As of July14th 2015 Anthony Smith AKA Scammer is still trying to scam people with the same BS, either wedding bouquets, massages, you name the type of business you are in and he will send you an email tailored to you business in the hopes you will fall for his BS. Using cancer as an excuse. Anthony, keep playing around with cancer and innocent victims and you will get cancer in your butt and mouth. What goes around comes around, your day will come you piece of [***].
RECEIVED AN EMAIL REQUESTING 6 WEDDING BOUGHETS FROM MR ANTHONY SMITH AT THIS NUMBER. ONLY WANTED TO COMMUNICATE BY TEXT . DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SCAM.
SCAM EMAIL! REQUESTING 6 BOUQUETS FROM MR. ANTHONY. I KNOW FOR A FACT THIS EMAIL IS CIRCULATING THE FLORIST COMMUNITY NATIONWIDE. DON'T RESPOND. WHAT'S EVEN WORSE...HE'S USING CANCER AS AN EXCUSE TO ONLY "TEXT". PITIFUL.
Got an email today with the same request of 6 wedding bouquets for a son's wedding. This fake email shows up periodically (have seen different versions over the last 3 or 4 years). The credit card that is used is stolen. Want a response text to the 334 phone #.
Don't fall for this scam!
Okay fine ,My MUM Birthday is coming up on the 15th of May,so I will like to place an order for Grilled Chicken Salad 100 guest so I would be needing 100 individual orders all together and i will like to have the total cost plus tax so that i can give you my credit card to charge for the payment and it will be pick up by 2 pm on 15th of May.If you dont have Grilled Chicken Salad,Let me have your Menu list
NOTE:I dont want the food by TRAYS.I want you to get back to me with the prices for each plates and total cost for 100 people plates individual.
Note: Am presently recuperating from the diagnosis of lung cancer am so we will have to communicate via email or text due to my health.I dont check my Email every time,So i want you to text me the Total Cost of the Order Text: 334 245 4115
Basically this is the precursor to a money laundering scam.
At some point, when it gets to the payment in the negotiations, you will be presented with PayPal invoice, credit cards, or a bank check for an amount over what your service charges.
They will then want the over amount sent to another party or returned, giving a whole montage of reasons or excuses.
The over amount, however, needs to be sent via wire transfer or prepaid money cards, like Green Dot or MoneyPak.
So, you received the PayPal invoice, saying the funds were deposited, or run the credit cards, or cash the check and send off the over funds as instructed.
You later then find out the PayPal invoice was fake and no funds were deposited, the credit cards are stolen, or the check was counterfeit.
As the funds you sent out were via wire transfer or prepaid money card, they are not recoverable.
You are out the funds you sent, any fees from credit card charge-back, bounce check fees, and if the scam was done via a check, you could be held criminally liable for passing a counterfeit check.