Online Scam!! If you sell on your website beware!

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I received an email from my website asking to place an order and leaving their email. I responded asking for more information and received the following response:

Hello,

Below here is the list of my order:


Jr. Retro FP Imbuya
Item # 10702
Qty: 5

Jr. Retro FP Pheasant Wood
Item # 10701
Qty: 5


Please get back to me with the total cost estimate for this order so that i can make my payment via my USA issued credit card,so DONT worry about the shipping,I will have the shipping arrangement for the pick up of these items from your place through my shipping agent.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE GRAND TOTAL OF MY ORDER AND ALSO THE ESTIMATED WEIGHT OF THESE ITEMS FOR SHIPPING REASON AND PICK UP

ARRANGEMENTS.

T.B.D. RETAIL TRADING (THAILAND) CO.,LTD
421/7 Charoenmuang Rd
Tambon Watket, Muang
Chiang Mai
50000, Thailand
Tel: (0053) 365-290, 356-291
Fax: (0053) 365-292

Cole.

After reading this I smiled wide thinking someone was pulling some type of prank. I googled the business information and the phone number lead me to this: www.artforum.com.au/post-83773.html&sid=8af1602e1bd5e8edb526c4d9e2961879 And plenty of information about this type of scam and a long list of names used with Cole Thompson among them.

There are plenty of scams out there but this was the first one that came to me through my website.
 
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I get similar email regularly and I never answer them....delete.
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massman said:
I received an email from my website asking to place an order and leaving their email. I responded asking for more information and received the following response:

Hello,

Below here is the list of my order:


Jr. Retro FP Imbuya
Item # 10702
Qty: 5

Jr. Retro FP Pheasant Wood
Item # 10701
Qty: 5


Please get back to me with the total cost estimate for this order so that i can make my payment via my USA issued credit card,so DONT worry about the shipping,I will have the shipping arrangement for the pick up of these items from your place through my shipping agent.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE GRAND TOTAL OF MY ORDER AND ALSO THE ESTIMATED WEIGHT OF THESE ITEMS FOR SHIPPING REASON AND PICK UP

ARRANGEMENTS.

T.B.D. RETAIL TRADING (THAILAND) CO.,LTD
421/7 Charoenmuang Rd
Tambon Watket, Muang
Chiang Mai
50000, Thailand
Tel: (0053) 365-290, 356-291
Fax: (0053) 365-292

Cole.

After reading this I smiled wide thinking someone was pulling some type of prank. I googled the business information and the phone number lead me to this: www.artforum.com.au/post-83773.html&sid=8af1602e1bd5e8edb526c4d9e2961879 And plenty of information about this type of scam and a long list of names used with Cole Thompson among them.

There are plenty of scams out there but this was the first one that came to me through my website.
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Thanks for the heads up. Be careful of any orders that just seem a little weird. their are a lot of angles to this sort of scam but so far for me all have had that feeling of the customer not really being concerned with what they are ordering and want it shipped now. they also all seem to have the focus on getting payment made rather than wanting any information about the items they are buying. I have gotten several e-mails asking for 20 or so of the most expensive pens on my site. All ask more questions about how to pay than the Pens.
 
I really appreciate you sharing this. I was not aware of this particular scam, but will now be on the lookout. Dishonest folk really **** me off!
 
I had this same scam when I was trying to sell a table on Craigs List. Although they told me they would pay $500 over what I was asking if I held it for their shipping agent. Then a few days later I was told they sent me a check for $3,000 and needed me to send them $2,000 since they made a "clerical Error". Yeah right! And to top it off I never responded to a single e-mail they sent. So my question finally was "how did you send me a check when you didn't have my address?"

Be careful, if something doesn't seem right dont make a deal.
 
gwisher said:
I had this same scam when I was trying to sell a table on Craigs List. Although they told me they would pay $500 over what I was asking if I held it for their shipping agent. Then a few days later I was told they sent me a check for $3,000 and needed me to send them $2,000 since they made a "clerical Error". Yeah right! And to top it off I never responded to a single e-mail they sent. So my question finally was "how did you send me a check when you didn't have my address?"

Be careful, if something doesn't seem right dont make a deal.
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Same thing happened with my MIL who sells Avon products. Some lady ordered $500 worth of product, sent my MIL a $5000 check telling her to cash it and then turn over the $4500 to the shipping agent when they came to collect. She turned it over to the FBI, who got the secret service involved because it was some strange money laundering operation. The lady was based in NYC though, but she didn't want my MIL to ship it to her free of charge. She wanted to use her shipping agent. BIG RED FLAG!:mad:
 
We get that stuff too. We have sold allot on Craig's list and have bought allot. Just need to be careful. The only loss to date is a phone I sold to someone in Erie, Pa. Fourteen days after the sales and delivery PayPal debited my account with out a reason. I was mad as hell but they would not cough up the approx. 85.00. Something about the address not being verfied in order for the protectiton to be valid.
 
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