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Sep 12, 2013
My business received an email about a catering request for Tuesday Sept 17th 2013 for a wedding reception from email address: johnwils200@hotmail.com. The email was grammatically incorrect with a lot of spelling errors. E-mailer asked to speak with our owner and was too specific as to what he wanted to order (only a salad for 150 people) and it was clear they had not looked at our menu as he was "ordering off the menu". It was, however, clear they had looked at our website and saw we were military friendly and the e-mailer said his son was stationed at a local military base. I e-mailed back and requested that someone call me to discuss the order. Instead of a call I received a text message from a Florida number (386-243-5205) later in the evening. After a few text messages back and forth I thought we were being scammed. I attempted to call the number several times and before the phone would ring I was asked to state my name and who I was calling with before it connected the call. I received a text back saying that he was hearing impaired. I texted back stating I needed to speak with someone via phone. Later than evening he used RELAY to call me and I spoke with a women with a heavy foreign accent who "played the part" communicating" between the caller and myself (Relay is a service for the hearing impaired to call me from 480-257-7542 but that number did not check out in google search and when I called it back no one picked up and the message was "we are unable to reach your party please call back". If it were a legitimate number I believe a service would have picked up and redirected me). This morning I received another email from him asking me if he could pay by credit card since he was about to have a surgery and then asked if we could add money to his credit card and send via western union.