*ALERT TO ALL CONSUMERS & SELLERS*
I am alerting anyone who visits this website, whether
customer, link partner, or browser, to the following:
A person using this email address with a Yahoo domain
name, indicating she was an American vacationing in
Spain, wanted to place an order from us for her client
in Nigeria, and pay with a Cashier's Check. I foolishly
allowed the order, took the cashier's check, took it to my
bank and asking the cashier when it would be okay to start
using the funds, was told that I could use them as soon
as it was posted, which was at midnight. I ordered the items
the same day, and after 7 days, the bank informed me that they
had put a hold on our account, the check turned out to be
"Counterfeit"!!!
We have not been able to clear this up as yet (shortly we will)
but we lost a total of $10,000 in the amount of orders
plus shipping fees and all the money we still owed the
bank. We cannot get that back.
This person also sent more than the amount of her order,
which should have alerted me to some thing's being not right,
but as she indicated she wished to order more items. I foolishly
awaited her second order for the balance of the over-payment.
Two days before we found out that the check was counterfeit,
she had called and wanted the remaining balance of the cash
as her daughter needed an operation or die.
When I tried to get a money order to her that's when I found out
that the check was counterfeit. Had we not tried to get
the balance off to this person it might have been a few
more days until we knew what was going on. I regret that such
a thing is happening today, that one can not trust some people,
but I guess that is the nature of greedy people and crooks.
Unfortunately it's not just in Nigeria, but in other countries
as well. We, as American's don't have a leg to stand
on as far as bringing criminal charges because we have no
jurisdiction over there. I have learned my lesson very well.
A most expensive lesson also!
I cannot stress enough that if these people are in a
hurry to get their items be very weary. They
play on our honesty and integrity and our emotions.
Beware!!! It's a new scam every day so please
be careful! I have notified the officials of this matter
and nothing can be done. I have since learned
of the Nigerian fraud called 419.....Should have read
some on that before I fell for this...
Now we must have all payment methods before we
ship the items out which makes for a longer
wait for a lot of folks! We are sorry about that, but it can't be helped!
The only countries I will accept an order from are the
approved countries that PayPal accepts, and
any order from those countries must make payment through PayPal.
I seriously recommend e-commerce sites to use PayPal
for orders accepted from other
countries. The PayPal website will tell you which
countries that accepts PayPal. Please, do yourselves a
big favor and look at the information provided on these
websites so you won't become a victim of these terrible
scams. Don't become a victim like we were:
http://www.merchant911.org/
http://www.fraudaid.com/scamwarnings/index.htm
http://www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpeak/Nigerian/
nigerian_counterfeit_check_fraud-02.htm#REALLY
http://www.scamvictimsunited.com/counterfeit_cashier's_check.htm
http://www.fraudaid.com/index.htm
