How to Find Mystery Shopping Scams

Mystery shopping is a very legitimate thing that provides good feedback to clients and helps users earn some money on the side, but like most industries it has plenty of bad apples. How can you find which mystery shopping sites are scams?

Things You'll Need

• Internet
• Clear thinking

Instructions

1. Finding mystery shopping scams is all about thinking clearly and understand the reality of the situation. Companies hire mystery shopping firms to help them get feedback on what they need to improve, but the firm will keep a lot of the money and pass on some to you. Don't expect to get rich or do it for a full time job.

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   The first sign that the mystery shopping site may be a scam is when it promises too much. A site that promises to earn you a full time salary from mystery shopping should be viewed very cautiously! Don't get sucked into a scam by getting your hopes up too high.

3. Another major sign of a mystery shopping scam is a company who is trying very hard to get new mystery shoppers. Why is this? Generally the most trusted mystery shopping companies have plenty of applications and can dole out the assignments to the names already in their database.

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   Another sign of a scam is a mystery shopping site that asks you to pay up front, promising that you will more than earn that money back. The fact is, there are hundreds of free sites on the internet, so why would you pay for one that you may never see your money back on? Don't try these sites!

5. A final tip that I like to use is to simply look at the website and see if it is very professional or not. Most legitimate mystery shopping companies have an impressive website with all the information you could ever want on their site. If the site you are looking at is very unprofessional that should be a major red flag!

Tips & Warnings

• Do your research! I have listed a couple great sites below that review mystery shopping companies.

• If it seems too good to be true it probably is!