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ob体育 warns the public to be wary of a scam where cold callers are claiming to be undertaking a 'shadow shop' on behalf of ob体育. A shadow shop is where real consumers are recruited to purchase services such as financial advice to help assess the standards in the market.聽聽聽

These scammers claim to be looking for shadow shoppers as part of an ob体育 compliance and monitoring campaign. The scam maintains that it will pay you for your time and may encourage you to meet in person or attend a presentation after which you will receive a questionnaire to complete.

The scammers promote their services at the following website, www.theshadowshopper.com that makes false representations that their work is associated with ob体育.

ob体育 has no involvement with this website or its operators, and is undertaking inquiries into the activities of the operators.

ob体育 urges anyone who receives contact in these circumstances or is referred to this website to not respond.

From time to time ob体育 carries out genuine consumer research including shadow shops, however we only work with accredited market research companies. If you are contacted by a company representing that they are undertaking research for ob体育 you can call ob体育's Infoline on 1300 300 630 to check.

This scam is not connected or associated with legitimate market research firm Shadow Shopper at and ob体育 thanks them for bringing this matter to its attention.

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You can report scams via the on SCAMwatch or by contacting ob体育 via our website, or on 1300 300 630.

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