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Weird order scam? Anyone ever have something like this before?

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FlyingSquirrelBrigade

New Member
I got a lead through my website from someone I've never dealt with. The spiel is they need some banners, ok we quote on it they want to go with option 2 and then they send us this weird logistics company that they want us to use to ship it to fairfield alaska get a quote from them and then send me a bill for the entire amount including shipping and I'll pay it. We are Canadian based so thats weird first off. I go check the website (jwlogisticservice.com ) and see its supposedly located in Pennsylvania. So I google map it and street view and its shipyard. Not whatever this website purports to be. I look further, there is Turkey area code number for contact in one spot? Then there is a video for an entirely different company (https://www.totalogistix.com/contact.html) masquerading as video about their company. The website has weird grammatical errors. I go further and see the website is registered to a "Jason Steuber" who lists his registered location at an address that is a BBQ chicken shack in Pacific Grover California (the phone number as well). So at this point I've confirmed this is a scam of some sort. So I'm guessing their scam is to get my payment information/payment to this shipping company and then they charge back their deposit or payment for the service? I'm just not going to respond to the guy again but I just wanted to post it here as a caution for anyone else and wondering if anyone had seen this type of scam before or if there is something further I should do about alerting local police or what.
 
Solventinkjet

Solventinkjet

DIY Printer Fixing Guide
FlyingSquirrelBrigade said:
they charge back their deposit or payment for the service?
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Most likely a stolen credit card who's original owner will then chargeback and you won't win an appeal. Or they send you a bad check or fake money order.

FlyingSquirrelBrigade said:
if anyone had seen this type of scam before or if there is something further I should do about alerting local police or what.
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I used to report all the scams we get but they simply don't care. Unless it's 100's of thousands of dollars they don't see it as worth investigating. Maybe your officials in Canada care more than ours!
 
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hybriddesign

owner Hybrid Design
we get the same scam from various emails once every other month or so... always set up slightly different but we're always supposed to contact their logistics company etc. We get it on the shirt side of our business, flier printing side and also banner side. Been getting these for years and just ignore them
 
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snow55

New Member
I haven't had them for a while but it comes in cycles with banners for us. You did the right thing by looking up everything to see if they are legit. The send it to another address and the larger amount of items is the "What a minute button"
 
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Dale D

New Member
They are at it again......


Hello,



I’m Keith Dunn, A project broker for Eastcoast Steelwork Ltd. I was at a trade show a few weeks ago and I heard positive remarks about your company, However I’d like to Inquire & purchase some Banners from your company. Below are the specifications and quantities of the Banners:



• 120 quantities of the 24’’ x 48’’ Single-Sided 130z Vinyl Banners with hemmed all sides & 4 corner grommets,



NB: Message to be written on this banners: (EASTCOAST STEELWORK LTD HONORS ALL HEALTHCARE WORKERS)

Font style: Arial,

Text color: Red,

Background color: White.





• 120 quantities of the 24’’ x 48’’ Single-Sided 130z Vinyl Banners with hemmed all sides & 4 corner grommets.



NB: Message to be written on this banners: (THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY)

Font style: Arial,

Text color: Red,

Background color: White.



Kindly advise if you’d produce labels/decals as well and below is my contact information for the quote:



Keith Dunn,

5426 Limestone Ridge Dr,

Dublin, OH 43016,

614-362-2047





Wishes,

Dunn
 
OmegaSpecter

OmegaSpecter

Lurking Member
Yup the banner scam is real, don't fall for it. I had an excited salesperson come with one years ago, same deal, something that uses up about a roll of material and shipped through their own shipper. The end game is as Solventinkjet mentioned, usually paid on one or various stolen credit cards that end up being charged back months down the road. I was aware of the scam so we didn't get burned, but I've heard stories of similar orders sitting and gathering dust since there is no shipping company to come pick it up.
 
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hybriddesign

owner Hybrid Design
We get this one at least once a year too…


FlyingSquirrelBrigade said:
I got a lead through my website from someone I've never dealt with. The spiel is they need some banners, ok we quote on it they want to go with option 2 and then they send us this weird logistics company that they want us to use to ship it to fairfield alaska get a quote from them and then send me a bill for the entire amount including shipping and I'll pay it. We are Canadian based so thats weird first off. I go check the website (jwlogisticservice.com ) and see its supposedly located in Pennsylvania. So I google map it and street view and its shipyard. Not whatever this website purports to be. I look further, there is Turkey area code number for contact in one spot? Then there is a video for an entirely different company (https://www.totalogistix.com/contact.html) masquerading as video about their company. The website has weird grammatical errors. I go further and see the website is registered to a "Jason Steuber" who lists his registered location at an address that is a BBQ chicken shack in Pacific Grover California (the phone number as well). So at this point I've confirmed this is a scam of some sort. So I'm guessing their scam is to get my payment information/payment to this shipping company and then they charge back their deposit or payment for the service? I'm just not going to respond to the guy again but I just wanted to post it here as a caution for anyone else and wondering if anyone had seen this type of scam before or if there is something further I should do about alerting local police or what.
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Signarama Jockey

Signarama Jockey

New Member
I had a manager come to me all excited about a lead to get a bunch of banners of bible verses printed out and shipped to Africa.

Luckily, we all did a double take and figured it out.
 
signs_welly

signs_welly

Currently flying by the seat of my pants
Just got the scam email again tonight - googled the name and Robert VonDiet from Dominion Constructors hadn't come up yet so I'm posting here so the Google can do it's thing and add this one to the scammer list.
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Hello,

I’m Robert VonDiet, A project broker for Dominion Constructors Ltd. I was at a trade show a few weeks ago and I heard positive remarks about your company, However I’d like to Inquire & purchase some Banners from your company. Below are the specifications and quantities of the Banners:

• 120 quantities of the 24’’ x 48’’ Single-Sided 130z Vinyl Banners with hemmed all sides & 4 corner grommets,

NB: Message to be written on this banners: (DOMINION CONSTRUCTORS LTD IS COMMITTED TO GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY)
Font style: Arial,
Text color: Red,
Background color: White.



• 120 quantities of the 24’’ x 48’’ Single-Sided 130z Vinyl Banners with hemmed all sides & 4 corner grommets.

NB: Message to be written on this banners: (THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF OUR TEAM)
Font style: Arial,
Text color: Red,
Background color: White.

Kindly advise if you’d produce labels/decals as well and below is my contact information for the quote:


Robert VonDiet,
406 Parkwoods Ave,
Kirkwood, MO 63122,
314-328-0187.


Wishes,
Robert
 
Boudica

Boudica

I'm here for Educational Purposes
I love how they are all signed.....
Wishes,
Name.

Not best wishes... Just wishes.
 
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