Service Intelligence
Calgary,#2UPDATE Employee
Wed, August 13, 2008
Service Intelligence / Experienceexchange.com, like other leading mystery shopping providers, has been a victim of recent mystery shopping scams involving unauthorized and illegal use of our name and logo, we do not conduct mystery shops involving cashing checks or money transfers. Service Intelligence, a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Compliance, conducts approximately 500 000 mystery shops and site evaluations for dozens of Fortune 1000 corporations through Experienceexchange.com each year. There are no sign up fees to become a shopper, and each shopper is paid through automatic bank deposit for every job they complete, in addition to being reimbursed for allowable expenses incurred during their visit. Service Intelligence is working closely with Federal authorities to uncover this scam. One individual was arrested in August 2007 and is currently in litigation. We are also attempting to identify other individuals who may be involved in this fraudulent activity. If you should receive any additional communications/information regarding this scam, please immediately report details to Service Intelligence at 1-866-261-5002 Ext. 240. Additionally, we urge you to contact authorities, including the local police, the FBI, and the Federal Trade Commission. We certainly empathize with those individuals who have been targeted, and have taken steps to protect our mystery shoppers, as well as others who may be interested in applying to become a mystery shopper, by posting a notification on our website (www.experienceexchange.com), warning them of the fraudulent money transfer scam. In addition, Service Intelligence is a member of the Better Business Bureau in both Canada and the United States. If you search Service Intelligence - 104 58th Ave SE Ste 140, you will see we have a satisfactory rating, with another 'disclaimer' below in regards to our name being fraudulently used. Please note, this is not the nature of our business and we feel that if the publication had investigated this matter thoroughly the article would have further explained that there are in fact legitimate businesses, such as ourselves, being misrepresented by the individuals perpetrating this crime.
Abe
Gobles,#3Consumer Comment
Mon, August 20, 2007
This was a obvious scam, but NOT by the company listed above. Service Intelligence is a reputable mystery shop company. Scammers have always tried to dupe ppl into thinking they were signing up for a mystery shop company. I've been doing mystery shops for 5 years, I've seen it all. We started noticing the scammers using the names of real mystery shop companies around the beginning of the year. The postmark from that money order was most likely NOT from Canada. Besides that, Service Intelligence doesn't do these sorts of shops, they do a lot of fast food shops. No "real" company does anything with money orders.