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Jul 23, 2008

404-397-1969 -

Received an email from our site with very poor English. The person's email address was crossjackson@gmail.com (but is displayed as 'lucky yakubu'. 'Lucky' was interested in $2300 of our products and wanted to know what type of paymement we accepted (which is clearly stated on our website).

Decided to play along 'just in case' it could be a legit sale...

I tell 'Lucky' to send us the zip code to where the product will be shipped and that we accept credit cards, etc - and invited him to call so we could assist him with his order.

According to our call logs he called three times from this number. One right after the other. Unfortunately (or fortunately) everyone was on the phone and he did not leave a voicemail.

So we get another email from him -

Actually i would send this units to a new Orphanage in Ghana and i would like you to have the delivery address below:

Mrs Sarah Addo
Hope Orphanage Home
57 Liberty Rd
2354 Accra-Ghana
00233

And i would like to proceed on payment by sending you all credit card details now.
And i would recommend you to this freight company that do door to door delivery and their contact is e_freightline@hotmail.com .
Email them for the shipping charges and get back to me so we can proceed on payment.Thank you and waiting your reply ASAP.

My response to him :)

Greetings,

Unfortunately we don't ship outside the United States.

In fact, based on the information you've provided, we will require payment in advance by cashier's check and an address in the United States. The chairs would ship once the bank has verified and cleared funds.

Sorry, so many scams coming out of Africa.

Let us know a zip code in the United States and we'll continue this conversation.

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Haven't heard back...

Beware!

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Recent comments:

Oct 2, 2008

Nice talking on the phone,l am much interested in ordering the product for $2200,l will like you to contact Global Alert Shipping Co.to get me the shipping cost to the destinction below:
John Kwesi
Art Center Orpahange Home
103 cotton avenue
Accra ,GH
00233,
E-mail Address:globalalertshipping2@gmail.com and get back to me with the shpping price so that l can call you for my credit card information on both charges.
Best Regards,
Rev,Steve

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Oct 15, 2008

I got the same one this morning and it is not the first time. The address is 1 arbor lea circle again in Doylestown. The telephone prefix for Doylestown, PA is 215. If this is 404, that is Atlanta. This time it is a Reverend Thomas. Anyway, read on.

Rev Thomas
RE: Order Request‎ - Hello Good Day This is Rev Thomas With regards to your Company i am sending this email Regards to … Rev Thomas to orders
show details Oct 14 (1 day ago) Reply

fromRev Thomas <rev.thomas93@yahoo.com>
toorders@spaulding-rogers.com

dateTue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:51 AM
subjectRE: Order Request
signed-byyahoo.com

This is Rev Thomas With regards to your Company i am sending this email Regards to order some (Tube Squaring Machine),i will like to know the type and sizes you have in stock and get me the sales price of one so that i will tell you the quantity i will be ordering , and also if you accept credit card as a form of payment .Waiting to hear from you .
God Bless You .
Rev Thomas (owner)

1 abor lea circle
Doylestown Pa 18901

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Oct 15, 2008

Also, in addition to posting this for "arbor lea circle" address in Doylestown, I reported this to the FBI. It is about the only thing you can do but it is at least something. See above for "Reverend Thomas"

www.fbi.gov (main site)Reporting tips:https://tips.fbi.gov/

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Oct 27, 2008

We have been "visited" two times by this person...once he gave 3 credit cards to charge and our sales person took the order and started with it without my checking...two of the cards went thru but were later rejected the third never went thru. Luckly the shippment was stopped before delivery. the second time he used the Doylestown Pa address and we stopped that one before we got past the quoting stage...Phone number 402-298-5716

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Oct 27, 2008

From: patrick ugeane [mailto:patrick.wilson1947@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 5:39 PM

To: Pat
Subject: Re: order urgent

Thanks for the mail,I really do appreciate your services and i would like to proceed.
.I know of an international shipping company very affordable and i would recommend you using them for shipping.Below is their contact details:

Name Of Company:Jr.Writer Shipping Company

Email:jr.writershippings@secretary.net

Osu Office Road,
878 New Town Avenue
Osu-Accra
Ghana
0233

Contact them now and let me know what the charges is for shipping so that i can make the total payment for the order and shipping.Hope this would not be a problem.Kindly get back to me as soon as you hear back from the shipping company. Thank you very much and waiting for your soon mail to proceed

Regards,
Patrick Wilson.

<<This is just a small section of the continured e-mail exchange between our company and the scammer!>>

I contacted the Portland, Oregon FBI office seeking advice and they suggested two options. 1) is go to http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx or 2) call the Secret Service with deals more specifically with Credit Card Fraud that the FBI.

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