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- New York, NY, USA

received a priority mail with assignment for secret shopper from *** ***s. I was told to first text assignment received and give my name to a phone number they give you. then im told to deposit the payment check they sent which in this case was 2391. im told 300 is my pay. .once check is deposited im to purchase acashier's check for a certain amount using my bank. then send it to *** *** from ***. then make a purchase for 20 at walmart and keep product but submit the cashiers name and receipt information via text or email . go to walmart and do a money gram for the amount of money secified and send it to lemuel chaim address *** *** *** *** ** ***l. basically my check bounced and I got a fee. this is the second time I was sent a priority mail check and assignement like this even has a ups tracking # *** *** *** *** *** ** please warn others. there are legit secret shoppers just have to find them.

Received an invitation to apply to be a Mystery Shopper (something I've done in the past) from a form HR director at a company I've worked with. Opened the link (UGH!) and it appeared to be a legitimate company. I checked out their website and all seemed in order.

I applied with my email address, name and phone #. uh huh...i did it...

Received this email:

This is to notify you that your application has been approved and you have been selected as our Evaluation Agent in your region.

Your First assignment starts from MONDAY 30TH JULY, 2018. you will receive a package/funds at your registered address.

The package contains full payment for the evaluation and your payment for shopping. The way this is handled is a determinant of your final confirmation and pay increment.

Once you have received the payment inform of CHECK, we will require you to make a purchase of one or two products from any nearby store not costing more than $50 and also give us feedback on their customer service delivery. Further details on the assignment will be provided by MONDAY 30TH JULY, 2018 , 2018 .

Add this email ( [email protected] ) to your Email contact list, to ensure all our emails gets to your inbox.

Kindly reply with Assignment Confirmed and also add this email to your contact list, to ensure all our emails gets to your inbox

Kindly reply Assignment Confirmed.

Yours Sincerely,

Mark Wilder

- Phoenix, AZ, USA

Received an email to shop and be paid to evaluate stores. The email did not sound legitimate so I went to the bbb website and read a similar complaint about a scam.

I'M a single mother on a fixed income trying to found ways to make sure extra money

- New Market, AL, USA

I applied for a job for a secret shopper online for WalMart and I was sent a check for $1920.42, I had to deposit this check into my bank account from there I was to go to Walmart and hold out $20 in purchase anything I wanted to keep then I had to send $765 of the check to two different people at two different Walmart locations, and evaluate from there.

- Colorado Springs, CO, USA

I received an email through my work email from Career Builder saying there were secret shopper opportunities available in my area. I filled out a survey and they said I qualified to be a secret shopper. Soon, I received an envelope via FedEx with my first secret shopper job in it. It had an instruction sheet and a check for $998 in the envelope. The job was to cash the check, then go to Walmart and fill out a report on the Walmart store itself, spend $50 on groceries and review the individual checking me out, then go to MoneyGram in Walmart and send a certain individual $650 and then the rest of the cash is the payment for the secret shopping. I followed the instructions and sent in reports. Soon afterward, I decided to research the company online and discovered it was a scam. A few days later, the check came back as fraudulent.

- Florence, SC, USA

While entering sweepstakes this Secret Shopper appeared on screen and I clicked on it to see what it was since they said they paid shoppers for evaluations. Received check today for $1,823.34 with instructions to deposit and purchase 3 $500 Walmart gift cards, scratch off codes and email copy to them. Read on internet about this type of scam. Letter came from Sir Thomas Bruce (Payment Officer).

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Lolitta Mills- from Greensboro, NC 27405 found me on my email and because I’ve been looking for work from home programs and she had sent me a few text messages tell me what is coming in the mail and what I need to do was to follow this program which was secret shoppers. So I got the letter in the mail and the large check and a sheet telling me what exactly I need to do. So I went to the store Walmart and I found the instructions on what it told me to do. I purchased the items, once that was done. I was to buy something for 50 bucks and two items for 30 bucks. So I did all those things. The last part was to hurry up and get the rest of the money and go to the Walmart counter and go to Walmart to Walmart and give them the amount of $1500 and send it back to them the rest of the money and the stuff that I purchased was mine to keep so I thought. Turns out then when it was in my bank account for two days and I put it in my savings where I had nothing in there anyway and I was hoping the bank Would have it cleared within two days to make sure the check was good. Come to find out it takes 10 days to clear a pony check. The bank didn’t tell me that though and neither did she but she really wanted me to hurry up and get it done because she knew if I didn’t complete the whole thing in one day she wouldn’t get her money and I would get screwed and that’s exactly what happened. But she didn’t get her money and I got screwed! So now I have to pay the $300 back that she told me I could have to purchase items with. Which is an too bad because I had to do was return the items I purchased at Walmart and I was good to go . Thank goodness I bought stuff that I could return. Not food I did not buy that. But anyway I was still screwed over by having to pay $300 back to the bank for a phony check how about that watch out people there are out there to scam you everywhere you go. I had to eat at $300 that’s for sure !

- San Antonio, TX, USA

I received instructions and a check in the mail for $2350 it really makes you want to just go and cash it .

The problem is there’s no letterhead no information from anywhere else and I was not able to prove any type of authenticity.

- Beaumont, TX, USA

Looking on-line for employment and I can across Secret Shopper, they said I could make up to $400.00 a week. I would be going in to stores, shopping at Wal-Mart and FedEx. Purchase $300.00 in each store and report back to them. Later I received a check for $2900.00 by FedEx they wanted me to cash it, sent $1300.00 to them, keep $400.00 for myself. When I cash the check give them a call asap, they will tell me how to send the money to them. This job is just a temporary, they only going to be doing this for a few weeks. As I listen to him talk, it sound strange so I called the BBB. Then I remember I gave him all my information, including my Social Security Number and other personal information. When I got off the phone with him, I called the BBB, to see what steps, I should take.

- Lancaster, OH, USA

I filled out a form online to learn more about becoming mystery shopper.

I mean I love to shop so why not.

I had completely forgotten about it when a letter showed up in my mailbox.

My husband and I read it and almost immediately knew it was a scam.

At the very top of the letter it read “Walmar Card Instruction” being the south that I am I noticed that the t was missing in walmart and the s was missing from instructions.

The gist of the letter was that I was to deposit the $2,450 check (drawn on a Chase Corp online acct) into my account.

RED FLAG #1

Then I was to purchase any item I wanted that was around $50. Then I was to send a pic of the item along with my evaluation of the store and employees.

Then I was to take $2000 to walmart and purchase 4 $500 Wal-Mart gift cards.

Afterwards I was to send an email evaluating my experience, pictures of the gift cards along with the code scratched off so that the 3 numbers could be read.

RED FLAG #2

If I sent them the gift card info they could just use it and I would not have the gift cards as promised.

When I called the number provided the gentleman spoke in a heavy accent and there were child fighting in the background.

He just kept saying you have nothing to worry about over and over again. When I pushed the fact that I was under no circumstances depositing the check into my account and that GE only way I would participate would be if I could cash the check as a Chase bank. After trying to sell me on there is nothing to worry about he finally said sure that will work.

He then said that I got to keep the $50 item that I was to purchase and then he would send me names and address to mail out the gift cards to other mystery shoppers.

Then he asked why I was so skeptical.

1. Coorporations don’t misspell Walmart.

(He said new management was to blame)

2. Coorporations would never send out a check to a mystery shopper without asking me to fill out forms for taxes.

3. Can you say mail fraud and my name would have been on it?!

Toward the end he was getting frustrated and said they I had submitted the form and was turning out to be a bad employee.

To which I said I am reporting this scam!

- Allen, TX, USA

Received a letter amd check in the amount of 2485.59. The letter instructed I go cash the check and then go to Wal-Mart and wire the funds less 300.00 which was to be payment to me. The letter stated that I would be entitled to a bonus of $100.00 if I was able to complete the second assignment within the 24 hrs which would be included in the 3rd assignment. Once completed, the letter stated I should send a text to 612-255-7909 or an email to [email protected] (they left of the m for com)

- Canyon, TX, USA

Received a letter and a check for $1,750. Letter was from Walmart saying I was pre-approved to be a secret shopper. Check ready to deposit and available in 24 hrs. The letter said that once funds were deposited I should go to Walmart and evaluate the store. $300 would be compensation for me. They wanted me to deposit the money then do a Walmart to Walmart money gram transfer of $1,380. $690 to one person and $690 to another person. They said the reason for money transfer is to "curtail the lapses of the money lap transfer". Two names were given: James Lockyer and Terri Seaver. They gave instructions and told me to send pictures of the store to. Not supposed to let anyone know what I was doing and confirm that check was received and deposited. The letter was signed by Steve Kellepouris (Task Manager). I reported this scam to the Canyon Walmart and the BBB.

- Lake Dallas, TX, USA

I am not absolutely positive the postal money order I received in the mail is fake but I’m 99.99% sure if I followed through with the instructions I was given, I would be scammed. I answered a text message for doing surveys and secret shopping at local retailers. I began receiving emails and then a money order. I replied I am no longer interested but I kept the money order as evidence for authorities. I would like someone to look into this.

- Saint Louis, MO, USA

I received an email about a position with Secret Shopper. I received a text a few days later and I was told to expect a packet with a tracking # included in the message. I received the packet that included instructions and a check. It was specific instructions to send using Walmart to Walmart and Money Gram. I was to send to 2 different individuals in the amounts of $900 & $800 . The guy followed up with a text asking did I receive the packet. Then a few days later he asked if I had cashed the check. He then sent a second text message asking when would I be sending the money.

Online on Facebook I think there was an add for secrecy Walmart shopper. I clicked the add to see what is was and then kinda forgot about it for a while. Then I got a text message saying my assignment would be in the mail soon. A few days later I receive a postal money order for $998.00 and instruction on how to fill it out and then go cash it and keep $148 for myself and buy $850 in I tunes cards. Then was told to scratch them off and take pictures of 4 cards at a time and email them to the 2 email address they gave me.

- Southaven, MS, USA

On April 26th I recd email from a teacher who emailed me for the work-at-home job for evaluating different stores such as Walmart, etc.

I received a pkg thru the mail that contained a check for aprx $1300 and instructions. I was to deposit the check in my acct and go to Walmart for evaluation. I was to be paid $300 and send $1000 by moneygram to someone in Austin, TX. I deposited the check but then I was called to get the money back buy iTunes card and call them to email them the numbers on the card.

Got a $1,950 check by 2 day mail. Instructions said to go to walmart.

And send $750 to Phillip Hughes in Conroe Texas by way of Walmart-2-Walmart transfer. Also $750.00 to a Richard Walden by Money gram. I recognized it as a scam because I have been scammed before. For one thing they want you to communicate with them by text or email not on the phone. They want you to deposit a check and send a large part of the cash to somebody as part of the scam.

- Huntsville, AL, USA

I received a check and assignment to secret shop wallmart money gram deposited the official check for 1980.00 which I am suppose to use for my 350 pay and money grams

- Chicago, IL, USA

It states on the site that they are BBB accredited but I am not sure i can trust this because it is asking me to buy $100 worth of stuff in Walmart then send money western union so they can identify what is happening with stolen money oversees. Which makes me think it is a scam. It states they will send me a check that is for $1950 that will be readily available to deposit in my bank.

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