Person: jim walker 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 .
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).