Nice New Internet Scam

[keestha]

Scams always amuse me. Lately all of a sudden I get this one quite frequently:

Mystery Shopping Providers Association is giving you a chance to get paid for shopping and dinning out. It offers a history of results providing services including - professional shopping services - which can increase your customer loyalty, improve your competitive positioning and increase your employee productivity. Mystery Shopper have assisted many multisite retail and service industry companies in motivating their employees to improve service performance, resulting in elevated gross sales, reduced overhead and increased profits. By combining your specific objectives, our field experience gathering customer service data through surveys, unannounced service evaluations, (Mystery Shopping), and "real-time" reporting solutions. We are currently recruiting people in your area to help evaluate some company and retail outlets which will be made known to you when you are our staff fully. Examples of details you would be reporting to us are: 1)Smartness of the attendant2)How long it took to get services3)Customer service professionalism your Identity would be kept confidential (Mystery shopper) you would be paid $400 for every duty you carry out, and bonus on your transportation allowance. FULL NAME:.....................CONTACT ADDRESS:...............CITY:..............STATE:............ZIP-CODE:..............TELEPHONE NUMBER:.....................MOBILE NUMBER:............OCCUPATION:.......................EMAIL:.................. NB: Your contact detail will be used in sending you a check payment that will consist of your $400 payment and the funds for the evaluation/shopping, so make sure you provide us with a valid data. We care and We share. We will be expecting to hear from youMystery Shoppershoppersguild@(rest of emailaddress removed, K.)

Probably they pay you with a stolen check, and then cancel the deal and ask for repayment by Western Union before your bank has discovered that something is not in order with the check.

[Tywais]

Not exactly new. Here is a post on TV a while ago > Mystery Shoppers. Plus the forum trash can has quite a few Mystery Shopper promoters dating back to 2005.