Category: Shoppers

We are pleased announce we have a new level of online security for conferoinc.com website and our Sassie-based Compass mystery shopping reporting system.

A scam was uncovered recently which offers a fake mystery shop assignment and delivery of a fraudulent check as “payment” before the shop.  The communication encourages the recipient to cash or deposit a fraudulent cashier’s check at their own bank before completing a shop assignment at a drug store.

Tips for getting the perfect shot while mystery shopping! 

An email/Craigslist scam has been uncovered with Confero’s name fraudulently used within the follow up communications.  The emails were sent to consumers the week of September 21st.   Within the email, the scammers claim that they received the person’s email information from a staffing company because the person had recently applied for a job on Craigslist.  […]

An email address at Conferoinc.com has been spoofed by an outsider who is sending email messages out with the subject "Job Opportunity Opens". The message appears to have been sent from info@ our domain address. This message was not sent by Confero and was not authorized by Confero to be sent on its behalf. If there is a link in the email message, please do not click on it. Confero posts jobs on it's mystery shopping job board to those who have submitted a profile for consideration for mystery shopping. Mystery shoppers are notified of mystery shopping projects when they become available. The subject "Job Opprtunity Opens" is never used. A recipient of this spoofed email message kindly sent us a copy of the contents and the