[anonimol]

I signed up at my space to advertise my shirts a little bit more and I've received immediate answer from guy from Australia,asking me about my shirt's price:
"I am an hotel management consultant and we have our head office in WESTERN AUSTRALIA(perth) and we help in managing hotels through out the world,Our company's has been existence for 30years now,so we one of the reputable hotel management consultium in the world.
I will like to know if you can be supplying some of your t-shirts because most of our hotels are built with shopping mall especially those in Spain and west ..africa.
it.. will be a great sales now that xmas is fast approaching.hope to read from you soon."
I thought he's crazy or doesn't know it's kind of expensive to import shirts from US to Australia.
I send him answer anyway,and that's what he said:
"Hello,
Thanks for your swift response,I will go for 100 pieces to give it a trial,i will need various sizes ranging from 4T 5/6.i think that should do for now.Because i deal with adults wear and now i want to give children's wear a trial because some of our customers had requested for t-shirts in the past.
I will like to pay through electronic payment because this is the easiest mode of payment i think i can offer for now due to the fact that i am not base in the states,i will imploy you to provide me with this details as follows,
BANK NAME.....
CREDIT CARD NUMBER....
FULL NAME AND CONTACT ADDRESS......
PHONE NUMBER.........
Get back to me with the total cost inluding the shipping expenses.I will be looking forward to yor reply as soon as possible.
TOMMY WILLIAMS
Hyatt Regency Perth
99 Adelaide Terrace,
Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6000"
Is he so stupid idiot that he thinks somebody is gonna give him credit card nr.? Or is he? Maybe he finds people who have no idea about secure payments?
I told him that this is me who gonna charge him,not the other way,so he can pay me throught PayPal email payment . He sent me an answer:
"The mode of payment is giving me a great concern,i am a verry busy person and it will be easy to pay you without delay through transfering the money straight to your credit card if you can provide me with the information i required for in my previous mail,because i have other things to buy from the states which you will help me to make the payment directly to seller.
I wil be glad if you will accept my offer and with this i can be buying t-shirts from you in large quantity.Hope to read from you as soon as possible.Take care and i wish you a funfilled weekend."
And then... I'm not gonna say what I had answered him,lol

this is his(or her) faked profile: MySpace.com - tommyman - 31 - Male - perth, AU - www.myspace.com/404922412

He didn't steal anything from me but I already reported his profile and I also found some links where you can report scam: "NCL's National Fraud Information Center/Internet Fraud Watch"
and Ripoff Report: By Consumers, For Consumers
Hopefuly nobody in this forum is not gonna need it...
Do you guys get this kind of mail?
What if this would be real offer, do you accept payment throught PayPal only(if not charging buyer's credit cards)or do you give your account number,so buyer can transfer money?
I wouldn't even give my account number, because if somebody can't pay throught PayPal it means something's not right...Am I right?

 

[stuffnthingz]

This is a phishing attempt... don't do it!

 

[jpla]

hahaha It happens to me once.
He pretends himself as priest from Ghana and ordered 3000 pcs. of t shirts.
He wanted me to ship it to Ghana. He said he could provide with his fake information.
Try to explain custom clearance and shipping. you will find out easy if he is customer or not
I have not lost money but lost 10 minutes of my time writing email.

 

[martinwoods]

I get these all the time for my cabins, I love playing with them though so we go back and forth
These people make me sick

 

[joeshaul]

Sir, your measly hotel t-shirt order does not stand up to the time I hit the Mexican lottery without even entering, or the time that a prince died and left me as a beneficiary to his fortune!

 

[martinwoods]

Sir, your measly hotel t-shirt order does not stand up to the time I hit the Mexican lottery without even entering, or the time that a prince died and left me as a beneficiary to his fortune!

Aren't those great, I win those all the time. I love messing with them. The one even kept telling me yes you did win and I said yeah right how did I enter and then she went on and on about how they use email addresses

 

[krylonking]

what an awesome offer! Why didn't you take it

 

[anonimol]

what an awesome offer! Why didn't you take it

Well...I still thing about his proposition...It's very tempting ,especially last part where he talks about his other transactions in US with which I could help him....giving him my card number LOL

 

[anonimol]

Aren't those great, I win those all the time. I love messing with them. The one even kept telling me yes you did win and I said yeah right how did I enter and then she went on and on about how they use email addresses

So what they want to gain through those "you won!" letters...Do they also ask for credit card nr. or sth else?I received couple but never opened...

 

[marcelolopez]

So what they want to gain through those "you won!" letters...Do they also ask for credit card nr. or sth else?I received couple but never opened...

You can open them, read them and laugh at them, but do not follow the directions. If it is too good to be true, then it is not true .

 

[lben]

I got a big order of 50,000 flyers for a church. I had to tell him I don't do that kind of printing.

Same kind of scam though. I'll transfer money into your credit card. I don't think that is possible in the first place, but why would you want to charge other things from other companies on your credit card and hope for a reimbursement from him??? Does he really think you're that stupid? But I suppose if they mail out 1000 of those "orders" and get a just one person to give them the credit card number that could be a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars just waiting to be had. And that's why they keep looking for suckers. By the way, I won another 60 million in lotteries this week. Too bad I can't use those "winnings" to pay my bills. And now the IRS wants to reimburse me $1 million in taxes that I've overpaid! I wish.

 

[cookiesa]

I also find it interesting that in his position, working in Australia he has such a bad grasp of the English language!

Not to mention very little knowledge (I doubt very much he is Australian... the Hyatt is one of the largest hotel groups here, targetting upper end (yet they want Tee's and possibly even kids tee's... yep sure!)

Also they are large and have purchasing officers who would deal with this.. not the managers! (Although he trips himself up by saying he is a consultant.... then lists the hotel as the address!)

very amusing, unless of course you get caught out by a scammer

 

[skylandprinting]

Who makes payments TO a credit card? Right there is a red flag. Its amazing that people sometimes fall for this crap. If you ask me, they deserve it. I love the "I will send you money order. You cash it, keep 10% and deposit the rest in my bank account". Sure, and I was born tomorrow.

 

[martinwoods]

Here is another one I got yesterday

I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: [email protected]



- Hello! I have paid the delivery fees for your cheque and all the necessary arrangement has made with manager of the Delivery Company who told me that your cheque will expire before getting to you. So I told him to cash the $1.2 million and deposited the cash with BANK PHB. Now contact bank with this information CONTACT PERSON: Miss. Stella Ikechukwu. Email Address: ([email protected]) Telephone: +234-12-169-244. Send your Name, Address, Telephone and copy of picture. Nwagu Aguleri

 

[martinwoods]

WOW I WONANNOUNCEMENT YOU HAVE WON.HOT LOTERIA ESPRAMBLA RAVA 408019 BARCELONA SPAIN We are pleased to announce to you the latest result of Nov 11th 2008 Welfare Loteria today in which your E-mail address emerge of EUR1.5 Million to claim your winning sum, please contact our claim agent Mr. Greg Louis.REFERENCE NUMBER: LSK/31/8161/08BATCH NUMBER: 17/051/IPDTel : +34 657 548 514

 

[anonimol]

I think that all this scammers that asks for credit card nr. may count on that somebody may confuse transfering money to account number with transfering to credit card(there is not such think).I think that I wouldn't even give my account number to anybody because I'm not sure if that's safe

 

[lben]

So I told him to cash the $1.2 million and deposited the cash with BANK PHB.

Contrats on the wins. By the way, I ordered some shirts from you ($150 worth) and wrote you a check. Oh man, I made it out for the wrong amount. Silly me, I added too many zeros. So when the $15,000 check gets there, just cash it and send me a check for the difference. That way we'll both be happy. Better yet, send it to me in cash along with those shirts. Oh and send them overnight too. I'll need to make a quick get away.


My daughter who obviously doesn't read any of these scams tried to sell a grand piano on craigs list this summer for $2,000. Someone called her and said, "I want it and will have a piano mover over there today to pick it up." An hour or so later he called back to say, "Oops my secretary made out the check for $5,000 by mistake, but that's OK, I trust you. Just cash it and give the driver the difference in cash. He'll wait for you till you come back from the bank."

Luckily she called me all excited that she'd sold it but wasn't sure about cashing a check for too much money. I had to burst her bubble. She called the cops and reported the scam. Hopefully they busted the moron. No not my daughter, the scam artist silly... Granted she needed to be smacked senseless for nearly falling for that scam. What's a mother to do?

 

[martinwoods]

that is funny

 

[martinwoods]

My daughter who obviously doesn't read any of these scams tried to sell a grand piano on craigs list this summer for $2,000. Someone called her and said, "I want it and will have a piano mover over there today to pick it up." An hour or so later he called back to say, "Oops my secretary made out the check for $5,000 by mistake, but that's OK, I trust you. Just cash it and give the driver the difference in cash. He'll wait for you till you come back from the bank."

Luckily she called me all excited that she'd sold it but wasn't sure about cashing a check for too much money. I had to burst her bubble. She called the cops and reported the scam. Hopefully they busted the moron. No not my daughter, the scam artist silly... Granted she needed to be smacked senseless for nearly falling for that scam. What's a mother to do?

I guess people fall for it but I can't understand it myself/
That is why I hate people always trying to scam you

 

[anonimol]

This is other thread in T-shirt forums about more "sophisticated "scammers than that stupid one who asked me about my credit card nr.: http://www.t-shirtforums.com/general-t-shirt-selling-discussion/t56261.html
I guess that is dangerous when the scammers give you false money order and you deposit it at the bank and the bank tells you after couple weeks you have to give the money back cause the check was fake...But you already payed the difference with your real money to scammer!!!