UPDATE on mystery shopping invitation I received..SCAM !!!!!!!!!

I hate scams too. It is a good thing that you were smart enough to contact the company. I am a mystery shopper and work threw sites I found on the net only. I have never been contacted by any threw the mail, but they have scheduled me over the phone at times. Hope you don't give up on mystery shopping due to this unfortunate happening.

I get one of these mail invitations once every couple months, and it has always been a scam. A few have even included "checks" for thousands of dollars. Makes me sad to think that people actually fall for this. My favorite is when my inbox gets flooded with the "10.5 million in a bank in Nigeria" emails. I've been getting a lot of those lately.

i'm glad that you find out that it is a scam before you put any effort to it... it will be more annoying if you have waste your time and effort and then find out that it is a scam... that's why i always very careful with email or mail like that... i will be suspicious...

Glad to hear that you verified with them whether this was legitimate or not before acting on the invitation. You were very smart to check and see if it was real or not. I hate scams too. I am sure others have fallen for it. I avoid those mystery shopping things since it is illegal in my state to participate in such a program.

u r absolutely right.. scammers and spammers should be banned

For legitimate mystery shopping companies, go to the Mystery Shopping Providers Associaton. Lot of companies belong to this organization and they have lists of their members you can sign up with.

See Steph, I told you too be careful, because some are Scams.

wow I am glad you found out it was a scam before you did anything, that is good to know

There are many many scams out there in cyberland. I know that I send paypal at least ten emails a day that are phishers trying to get my information. I also send emails to ebay that are not right. As for other well I use the rule of thumb and that is if it is too good to be true it usually is. I also check the detail line in the email address part. If the email has come from several servers before it hits your server it is a scam and they don't want it traced back. Most of the time when you check detail in the email you will see the actual website address there. You can look at the detail of your email from mylot. You will see alot of information and it all should look furmiliar to you and when you go down a little you will see the words mylot there as well. This detail is very informative and from this you can tell the email is legitamete. The other thing you can do is on the sites you use a lot check to see if they have spam or fraud departments that you can forward these emails to. They can tell right a way if the email is from them or not. Please do not hit on any link in the email if you are suspicious as that will open you up so the spam can get hold of information you do not want them to have. If you do open a link like this that is fake go right to your account and change passwords. Good luck. We must keep watching because there are so many people out there trying to take advantage any way they can.

im sorry that it was a scam, but i am glad that you found out before oyu went ahead and fell for it.

I am glad you didn't have to learn that the hard way. Whenever anything seems to good to be true, it probably is. You should always research any offer before signing on the bottom line, so I am glad you did your homework.

I am glad that you found out more about it. I hate scams too.

Hello stephcjh, Glad that you found out that it was a scam. It is lucky that you don't believe it 100%. There are so many scams nowadays that it makes us difficult to believe the truth. I don't get involved too much on making money online anymore. I just hate it. I spent so much time and at the end, it is just another scam. Hope you will be more careful in future and good luck to you!