Hello xxxxxxxx,

Season Greetings to you.I am writing to let you know that the payment for your first assignment has been mailed to you via UPS.the payment is in from of Money Orders as you are to cash the Money Orders at your Bank and proceed with the following procedures :

Your Evaluation would be ;

1) To make a transfer of fund from any of the Western Union location provided to you in the last email to another Mystery shopper, And the funds would be picked up by another mystery shopper at the exact location where a customer reported her funds missing.

2) You would have to record the time at which you go to the location and how many minutes it took you to get service.

3) You have been sent a check which would cover your payment of $400 and also for the duty. As soon as you receive the check, you
would cash in at your bank, and deduct your $400.00, and use the rest of the money for the services.

4) You would have to keep a comprehensive report on every activity you carry out.

5) You would also provide me with the name of the cashier that attended to you.
Here are the details where you are to send the western union to:

Name : Gary Franklin
Address: 154 Upper Berkeley Street,
City: London
Zip Code: W1H 7QR
Country: United Kingdom

Get back to us with the MTCN (10 digit) given to you at the western union location including the total amount sent after deduction of charges, SENDERS NAME and ADDRESS

Yours Sincerely
Mark Benson.
Zagat Survey, LLC.

@superseller4, this is definitely a scam. However, it is not from “Zagat Survey.” The scammer is trying to look legitimate by using a familiar name. The best thing to do is just hit “delete.”

I wrote about a similar email I received here: http://www.MysteryShoppersManual.com/another-mystery-shopper-scam

Hello Mystery Shopper:

This is the Shopper’s Guide you are to go through and we wants you to run a survey on two prominent companies in your area.

The 1st is a Western Union Location
The 2nd a Restaurant

YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT WILL BE A WESTERN UNION LOCATION WITH THE LOCATION ADDRESSES BELOW.

There have been reports about laps in the services of their Management and some of their staffs,Their complains are based on reports which their customers forwarded anonymously and Phone calls which were also made to the head office.

The below Western union locations were reported for evaluation for the following reasons:
I) Customers have reported their money missing
ii) Slow services
iii) Unbalanced transfer charges

The 2nd company was reported to be rendering
(I) Poor services
(ii) Rudeness to customers
(iii) Excess charge
(iii) Late opening time and Closing before time.

Your First Secret Evaluation would be
1) To make a transfer of funds from this western union location to our Mystery shopper, And the funds would be picked up by another mystery shopper at another location where a customer reported her funds missing.We will want you to go to any of the below western union locations to carry out the assignment.

2) You would have to record the time at which you go to the location and how many minutes it took you to get service.

3) You would be sent a check/Money order which would cover your payment of $400 and also for the duty. As soon as you receive the check/money order, you should cash in at your bank, and deduct your $400.00, and use the rest of the money for the services.

4) Upon receiving the funds, the locations address would be forwarded to you, and also the Name and address of whom the Mystery shoppers transfer would be made to. You would have to keep a comprehensive report on every activity you carry out.

5) You would also provide me with the name of the cashier that attended to you.

Please send me a reply so that the check/Money order sent out to you ASAP

Yours Sincerely
Mark Benson.
Zagat Survey, LLC

@margo281, congrats on cathing this before it caugh you and good luck with your case, I hope you can take at least one fish out of this pond of scammers.