FYI:


Good Morning Linda,
Scam Alert!!

Be aware that there are individuals using Corporate Research Internationals good name to perpetrate a scam on unsuspecting consumers.

Consumers are receiving fraudulent letters offering, among other things, a mystery shopping assignment to evaluate a money transfer service (click here to see an example of the letter). [www.corpri.com]

These letters use Corporate Research Internationals name and website address to establish credibility with the recipients and are accompanied by a cashiers check for several thousand dollars. In the letter, shoppers are instructed to cash the check at a local bank and then wire the cash to a designated location while keeping several hundred dollars for themselves as payment for the shop.

This is a scam! The cashiers check ultimately bounces and the shopper is held liable for the funds.

If you or anyone you know has received a similar letter, please contact local law enforcement or the nearest FBI regional field office to report the scam attempt. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

We also ask that you inform those friends or family whom you know to engage in mystery shopping to be on the lookout for this type of fraudulent offer.



Anne Harris
Scheduling Supervisor
Corporate Research International
www.corpri.com

So true. I also received a paypal scam. So beware. They stated money was sent to my account and I must click on the site they listed in the email, but I had never done a job for the company listed, nor had I ever heard of them. I did conctact paypal security, and sure enough it was a scam. So I always go directly to the site rather than clicking on the site enclosed in the email. It really looked just like the paypal email. Very authentic.

I have recieved three of these letters as well. I believe I can track them down to whoever sold my info from registering with mystery shopper inc. All three of them were snail mailed to me. I called the bank that one of the checks suppositly came from and they told me hundreds of those fraudulent checks went out.They
had me fax over every thing I recieved. It's very scary to think that some people think these are a real deal!

Bugs--Look at the URL again on the letter: www.corpri.com, instead of cori.com.

And, BTW, what's this about CORI's GOOD name?

sandicat--are you registered with Shadow Shopper?

corpri.........stands for Corporate Research International and I noticed a lot more of the schedulers are using that instead of CORI or CRI. I think perhaps because of confusion w/Certified Reports.

I stand corrected. But the part about their good name is still fiction.

Ya'll,

I received a letter in the mail with an Official Check in the amount of $2990.00. The first paragraph reads "Congratulation!!! You have been selected to participate in a paid Customer Research Program known as "Extremes shopping". As one of the people selected to represent our firm, you will be acting as a Customer Service Evaluator of selected companies in your area.

It goes on with instructions to contact a Mr.Tim Walkers to guide me through a paid Probation Training Task (PTT). There's some kind of security code on the check you need before you can cash it.

The letter looks really authenic as it has a heading from a legitimate MSing Company, Extreme Secret Shopper and the logos of Walmart, Sears, McDonalds, Money Gram, and Western Union.

I did some research and found that these letters are scams. They are coming from Nigeria to Canada first, then to the USA. I reported to the FTC and notified the MSC of the name they were using. I haven't heard anything back yet.

No way was I going to fall for this. More people need to be informed.

scambusters is a good site for keeping up with all the different types of scams. There are so many new ones created daily.