I also got the same email recently from this email address whiteleyjohnson@gmail.com

Our Company needs a leader in Customer Experience Management. Proven
experience and systems use information from a variety of sources,
including
mystery shop visits and store audits to quantify the gap between your
brand promise and the reality of exactly what your customers have
experienced.

Shopping for new clothes at stores like The Gap, Macy's, Old Navy,
Banana Republic and other top retailers. Dining with your family or
friends at restaurants like Olive Garden,Cheesecake Factory,
McDonald's, Black Angus, Outback, Burger King and other popular
restaurants You will pose as a typical shopper so you can give us
feedback about their employees' customer service, sales ability,
product knowledge, procedures, and professionalism. We turn the
information (you gave us) over to the company executives and they
would carry out their
own duties in improving their services.

Most companies employ our assistance when people give complaints about
their services or when they feel there are needs for them to improve
their general
service. Your Identity would be kept confidential as the job states
(secret shopper). You would be paid $150 for every survey you carry
out and $50 for
shopping, making total of $200.

Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service in a wide
variety of shops, stores, 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 your:

Your Full Name:
Your Residence address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Present work address:
Home and mobile Phone numbers:
Email address:
Your Age and Current Occupation:
Your Gender:

So we can look at your distance from the locations which you have to
put your service into, and your address would also be needed for your
payments. We also
implore you to send a scanned copy of any form of Identification for
the processing of your application form and also for record purpose
but if you
cannot provide it presently then you can provide it later,Note that
the payment for the survey exercise will be received by you before
this week runs
out,after you must have been given the survey outlets you will carry
out the evaluation.

Regards,
Hiring Manager
GC Group Inc.

i just receive a check for $935.00 but its from the united states postal service, postal money order.  is this still a scam?

The Secrets of Mystery Shopping Revealed
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt151.shtm


Giving The Bounce To Counterfeit Check Scams
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/articles/naps29.pdf

From: William Losacco <losaccowil@gmail.com>
   Sent: Mon, April 2, 2012 3:23:14 AM
   Subject: We Are Hiring Now!!

   

   

   Our Company needs a leader in Customer Experience Management. Proven experience and systems use information from a variety of sources, including mystery shop visits and store audits to quantify the gap between your brand promise and the reality of exactly what your customers have experienced.

   Shopping for new clothes at stores like The Gap, Macy's, Old Navy, Banana Republic and other top retailers. Dining with your family or friends at restaurants like Olive Garden,Cheesecake Factory, McDonald's, Black Angus, Outback, Burger King and other popular restaurants You will pose as a typical shopper so you can give us feedback about their employees' customer service,
   sales ability, product knowledge, procedures, and professionalism. We turn the information (you gave us) over to the company executives and they would carry out their own duties in improving their services.

   Most companies employ our assistance when people give complaints about their services or when they feel there are needs for them to improve their general service. Your Identity would be kept confidential as the job states (secret shopper). You would be paid $150 for every survey you carry out and $50 for shopping, making total of $200.


   Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service in a wide variety of shops, stores, 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 your:

   Your Full Name:
   Your Residence address:
   City:
   State:
   Zip Code:
   Present work address:
   Home and mobile Phone numbers:
   Email address:
   Your Age and Current Occupation:
   Your Gender:


   So we can look at your distance from the locations which you have to put your service into, and your address would also be needed for your payments. We also implore you to send a scanned copy of any form of Identification for the processing of your application form and also for record purpose but if you cannot provide it presently then you can provide it later,Note that the payment for the survey exercise will be received by you before this week runs out,after you must have been given the survey outlets you will carry out the evaluation.


   Regards,
   Hiring Manager
   GC Group Inc.
   William Losacco.
   Tell: 801-739-8925
   losaccowil@gmail.com

This is an official notification from the desk of Dean Mosey, Hiring Manager, GC Group Inc, acknowledging your interest to resume as a part-time mystery shopper with our agency. GC Group mystery shopping agency is built to standardize the American small scale business industry and improve goals and expectations that business organizations establish with their customers. As the world leading market and economy, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in conjunction with GC group, believes that technicalities should be put in place to maintain and improve the values of Small and medium scale business within the United States of America. According to a comprehensive national survey on customer service conducted by the National Retail Federation, 99% percent of shoppers said that customer service was at least somewhat important when deciding to make a purchase. At the same time,  only 16% of shoppers reported being "extremely satisfied" with their most recent customer service experience which implies that there is a high rate decline within the small and medium scale customer services rendered. It is especially critical in today?s economically challenging environment to differentiate a market by offering superior customer service experiences.



Job Description:



Customer service measurement
Competitive intelligence (benchmark studies)
Brand or franchise representation
Sales skills and product knowledge
Safety and security procedures
Product promotion and marketing
Transactional accuracy and efficiency
Manufacturer?s suggested pricing validation



Your duty as a mystery shopper includes: Customer service evaluation /visiting a Wall -mart Store, An OLD NAVY store and a Western Union outlet in your district to evaluate customer services, product, salesmanship, hospitality, And its processes are as follows:



A.     To custom design a criteria to evaluate businesses based on customer service relationship and your process of doing business.



B.      After evaluation submit the information to us within 12 hours of visiting your location



C.     The mystery shop information is reviewed by you staff and submitted to my desk   another 12 hours.



Basically your operations or evaluation process is: Interactive Dashboards, Performance Scorecards, Dynamic Query Drill-Down, Individual Customer Experience Reports, Strengths & Opportunities Reports, Key Performance Indicator (KPIs) Tracking and High-Impact Standard Reports. We select and train evaluators or secret shoppers who fit typical consumer profile to insure accurate feedback on the consumer expectation that should established by organization.



PAYMENT SCHEME:



1.      Upfront survey fee/contract payment of $300 and addition funding to carry out the survey pending on the business organization and their products rates.

2.      If you have an existing or can open Capital One or a Chase Bank checking or savings account, cash deposits we will be paid directly to your account.

3.      Payment can also be made in certified bank checks, money/postal orders, bank drafts e. t.c



For immediate commencement, you are required to report back by responding with the closet contact details of the above mentioned organizations address in your region for further briefings and, survey funding. An Employment form /questionnaire will sent to you in few minutes.



Yours Faithfully,

Dean Mosey
Hiring Manager
GC Group Inc.
Tel: 801-739-8925

Read the other messages that are posted as if you don't already know what is going on whoever you are

This is exactly what I received the names change this time it is Tyrone Lewis, Mark Morgan etc.
I received the same letter and fell for it, I never did my homework, when you need extra money to pay bills, put food on the table, take care of your children you become a victim of a horrible scam. These people are out there and are using the Postal Service Money orders to do their dirty work, please whoever is out there and reads this please contact me, they should be ashamed of themselves and get real jobs instead of taking advantage of vulnerable people. I hope the FBI, FTC and any other agency shuts them down and force them to pay back all the people that were scammed. Whatever goes around comes around and that applies to you GC Group Inc. whatever name you go by, of course that is a fake also.....I hope they are found and deserve serious jail time....

Yes, this is a scam I was dupped out of $3740 by this group when I started to investigate the company it was to late 'Gamsgal' you are not dreaming this happened to me today, from 4 postal money orders that were sent to me and they all bounced, yes whoever they are they should go to jail, I WAS THE VICTIM.... I will go to whatever agency I have to go these people should be shut down they are taking advantage of people who are vulnerable......

Yes, it absolutely is a scam.  You may be the victim, and you may not, depending on how it goes.  They send you a fake money order for close to $1,000, telling you your bank should cash it with no problem.  You are to send like, $700 to some fairly local address via Western Union or some cash source, and are asked to rate the service.  Then you fill out some silly form and are supposed to keep the remainder of the money for yourself.  Well, the bank will not honor the money order, so if you've used your own funds to complete this transaction, you are the victim.  If the bank does honor it for some bizarre reason, it's a really bad bank and they'd be liable.  Probably not the way it will go, however.  They're even careful not to use US postal service, because then it becomes a federal crime.  If you receive this e-mail, please forward it to spam@uce.gov and CFR2008A@consumerfraudreporting.org.  I always hope folks go to jail for this, but am probably just dreaming...

Junk????

i received this email and its a complete scam. if this is the same person as Christopher walker.
Our Company needs a leader in Customer Experience Management. Proven experience
and systems use information from a variety of sources, including
mystery shop visits and store audits to quantify the gap between your brand
promise and the reality of exactly what your customers have experienced.

Shopping for new clothes at stores like The Gap, Macy's, Old Navy, Banana
Republic and other top retailers. Dining with your family or friends at
restaurants like Olive Garden,Cheesecake Factory, McDonalds, Black Angus,
Outback, Burger King and other popular restaurants

You will pose as a typical shopper so you can give us feedback about their
employees' customer service, sales ability, product knowledge, procedures, and
professionalism. We turn the information (you gave us) over to the company
executives and they would carry out their own duties in improving their
services.

Most companies employ our assistance when people give complaints about their
services or when they feel there are needs for them to improve their general
service. Your Identity would be kept confidential as the job states (secret
shopper). You would be paid $300 for every survey you carry out and $100 for
shopping, making total of $400.


Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service in a wide variety
of shops, stores, 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 your:


Your Full Name:
Your Residence address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Present work address:
Home and mobile Phone numbers:
Email address:
Your Age and Current Occupation:
Your Gender:


So we can look at your distance from the locations which you have to put your
service into, and your address would also be needed for your payments. We also
implore you to send a scanned copy of any form of Identification for the
processing of your application form and also for record purpose but if you
cannot provide it presently then you can provide it later.


Regards,
Hiring Manager
GC Group Inc.
Dave Murray .
Tell: 650-993-1677
davemurray101@gmail.com

OK..I too received a FedEx envelope 7/3 with the same amount and bank as Krys.  I have looked on the web, google and such, but haven't called the bank as I received this check on a Saturday?? Saturday delivery for a secret shopper, don't think soooo. The documentation delivered with the check was instructions for I-134 Affidavit of Support (Department of Homeland Security top left hand corner) on one side and my instructions on how to proceed with the secret shopping.  Everything states all the way down to whom the check was written by to whom the remaining is to be sent. This just confirms my thoughts that this is a SCAM.  I will be sending an email to Christopher Walker (gcgroup108@aol.com) tonight to let him know I won't be participating in his secret shopping scam.  Good luck and thanks for the information on what you received.  I will keep you posted should I find any additional information.

I received a Fed Ex envelope this morning with the very same information; $2,880.60 check from    , R.G. Rutledge & Elizabeth Rutledge on a JP Morgan Chase Bank check
(0372 071000013 390001641073).  There is no way I will deposit this check at my bank without a guaranteed verification that the account this check is written from is valid and the funds are available.
Sounds too good to be true,; speand $100 at Wal-Mart, make $300 for doing so and send the balance by way of a money gram to an address of a Mary Spiegel in Cortez CO.

They sent me a check from JP Morgan Chase. When I called the bank the verify the account using the account # on the check they couldn't even tell me if the account was active. I called the directly and got no answer. I left a message and someone who said he was Chirstopher Walker called me back 2 minutes later. I told him that I couldn't verify the check and he sounded very confused. He said he would call back but he never did. I suspect that the person who sent the email and the check is NOT christopher walker the name on the check is R. G. Rutledge anyway. The first red flag is that no legit company would send you a personal check. This how the scam usually works. You spend $100 at wal-mart or whatever and you write your review as the mystery shopper (I doubt anybody looks at this review) Then you are supposed to deduct $300 from the check as a commission (for the record the check they sent me was for over $2880) and then send the rest to what they call the next shopper (who is likely just another person in on the scam). This is what will happen: If you deposit the check the money will show up in your account 24 hrs later. Then you go to wal-mart or whatever and send the remaining balance of around $2500 under the fake review of the money gram company. A few days later the bank where you deposited the check will realize that the account from which the check came from is bogus and all the money from that check that you deposited will be removed from your account. Meanwhile the $2500 you sent via money gram is received by that other person. Who collect the $2500 and do whatever they please with it. In the end you basically went through a fair amount of trouble and GAVE somebody $2500. It is a well run scam with them sending out legit checks. The only way I caught it was by calling the bank and attempting to verify the account which they couldn't do. I think GC group is a real company and I know Chrstopher Walker is a real person but I am pretty sure it wasn't him or his company that sent out the email or started the scam. I hope this explanation is helpful to people trying to unravel this operation.

I too received this offer..is it a scam?  I think so, yet, cannot find evidence of issues.
GC Group Inc.
Christopher Walker, Hiring manager
Tell: 650-993-1120

Did anyone ever find out if its a scam or not?  i am trying to figure this out?  THEY SEND OUT CHECKS!!!

I have rec'd 2 emails' exactly as reported.."secret shopper" etc.  I also suspect a scam.
Beware!!

I received that same email - I am sure it is a scam

This number was listed on an email for a company that hires secret shoppers according to the email.
This is the info it included:
GC Group Inc.
Christopher Walker, Hiring manager
Tell: 650-993-1120

From Wacovia, account suspended, follow this link

Junk?