Has anyone gotten an email from LUPIN GROUP LLC?? It came from an email address that is another valid MS company. But when you reply, it goes to a different email address secretshopper19801@mail.com. I think this is a SCAM.

It goes something like this:

LUPIN GROUP LLC is a well established Private Evaluating Firm, Our Primary Business is to provide exceptional Customer Service Evaluation.
Our company is solely responsible for hiring survey agents and recommending them to our Clients. The clients are companies that have a wide network of businesses across America, most of our clients have retail outlet in major cities across America. What your job (Survey Agent’s Position) entails is to conduct surveys at any of our client’s retail outlet assigned to you. you will be patronizing their business and conducting a survey at the same time which mostly is in regards to the customer relationship their staffs offer.

We will therefore like to offer you the job position as a survey Agent to conduct customer service surveys in your area.
Your Job will involve you providing feedback to us about the customer experience at any client’s locations. Companies use this survey for many reasons. During a typical survey session, you will make observations at a specific store/office, restaurant, or other type of location, while acting like an average customer.

A typical survey report will include

1) How long it took you to get services.
2) Smartness of the attendant
3) Customer service professionalism

Most companies employ our expertise when people give complaints about their services, or when they feel there are needs for them to improve their customer service. Your Identity would be kept confidential as a safety measure. You will receive $200 on each survey you conduct at any time for any of our clients.
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This is definitely a scam....

"You will receive $200 on each survey you conduct at any time for any of our clients."

Did you even have to ask? ;-)

If it sounds too good to be true. it usually is..........

...and "Smartness of the attendant" is a classic scam line due to poor English skills of foreign scammers.

OK, OK. I have never gotten one of these before and I have been MSing for 10 years in a couple of months!!

So how do they scam us with just our address and phone number?? I am leary when they ask for SS or passwords or bank information. I really didn;t pay any attention to the $200 . . . But that is definately a give away!!

That "Smartness of the attendant" jumped out at me and I never even got to the $200. Really, who talks like that.

These people must be werewolves. Lupin was the name given to Harry Potter's professor who was a werewolf. Run like the wind away from this.

Shoppurr Wrote:
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> So how do they scam us with just our address and
> phone number?? I am leary when they ask for SS or
> passwords or bank information. I really didn;t
> pay any attention to the $200 . . . But that is
> definately a give away!!

For those who don't know the scam; They are not looking for shoppers...but wanna-be shoppers who don't know how MSing works.

They send a realistic looking, yet fake, check that may take up to 2 weeks to get returned by your bank. They will then call and pressure you to complete the 'shop', which involves wiring money somewhere. Your supposed fee comes out of the initial check, but soon after you find out that you are liable to pay the whole thing when the check bounces and you are held criminally responsible!

Wow in 10 years the only one. I get them all the time, Just hit spam. Now you know this is a scam right? We all have to be our own best advocates and not act like babes in the woods. We are professionals and have to use our brains to discern what it what.
respectfully,
Cyn

LisaSTL Wrote:
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> That "Smartness of the attendant" jumped out at me
> and I never even got to the $200. Really, who
> talks like that.


Scammers are the only ones who say "Smartness of the Attendant"..

Why people take a check and they cash it? I worked for a company that I had read online sometimes gave out checks not covered. When I got the check I had my bank call the check issuing bank and check if it was civered. After they gave the ok I deposited the check.

The checks sent out are usually cashier's checks. They are often drawn on actual accounts numbers that have been stolen, so it can take weeks to discover they are fake.

It's common for a bank to credit your account with the amount of the check in advance of it fully cleaning, and that's when the scammers apply pressure for you to send the money.

As Steve said:

It's common for a bank to credit your account with the amount of the check in advance of it fully cleaning, and that's when the scammers apply pressure for you to send the money.

Say this 1000 times...

The bank has so many days to issue you the money and the scammers KNOW that...

Luckily they don't now how to spell!