FRAUD WARNING

FRAUD WARNING;
It finally happened, Ive been defrauded by MORRIS GOODWILL of 48 West Road South Yorkshire S64 9NL UK, phone 44-702-406-9597. He claimed to have a nearly new XS1 seat, mirrors and headlight shell and brackets in original green. After the money changed hands by Western Union all my spidy senses started telling me it was a scam. This was reinforced when he told me that the shipment would be made through interparcelexpress.co.cc, and he made the mistake of answering the phone at that 'business" when I phoned trying to find the parcel.
Magically then he claimed the Irish Customs department is holding the items pending me paying $95 in fees.

Lesson learned, I have never been scammed before and hope never to again. Biggest lesson learned was never use your own email address on a website/forum and NEVER pay by Western Union. They are the payment system of choice for thieves and scammers.

Heads up that he found my parts request off the VJOMC forum, so he will be trolling for more victims. I have my in-house fraud guys going after him, but dont hold out much hope of seeing my $250 back.
the-oz-slider
Edmonton Canada

 

These people are B*stards. For what it's worth, UK numbers that start with 070 are redirected numbers and NOT mobile numbers. NEVER pay by Western union.

My wife naievely went looking on the internet after our Old English Sheepdog died. Sure enough we got replies from scammers who just needed the "Shipping" money up front!

I know it's no consolation but some people have lost thousands.

 

craziest thing happened to us recently

on our phone bill we got charged 15.80 for a subscription to employmentlist.com , so we called them and the people used one of my old email accounts that i havent used since junior high to email the company, they knew all of my info, birthday and blah blah blah. and I guess the company even called my house to verify that i subscribed to their website, an they said i picked up and confirmed at 12:15 on a friday, and they gave me the ip address of the person who signed up, it was an ip from our area, but it wasnt ours. what did they pay for? an email account through the website.

sorry about your scam, some peoples kids ill tell ya

 

I had a scammer actually send me a Counterfeit Cashiers Check via FedEx Express Same Day.

Get this: !!!

He wanted to pay me $300 for the Carbs and ""$200 for my trouble"" if I would Cash the Check ... and send him the remainder along with the Carbs.

The Check arrived with all the FedEx fanfare.
Signature and Photo ID required.

Opened the Same Day Envelope.
Cashiers Check made-out to me for ----- (fasten seat belts)
$10,000.00 US (Ten Grand)

Before going to the Bank; I went to the Police Department.
Told them the deal. Showed them the Check.
Said I was heading to the Bank they said, ... expecting trouble.
The Bank said they'd CASH THE CHECK if I had an acct with them.
Sent me to MY Bank.

I went to the Manager and handed her the check.
I told her I had every reason to believe it was bogus.
The check passed a "Visual" test.
Passed a test to reveal a hidden mark and water-markings.

Not until she called the issuing Bank and checked the Acct Number did it get pronounced: Fraudulent.
If a Teller had processed that Instrument and someone took the funds, ... thinking they just made a quick 2-Bills ... they'd have been had for the whole 10-Gees.

 

crikey!!
if i had recieved the check i think i wdve put it strate in the bin.howver if i had took it too the bank,and they sed they wd cash it if i had an acc.i wdve been stoopid enough to open an acc.and cash it.thinkin christmas had come early.only to realise later that it had been a very very expensive early christmas!!!
just goes to show......like they say,if something seems to be too good to be true,it usually is!!!

 

A few years ago I get a phone call from an aggressive sounding foreigner, said his records show he found $400 of my money somehow, and just wanted the routing numbers from my checking account, and he'd direct deposit into my bank acct. I was able to play with him a bit - asking why he couldn't just mail me a check. He kept getting more irritated and aggressive "what's a matter - you don't want your money?"
Kinda scary how much personal info he had on me.

 

Western Union logo "when it's gone, it's gone"! I sell a lot of OPE on c.l. and occasionally get the is the "item" still for sale 30 seconds after I posted it, to I'll have my shipper contact you, I'm all set with that. Two weeks ago something even weirder happened, an email from someone in Great Britain
saying he had lost his wallet, and that I should call the hotel and send him money to "tide him over". He said he was the brother of an airplane manufacturer in Ontario, Zenair. I looked through my email records thinking his name was familiar, and sure enough I had emailed him with a question about a gross weight increase on one of their former production aircraft. I chalked it up to someone hacking my email, since he could have called his brother easily enough for a couple of bucks.

 

Ah, the good old "grandparent" scam. Was listening to the radio (we can pick up some of the L.A. AM stations where I'm at) and they ran a story about how some guy in Orange County got hit with this, although these guys upped it a notch. Scammer 1 comes on the line; your grandson has been arrested in Spain and needs bail money. Scammer 2 comes on the line, says he works with the embassy. Scammer 3 gets in on the act, saying he's a court liaison.

Something similar was/is running around in Japan, I think it was; apparently over there (or Asia in general... I don't know for sure) one can pay for things with their phones. People started getting messages saying "Hey, it's me! Send money!"

Then there are the scammers in Africa who will tap into the TTY network (that the deaf use) and have the operators call up places trying to "buy" stuff. When I was doing PC tech work full time, we'd get calls from the California Relay people, supposedly from deaf folks, and every time it was a scammer.

Them: We'd like to buy [this type of] memory.

Me: We don't have that onhand, but we do have [this].

Them. Great -- we'll take it.

Me: Where is this going to?

Them: Nigeria.

Me: Not gonna happen.

 

When I was truck shopping recently I found an ad on Autotrader.com. Decent looking truck, excellent price, was a bit far from me up in PA but I'd have gone to get it for the price.

I e-mailed the seller, the response was that now it's in Illinois and someone has already paid the shipping then backed out so if I just send the money Western Union they'll send me the truck.

I did not fall for it.

 

Some time ago a parcel from my mum in the UK went adrift, wasn't very valuable a few books and some cooking stuff the wife wanted. Couple of months later we get a call supposedly from the main post office in our local town and a bloke speaking excellent English gives me his name and number and tells me they have a parcel addressed to me. He asks a few questions to verify that it is our parcel, name address etc then asks me to hang on a moment while he checks it's correct.
After ten minutes the line goes dead so cretin dials the number given and asks for Paco who apologises and asks me to hang on again as my parcel had been moved and he couldn't find it.
It was a scam of course, I didn't know it was a premium line and it cost me 78 euros and I felt right muppet.
Incidentally earlier this year the Guardia collared two Nigerian gentlemen as they were dropping 2000 scam letters into a postbox.

Faihaigh.

 

3 or 4 years ago, I was in manhattan hanging out by my work van. A new BMW pulls up behind me, and out walks a guy in a sharp suit with slicked back hair and asks me with an Italian accent how to get to JFK.

Hes going back to Italy. Pulls out his plane ticket and asks the best way to get to his terminal. Sharp guy, we bs for a few minutes; he's in town for a fashion something or other. He says "know what, I got something for you, check it out". We walk over to his trunk, and he's got 5 or 6 of these nice leather jackets in plastic.

Starts telling me theyre from the last show he did and they're worth over $500 each, but doesn't want to have to check them and wouldn't get through customs anyway. "Know what, take em for 200 bucks" Thinking wtf, I try him for 100. I end up handing him 150. Get home to do some internet searching to see how I made out. Well, you can guess it, worthless fakes. Even found out while searching the branding there are a bunch of these guys around town with the same scam, same stories, accents and all.

I never get had, but he got me. I'm ashamed to say I was outsmarted. It's easy when it's someone from nigeria with a crazy story, but this guy's shtict just worked. Made me feel cool, nice suit, nice car, how could this guy not be for real.

Long story short, everyone in my family got leather jackets for Christmas that year.