LeesaB
20th of March 2009 (Fri), 16:48
Ok, here is what happened...
We had the lead from Eventective, which this person has used this venue to target people.
Story line, getting married in cleveland Ohio, I'm out of town on business, my wedding planner will contact you....2 weeks later, we want your 3k package and will send you a money order....1 week later...Our company made a mistake and made the MO out for too much, can you please just forward that to our wedding planner
At this point I know it's a scam, but I tell my partner to go along with it.
Today she gets a UPS with a check from a company in Texas for for 7k made out to us. And to forward the remainder to an address in Arkansas.
She gets an email asking her to go immediately to the bank and get the wedding planner her deposit also.
I just got off the phone with the owner of the trucking company in Texas and he felt very badly, he said he has had 100's of these calls and that a checkbook was stolen (they took the last set of checks so no one noticed till these calls started coming) people have been cashing them all over the place.
There is a federal investigation and he would give my info to them... I'm the first one to call and verify this guy "Paul Williams" employment.
He said most people have deposited the checks and forwarded the money.
Of course the checks are no good and that account was closed the moment they figured out what was going on.
So, no eventective is not a scam, but they did use eventective to get to people and I will call them in a bit to let them know and see if they care.
Many people just trust people are honest and in hard times people just see $$.
Desperate people do desperate things.
We had the lead from Eventective, which this person has used this venue to target people.
Story line, getting married in cleveland Ohio, I'm out of town on business, my wedding planner will contact you....2 weeks later, we want your 3k package and will send you a money order....1 week later...Our company made a mistake and made the MO out for too much, can you please just forward that to our wedding planner
At this point I know it's a scam, but I tell my partner to go along with it.
Today she gets a UPS with a check from a company in Texas for for 7k made out to us. And to forward the remainder to an address in Arkansas.
She gets an email asking her to go immediately to the bank and get the wedding planner her deposit also.
I just got off the phone with the owner of the trucking company in Texas and he felt very badly, he said he has had 100's of these calls and that a checkbook was stolen (they took the last set of checks so no one noticed till these calls started coming) people have been cashing them all over the place.
There is a federal investigation and he would give my info to them... I'm the first one to call and verify this guy "Paul Williams" employment.
He said most people have deposited the checks and forwarded the money.
Of course the checks are no good and that account was closed the moment they figured out what was going on.
So, no eventective is not a scam, but they did use eventective to get to people and I will call them in a bit to let them know and see if they care.
Many people just trust people are honest and in hard times people just see $$.
Desperate people do desperate things.