No, they didn't. You would expect them too?
When you are trying to seek objective, independent (read: outside the company) confirmation during research, you ask only the questions that are relevant to that resource. The CSR at a UPS Store is very unlikely to know anything about whether some penny stock is operating out of a home office as well. So no, I did not ask her about that.
Hopefully I saved someone a wasted trip to a strip mall.
Of course this post is my opinion. Every post by anyone is an opinion. I'm not writing a white paper on scams… in this post, anyway...