The Real Deal With Mystery Shopping Scams

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How to avoid mystery shopping scams?
The following tips can help you to avoid a mystery shopping scam:
- Is the job posted by a reputable company who offers industry research services in China? A research on the internet can help you to check the legitimacy. The safest thing is to visit the office, is there an address indicated? Don’t deal with companies that are located outside of the country.
- Don’t pay to be a mystery shopper. This is a normal job who has to be paid from the employer after the assignment and report. They never receive checks or money in advance.
- Never deposit a check from someone you don’t know because you are responsible for the check you deposit. If the check is fake the bank takes the amount that was originally credited from your account.
- Never indicate your personal or financial information, don’t enter your bank account, social security number or credit card number on a web page or to someone who calls you.
- To be a mystery shopper is a good way to earn extra money, but it is not true that you can make a lot of cash.
- The purchase mystery shoppers ...
... have to do are normally for a very small amount, generally from 20 to 100 Yuan which they will get back from the company.