James Cole. Flash Concepts Inc. Employment Mystery Shopper Scam

This type of scam seems to have resurfaced this past week. I wonder if the bottom feeders are sharing ideas? This is no more than the usual money gram scam, usually involving walmarts money grams. This type of scheme is well explained in the following post.

From: info@apexconsult.com
Subject: Be Our Representative/Agent Today(Reconfirm Your Information )
Date: November 9, 2009 12:24:50 PM EST (CA)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Reply-To: jamescole_apexconsult54@yahoo.com.hk

Hello Sir/Madam,

My name is James Cole ,A representative of Top Concepts Inc,This is an awareness to let

the public know that we have a vacancy position of a mystery shopper in our company and we

would like to know your interest in working for Apex consult Co.,Inc. As a mystery shopper

you work and shop together for pleasure and the pay is $400 weekly on Part time basis, you

only work 2-3hours twice in a week. Kindly provide the below information for assessment and

registration of the company. Kindly send the requested information to

(jamescole_apexconsult54@yahoo.com.hk )

Full Legal Name:

Address:

Country:

City:

State:
Zip code:

Home and Cell Number:

Thanks James Cole.
Flash Concepts Inc.

Mystery Evaluation inc. Mystery Shopper Scam

This type of scam has been around for quit a while now. This type of scam usually involves money grams from Walmarts. As a private “contractor” you will be required to cash bogus money grams that unfortunately are fraudulent. The scheme is well explained here.

Our friends at Scam Victims United also offer a few more examples and testimonials from victims of this scam.

“Mystery Evaluation Inc.”
Reply-To:
To: meinc@meinc.us
Received-On: Today 5:41 AM
Subject: Job Opening
More…

Hello
We have a job opening for the position of Mystery Shopper, Mystery Evaluation Inc is a well established Evaluation Firm, We are a company that conduct surveys and evaluate other companies. We get hired to go to other peoples companies and act like customers in order to know how the staffs are handling their services in relation to their customers.

Once we have a contract to do, you would be directed to the company or outlet or restaurant, and you would be given the funds for the job (either purchase things or require services), after which you would write a comment on the staffs activities and give a detailed record of your experience.

Examples of details you would forward to us are:

1) How long it took you to get services.
2) Smartness of the attendant
3) Customer service professionalism
4) Sometimes you might be required to upset the attendant, to see how they react to clients when they get tensed (under pressure).

We turn the information over to the company executives and they would carry out their own duties in improving there services. Most companies employ our assistance when people give complaints about their services, or when they feel there are needs for them to improve their customer service.

Here is a chance for you to get a free shopping and dinner out, if you will like to be a Mystery Shoppers. You are to evaluate and give comment on customer’s services in different stores, shops and restaurant in your area code. You will be paid to shop and dine out, you will also have access to free meals, Free Merchandise, Free services, free travel, free entertainment and lots more. Your Identity would be kept confidential as the job states (secret shopper) you would be paid $200 for every survey you carry out, and bonus on your transportation allowance, and funds would be given to you if you have to dine as part of the duty. Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service in a wide variety of shops, stores, restaurant and services in your area. No commitment is made on this job, and you would have flexible hours as it suits you.

If you are interested, you have to fill the list below so we can look at your distance from the locations which you have to put your service into, and your address would also be needed for your payments.

Requirements:
You must be RELIABLE, detail-oriented, and write reasonably well, and have access to a computer with Microsoft Word and a reliable Internet connection, must be 19 years old and above, No experience needed.

Fill the list below:
First Name :
Middle Name :
Last Name :
Address:
City :
State :
Zip Code :
Country United States
Phone :
Year of Birth :
Gender :
Disability :

Thanks
Ms.Barbara Madsen
HR Department
Mystery Evaluation Inc.

Dulwich Picture Gallery Employment Scam

Want to be a money mule? Just answer this email and your criminal career will commence. Since when do legitimate companies spam out job offers? What the bottom feeders are trying to do is find people to aid them to launder money that was stolen from honest individuals, usually the proceeds of identity theft. Read the description of this type of scheme here and see numerous examples of these scams.

From: info2info@btinternet.com
Subject: Employment Opportunity
Date: October 18, 2009 3:48:15 AM EDT (CA)
Reply-To: dave.godwin@sify.com

Part Time Job Opportunity
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road, Dulwich Village
London SE21 7AD.

Good Day to You

I am pleased to give you an offer for employment as a consultant with our fledgling company.
We at Dulwich Picture Gallery have a mission to help individuals with investing into the Art & Antique but due to our wide range of customers and low reach in terms of offices worldwide, we have decided to make ties with individuals around the world who are willing to be a part of our mission to make the future bright for our investors.

Job Description:
Currently, due to the abundance of Art and Antique in the West African region, we are pitching our Resource Office there besides our Head Office thats present here in the UK.We have abundant investors in the USA and Europe but sometimes have difficulties getting their investment bids across to us, your job will entail the cashing in of investment bids from our investors, in any form they
may come (personalized checks, cashiers check or cash) and sending the funds back to one of our offices through means that will be given to you when the time arises. Our seasoned workers set up this form of employment so it doesnt affect your day job if you have one.

Remuneration:
In an instance whereby you cash in an investment bid for our customer, you will be entitled to 10% of the total amount you cash. For example: if you cash an investment bid of $8,000, your pay on that bid will be $800, which is subject to change depending on the number of bids that you cash.

If you are interested please kindly get to back to me:

Your name: …..
Your full address where to send payment:……..(Not P.o Box)
Age:…………
Occupation:…………
Present Income:……….
Contact phone numbers:…………..
Email address…………

Yours Faithfully
Dave Godwin

Gray Cancer Institute Michael Minns Scam

This is probably the worst lowlife scammer I have ever encountered. This bottom feeder is using the good name of a cancer research institute to recruit unsuspecting and honest people into a money laundering scheme.

From: recruitatgci@sify.com
Subject: GET PAID TO SAVE LIFES… WORK WITH US NOW!!!!
Date: August 22, 2009 5:36:07 PM EDT (CA)
Reply-To: michminn@xpmail.net

Gray Cancer Institute
Mount Vernon Hospital
Northwood
Middlesex HA6 2JR
United Kingdom

The Gray Cancer Institute is a leading centre for research applied to
cancer treatment, working in close collaboration with clinicians at
Mount Vernon Hospital. It was originally a radiobiology research unit with
it’s focus on radiotherapy, but research in tumour physiology has led to
new initiatives in cancer chemotherapy and it is introducing new ways of
exploiting modern molecular biology.

We have donors who have been making generous donations to the Institute
for the development our research and to help people cancer patients. Due to
intensive research work, lack of available time and different forms of
donations,
from our American,Canada and European donors, we hereby need a collector in your
country who would act as a representative, collecting payments on our behalf.

JOB SPECIFICS:
1. Collection of Donations / Payments
2. Cashing of Donations / Payments
3. Sending cashed donation/payments to the institute
following Our Instruction.
4. Keeping Record of each donation / payment received
and sent.
Note: Your pay will be $500,300 Pounds or 400 Euros weekly.Depending on
the countrynyou come from.

If you are interested in working with us, reply with the following
details:

EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION FORM
Full Names:………………………
Address:…………………………
City:…………………………….
State:………………………….
Zip-code:……………………..
Country:………………………
Age:…………………………..
Present Occupation:………..
Telephone(s):……………….

If you are interested in working with us, reply for more information.
Thank you very much…
Regards,

Michael Minns
Gray Cancer Institute
+447045707784

Owen Geven Fabric Employment Scam

I haven’t seen one of these employment scams for a while. It can involve a number of scams all combined into one. The first involving a Money Mule scheme where fraudsters recruit people to launder funds that were obtained illegally usually via Identity theft.

In this case the bottom feeders may be trying to get your identity at the same time for future use. Real bad stuff.

Remember, any email addressed to “undisclosed recipients” is usually bad news. Why would some guy spam our email boxes with a “job” offer? Seems to me that an international company would not opperate this way! Folks it’s a scam and don’t
fall for this bottom feeder crap.

From: carlosserna@cable.net.co
Subject: JOB OFFER
Date: September 8, 2009 4:34:24 PM EDT (CA)
To: Undisclosed recipients: ;
Reply-To: Ezedi@Aggies.com

Hello dear,

My name is Owen Geven, a designer and also the Manager of Owen Geven Fabric and Consultant and I live and work here in United Kingdom, Would you like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job?

Actually I need a representative who can be working for the company as online book-keeper. We make lots of supplies to some of our clients in the USA/CANADA/EUROPE, for which I do come to USA/CANADA/EUROPE to receive payment and have it cashed after I supply them raw materials. It’s always too expensive and stressful for me to come down and receive such payment twice in a month so I therefore decided to contact you.

I am willing to pay you 10% for every payment receives by you from our clients who make payment through you.

Please note you don’t have to be a book keeper to apply for the job.

Kindly get back to me as soon as possible if you are interested in this job offer with the following details:

FULL NAMES……………….
ADDRESS (not p.o.box)…
PROOF OF ADDRESS (UTILITY BILL)
PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION (DRIVERS LICENCE OR INERNATIONAL PASSPORT)
STATE………………
ZIPCODE…………….
COUNTRY…………….
PHONE NUMBER(S)……..
GENDER……………..
AGE………………..
OCCUPATION………….

Yours Faithfully,
Owen Geven

Mr Abel Fouda; Hi I Am A Scammer

You would think that these bottom feeders could invent something new for a change. I must say that this lowlife is offering 50% nice touch! Come on bottom feeder, you poor B..
Get a real job. Honest people with real jobs have seen enough of your crap. Day after day you inundate our email with your crap, sad reflection of your mental capacities. Back to grade school, if you even went there.
One would think that recipients of your garbage may just be tired of your low life schemes and hope for the day that one can open up their email and not have it bombarded with the likes of the letter below.

From: abelfouda23@msn.com
Subject: From: Mr Abel Fouda
Date: May 10, 2009 10:34:15 AM EDT (CA)
Reply-To: abelfouda100@ubbi.com

From: Mr Abel Fouda
African Development Bank
Burkina Faso (ADB)
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso .

Dear friend,

I am writting to seek your coperation over this business, Please due welcome this letter.

I am Mr Abel Fouda , the director of the accounts & auditing dept .at the African Development Bank Ouagadougou-west Africa . (A D B) With due respect, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be beneficial to both of us.

At the bank’s last accounts/auditing evaluations, my staffs came across an old account which was being maintained by a foreign client who we learnt was among the deceased passengers of motor accident on November. 2003, the deceased was unable to run this account since his death. The account has remained dormant without the knowledge of his family since it was put in a safe deposit account in the bank for future investment by the client.

Since his demise, even the members of his family haven’t applied for claims over this fund and it has been in the safe deposit account until I discovered that it cannot be claimed since our client is a foreign national and we are sure that he has no next of kin here to file claims over the money. As the director of the department, this discovery was brought to my office so as to decide what is to be done. I decided to seek ways through which to transfer this money out of the bank and out of the country too.

The total amount in the account is ten million five hundred thousand dollars (USD 10,500,000.00).with my positions as staffs of the bank, I am handicapped because I cannot operate foreign accounts and cannot lay bonafide claim over this money. The client was a foreign national and you will only be asked to act as his next of kin and I will supply you with all the necessary information and bank data to assist you in being able to transfer this money to any bank of your choice where this money could be transferred into.

The total sum will be shared as follows: 50% for me, 50% for you and expenses incidental occur during the transfer will be incure by both of us. The transfer is risk free on both sides hence you are going to follow my instruction till the fund transfer to your account.

I want to assure you that this transaction is absolutely risk free since I work in this bank that is why you should be confident in the success of this transaction because you will be updated with information as at when desired.

I will wish you to keep this transaction secret and confidential as I am hoping to retire with my share of this money at the end of transaction which will be when this money is safety in your account. I will then come over to your country for sharing according to the previously agreed percentages. You might even have to advise me on possibilities of investment in your country or elsewhere of our choice. May God help you to help me to a restive retirement, Amen.

Please for further information and enquiries feel free to contact me back immediately for more explanation and better understanding.

I am waiting for your urgent response!!!

Thanks and remain blessed.
Mr Abel Fouda

C and H International Enterprise Scam

This is the perfect example of an employment scam, don’t fall for this one.

From: info@company.org
Subject: WORK WITH US FROM HOME
Date: February 5, 2009 11:16:07 AM EST (CA)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Reply-To: chenterprise_intcompany_ltd@yahoo.com.hk

C AND H INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISE
Rm 303, B, Hong Kong Ind. Centre
43-49 Castle Peak Rd., Kln.,
Hong Kong .

We are exporters based in the Hong Kong. We export raw materials into Europe,
America and Australia. We are interested in employing your services, to work
with us as our foreign payment receiving officer, who can receive payments on
our behalf for Goods and raw materials we supply to our clients in Europe,
America or Australia.

BHP Billiton Company Name Used by Scammers

The bottom feeders are at it again. Numerous emails are circulating using the company name of BHP Billiton as a front for scammers. In this case it seems that they are looking for money mules. Visit scamfraudalert.com for a very interesting read on the subject.

From: william.archibalXXX
Subject: **Enquiry
Date: December 31, 2008 2:43:52 AM EST (CA)
To: info@bhp.org
Reply-To: bhp.billitonplcuk@btinternet.com

BHP BILLITON COMPANY REQUIRES AN INTERNATIONAL AGENT IF YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE THIS POSITION PLEASE WRITE BACK FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR ENQUIRY.

REGARDS
MS.KAREN WOOD
COMPANY SECRETARY

Secret Shopper Inc. Potential Fraud and Scam

This smells scammy. Quite a few red lights are flashing upon examination of this email. Two very bothersome details. First and foremost; the reply address is to a Yahoo.com address and one would assume that an organization of this nature could afford to purchase their own server address and would not use a free service like Yahoo. The second red flag concerns the mention of assignments at Walmarts and the visit fee of $200 per visit. We have reported on Walmarts money gram scams in the past and the assignment fee of $200 is simply not realistic. Legitimate Mystery shopper organizations will rarely offer more than $20 for a visit and report on the service.

From: secretshopper@webtv.net
Subject: SECRET SHOPPING ASSIGNMENT AROUND YOU PLEASE PARTICIPATE
Date: November 12, 2008 1:24:25 AM EST (CA)
Reply-To: juliealbert08@yahoo.com

—–Inline Attachment Follows—–

“We have a mystery shopping assignment in your area and we would like you to participate”
Secret Shopper® is accepting applications for qualified individuals to become mystery shoppers. It’s fun and rewarding, and you choose when and where you want to shop. You are never obligated to accept an assignment. There is no charge to become a shopper and you do not need previous experience. After you sign up, you will have access to training materials via e-mail, fax or postal mail.

ABOUT US
Secret Shopper® is the premier mystery shopping company, serving clients across America and Canada with over 500,000 shoppers available and ready to help businesses better serve their customers. Continual investment in the latest internet and communication technologies coupled with over 16 years of know-how
means working with Secret Shopper® is a satisfying and rewarding experience. Secret shopping as seen on ABC NEWS, NBC NEWS, L.A.TIMES.
Stores and organizations such as The Gap, Walmart, Pizza Hut, and Banks. One amongst many others pay for Secret Shoppers to shop in their establishments and report their experiences. On top of being paid for shopping you are also allowed to keep purchases for free. Secret Shopper® NEVER charge fees to the shopper. Training, tips for improvement, and shopping opportunities are provided free to registered shoppers. Mystery shoppers are either paid a
pre-arranged fee for a particular shop, a reimbursement for a purchase or a combination of both.Secret Shopper® has available for immediate assignment an inspection of the customer service of any walmart in your area. You are to shop secretly and invest just a token. This fee will be paid upfront. During this shop you will visit the location and make several observations as regards the customer service.
You will be required to interact with the shop clerk.
You may conduct the shop alone or as a couple.
The assignment will pay $200.00 per duty
Kindly Fill Out the application form below and we will get back to you shortly with the assignment:

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

First Name………………………………………
Middle Name………………………………………
Last Name………………………………………
Street Address ………………………………………
City, State, Zip Code ………………………………………
Cell Phone Number ……………………………………..

My Travel Guide Hotel UK (MTG) Targeted by Scammer

This is a new one even for us at Gariell. This scam was placed as a comment on our website and not in the usual manner. They tried to pull a fast one on us. Sorry bottom feeders, this post’s for you! We are hot on your tail. Shame on you!
Mytravelguide.com is a wonderful and useful site and we happen to know that their offices aren’t in the UK as your telephone number would indicate.

MY TRAVEL GUIDE HOTEL UK (MTG)
JOB VACANCIES IN UK

JOB ID: PKS/JV/MTG 02467-08

MY TRAVEL GUIDE HOTEL, has immediate employment opportunities. MTG intends to invite experienced individuals/expatriates or Consultancy firm capable of rendering expertise services in various fields of Business Management, M.B.A (Finance), Administrative and Commissioning, MYG has immediate employment/Vacancies in following Designations. Accountant, Duty Manager, Front Manager, Sales Manager, Receptionists, Drivers, Bar boy, Cook, Food & Beverage Cost Controller/Manager, Customer Manager, Computer Applicant, Software/Hardware Engineers, Elect. Engineer, Auto Engineer. e.t.c. Experienced is preferred, but we’re willing to train an eager individual who wants to learn all aspects of pastry.

ENTITLEMENT, BENEFITS AND PACKAGES;

. A very attractive net salary paid in US$, Sterling or Euros equivalent depending on employee home country and currency preference with annual salary review.
. Quality single or family housing accommodation in company community.
. Free medical/dental care for employee and family.
. Excellent educational assistance benefits with family status employment.
. Paid airfares allowing full flexibility with holiday travel.
. Personal effects shipment and excess baggage allowances.
. Full access to some of the finest and social recreational facilities .
. Life Insurance and Paid vacation.
. Official vehicle/Maximum security in work environment and housing community.

JOB STATUS:
Full-Time and contract :

SALARY INDICATION:
US$5,400.00-USD15, 000.00 depending upon experience and field of specialization. Interested candidates are to email resume and details of experience ONLY to
EMAIL:mytravelguidehotel@live.com

www.mytravelguide.com +44-7031XXXX +44-70318XXX