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 Post subject: Fake Cashiers Check to pay for auction (eBay) item.
PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:45 pm 
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The SETUP: I received payment for an auction item from a UK bidder who informed me that they would be sending a cashiers check for the item plus a fee for me to pay their shipper. The shipper then sent me an e-mail asking me to "wire" the excess money to them and they would arrange pickup of the item. The shipper would come to my house and I keep what's left over as payment for the auction.

The TIP OFF: Why, I asked myself, would a UK buyer ask me to wire money back to the UK and risk currency fluctuations? Why did the UK shipper plan to charge a UK customer US$3000 for a 115 lb. package that FedEx or DHL would deliver for $600? Suspicious indeed.

The SCAM: The “buyer” and “shipper” are fraudsters. The check that the buyer used to purchase the goods is returned as counterfeit or stolen, and I would have lost the money wired to the shipper. I called Bank of America and they quickly confirmed it was a fake. The number didn't match the amount. This scheme, I was told, is often used when selling large items such as automobiles, motorcycles, boats, etc. The check or money order is frequently drawn off well-known businesses or US Postal Money Orders, so it seems legitimate, but it is not.

The guilty parties go by the following names:

becus06
becus06@yahoo.com
becus06@googlemail.com
becus06@gmail.com

shippermorgan
shippermorgan@gmail.com
shippermorgan@googlemail.com
shippermorgan@yahoo.com

The fake Ship To address was:

Louise Baker
15 Bennett Close
01293 888383
Crawley, West Sussex RH107HW
United Kingdom

The shippers name and address is:

John Morgan
48 Osbert Road (Rd.)
Dolset
London, SW5 7KM
United Kingdom

Hope this helps

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Thank you for posting so much detailed information on your scammers! Often others will find our site because they have googled the name, address or phone number of someone they are selling something to . . . once the google search leads them HERE, they know it is a scam!

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 Post subject: Information Overload
PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:31 pm 
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Right, once the google crawlers hit my post it may serve to help others. Thanks for providing a great service to, well, people everywhere.

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01293 888383 appears to be the telephone number.


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You may be right that could be a phone number. It doesn't include the country code of 44. But when I added 44 to the number and googled it, I came up with some UK numbers that closely matched it.

I've forwarded all I have to various UK police offices, Europol and some others as well.

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powerpak59 wrote:
You may be right that could be a phone number. It doesn't include the country code of 44. But when I added 44 to the number and googled it, I came up with some UK numbers that closely matched it.

I've forwarded all I have to various UK police offices, Europol and some others as well.


Definitely a UK telephone number - 01293 is the area code for Crawley.


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