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Hired as a mystery shopper and recieved Money Grams.?

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I received an email asking me to be a mystery shopper for Walmart. I decided to agree. Today I recieved two money grams for $900 each. So I decided to check here in Answers to see if this is a scam. The email I recieved does not say to send money .

Below is the email they sent me from Phoenix AZ.:

I emailed them and told them what Walmart I will do business.

I'm a little skeptical of this .

You have been hired as one of our Mystery shopper/Survey Agent.You will be evaluating Wal-Mart Stores and Money Gram Services in your neighborhood, kindly check out for one Wal-Mart store and one Money Gram Agent outlet you would like to evaluate, make sure the store and the outlet you will choose are close to your area as much as possible.You will have to send the name and address of the two locations to us, Please note that you are to act Cool, Calm and Confident through out the period which you will be carrying out your survey at the store, in order not to arouse any suspicion.You will be shopping at Wal-Mart stores and also make a transaction at the Money Gram, You will write a report about the customer services, you will send your report back to us via Email, you will have to use the following pointers to prepare your report :

1) How long it took you to get services.

2)Ambiance/Outlook of the Shop/Outlet

3) Smartness of the attendant

4)Customer service professionalism

5)Reaction of personnel under pressure

6)Information that you think would be helpful

7)Your comments and impressions.

A package will be sent to you,inside the package you will find your Compensation payment and other funds you will use to carry out your surveying process.You must not use your personal money to complete any of the surveying process and there will be no reimbursement of any kind since we are providing you with all the fund you will need to carry out the survey.An Evaluation Instruction will be given to you through email, this will tell you what to do at the Wal-Mart and the Money Gram location and how to expend the fund at each location. Please reply this Email and give us the name and address of the Wal-Mart and Money Gram location you will be evaluating , if you have any question get back to me And make sure you reply to our E-mail Subject Welcome To The Company ASAP.

Best Regards,

Your prompt response would be highly appreciated,replying saying this is Acknowledged.

Little
Little

I work as mystery shopper myself and I feel this is scam. Have you applied to become a mystery shopper or did they send you an email with the offer themselves? Do they have a website? If you do mystery shopping and are supposed to purchase something, you have to use your money and you will be reimbursed and paid afterwards, after you send the filled report. Also it is not you who chooses the location where to do mystery shopping, the company (eg Wal-Mart) asks for certain amount of mystery shoppers in particular branch to evaluate their services,so they can improve. It would not make much sense if you could choose yourself as it could happen you would be the only shopper in the particular branch and therefore the result would not be much usable. or they might have already had their services evaluated by other mystery shoppers,

Anyway, this is obvious scam and you could loose in the end.Don't go for it!!!

cainvest1
cainvest1

This is a SCAM. Don't fall for it.

Kittysue
Kittysue

It's a money laundering scam. DO NOT get involved in this for any reason

Mystery shopping has NOTHING to do with Moneygram or transfering money. DO They will send you fake money orders or checks - that's what they mean by "A package will be sent to you,inside the package you will find your Compensation payment and other funds you will use to carry out your surveying process" -- a legitimate mystery shopping agency NEVER sends compensation payments of funds in advance. you always use your own money for mystery shopping and don't get reimbursed until 30 days later. Even if it were a test on Moneygram, you'd be asked to send a nominal amount (like $5) of your own money, then send in your receipt with your evaluation form and get reimbursed plus your $10-15 fee for filling out the evaluation. Anything else is NOT legit

Turn these over in the original envelope to your local FBI Field Office http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm

Just look how much this woman lost in this sam and there are millions of similar stories http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29903354/ns/¦


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