What Is a Secret Shopper Scam?
A secret shopper scam is a scam which takes advantage of people who are interested in secret shopper jobs. Entirely legitimate secret shopper jobs do exist, and are an important part of the evaluation process for many companies, and wide public awareness of such jobs has led to increased interest in them, and a subsequent plethora of scams.
A secret shopper scam is a scam which takes advantage of people who are interested in secret shopper jobs. Entirely legitimate secret shopper jobs do exist, and are an important part of the evaluation process for many companies, and wide public awareness of such jobs has led to increased interest in them, and a subsequent plethora of scams. In the most basic secret shopper scam, someone responds to a solicitation which claims to be seeking secret shoppers and is told to shop at a series of stores. The shopper is supposed to send the receipts and evaluation paperwork to the company coordinating the job, so that reimbursement can be provided, but it never arrives. In more complex scams, people are asked to pay a fee to access a database of secret shopper jobs. They are guaranteed employment, told that the database is extremely detailed, and assured that they can make a great deal of money as secret shoppers. After paying the fee, the database may not exist at all, or it may contain readi
