I received an email exactly like this:
Attention shopper:
Thank you for your response and interest in working with us.
We are solemnly happy for you turning up and applying as a Secret Shopper representative in your area.
The contact details you sent to us in your first email has been filed and passed on to the database management department for updates on your
first secret shopping assignment.
There is an assignment in your area now. Here are the details for the assignment;
You are to shop at any grocery store and western union outlet, then give a report on the following;
customer service
quality of products
cleanliness of the establishment.
Funds will be provided for your shopping.
Note: Your survey is to shop at any grocery store and western union outlet location of your choice and you are to give your evaluation
report on:
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.
Note: You are advice to RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL stating that you are ready to carry out your assignment and also confirming your address information to
enable the payment for your assignment be issued out to the right address.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation in order to start work soon.
Regards,
Agent Supervisor
The second email was for the assignment details:
Please find below the assignment instructions;
Once you get the payments, deposit and cash the check you receive at your bank, then deduct $200 which is your salary per assignment and you should proceed to carry out the Secret Shopping assignment below.
Your first assignment:
You will be evaluating any grocery store and Western Union outlet in your City.
You are to purchase goods of your choice for your own use not more than $20 at any grocery store close to you and carry out the secret shopping evaluations while you are there.
You will be using Western Union services at any local western union money transfer outlet in your area to send the remaining funds to another mystery shopper to carry out their own assignment (We want to confirm the differences between Local transfers and International transfers). You are expected to secretly perform the same operation at the Western Union outlet.
As a secret shopper, you should go there and study how to send money and memorize all you see at the outlet. We want you to report back with the following information:
Report guidelines
How long it took you to get services.
Ambiance/Outlook of the Shop/Outlet
Smartness of the attendant
Customer service professionalism
Reaction of personnel under pressure
Information that you think would be helpful
Your comments and impressions.
Location/Address of the grocery store you visited
Below is the expenditures breakdown:-
Money Received...$998
Per Assignment Salary... $200
Western Union Charges...$40
Shopping...$20
Money to be sent...$738
You will transfer the remaining funds through western union to the below information using money avaiable in minutes transfer:
Name: TUESDAY MORGAN
Address: 104 N Main Street,
City: Lafayette,
State: GA
Zip Code: 30728
Information below is required after transfer is completed via western union:-
Senders Name and Sender Address =
10 Digits Money Transfer Control Number {M.T.C. N} =
The amount transferred =
I will be waiting for the complete evaluation report later today.
Regards,
John Oliver
Agent Supervisor
Email: was from a JOHN OLIVER sent from [email protected] and replied to [email protected]
I received several emails saying I needed to complete the job and I had yet to receive the check. I replied that I was going to find out if it was fraud since I didn't receive a check. A few days later I did. I was hesitant but felt like I was stealing if I didn't cash the check so I completed the task.
I was then asked to send out money through Western Union to a random person after shopping. I initially sent it out to a TUESDAY MORGAN, but then JOHN OLIVER emailed me for my phone number. He texted me from two random numbers (924-665-01 yahoo message text? The name address for the random number is lori. Garcia007) and (210-346-0479 cell phone). This person used a cell phone number briefly when they didn't think I was receiving the original messages. John Oliver or Lori Garcia told me I needed to go back to Western Union and change the transfer information. They stated that TUESDAY MORGAN, 104 N Main Street, Lafayette, GA 30728 was going to be out of town. I called Western Union and transferred the money to a FREDDIE SWINDLE, Arkansas City, Hesber Spring 72543. They informed me to do money in minutes.
They received the money and I haven't heard from them since.
My bank deducted $998 from my checking account for the same amount of the check cashed. The name on the Money Gram check is John Robert, 1310 Cleveland Ave, Kansas City, MO 64127.
I emailed John Oliver to confirm all the names on the checks and transfers. I didn't get an answer but they demanded the job was to be finished by the same day.
I am personally devastated and should've have known better. I do not know if any of these names are real or who is involved but I hope it is enough information and I hope something can be done.
Thank you!
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