Who called from 2062030919

They want to buy Commerical Fans,whats up with this company

He listed his name as Bishop Kelly Smith and this phone number and wants to buy 15 of our lodge tables.  I am assuming it is a scam, but, he hasn't given a credit card number yet.

I am not sure what they are fishing for but we do not and never have sold Parker Plastics Cases

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Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Delivery-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:46:48 -0400

Hello Good Day,

This is Bill McCarthy   With regards to your Company i am sending this email Regards to order some (Parker Plastics Cases)I will like to know the type and sizes you have in stock and get me the sales price of one so that i will tell you the quantity i will be ordering, and if you accept credit card as a form of payment..hope to read from you soon about my order request......

With Kind Regards.

(Secanstar Engine  Co  Ltd )
2062030919
Bill McCarthy

The email, allegedly from [email protected], was sent from 41.218.196.144 which is *not* a Yahoo IP but is operated by Ghana Telecom in guess where? Yup, Ghana, Africa.

We've received e-mails of this nature from a number of individuals that want to buy stock cases using a charge card. (Never a corporate web address, always Yahoo, Hotmail, G-Mail, etc)

Invariably, they want you to ship offshore using their freight forwarder, and simply add the shipping costs to their charge card purchase.

The best part is that their freight forwarder only accepts money orders as payment, and the charge card accounts are fraudulent.

End result, they end up with your product and your money.

Best to simply report the card numbers to the respective credit card company, and let their fraud department look into it.

If however, you think it might be a legitimate sales opportunity, simply let them know that it's company policy to only accept wire transfer payments prior to product release.