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New Scam Based on Secret Shoppers and Western Union

In the never ending battle of the scammers vs the people that actually work for their cash we are happy to bring you the latest installment of scamming. Don’t fall for this and by all means alert others.

Hello,

You have been invited to run a survey on all Western Union Money Transfer Agent
Location in your Area that will be assigned to you. This assignment has been put
together to be completed at a Western Union Money Transfer agent location that will
be assigned to you. The objective of this assignment will be to evaluate the
effectiveness and efficiency of a payment system called “Western Union Money
Transfer "which is available in your region.

Western Union Agent location was reported for evaluation of the following reasons:
•        Slow and Poor Customer services.
•        Rudeness and agents inefficiency to customers.
•        High Transfer charge.
•        Late opening and early closing Hours.

Your Customer Service Evaluation Requirement would be:
•        You will go into a “Western Union Money Transfer Outlet" as a potential customer.
•        You are required to make use of the Money Transfer and Quick Collect services to
make a Western Union Money Transfer.
•        You are required to send in a detail report of the Time it took you to get the
"Money Transfer made" from the time of arrival at any of the Agent Location listed
to you.
•        A Confirmation of the Western Union Money Transfer fee.
•        You are required to forward back to us a detailed copy of the Western Union
Transfer Detail as soon as the assignment completed at any of the Agent Location
assigned to you.
•        A scanned copy of the Western Union Money Transfer Receipt is required to be
mailed back to us for confirmation.

The funds needed to complete this assignment have been arranged and would be sent
out to you via a UPS/FedEx Express Mail service.

•        You will be paid $200.00 per assessment carried out.

If Interested, we request you, Please fill out our shopper profile below for
immediate consideration, to enable us make out payment and for payment delivery.
•        First Name:
•        Last Name:
•        Contact Address (P.O. Box Not Required):
•        City, State, Zip Code:
•        Home Phone:
•        Cell Phone:
•        Age:
•        Email Address:
•        Occupation:

All reply should be e-mailed to    :   ***********@gmail.com

P:S After you have emailed your information to us, You should endeavor to check your
email 2-3 times in a day to read updates from us.
Thank you and we look forward to working with you.

Regards,
Peter Ashton
Hiring Manager
Stuart Survey/Evaluator Consultant

I hope I haven’t messed this up for Peter.

2 Comments... What's your say?

  1. They are also advertising in our local paper so I guess they are trying a different contact route to generate more interest and try and move away from initial email contact which people are becoming more suspicious off. It is very interesting that they have taken this approach and I am contacting the paper to get their take on it. I f I was had like this I would look at the possibility of going after the publishers for not vetting ad placemnents correctly??

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