http://consumerist.com/2009/07/27/victim...
http://watchdognation.com/scam-victim-fa...
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?sectio...
NOBODY hires a mystery shopper without training. And you get paid $10-20 per assignment, not $444
And you cannot get any grant unless you have applied for one through grants.gov. And even then you never get called. You get an application number when you submit your grants proposal and track the progress online, then when approved you get a US Treasury Check sent to your home address in an official brown government envelope
It is a fake check scam.
Your only "job" would be to cash a check and supposedly secret shop a Western Union location to check their service.
Unfortunately, the check that the send you is fake. It will bounce about two weeks after send the money out. This leaves you on the hook for having to pay back the check and you could even face criminal fraud charges yourself.
Secret shoppers are a well known scam, often the payoff for the bad guys is when you "test" a wire transfer service with money from a check that will bounce, leaving you responsible for the complete amount of the check.
You might look up Nigerian 419
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scams
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
It's a scam. They are hiring you without checking out any of your qualifications. No "job" would do that. But this isn't a real job. It's just a way of cheating you out of your money. You were smart to be skeptical about that $30,000 "grant". Why would they need your bank account number to send you a check...... any honest business pays out grant money by check. Then everyone has a record of it being sent and cashed.
yes it's a scam.
the email is from Evaluator SS and it says
J0B DESCRIPTI0NS
* Y0u will be assigned to visit a shop.
* Y0u need to "pretend" to be a normal potential customer who is looking for a particular service or product.
* Y0u will then finish an on-line questionnaire to share with us your customer experience.
REQUIREMENTS
* 19 Years old or above.
* C4n Speak th3 l0cal language wel1.
* C4n read 4nd wr1te Engl1sh
* No 3xperience ne3ded like sh0pping
J0B P4Y
* You will get 444 Us for each assignment.
* M0st of the time you will 0nly ne3d to sp3nd 20 m1nutes on the v1sit
Contact us with your INFORMATION If you interested:
1. Full_N a m e s: __________________
2. Full Physical.Address: __________________
3. S t a t e_C i t y_Zip: __________________
4. Phone-Number: __________________
5. Current.Job: __________________
6. Gender: __________________
7. A.g.e: __________________
Regards
MS RECRUITMENT
I never signed up for anything so I'm thinking this is a scam. and I keep getting calls from Miami saying I won a 30,000.00 grant and that they need my bank account info. I never signed up for a grant
