I decided to follow a link on a legitimate shopping company's site today and it led me to [
www.fakechecks.org]
We get a lot of questions about whether offers could be real and frustration by folks who discovered they have been scammed. Certainly Mystery Shopping is not the only fraud out there, so perhaps the somewhat trivial fraud tests offered with the fakechecks site can sharpen awareness so folks don't let their wishful thinking cause them grief.
And yes, there are exceptions to almost all of the fakechecks fraud test questions that work out and it is, as the old saying has it, the exceptions that prove the rule. Scammers are hoping that you will give them the benefit of the doubt in your hopes that they are the exceptions and then boom, they've got you.