Disclaimer : I have provided the REAL name of the Scammer all the way at the very bottom of this post if that's all you're looking for scroll down.

The Scam :

You receive a letter in the mail accompanied by a Check for $3825.00 (give or take a few hundred dollars). The letter  claims that you have been selected to participate in a secret shopper program and that the money was sent to you as an advance to purchase and evaluate products and services. You are encouraged to first call the numbers provided in the letter before evaluating the products and services they have suggested.

When you call them up the first thing they do is do some fake tapping on their keyboard to simulate that they are looking you up in a centralized database. The second thing they do is ask you to deposit the check and call back after 2 days. This is done to gain your trust, ponce they know they have your trust they ask you to "evaluate” the services of Western Union and / or Money Gram by sending money to the people listed on the letter or to a name they give you.

Now keep in mind that the check they sent you shows up in your bank account as soon as you deposit it, even though those funds will never be available. The check is forged it uses a real account and transit  # usually from a large public company but its eventually going to bounce.

The scammers are relying on the funds you already have in your account to cover the cost of the Money orders which is actually going to fellow members of their scamster group, so please don’t dispose of  the letter , those are valuable pieces of information that help us track down these people and do bad things to them.

They'll even get into detail about having to fill out the supplied questionnaire and asking you to fax that information to some random number, again all to gain your trust. What they really want you to do is let them know when it is they can send their conspirators to pick up their money. Remember these are not fake names they are real names and the people assigned to pick up the money have to display identification, The Scammers will also warn you against telling the Western Union clerk to who you are sending the money they specifically tell you to lie and say that the money is going to a friend or relative  so as to not blow your secret shopper identity.

This Particular scam is being run by a Nigerian that travels to and from the US and Canada , and is targeting Canadians that’s why the money pick-ups are in New York. This is often done in reverse when targeting US citizens. They are using pay as you go phones such as those sold by Chatter Wireless.

The Numbers :

They are currently using the following numbers some of which have been hacked by us and other groups.

647-627-4250   - As of 1/13/2013 disabled , but it can be reactivated at any time.
226-975-3360   - Still active  VM has been hacked
514-575-3902   - Still Active VM has been hacked
514-578-0843   - Still Active VM has been hacked
514-962-6008   - Still Active


239-400-0550  /  413-685-2200  -He doesn’t use these numbers for this particular Scam , this is the number he uses for his on again off again legit job as a Travel Agent , he also claims to help process  passports and J-1 Employment/Exchange Visas. I'm guessing he also does taxes.

A quick Google search does bring up a few scams where he's used the site and company name Smooth Travel tours for other scams.

OK The good stuff :

The scammer's real name is Jaja Solomon he has been a scammer for practically most of his adult life he's only been prosecuted outside of this country. But in the US he has multiple addresses in :

Warrenton, NC  on Daniels Lane
Norlina, NC   on Seaman Rd.
Little neck, NY  on Northern Blvd.
Henderson, NC  on Washington St.

He goes by the names :
Solomon Jaja
Kingsley Dike
Tito Adams              [email protected]
George Harrison     [email protected]
Don Parker             [email protected]
Joseph Plummer     (Used his real address, so it may be a family member)


The Co-conspirators:

Alfonso Cashion
Philip Burts
Tishia Collins   Know to communicate with twitter.
Reuben Marcus
David Cioffi       (pronounced SHY-off-e, he's sensitive about that)
Sammy Crouse   (also spells it CREWS)
Susan Downey (she maybe a scamming victim, he wanted an agent of ours to deposit funds to her CIBC Bank account  ending with the numbers XXXX3681 )