Be aware of these Women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Page 1

HI All,

we had a contact with these woman about several weeks and the final was that she send us these following e-mail.

Be carefull, we was!!! thanks all and  these fantastic message-board!!!!!!!

Best Regards to every honest members.

Isabella and Andreas

www.metunaj.de

Is there no end to the variations of this scam?  And are there actually people who still fall for it?  Apparently so....

Hi Isabella and Andreas

I have had almost the same with a lady who wanted to buy my puppy's. only she came from Greece

She said she wanted to pay me by check, and when I checked out the adress she had given me it didn't excist.

When I told her that my bank don't accept check's she got mad and said that if she couldn't buy these puppy's straight from

me she would try to do it an other way to get them.

Regards

Francis

There are several more variations to these scams.  I know of a rescue group that received a check for $5,000 as a donation from one of them then a couple of days later they got a phone call saying they'd made a mistake and the check should have been for $2,500.  They then asked the rescue to wire transfer the extra $2,500 to them.   Fortunately by that time the rescue had been notified that the original check was a phony and they didn't send the money.

I'm an accountant and I have clients bringing in new versions of these fake check scams almost every week.  They are getting more and more creative and it's a real shame how many are targeting small non-profit groups that are really tight on funds.  They've, also, started targeting folks collecting donations to aid disaster victiums. i.e. your friend's child has a life threatening diease and you start a donation champion to raise money for the child's treatment so they send a "donation check" and ask for part of it back in cash.

You can add to the list..."Kelvin Walters"...He contacted me a few months ago with the same scam...He even went so far as to send me a check for $5000.00 of which I was supposed to take out my fee for the dog he wanted to buy from me...of which he asked very little about...and then I was supposed to wire him back the rest...to the UK...I even called my bank and asked about the check...to see if it was indeed good or not...even the number on the check was NO GOOD...They keep trying the same scam...the check that he sent was from somebody in California...but untraceable...

~Bob~

hi Francis can you please post the name of the lady from Greece, i;m dealing with one from there now

dude, get a certified cashier's check only!  no shoes, no shirt, personal check, no service!

Q Man,

I also got a scam that sound almost like yours. The Name was almost the same but the first name was Peter. When he didnt answer one question I ask him I ask around  and was told to beware. then when i recieved a check for 2500.00 i took it to the state police. I've not heard one thing back from him after I ask him why he would send me a check for way more than asking.

so add to the list the name. Peter Walter

of course i'm sure these people have a long list of names to go by..

Q Man,

I also got a scam that sound almost like yours. The Name was almost the same but the first name was Peter. When he didnt answer one question I ask him I ask around  and was told to beware. then when i recieved a check for 2500.00 i took it to the state police. I've not heard one thing back from him after I ask him why he would send me a check for way more than asking.

so add to the list the name. Peter Walter

of course i'm sure these people have a long list of names to go by..

Second time it has happend to me.  I have parrots up for sale in the newspaper and I get one of those phone calls where a company is acting as a go between for someone who is "typing" on a computer what they want the company spokeperson to tell me, and then the spokesperson types back my answers to the originator.  First off, I had birds for sale and they asked for pups.  Then, when I tell them no, they change to wanting birds.  I just hang up the phone.  I call back the company who's number was on my caller ID and they tell me that they can not discuss the previous call at all.  I tell them it appeared to be some kind of fraud and it had happened to me before, through their company.   About twenty minutes later, I get a phone call from a lady with an accent, perhaps from India but I am not sure, and she is asking about the same thing.  I had a sneaking suspicion that it was associated with the earlier call so I explained to her that I was not selling anything.   It was obvious that she was affiliated with the call twenty minutes earlier, as she asked "do you have puppies or parrots for sale.  Not too bright.

The next day, I get a call from the "company" that does the middle person part.  I say hello and they say "You have a call about your animals for sale but it has been determined that it is a fraud attempt" click.  They would not even converse with me.

This was tried on me earlier in the year also, when I was selling parrots, and they asked for pups.  Makes me think that they are not even reading the adds, but that someone is giving them the numbers from a list, and that they are just like a group of telemarketers working together to run animal for sale scams.