framegal
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Joined: 3/29/2007 Status: offline
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Hello.................and it seems that I have joined your "club", as I have just been contacted by a Reverend Mark Larry, and this scam artist wanted to buy.........90 30x40 gold metal picture frames, all fitted with non-glare glass, and packed and shipped, by HIS "favorite" shipping company. So, now they are into picture frames......?? And, sent to Pistel & Company, Inc, 440 Airport Road Residential, Accra, Ghana.............I took enough information from him, and he finally stopped giving me any further info when I repeatedly asked for a reference, and he would not follow through. This call came through the ATT Relay call, and the operator was as frustrated as I was at not being able to glean more facts, and no cooperation....... I felt immediately like this had to be a scam, as no one orders $10,000.00 worth of frames, without being a little more professional; his utmost request was "that you run the entire amount through NOW, on this credit card," so he could get the rest of his deal finalized, and he then followed up with an e-mail, with his shipper's e-mail address, and more instructions with how to get these done REAL FAST, and he needed them for his church in Ghana, his wife was having their first child, so he had to let me go RIGHT NOW, and then I should e-mail him back when these had been shipped... Boy, if this didn't smell like really stinky fish, nothing does.............his five credit cards were all declined, and the sixth one-yes, I kept taking them because I wanted more information, but the sixth card went through........ I called our credit card handler, who advised me to void IT IMMEDIATELY, and then she took more details from me about the cards, the caller and the address and phone number he had given, and said they would try and catch up with him, but probably couldn't do much.......... what a let-down............how can we small businesses stay safe it they won't follow up.....and I know they have thousands of these things, but I felt I did my part..... have also contacted the Kansas Attorney General, and will tell them my story...and thanks to all of you, I was able to find this posting on line and get more information about the "Good Reverend".. appreciate your postings, good luck to all of you,
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