I received this email on October 16, 2015 from Katie Myra:
"Hello,
How are you doing today ? Thanks for taking time out to message me, I really appreciate it.
I'm Mrs Katie Myra, I hate to say this but I just need to let you know that I'm deaf, please I hope you'll treat me well just like your other customers. I promise to tell my deaf group and family about you if you treat me well, because we all take our orders from Maria and now she was diagnosed with cancer bone and unfortunately died last month.
I want to order the below listed item on behalf of my daughter, she's having her wedding coming up in few weeks time and I've found your products more lovely and romantic. Payment will be made to you via a CASHIER'S CHECK so let me know if the mode of payment will be accepted for my sake, as I do not operate credit card and i am a deaf woman. I'll also tell my friends about you so that they also can patronize you.
THIS IS THE PURE ROMANCE PRODUCTS I WANT TO ORDER:"
I realized it was a scam after the second email, but it was too late. She mailed me a check for $1450 when her order was only $200 and wanted me to directly deposit it into my account and wire her the money. I told her I would be more than happy to send the check back and she responded that she would wait for the check to clear after depositing it into my account. I told her the check was already being mailed to the address in Kansas and that she could put a stop payment on it. She replied that it wouldn't do any good because my name was on the check.
Her email address is:
[email protected] and her telephone number is: 435-574-9379. The UPS envelope came from Indiana, was addressed with a Texas company (401A Parker Drive, Austin, TX 78728), her address is: 2248 South Ellis, Wichita, Kansas 67211 and she wanted me to wire the money to Altoona, PA to a wedding planner who is based in Australia.