tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post7097771945599216010..comments2024-02-11T23:48:59.841-08:00Comments on Stop Art Scams: Scam Email: Anne BrownKatieMoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01998438534712939464noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-59770312077601306572018-08-14T16:11:02.666-07:002018-08-14T16:11:02.666-07:00I got an email from Belly Jordan from Gibraltar wi...I got an email from Belly Jordan from Gibraltar with email address bbjord777@outlook.com<br /><br />The 1st email says:<br />Thank you for the swift response these are the artworks i have chosen from your site so i want you to get back to me with the availabilty and cost price conformation of each so i can give you the credit card number to run for the payment<br /><br />Sunlit Magnolia<br />Regular price$1,500.00<br />=============================================================================================<br />The Splash<br />Regular price$3,000.00<br /> <br /> <br />I want you to get back to me with the cost confirmation of the above so that you can have the payment.<br />I will be looking forward to hear from you.<br />Best<br />Belly<br /><br /><br /><br />Looks fishy to me. Anyone heard of this name so far,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-86092345371065909292018-05-25T11:01:05.644-07:002018-05-25T11:01:05.644-07:00I got the same email from Elaine Spencer (eels777@...I got the same email from Elaine Spencer (eels777@outlook.com). Thanks for sharing the info.So upsetting<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10176300031476248221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-84792280863962448172018-05-20T09:43:18.249-07:002018-05-20T09:43:18.249-07:00Received an order from Elaine Spencer eels777@outl...Received an order from Elaine Spencer eels777@outlook.com claiming to be from Republic of San Marino and requesting the use of a courier company Costa Express Delivery to shipping address 77, Dogana Blvd Serravalle Sigla 47891 Republic of San Marino. Once order processed on our end the billing and shipping addresses were different with an Oregon address given. The IP address used to place the order was 162.250.145.251 Hopefully this information will help prevent the next artist from getting scammed. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379374614303057134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-86843840924667708882018-04-25T12:46:39.037-07:002018-04-25T12:46:39.037-07:00Just recently got one of these emails. Thanks for ...Just recently got one of these emails. Thanks for the info. I wasn't sure if it was real or notAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-18425417359758668542018-03-26T18:24:01.335-07:002018-03-26T18:24:01.335-07:00Sorry if this posts twice, I didn't get a conf...Sorry if this posts twice, I didn't get a confirmation of any kind in FF,<br /><br />Amazingly enough that SAME email address is still being used today, I just got one of their scammy emails;<br /><br />Elaine Spencer <br />Reply To: eels777@outlook.com<br /><br />Return-Path: jbeautyatop@gmail.com<br />Received: from 10.0.16.101 (LHLO njtozpfv02.mcomdc.com) (10.0.16.101) by<br /> njtozmbv11.mcomdc.com with LMTP; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:17:57 -0400 (EDT)Authentication-Results: njtozpfv02.mcomdc.com (amavisd-new);<br /> dkim=fail (2048-bit key) reason="fail (message has been altered)"<br /> header.d=gmail.com<br />Received: from njtozpfv02.mcomdc.com ([127.0.0.1])<br /> by localhost (njtozpfv02.mcomdc.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)<br /> with ESMTP id T8yqLw6vA4-K for ;<br /> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:17:57 -0400 (EDT)<br />Received: from mc-ibgw-6002a (mcib-6002a.a.cloudfilter.net [52.40.142.38])<br /> by njtozpfv02.mcomdc.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44556440045<br />Good Day,<br />How is work and family? I picked interest in your artwork and decided<br />to write you. I will like to know if your artwork can be purchased and<br />shipped internationally?. I can email the artwork of interest and<br />payment will be completed in full once you confirm my purchase order<br />with a quotation. Kindly let me know when you are in office and ready<br />to take my artwork order also let me know if you accept either Visa<br />Card / Master Card or PayPal for payment<br />Best Regards<br />Elaine Spencer<br />===============<br /><br />First of all my web sites CLEARLY state I will not ship out of the USA, and the email address used is not the one I use on my sites or in Paypal even though the email is mine obviously- it came to a non art non sales box.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-10611208274564746212018-03-17T09:12:18.214-07:002018-03-17T09:12:18.214-07:00I googled that email Elaine Spencer after receivin...I googled that email Elaine Spencer after receiving the similar proposal and thankful for this blog. Really upsetting that people targeting artists, vulnerable and in need. Shame. Please, be careful and thank you for support. :( Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-21875065536490873932017-07-07T19:47:14.724-07:002017-07-07T19:47:14.724-07:00Yep Veronica Swan from - uh- Gibraltar ahem - is &...Yep Veronica Swan from - uh- Gibraltar ahem - is 'jbeautyatop@outlook.com'. "She" wanted 5 paintings. I wasn't selling, though ;). This is a lesson in reading poorly written English. For example, many spammers simply don't have subjunctive clauses in whatever language they do speak, etc... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-144567166837831782017-02-11T15:21:37.724-08:002017-02-11T15:21:37.724-08:00Looks like a scam. Looks like a scam. KatieMoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998438534712939464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-21056365077450695532017-02-11T15:21:01.636-08:002017-02-11T15:21:01.636-08:00Another scam artist?
Sent from my iPhone
Begin ...Another scam artist?<br /><br /><br />Sent from my iPhone<br /><br />Begin forwarded message:<br /><br />From: Kathleen <br />Date: February 10, 2017 at 7:39:39 AM EST<br />To: <br />Subject: Re: Price List / Detais.<br /><br />Dear Toni,<br /><br />Thank you for the prompt response.<br /><br />In my previous message i was inquiring on the paintings i attached to this email. I like all three and will need more details on each, sizes, prices and if they are available.<br /><br />Shipping won't be a problem and can be done by either UPS or FedEx after packaging, Hope to read back from you with more details.<br /><br />I will appreciate your timely response.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Kathleen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-31056339497835194822016-09-23T09:51:53.560-07:002016-09-23T09:51:53.560-07:00oh my god~!
jbeautyatop@gmail.com
jsgeorg@hotmail...oh my god~! <br />jbeautyatop@gmail.com<br />jsgeorg@hotmail.com<br /><br /><br />i'v been contacting him already for a month!! <br />coz for me there was no way to get the credit card payment.<br /><br />and today i went to see the MailRoseDelivery website, the website was gone. and as above mentioned i gouged the address, then it doesn't exist. oh my god. i spent a lot of time on it!!<br /><br />I also felt suspicious but I couldn't find any reason to do it with me. <br />i mean the amount of money to cheat is not too big. <br />it is not nothing but. because of the amount of money isn't that big so i thought it was not a cheating. <br /><br />then today i found this blog! <br />oh my god. jason george is still waiting my email to make a procedure the payment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-11050024750881231482016-09-16T14:55:18.980-07:002016-09-16T14:55:18.980-07:00i cant tell if " mail rose delivery service&q...i cant tell if " mail rose delivery service" is legit or not though...<br />i emailed them the second 'jason ' name popped up here..i explained the situation and sent the email. i scrolled further down seeing the delivery service was non existent and put the 2 together thinking jason is the mail service... but now i just received an email back from them:<br /><br />Thank you for choosing MailRose Delivery Service,<br /> <br /> <br />We are sorry to hear about that and your refund will be processed as soon as possible this takes 3-5 business days to co ordinate through our account department <br /><br /><br />You will need to email us the account details you want the refund sent to<br /><br /><br />i mean.. if thats Jason i figured there would be no response... <br />now i feel bad about accusing the mail service to the bank in the email i sent... very confusing scam... i hope to get to the bottom of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-69237715369037457652016-09-16T14:18:42.847-07:002016-09-16T14:18:42.847-07:00I am SOOO sorry this happened to you. It is exactl...I am SOOO sorry this happened to you. It is exactly why I started this blog and the related Facebook page. The only way we can fight back is to try and earn each other. It is so terrible what they do. KatieMoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998438534712939464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-70366168383810104112016-09-16T13:19:52.425-07:002016-09-16T13:19:52.425-07:00just got scammed by JASON GEORGE ! scumbag has bee...just got scammed by JASON GEORGE ! scumbag has been corresponding for weeks about 4..and then 9 of my paintings! he told me to use mail rose delivery, they assured me a refund is not a problem if they havent picked up the packages yet..i doubt ill see my money back but at least i didnt send out the package...im on the line with the bank now filing a claim... how big of an asshole to you have to be to screw already in debt artists out of their money and their work!? life sucks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-16251586323450514592016-08-31T08:40:18.484-07:002016-08-31T08:40:18.484-07:00My wife has just been in communication with Jason ...My wife has just been in communication with Jason George (jsgeorg@hotmail.com), who purports to live in Bosnia Herzegovina. The usual story - wants to buy artworks - wants to pay by CC. Alarm bells rang when he specified a shipper rather than use ours. The shipper, MailRose Delivery Service, appears to be completely fake, with a non-existent address in Ireland, phone numbers in China and a Google Maps location in San Francisco! Jason was doing quite well reeling my wife in until I looked in depth at his preferred courier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-45086305977505647242016-08-10T05:56:15.861-07:002016-08-10T05:56:15.861-07:00Yes, but there are other parts to this scam. The s...Yes, but there are other parts to this scam. The scammer will overpay with some story about a shipper or something, and ask that the over payment be sent on to the shipper, and then they have some story as to why that over payment needs to be wired.<br /><br />So even if a chargeback happens on the credit card - to the owner of that stolen credit card, not the victim of this scam - the scam victim is still out the amount they have wired to a non-existent shipper, who is just the scammer at the other end of the wire.KatieMoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998438534712939464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-43047718546335385822016-08-10T05:52:16.394-07:002016-08-10T05:52:16.394-07:00if transaction has been made by stolen credit card...if transaction has been made by stolen credit card, its client will dispute the purchase and the card company will proceed to chargeback Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-16279805511390879932016-08-08T16:47:18.657-07:002016-08-08T16:47:18.657-07:00Thanks for this blog. this scam is still going on....Thanks for this blog. this scam is still going on...from jason george and bbc: jsgeorg@hotmail.com<br /><br />I got an email with the subject art order:<br />Hello,<br />It gives me a great delight being Interested in purchasing some<br />beautiful piece of your artwork and i will like to know if you accept<br />Credit Card for payment and will be able to ship your artwork?<br />Please your swift response will be most appreciated so that i can let<br />you know the artworks i would love to purchase.<br />Sincerely<br />Jason Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-69991804499721724732016-01-25T18:12:34.234-08:002016-01-25T18:12:34.234-08:00Hi,
I got the same email in 12/15. I smelled the ...Hi,<br />I got the same email in 12/15. I smelled the scam, so I barely replied.. it was suspicious. Hope nobody got caught by it. thanks for this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-69649740544699215922016-01-14T10:49:55.018-08:002016-01-14T10:49:55.018-08:00I am working with Veronica presently. The scam is ...I am working with Veronica presently. The scam is the same however, all she has said is that sh is just going to give me her credit card number. ??<br />I thought about taking the number and just waiting until the bomb goes off. What do you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-42373378674331273742015-12-20T12:33:10.529-08:002015-12-20T12:33:10.529-08:00Definitely Scam.
Notice how the email changed. An...Definitely Scam.<br /><br />Notice how the email changed. And lately scammers are trying to tell a more elaborate fake story about their "shipper" and giving people information to check out the shipper. Doesn't mean they have an account there AND really, the scam never gets to this point anyway. It's just there to justify why the scammer will over-pay (with counterfeit or stolen cards) and ask YOU to *wire* that money to the non-existent shipper... which is really just the scammer themselves at the other end of that wire, running off and disappearing with your cash - hopefully (in their minds) before you find out the original payment is not valid. So it really never gets to the shipping point of the "story".<br /><br />1. Never accept over-payment when selling online. Insist on shipping it yourself.<br /><br />2. Never ever ever ever wire money to anyone when selling online, no matter what their inconvenience sob story is. No real buyer is going to insist upon this.<br />KatieMoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998438534712939464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-76806705496748679182015-12-20T12:27:52.621-08:002015-12-20T12:27:52.621-08:00Thanks so much for your blog. I was able to match...Thanks so much for your blog. I was able to match language issues to avoid doing business with a scammer. Here is our entire thread. <br />Best,<br />Shenny<br /><br />Sent from my iPhone<br /><br />Begin forwarded message:<br /><br />> From: Veronica Swan [v.swan7705@outlook.com]<br />> Date: December 19, 2015 at 2:54:13 PM PST<br />> To: <br />> Subject: Re: Art Piece Inquiry<br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> Hi Shenny,<br />> I am okay with the cost of these four pieces therefore i will like to proceed with the purchase and i want you to get the shipping cost so you can sum everything up and let me know all total required to be paid to acquire the pieces<br />> <br />> Name of piece<br />> ==========================================<br />> Name of piece<br />> ==========================================<br />> Name of piece<br />> ==========================================<br />> Name of piece<br />> <br />> <br />> On the shipping one will have to pay additional fee at the delivery point here in Gibraltar because they will never bring to ones house. courier like Fedex, UPS,DHL are not worth it here especially USPS and TNT all of them are not rendering good service here probably because they already known very well.<br />> You can contact this courier http://servexpresscouriercom.myfreesites.net (servexpress.com@hush.com) as well with the weight and cost of the artwork for the shipping and insurance to my address because they ship and deliver safely without one paying any other money before collecting the goods unlike some other courier where it will not be delivered to your address rather you will have to go to their office to pick it up and when you get there you will be told to pay other money before collecting it.<br />> I will be looking forward to hearing from you asap.<br />> Thanks<br />> Shipping Address<br />> 28, The Square,<br />> Marina Bay,<br />> GX11 1AA Gibraltar.<br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> On Dec 19, 2015, at 8:03 AM, Veronica Swan [v.swan7705@outlook.com] wrote:<br />> <br />>> <br />>> Hello,<br />>> Thank you for the swift response these are the artworks i have chosen from your site so i want you to get back to me with the cost price of each so i can give you the credit card number to run for the payment<br />>> <br />>> Name of piece<br />>> ==========================================================================<br />>> Name of piece<br />>> ============================================================================<br />>> Name of piece<br />>> ================================================================================<br />>> Name of piece<br />>> ================================================================================<br />>> Name of piece<br />>> <br />>> <br />>> I want you to get back to me with the cost of the above so that you can have the payment.<br />>> I will be looking forward to hear from you.<br />>> Best<br />>> Veronica<br />>> <br />>> <br />>> <br />>> <br />>> <br />>> On Dec 01, 2015, at 01:22 PM, Veronica Swan [jbeautyatop@gmail.com] wrote:<br />>> <br />>>> Hello,<br />>>> It gives me a great delight being Interested in purchasing some<br />>>> beautiful piece of your artwork and i will like to know if you accept<br />>>> Credit Card for payment and will be able to ship your artwork?<br />>>> Please your swift response will be most appreciated so that i can let<br />>>> you know the artworks i would love to purchase.<br />>>> Sincerely<br />>>> V<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-53167261568543281292015-09-15T13:23:29.604-07:002015-09-15T13:23:29.604-07:00We had exactly the same thing as above happen to o...We had exactly the same thing as above happen to our handmade ceramic pottery business with Sue Schwab. Received email from her with list of pottery she wanted to order - using the exact address shown above in Athens, Greece. She also wanted to use DPD shipping. She agreed to pay $860 in shipping for $510 pottery order. She sent an email address for us to contact the "DPD" shipper for pickup saying we would pay the shipper when package was picked up. She provided a credit card for total amount which we entered manually with our Square device. The amount was posted by Square to our bank account as normal the next day. We were in the process of packaging the order and getting ready to contact the shipper for pickup when on a whim I googled Sue Schwab to see if I could find her website... and this blog came up .. naming her and the exact address and details of order as posted above! I immediately called Square customer support which was very helpful. He said this was a common scam now and many merchants were falling for it. He advised to refund the credit card (easy to do on Square account dashboard), which I did. The amount was refunded out of our bank account back to the credit card used, the next day promptly. I then sent an email to DPD Customer Service (actually located in Germany) asking if this was normal procedure and giving them the email address of the shipper Sue had supplied. DPD replied: "DPD does not offer third party services of that kind. The domain name <br />"@post.com" is also not a DPD domain (@dpd) and therefore has nothing to with us. Our local partner in Greece is ACS - there is no direct DPD branch. We also do not have a branch in the US and work with the US partner WnDirect instead. <br /> <br />IMPORTANT: we wish to point out expressly that DPD does not offer services of this kind. Any demands for payment in such a connection are attempts at fraud and are made with the unauthorised use of the DPD name and brands. <br /> <br />DPD urgently warns you not to respond to such demands and not to make payments of this kind! DPD accepts no liability for any damage or loss which results from such payments. In such cases we advise you to report the matter to the police without delay. <br /> <br />Kind regards <br /> <br />DPD Team "<br /><br />Shortly after beginning email conversations with Sue Schwab on the "order" we received another such inquiry from Abel Boswell in Finland, but he wanted to use a different strange third party shipper for door pickup. He wanted to buy everything we had in stock shown on our Square online store. We were in the process of packaging up his shipment as well when we discovered this scam through this blog. <br />We sent an email to Schwab saying we could not proceed with order and had refunded the charge to her credit card. We did not receive a reply from her. We also sent an mail to Boswell saying we would not accept a credit card but would require a cashiers check from his bank by mail and would require he use a major shipper - not his shipper. Again, no reply from him.<br />Thank you for posting this blog - it saved us a couple of thousand dollars in shipping cash, as well as the loss of many pieces of beautiful handmade pottery. I hope this helps someone else avoid this heartless, ruthless, and devious scam.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06463595750449978913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-86828491066741503452015-09-11T10:10:01.893-07:002015-09-11T10:10:01.893-07:00I've been in contact with "Launa Wright&q...I've been in contact with "Launa Wright" from "Wright Studio" or "Outer Island Studio"<br />63, Antigeo Road<br />Korinthia, Athens 10432 Greece <br />outer.island.studio@aol.com<br /><br />I sensed a scam but there has been nothing to confirm it in our correspondences. She wants us to ship via DPD which is maybe where we missed the scam- she provided the email in which to contact them for a quote (CUST.SERVICE.DPD@post.com). <br /><br />However, she sent us her credit card info yesterday and the billing address is in North Carolina. That's when I really started digging and found this blog. I've tried to call the people at the address listed for the credit card but the line has been busy. I was hoping we could potentially set the scammer up but it looks like I've just wasted a bunch of time packing up these pieces. Oh well. Better than losing a bunch of money! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-45071353794152202522015-09-02T10:18:00.736-07:002015-09-02T10:18:00.736-07:00I've been going back and forth with "Sue ...I've been going back and forth with "Sue Schwab" in Athens for a few weeks now. I suspected a scam from the get-go. Red flags here and there, but on the chance it was legit I did communicate with "her." But I had no intention of letting her determine the conditions of payment. In any event, so glad I found this chat so I can put the matter to rest.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334260376400900106.post-12030299762516322612015-08-28T09:09:33.482-07:002015-08-28T09:09:33.482-07:00If a credit card is used, you will find it is from...If a credit card is used, you will find it is from a stolen number and there will be a chargeback afterwards. But their trick is to overpay and ask the difference be wired to them and that's cold hard cash to them and money you will never see again. They actually could care less about the items they are pretending to buy. Their scam is done when they get that cash wired to them and then they disappear and move on to the next victim. <br /><br />It's a scam. Do not wire money to anyone. And deposits to your account are NOT yours until they FULLY clear - that is the loophole in the banking system scammers take advantage of. Up to it being fully cleared, banks can take that money back if it is found to be fraudulent. And then you are out of luck. KatieMoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998438534712939464noreply@blogger.com