[ SHOWGSD-L ] Fwd: Clever credit card scam Important
- From: "Donna Calabrese" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "onaluzlead@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: Showgsd <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:48:12 -0500
Donna M. Calabrese AKC BREEDER OF MERIT &
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> From: Dale's I Pad <dalbon2@xxxxxxx>
> Date: December 27, 2014 at 9:55:16 AM EST
> To: onaluzlead@xxxxxxx, Louise Minerva <louise12minnie@xxxxxxxxx>, Marylou
> Muha <lvegaslou@xxxxxxxxx>, Linda Royster <llroyster1947@xxxxxxxxx>,
> kellyroe@xxxxxxx, Barbara Kinsman <blkterramina@xxxxxxxxx>, JB Walker
> <honeychile1552@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Fwd: Clever credit card scam Important
>
> See below,scary
>
> Sent from my iPad
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>> From: Ernesto Castro <ernie1225@xxxxxxx>
>> Date: December 27, 2014 at 1:41:43 AM EST
>> To: ddawn@xxxxxxxxx, d2wrights@xxxxxxx, ceverett@xxxxxxxxxx,
>> jpearsley@xxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Fwd: Clever credit card scam Important
>>
>>
>>
>> Ernesto Castro
>> ernie1225@xxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ron Wolf <musicalron@xxxxxxx>
>> To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
>> Sent: Fri, Dec 26, 2014 3:55 pm
>> Subject: Clever credit card scam
>>
>> Hi,
>> This is definitely worth reading and following.
>>
>> Parker
>>
>> This email I just received from friend has been circulated in prior years,
>> yet Snopes says it is true.
>> http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/express.asp
>>
>>
>> There is a new and clever credit card scam.
>> Please circulate this.
>> Someone it happened to says it works like this:
>> Wednesday a week ago, I had a phone call from someone who said that he was
>> from some outfit called: "Express Couriers" asking if I was going to be home
>> because there was a package for me, and the caller said that the delivery
>> would arrive at my home in roughly an hour. And sure enough, about an hour
>> later, a uniformed delivery man turned up with a beautiful basket of flowers
>> and wine. I was very surprised since it did not involve any special occasion
>> or holiday, and I certainly didn't expect anything like it. Intrigued about
>> who would send me such a gift, I inquired as to who the sender is. The
>> delivery man's reply was, he was only delivering the gift package, but
>> allegedly a card was being sent separately; (the card has never arrived!).
>> There was also a consignment note with the gift. He then went on to
>> explain that because the gift contained alcohol, there was a $3.50 "delivery
>> charge" as proof that he had actually delivered the package to an adult, and
>> not just left it on the doorstep where it could be stolen or taken by anyone.
>> This sounded logical and I offered to pay him cash. He then said that the
>> company required the payment to be by credit or debit card only so that
>> everything is properly accounted for.
>> My husband, who by this time was standing beside me, pulled his wallet out
>> of his pocket with the credit/debit card, and 'John', the "delivery man",
>> asked my husband to swipe the card on the small mobile card machine which
>> had a small screen and keypad where Frank was also asked to enter the card's
>> PIN and security number. A receipt was printed out and given to us.
>> To our horrible surprise, between Thursday and the following Monday, $4,000
>> had been charged/withdrawn from our credit/debit account at various ATM
>> machines.
>> It appeared that somehow the "mobile credit card machine" which the delivery
>> man carried now had all the info necessary to create a "dummy" card with all
>> our card details after my husband swiped our card and entered the requested
>> PIN and security number.
>> Upon finding out about the illegal transactions on our card, we immediately
>> notified the bank which issued us the card, and our credit/debit account was
>> closed.
>> We also personally went to the Police, where it was confirmed that it is
>> definitely a scam because several households had been similarly hit.
>> WARNING: Be wary of accepting any "surprise gift or package", which you
>> neither expected nor personally ordered, especially if it involves any kind
>> of payment as a condition of receiving the gift or package. Also, never
>> accept anything if you do not personally know or there is no proper
>> identification of who the sender is.
>> Above all, the only time you should give out any personal credit/debit card
>> information is when you yourself initiated the purchase or transaction!
>> If you pass this on, it may just prevent someone else from being swindled!
>>
>>
>>
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