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A Sherwood Park man is licking his wounds after he fell victim to a mystery shopper scam.

 

Andre Blazey was looking for a way to make some extra cash on the side by finding a flexible part time job. He set his sights on mystery shopping – a job where you go into a store and check out certain things as if you were a customer and report back. Blazey went with a company called Service Checkers.

 

Seems pretty simple right? Well … here’s where it gets a little fishy.

 

Blazey was sent to a Wal-Mart where he was to make a small purchases, check if the aisles where clear of product, and seem if employees where wearing names tag. Again, the first assignment seemed legit to Blazey as it does to me.

 

His next assignment was to check customer service at a local Western Union. Service Checkers, the mystery shoppers, sent Blazey a money order to cash and make money transfers with at Western Union according to his job description. Blazey did his job and went to Western Union to make the money transfer of about $900 – the problem … the money order sent by Service Checkers was fake and bounced back weeks later.

 

Blazey is out the money and it seems the bank won’t be reimbursing him.

 

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