advice to send the rest fund over to our mystery shopper in LA USA
The information is as follows:
SEND TO ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Receiver's Name.... Jo Ann Petit
Address................... 1194 Lawrence St
City.......................... Lutcher
State....................... LA
Zip Code................. 70071
As soon as you have done this, You are to e-mail me the following information below:
1,The name and address of the sender
2,The MTCN of the transaction(10 digit)
3,The total amounts sent after the western union charges
You are kindly advise to follow up the Wal-mart/Western Union instruction. Note that you should not make the Wal-Mart nor the Western Union attendant to know your mission
i) How long it took you to complete the Wal-Mart/ Western Union location services.
ii) Name of the agent / his or her attitude towards customers.
iii)Poor working skills and customer relation
iv) Slow services and cleanliness of the establishment.
The reason for this survey is that some Western Union location have been reported several times for slow services, funds missing and unbalanced exchange rate. It is now your duty to carry out the fund transfer at any various location of your choice and balance the reports in order to curtail these lapses and please note,The Western Union charges should be deducted from the remaining fund and not deducted from your $500 commission
Please note that your assignment should be kept secret, you do not need to let the agent at the Western Union/ Wal-Mart location know you are taking note of the activities,because our aim is to established and help customer obtain a better understanding of their positioning and there right in the market place. also note that there are over 750 mystery shopping companies out there, and we strive to be the best Year after year, we have been awarded top honors for the services we provide.
I Await Your Assignment Reports And Information's via email upon the completion of your assignment ,so that i can submit your evaluation report then we proceed on Next Assignment.
...So today I get home and I find a check with my name on it for $2,950. I knew immediately it was a scam because I never responded back to them to confirm my information or even accept the job after I saw that they wanted me to deposit and wire money, I used to watch a lot of Dateline...
Sorry it was so long but I wanted to include all the details because even if all scams like this aren't the same, they generally have the familiarities. |
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| This just happened to me as well and I do jot know what to do now. Help? |
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Same exact thing with the same email here is the info they sent me someone should report this to the police the checks are faulty the bank have got to cash them by law and by the time they find out the check is fake u have sent off the money and you are responsible for the funds to be re payed to your bank do not fall for this people!!!
SEND TO^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>> NAME : SARAH JANE WALKER
>> ADDRESS : 837 Strawberry Road
>> CITY : ST ALBANS
>> STATE : WEST VIRGINIA
>> POSTAL CODE : 23401
>> Morris
>> Employment Manager
>> Time: 24 Hours daily by email
>> Secret Shopper Anonymous® LLC
>> (646) 504-1962 |
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| Same thing happened to me today. I answered an ad on Craigslist and then got an email. I told them I would need to check their company out before I sent any information. I then received 15 text through out the afternoon asking me if I was interested in the job. I continued to tell "Terry" that I needed their information such as company name address and phone number. I received a text telling me "this is not a scam". I continued to repeat to them that I would need to check them out first. I then received a text with a web address to check the company out. When I typed it in the admin told me that the site was frozen and that if I am the owner of the site to contact their "Abuse team" regarding the web site. I continued to receive text so I finally told them they were pushing it and ...they sent ONE more. This one told me that the check was in the mail!! |
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