So you always see the ads online, in the email, etc. for job opportunities – specifically, being a secret shopper. Make your own hours, keep the products, make big money, etc. Obviously this is a scam.
How on earth do they make money? Who is sending these emails? Is there some kind of a buy-in required? Or do they really honestly employ secret shoppers, and just keep most of the money for themselves?
I refuse to believe it’s legitimate because being a secret shopper is such a great job that they wouldn’t have to send an email to 4 million people to find workers.
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there are many gullible people in the world, like the old saying goes, there’s a sucker born every minute
I knew a guy who did this. What really sucked was he used his own money to buy the crap and would have to go do returns to get his cash back. It wasn’t worth the time, gas money, or wages.
I cannot begin to answer all your questions but I did hear something on the radio recently regarding secret shoppers that I will share with you.
In a nutshell, they were saying people do make money at being a secret shopper, but they are employed and you do not have to pay anybody any money.
Bottomline, if an ad or email is asking for you to sign up and it cost money, don’t! It is a scam.
THey are scams. They charge upfront fees for their services, require you to buy inventory for resale, or require credit card information, which they can use/sell.
The FTC publishes a series of consumer alerts regarding work at home scams. To see how they operate, check them out:
“Work at home Schemes” http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/invest/homewrk.htm
‘Net Based Business Opportunities: Are Some Flop-portunities?
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/netbizop.htm
“The Bottom Line on Multilevel Marketing Plans” http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/pyrdalrt.htm
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consumer alert entitled “Take This Scheme and Stuff It: Avoiding Envelope-Stuffing Rip-Offs.â€