{"id":658,"date":"2011-09-10T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2011-09-10T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T17:15:13","slug":"secret-shopper-scam-described","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2011\/09\/secret-shopper-scam-described\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Shopper Scam Described"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/'>The Consumerist<\/a>&#8220;, a website that highlights the persistent, shameless gaffes of modern consumerism &#8211; and the latest scams, rip-offs, hot deals and freebies, encourages their readers to tell them about their everyday experiences with absurdities of consumer culture &#8211; and suggest ways for them to fight back. <\/p>\n<p>They explain in detail <a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2011\/09\/heres-what-a-secret-shopper-scam-looks-like.html'>how the &#8216;Secret Shopper&#8217; scam works<\/a> and the comments are interesting too, especially the one from a persone who actually did the job for real.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere are legit Mystery Shopper jobs. A friend did it for years.<\/p>\n<p>A Legit company, has a physical office,<br \/>\nPays Unemployment insurance.<br \/>\nOffers Insurance and maybe a 401k<br \/>\nSupplies you with a company credit card to offset employee purchases required to do the job.<br \/>\nHandles corporate accounts for big names such as Pepsico, or Marriott.<br \/>\nReimburses all employee costs and pays mileage.<br \/>\nYou DO NOT get to keep your purchases required to do your job unless its staying in a hotel you are &#8220;shopping&#8221;<br \/>\nFood is tested for temp, drinks for proper mixture.<br \/>\nYou will be observing cleanliness and going to the bathrooms.<br \/>\nYou may eat your meal but your probably shopping 20 places that day so most of it must be disposed of, it cannot be given away.<br \/>\nYou WILL be traveling the country, sometimes 1000 miles a day in all types of weather.<br \/>\nYou WILL be away from home 2-3 weeks a month.<br \/>\nYou WILL NOT be payed in advance.<br \/>\nYou will get a salary on top of compensation for your purchases.<br \/>\nYou WILL spend many a night sleeping in your car. <\/p>\n<p>Anything that does not meet these criteria is most likely a SCAM.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s not as exciting or lucrative as it sounds! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Consumerist&#8220;, a website that highlights the persistent, shameless gaffes of modern consumerism &#8211; and the latest scams, rip-offs, hot deals and freebies, encourages their readers to tell them about their everyday experiences with absurdities of consumer culture &#8211; and suggest ways for them to fight back. They explain in detail how the &#8216;Secret Shopper&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,90,36,72],"tags":[68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}