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New Consumer Service Analysis For Your Participation - PineCone Research Scam

The PineCone Research email message below: "PROJECT - New Consumer Service Analysis For Your Participation," is fraudulent. The email was not sent by PineCone Research and was designed to steal personal information. You should never respond to this email message with your personal information or follow the instructions in it. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and/or sending money. Never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message.

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The Fraudulent PineCone Research Email Message

From: PineCone Research

Date: Mon, 5/5/2014 2:58 PM

Subject:PROJECT - New Consumer Service Analysis For Your Participation!

PineCone Research -CONSUMER SERVICE ANALYSIS

You're invited to participate in our new and exiting Consumer Service Analysis On MoneyGram® services !

For each survey that you complete, you will earn "$200.00" per case study

[ Click Here to Join Now ]

We value your privacy and assure that all responses are kept confidential and for informational purposes only.

Sincerely,

PineCone Research®
250 East 5th St. 9th Floor
Cincinnati, OH 45202

Attn: Karen Scott
PineCone Research Foundation.

The link in the email message will take you to the compromised webpage:

http://www.zizigames.com/m/ios/a/a.html

The compromised page has the following fraudulent form:

PineCone Research® -CONSUMER SERVICE ANALYSIS ($200.00 per assignment)

PineCone Research® is a world leader in Consumer Service Analysis and has organized over 14 million business case studies for some of the world's largest brands. Participating in our survey is always free!

Business depends on satisfied customers. Success depends on how well employees take care of customers and whether these customers are satisfied. Consumer service analysis takes the guesswork out of how employees are faring in customer service.

PineCone Research® provides a trained team of secret shoppers who take seriously the role of providing the feedback necessary to measure customer service. We work with companies to help identify acceptable standards of behavior then create a case study instrument to measure employee compliance to the standards.

PineCone Research® offers a new case study service for On-Site Secret Shops. We recruit and train individuals like you to pose as real customers to confirm employee adherence to company policy, specific behavior standards, associate selling skills, facility cleanliness and quality of products. Shoppers complete a case study assessment following their shop to provide the most accurate information possible.

Compensation: $200.00 per case study assignment.

You may conduct this case study alone or as a couple

Locations of on-site secret shops(Western Union, MoneyGram, Walmart, Macys etc.)

Survey will start from MoneyGram®

Please be assured that all your responses and personal information will be kept strictly confidential and will be used for research purposes only.

Please "Fill The Sign Up Form" below.

When finished, click the "CONSENT" button to save your changes.

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