Mystery Shopper
Complaint 17169 Details

  • Date Occurred: 08/16/2013
  • Reported Damages: $1,970.40

The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

International boundaries

Received this email 8/23 from Frank James [[email protected]].

[[email protected]] arrived w/ info and the following instructions:
You will be evaluating a Wal-Mart Store and a Moneygram store which is located inside the Walmart in your neighborhood. You will need to locate the Nearest Wal-mart and Moneygram store inside the Walmart as soon as you get this email today. Email us the STORE NAME AND STORE ADDRESS in your reply email. That is where you will be doing your 1st Secret Shopping and Evaluation.

3rd email Frank James [[email protected]] from arrived with following info:

Please note that your package for the Evaluation has been sent out via FEDEX, and it will get to you by today.

FEDEX Tracking Number: 797434005415

You are to start your survey immediately you receive the package from FEDEX today; the package contains the payment which is for your evaluation and the payment you will use to carry out your evaluation at the Wal-Mart and Money gram store inside the Wal-Mart.

Evaluation Instructions are below, which will let you know more on how you will proceed in carrying out your survey.

You will be evaluating Wal-Mart and Money gram store inside the Wal-Mart. You will be evaluating both Services between 24 hours after you have received the package from FEDEX and the first three people to give their reports before 24 hours, gets a bonus.

Ensure that you confirm via Email to us when you receive the package and that you understand how to proceed with it.

***I look forward to getting an email from you soon as possible to confirm you got this update.


You will be evaluating the Wal-Mart and Money gram store inside the Wal-Mart in your city. The Payment sent to you (2PCS OF MONEY ORDERS FOR $ 985.20 EACH WHICH SUMS UP TO $1970) covers all expenditures including evaluation, shopping, transport and your compensation which is $200.00 for this survey.

You are to purchase Goods of your Choice for your own Use at the Wal-Mart store in your City which you are evaluating, spending not more than a $70.00 and deduct an extra $20.00 for transportation cost.

Also as regards Money gram store inside the Wal-Mart, we will be using our company feed-back mechanism; therefore you will be sending funds through Money gram store inside the Wal-Mart to our receiving agent.

You will take a total of $1,680 to the Money gram store which is inside the Wal-Mart; you will have to deduct the Money gram transfer charges from the $1,680 you are sending out and not from your share.

Please send all Money gram transactions to the details below to our agent using MONEY IN MINUTES service and not next day service.

Name: Mensah Edward
Address- 3120 Dillon St
City- Baltimore
State- Maryland
zip code- 21224

Below are details you need to send once funds have been transferred to the Agent's Name and Address which is above:

- Sender's Full Name and Address.
- Secret question and answer (if any)
- Money gram transfer charges
- Actual Amount sent
- Reference Number (8 digits)

After Evaluation, ensure that you send back (via Email) Money gram Reference number (8 digits) and Wal-Mart reports as it is required for Company feedback purposes on service delivery.

The following day, when I failed to respond to 1st email, I received the following email from Frank James [[email protected]]

How are you today?The payment has already been delivered to you.We already sent you an email with the instructions to follow.

We await your email as soon as possible with an update on the walmart and moneygram evaluation reports.


all emails were signed as follow:

Warmest Regards,
Frank James.
-Hiring Manager.
Secret Shopper(R)
MYSTERY SHOPPER INC

Never provided a telephone number. Fedex return address was AmASSI in California. I emailed back that I never received a FEDEX package. I have not received any correspondence from them.

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