I spoke with a guy that goes by John Romano, who claims to work for Compaq Presario. He claims to send you money orders (After being hired) and says you need to send the money to a local vendor (whom he provides information for) to get the software and new laptop, and all in one printer. The money orders he sends are FRAUDULENT!!! He wants you to cash the money and wire it to this so called vendor asap. Here is his e-mail that he's been using [email protected]. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM!!!!! We were smart enough to notice the flaws in his story and in the money orders, I hope you can as well! Here is the information for the so called vendor he gave me..
Name: Daniel Khoshaba
City: Chicago
State: IL
Zipcode: 60625
And this is the information he gave my roommate for yet another Vendor
Steve Frontus
195 West Pike Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11227
Please beware of this guy!! Thank you for reading this.
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A friend of mine actually accepted a job with a company called Tritech Plastics. She was asked to receive money orders from buyers in an online auction and wire the money, minus 10% to
Steve Frontus
195 West Pike Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11227
She took the money orders to the bank and cashed them and wired the money. A few days later her bank called saying the money orders were fraudulent and she had to repay the amount. $1800!
In the meantime, she filed a police report but isn't sure if there's anything they can do.
Congratulations on not falling for that.
There are a series of scams that involve either wiring money to a scammer, who then has you try to cash a fake money order and you are out whatever you sent... or they send you a check, which your bank will cash, deposit the money in your account, you send them their share of the money, then the check comes back bad and you owe the bank the entire balance... thats the worse one...
So yes everyone, watch out for scammers, work from home deals, jobs you need to pay the company upfront for the training, and last but not least, Nigerian nobility who need to put $200,000,000 in a US bank account as they are going to be fleeing from their family, but need a US citizen to open the account and agree to give you 10% for your troubles...
He tried it on me too. He used AK Industries in the UK to advertise on Craigslist for an Accounts Receivable clerk. He then said I was to lodge a check to my account, take 10% and send the rest to him. The address he told me to put on the wire transfer is fake.
Steve Frontus
195 West Pike Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11227
This address does noe exist. he also gave me a fake tracking number for a package.
If you had spent 5 minutes thinking about this you would have realized it did not make sense. When something does not make sense, then it is a scam. Why would anyone need a stranger to send money to another stranger???