Original sentence: People who wire the "remainder" discover the check is bad and lose the money they transfer and the wire transfer service fee.The purpose behind the concept of Mystery Shopping is to allow businesses to gain improved customer insight into how the customer service related functions of their business are performing, and utilize the information gathered as part of performance management and service improvement initiatives.There exists another scam that uses mystery shopping as a premise for fraud, where a person is sent a bad check with a request to deposit it into their bank account, wire a portion of the money through a wire transfer company such as Western Union and keep the remainder as a mystery shopping fee, and informed to mail the money immediately as the test is evaluating response time
Edited sentence: In these scams, the cashier’s check bounces several days later and the consumer is held liable for the entire amount of the money they wired to the international address – typically between $2,500 and $3,500.The most recent scam asks the consumer to cash a cashier’s check and wire the money back to a specified address, typically outside the country.The purpose behind Mystery Shopping is to allow businesses to gain customer insight into how the customer service related functions of their business are performing, and utilize the information gathered as part of performance management and service improvement initiatives.The “reward” to consumers – they keep a percentage of the original cashier’s check as payment