If you’ve ever been curious about becoming a “mystery shopper,” a person paid by a company to check in on a store’s performance, you should know there’s lot of fraudulent mystery shopping companies out there. Bargaineering has 12 warning signs to look out for if you think one of these jobs is a good way to pick up extra cash, like:

“An application fee is a sure sign that your mystery shopping company is a fraud. What job would ask you to pay an application fee? The answer is none.”

In general, you should beware of an “opportunity” requiring anything in the advance payments. And anything that looks too good to be true, like promising lots of money for very little work, is also highly suspect.

12 Signs of a Fraudulent Mystery Shopping Company [Bargainnering]
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