Mystery Shopper Inc....not finding anything

Hello!
I received an email from "Mystery Shopper Inc" stating that there were shops now available in my area. I have signed up with other companies and received similar emails that were legit. However, I have no record of ever registering with this company (that does not mean that it did not happen), they are not on the list on this forum, and I do not see any threads started by others. I noticed that the sender's email address seemed a bit strange and since my computer has been hacked several times in the last year, I do not want to click the link that will take me to the site where these supposed jobs are unless I get some other confirmation that the company is legit.
What are your thoughts?

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What was strange about the return address? When in doubt, mystery shopping or otherwise, don't click on a link. Did you try typing the web address into a browser?

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Mystery Shopper Inc. is very real. I have done over 15 shops. Some of the shops are "donate your clothes" type shops.

Now, for instance: My schedulers email comes from: *****pers****@gmail.com this is a real email account (deleted out name so scammers don't copy the real name) This is my schedulers email but I deleted out her name. Her mail comes from a gmail account but the first part is ***oppers. I realize what you are saying, that anyone could get a gmail account but my scheduler __________ uses a gmail account.

Do you mind posting the email body of the letter? You can delete any private information. I just want to see how this looks.

Also, read the email again. I get letters all the time for new companies. Look at the blue link again (not saying click on it) there should be a link to "sign up" as a shopper on that.

The logo on the home page, has 3 shopping bags, green, red and blue. Go to the lower left bottom. It should have the schedulers name and this number after his/her name 800-424-0871.

The one funny thing about this company, while they pay on time, the check always says "Mystery Shopper Inc" and I have to go to the bank with that written on the check...kinda funny!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/08/2013 06:26PM by SunnyDays2.

This was the entire email:

Hello,

We are glad to inform you that you have been selected to become
our Field Evaluator around your location.

CLICK - APPLY NOW

© 2013 The Mystery Shopping Program . All Rights Reserved.

The address that made me suspicious was (* signs used to cover the identity) shop4free***@cox.net

Thoughts on that?

If you did NOT apply to this company, I would delete the email. They make it sound like you are the ONLY field evaluator in your location, which would be highly unlikely.

If you hover your mouse (don't click, just hover) over the link, what url does it show?

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I pray it does not occur that the last thing I did before I died was vacuum the house or eat broccoli.

When I hover over the link, it will not show the address. Another thing that caught my attention was the bottom reads that it is the Mystery Shopping Program but the notice is from The Mystery Shopping Inc. I should also add that the title of the email was: JOB OFFER FOR YOU ***URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED***

Can you right click on the "CLICK - APPLY NOW" link, copy the link, and post it here?

Otherwise copy the whole email into a PM to me and I can tell you in short order.

AndrewTX
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I am not sure if this is the same thing considering that I get regular emails from this company, but when I googled themysteryshoppinginc.com, there was a site that came up titled mysteryshoppinginc.com When I clicked on that, the site for Reality Based Group came up. For some stupid reason, I just can't seem to let this go, nor am I brave enough to click the "CLICK - APPLY NOW" link.

you can right click the link then hit copy link location
and then paste it into any text box to see what the link actually goes to

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Amie, I think you're right to be concerned about the validity of the email. I shop with Mystery Shoppers, Inc., and receive email from schedulers from a gmail account beginning with msshoppersxxxxx, and an AOL email account, xxxxxxmsshoppers. MSPs have variants of Mystery Shopper in their name, so it's possible we could be talking about different companies.

Mystery Shoppers, Inc. belongs to the MSPA. I don't see their name on this forum's list of MSPs. They are a Sassie company.

This is from their site [mystery-shoppers.com].

I would call Mystery Shoppers Inc. and ask them if they sent the letter. This is the only way to be certain.

@Amie068 Yeah, I've seen emails like that too. While there is a company such as Mystery-shoppers.com, there may be a possible site that will give you a malware virus if you click on it.

If you deleted it, good call. I would go to the URL in the above post and check it out. I've done a few shops for that company as well.

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