Important Notice!

Have you received a suspicious email about mystery shopping?

Have you received an unsolicited email from a company claiming to be RetailTrack?  If so, beware.  The name of RetailTrack Mystery Shopping & Consulting, along with other leading mystery shopping companies is being used by fraud artists.  Most often, the job seems "too good to be true" and involves sending money through a wire transfer.  This is a scam.  While RetailTrack has clients in the financial industry, we have no assignments that require a wire transfer of funds. Check out these links for more information:

http://phoenix.about.com/od/scam1/a/mysteryshop.htm
http://www.jobmonkey.com/mysteryshopping/mystery-shopping-scams.html
http://www.wisebread.com/the-mystery-shopping-scam-that-could-cost-you-a-fortune

Here is the text of a current, fraudulent, email being distributed:

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:30:44 -0600
From: "Retail Track INC�" <info@retailtrack.com>
Subject: We Have A Job For You - Please Respond

Dear Applicant, Top of the day to you.We have decided to offer you an employment as a Mystery Shopper. ( Customer Service Position ). This is a random contact and your response is needed to show your interest. If you have gotten this email sent to you earlier, please we apologise for the spam. If interested, Do respond.

About us : We needs someone who can conduct surveys and evaluate other companies, shops,grocery stores. We get hired to go to other peoples companies and act like customers in order to know how the staffs are handling their services in relation to their customers. once we have a contract to do so, you would be directed to the company or outlet, and you would be given the funds you need to do the job(either purchase things or require services), after which you would write a comment on the staffs activities and give a detailed record of your experience

Mystery Shopper(R) NEVER charge fees to the shopper. Training, tips for improvement, and shopping opportunities are provided free to registered shoppers. Mystery shoppers are either paid a pre-arranged fee for a particular shop, a reimbursement for a purchase

Examples of details you would forward to us are
1) How long it took you to get services.
2) Smartness of the attendant
3)Customer service professionalism
4)Sometimes you might be required to upset the attendant, to see how they react to clients whey they get tensed. And we turn the information over to the company executives and they would carry out their own duties in improving there services.

Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service in a wide variety of shops,20stores, restaurant and services in your area. No commitment is made on this job, and you would have flexible hours as it suits you. If you are interested do send in these information: So we can look at your distance from the locations which you have to put your service into, and your address would also be need for your payments.

Great Pay** Fun Work** Flexible Schedules** No experience required.

If you can shop-you are qualified!

First name...................
Middle name..................
Last name....................
Physical Home Address Line 1............... ( No P.O. Boxes Please) City.........................
State........................
Zip/Postal code..............
Home phone...................
Cell phone...................
Fax..........................
(If Available) Sex.........................
Age ....................
Current Employer : ....................
Employment Status : Working or Not Working : ....................
Salary History : ....................
Reference's ............................. (If Any)
Availability:
No start off fees is required Must be above 18 years old Must be computer literate Must be very honest and committed Please note that this is a part time job and you can work freely online

Your response to this email is important , so that we can be sure you want to work for us and reconfirm your mailing address details we have in our database ASAP, it is compulsory you provide all these listed information's, Your personal information shall be stored in our database and shall be kept confidential, However only your Name and Physical Address with only be sent to our customers who'll be sending you payments.

Thanks For Your Total Understanding.
Sales/Hiring Manager
Attn: Mark Fraser
Delivering simple solutions and achievable business objectives