Re: Scam Alert

sweet sawdust <sweetsawdust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Morris Dovey" <mrdovey@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:49b8dcae$0$89872$815e3792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Person: jim walker <jim.walker152@xxxxxxxxx>
> Business: J. Best Co. Lmt
> Amesh Shipping
>
> Sends e-mail wanting to purchase merchandise - in my case it was an
> unspecified number of tilt-top shop carts (see at link in sig) -
> with payment by credit card with shipment to Sweden.
>
> I responded to the initial query with the suggestion that he could
> have the carts produced in Sweden for less than the cost of
> shipping from my location - and offered to provide contact info for
> a Swedish shop that I knew would do a first class job for a
> reasonable price. The response was strange enough that I did web > searches on both the
> person and the business <patting self on back>.
>
> What I found was that both names have been used to order
> merchandise with MasterCard payment, and a requirement was made to
> use "Amesh Shipping". Amesh then required an (up front) shipping
> payment. The MasterCard payment used a stolen/bogus card number and the
> transaction would be reversed (removing the deposited funds from
> the merchant account), and there would be no means of recovering
> the payment (typically $2000-3000) made to Amesh Shipping.
>
> I went to my server log to look at hits to the web page where the
> carts are shown (they aren't offered for sale) and /think/ I know
> where the scammer is viewing the page from. FYI, here's the best I
> could find: Suspected Location: Accra, Ghana
> Suspected Server ref: adsl25164.4u.com.gh
>
> I haven't ever mentioned these carts to anyone except here on the
> wreck, so it seems appropriate to post a warning here (just in
> case). --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USA
> http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/PanelCart/

They aren't the only ones trying this trick. I got an order for 100
games to be shipped to England. Same basic story, only this was a
broker in New York City that was handling the deal. I googled the
address and called it only to find that they had never heard of the
person. It always pays to do a basic background check on any order
that is the least bit unusual. They wanted me to ship by their
shipper and when I informed them that I could ship for less then 1/4
their cost they agreed to the lower shipping cost but wanted 2 high
end laptops included in the shipment, a sure redflag of a scam.

Our local papers have been reporting similar scams being used on local florists, where they are looking for very large orders of flowers to be shipped by their shipping company. One florist had a large credit card payment charged back to him even though the credit card company had authorized the charge.

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