Recently I received an email looking for Secret Shoppers, I had heard about this group and I thought this would be kind of interesting as my previous company had used them to evaluate their staff.
Well upon receiving this email, it asked for me to send me name, address, email to verify me to sign up... so no harm being done I did. then about 1 week later, I received a strange email from a guy named Richard Jackson saying that Evaluation package was sent via mail, I was like what is this person talking about? So I responded asking him to give a little more than that. He had attached a letter which I was reluctant to open (never open strange attachments when you don't know the person), so finally I opened from my PDA and saw that it was in regards to this "secret shopper" program. Well I hadn't received any USPS letter or evaluation form from anyone as of that time.
Well it has now been about 2 weeks since that email and today I received a letter with instructions, a money order for $985 that at first glance you wouldn't see it to be a fake... but then if you look closer there is a validation symbol that is supposed to be heat sensitive and disappear when you put your finger on it, and that did not happen. So I wrote back to this guy and told him that there is no way this is real and that I will not deposit it into my personal account unless I had proof that it was real.
Things that tipped me off are:
1. They want you to deposit the funds into your personal account then that same day keep 10%... but later in the letter it says keep 12%.
2. Then go to a Western Union and send to Eva Porter in the Phillipines
3. The validation symbol didn't disappear and reappear
4. the email address were gmail and hotmail - if they were real companies they would have their own url or domain name.
So in the end, I decided to investigate further and send this to your organization.
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