Comments on: Scam Alert – Beware Mystery Shopping Scam

By: Elisa Mitchell

Elisa Mitchell — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:36:49 +0000

Hi Charlotte,

This sounds like a scam! GlobalTestMarket will only send you online surveys to participate in and our survey invitation emails and other email correspondence are SPAM compliant, meaning we always include our physical address at the bottom including opt-out information.

I would appreciate it if you forward us the ‘from’ address of the email you received, so we can follow up and report this scam.

Thank you and regards,

Elisa
The GlobalTestMarket Team

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your account, please contact us:
http://www.globaltestmarket.com/contact.php

GlobalTestMarket . 1100 112th Ave. Suite 200 . Bellevue, WA 98004 . USA

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:39:14 +0000

Hey, is this a load of shit, just wanna check
Could not understand why they would trust me enough to put money in my bank account without
any contract/ID

Dear Charlotte,

Once again, I use this opportunity to welcome you to the team.Like we
told you in the last email, your first assignment will be to study a
western union office and a restaurant.

The details for the western union is as follow;

1.You receive the money needed in carrying out this assignment into
your account from us, deduct your weekly salary of $300 AUD and send
the balance to another mystery shopper there in another country.

2.The mystery shopper’s name and address will be provided to you in due time.

3.The western union office is;

ORION PARK NEWS
SHOP 2, 11 ORION ROAD
Lane Cove, NSW 2066

AUSTRALIA POST
97 PITTWATER ROAD
Gladesville, NSW 2111

4.You are to record the time you went to the location,how long it took
for them to you, the name of the person that attended to you and how
polite they are.

5.Get back to me with these details when you are done.

We will like you to complete this assignment before next month. The
money you need to carry out this duty will be sent into your bank
account.We will need you to provide us with these details.

THE NAME OF YOUR BANK;
ACCOUNT NUMBER;
BSB CODE;

N.B. You may get bonus payments depending on how well you execute the
assignment and also know that you are a secret shopper and you are to
act as one and not give away your identity when you get to the western
union location.

Yours Sincerely

Rev John Franck,
Manager,
Global Test Market.®

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:15:04 +0000

LOL !
I got it over the weekend. Have been toying w/ them all day long too! Am acting stupid (as they expect from Tx) Broke half the rules as far as the cashing of the check and how they told me to do it. This is so funny,called them like 10 times acting dumb as mud but told them I’d done it all and “where do I wire this $$ to ??”
They gave me two names and cities in Canada..thats it.
I then called again and said that I was outside the store trying to wire the $$ but the dude inside told me that I needed a street adress or the cash could not be wired. The guy called me back w/ two complete adresses ! ,lol I scammed the scammers out of THEIR info !
Am thinking about what I want to do w/ them,,, toy around and waste their time before I declare that I’m w/ the FBI ?? Give it to the cops?? ..Poor Peter and Dan from Edmonton Alberta,,@ 9737 112th street.
Googled them and got a few hits.One perhaps has cancer as he chairs a support group,, if it is him. OR maybe he is scamming them too.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:38:02 +0000

I was a target about a week ago. It is on its way to the police. Thank -God I researched it. The paperwork looks very authentic.
I do have one question though. Say it was cashed at a check cashing agency instead of depositing it then doesn’t that automatically mean that the other party had it in their bank in the first place?
My bank or even a check cashing agency place would never have done that would they and if they did, and the shopper never complied to the directions…..they would have that money? I can understand if it was deposited into a bank account and I withdrew upon it then it would fail but to cash it and walk with it?
Confused Carolyn -

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:33:02 +0000

So, I just replied to an email on craigslist for a “mystery shopper” got a response right away about explaining what I would do and asked me for my address, number and ect. Well, that night I was watching Dr. Phil and he had a show about Scammers. A young married couple were on there and did everything I just did, and she got a check in the mail for just under $5000, deposited it, her bank cleared the check and then within the week, her bank reversed the charges and her acct was negitive $5000. How devistating. Thank GOD I saw that show and realized that I was just scammed. Here is the email I recieved today from them:

Dear Shopper,

You have been Accepted as one of our Mystery Shopper/Survey Agent. You will be evaluating Wal-Mart Stores and Western Union Services in your neighborhood, Kindly check out for one Wal-Mart store and one Western Union agent outlet you will like to evaluate, make sure the store and the outlet you will choose are close to your area as much as possible, you will have to email the names and addresses of the two locations to us. Please note that you are to act Cool,Calm and Confident through out the period which you will be carrying out your survey at the store, in order not to arouse any suspicion. you will be shopping at Wal-Mart stores and also make a transaction at the Western Union, you will write a report about the customer services, you will send your report back to us via Email, you will have to use the following pointers to prepare your report :

1) How long it took you to get services.
2) Ambiance/Outlook of the Shop/Outlet
3) Smartness of the attendant
4) Customer service professionalism
5) Reaction of personnel under pressure
6) Information that you think would be helpful
7) Your comments and impressions.

Payments will be mailed out to you, which you will expend in carrying out all that will be required of you including your Compensation and Transportation fee.
All Other Instructions will be sent out to you as soon as Evaluation commences.
Please reply this Email and give us the name and address of the
Wal-mart and Western Union location you will be evaluating .

Thanks.
Smith.
Hiring Manager

So as soon as I get this “check” in that mail, I’m taking it to my police station and hopefully they will take it from there….hope this helps anyone. I know it did for me

By: mystery shopping

mystery shopping — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:11:01 +0000

GlobalTestMarket is commended for making us aware that someone is using them in a mail scam involving Wal-Mart mystery shopping. It’s good to know that GlobalTestMarket will never instruct a member to cash a check, keep a small portion and sent back the remainder to GlobalTestMarket.

By: Margie

Margie — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:50:13 +0000

Saturday I recieved one of these checks in the amount of 3650.25 with a letter saying 200 was for training 3121.25 transferred 125 money gram and 200 for shopping. the money gram is to a lady they say is related to me in canada. New it was a scam cuz my last name isn’t the same as hers.. It is my married name. It also says to call and get a validate code to cash the check. Needless to say I am meeting with my local pd in the morning with the letter, envelope, and check. Hopefully my local pd will be able to do something about this.

People really need to start thinking when they recieve a check out of no where and stop cashing these fraudulent things. This is the 2nd time I have gone through this and the first one my bank called the bank and verified the check was stollen.

By: Garth O'Brien

Garth O'Brien — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:14:56 +0000

Courtney,

It was determined that our company does not have legal standing to bring a criminal action against this group. It is up to victims to report this scam to their local police agencies. That agency must contact the Canadian agencies listed in the blog post. We hope the Canadian authorities take swift action.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:25:46 +0000

I just recieved a letter and the logo for Global Test Market looked like it was printed on a personal printer so I knew it was bogus. I hope they catch whoever is doing this scam, I don’t need anymore money troubles in my life!! Has there been any action taken so far by the police that have been contacted so far??

By: jody

jody — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:47:17 +0000

I had just recieved this letter in the mail, the only diference I have is that I have to send the majority of the money to someone in NY, and this company is apparently in in Wilimington, DE, I called the number that was on top of the letter, which of course she told me it was ligitament..which to find out by googleing it, that it was indeed fake. If people didnt have a computer and wasnt able to look things up like some of us fortunate ones, they would be so excited to get a check like this exspecially right before christmas..People should be so ashamed of themselves, exspecially the supposed ones recieving the money transfer.