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Article: Scam Artists Target Mystery Shopping Industry.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- October 28, 2008
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Fraudulent Checks Sent to Individuals with Guarantees of Work Assignments and Fast Cash
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mystery shopping has long been utilized as a form of marketing research in highly competitive, consumer-focused industries such as retail, restaurant, lodging, and banking because it yields unbiased and valuable customer insight. In recent months, at the expense of both mystery shopping firms and corporations utilizing this research methodology, the mystery shopping industry has become a recurring target for opportunist scam artists. The scam preys on individuals who are looking to make extra spending money via mystery shopping and instead are defrauded out ...