Unclear on the concept

A few weeks ago I returned downtown for a CAC meeting. Parked near my meeting place was an official-looking Crown Victoria with a North Carolina license plate identifying the owner as a member of the Court of Appeals. I couldn’t help but notice this same car sported a high-end radar detector on the dashboard.

So much for respect for the law, eh?

Mystery Shopping scam

Here’s another scam email I received today. “Mystery Shopping,” indeed.

Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:11:55 -0700
From: Richard Gras richard.gras2755@hotmail.com
Reply-to: richard.gras2755@yahoo.com
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Mystery Shopping JOB
User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.6)
X-Identified-User: {2065:host193.hostmonster.com:cpanelhorde:host193.hostmonster.com} {sentby:program running on server}

Hello,

Am Richard Gras, and working for a company (Shoppers Guide Int.) that conduct
surveys and evaluates other companies which can be simply called mystery shopping.

What is Mystery Shopping…..?

A vast amount of companies are interested in knowing what their customers/clients think of their services and/or products in order to right what may be wrong and help them to improve customer service and productivity. To obtain this crucial data from a non biased view point they hire Mystery Shopping agencies/recruiters like us, who are trained market researchers, to gather the information on their behalf. 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. This is where you come in…
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