Received texts from this number wanted professional services but stated they were ill in the hospital. Requested that we take more money that the services cost to pay another vendor because the other vendor does not take credit card. Played along and made them sign a contract which they had to list home address, phone number, etc. (Addresses were professional locations it turns out) then they didn't want the credit card ran through Paypal or Square because their cards don't work through those. It was told to them that a base model was being used. They wanted to know who the merchant was that the charges go through. Insisted upon this (we don't have a base credit card machine). Then they gave a credit card. We informed them that it was declined (never ran it). They gave another. We said it was declined. They gave 4 credit card numbers all with different zip codes around the country because we falsely told them it went through (we never ran any credit cards, all just to get the entire story out of them). We then asked how they would like to pay the balance since we only "charged" the deposit. They then provided a 5th card with yet another zip code. Had the number traced and it's a computer in Ukraine doing the texting.
Not seconds after that 5th credit card number was provided for us to "charge the balance" of services on to, another text from another out of state number asking for services (Mark 415-996-0804)... And the scam starts over again for these people.
Received texts from this number wanted professional services but stated they were ill in the hospital. Requested that we take more money that the services cost to pay another vendor because the other vendor does not take credit card. Played along and made them sign a contract which they had to list home address, phone number, etc. (Addresses were professional locations it turns out) then they didn't want the credit card ran through Paypal or Square because their cards don't work through those. It was told to them that a base model was being used. They wanted to know who the merchant was that the charges go through. Insisted upon this (we don't have a base credit card machine). Then they gave a credit card. We informed them that it was declined (never ran it). They gave another. We said it was declined. They gave 4 credit card numbers all with different zip codes around the country because we falsely told them it went through (we never ran any credit cards, all just to get the entire story out of them). We then asked how they would like to pay the balance since we only "charged" the deposit. They then provided a 5th card with yet another zip code. Had the number traced and it's a computer in Ukraine doing the texting.
Not seconds after that 5th credit card number was provided for us to "charge the balance" of services on to, another text from another out of state number asking for services (Mark 415-996-0804)... And the scam starts over again for these people.