Scam Alert

Morris Dovey · 2009-03-12T10:00:00+00:00

Person: jim walker Business: J. Best Co. Lmt Amesh ShippingSends 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, GhanaSuspected Server ref: 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).

Mar 12, 2009 41 Replies

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Mark & Juanita 17 years ago

Yabbut that doesn't fit on a business card very well.

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Mark & Juanita 17 years ago

Yabbut that doesn't fit on a business card very well.

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