My mom bought a car (VIN 1G6DP577270140061) from this person, "Clara Wilson". They agreed on a price of $10,100, and after receiving the carfax report, my mom agreed to wire the money from her bank to the Bank of America at 125 South Market Street in San Jose, CA. She was to wire the money and fax confirmation to (413) 638-7799 (supposedly MSN Autos escrow service).
Once the money had been wired, "Ms. Wilson" said to wait one week for shipping and that the car would arrive on 2/8/10 between 9am-11am. Of course the car did not arrive, and my sister and I began searching for information about this transaction.
The bank account was under Vano Dimev at 923 S 7th Street in San Jose, CA. If you run a Yellow Pages search for Vano Dimev, you will get Vano Alvarez & Co.in San Jose, CA. We ran a background search on Vano Alvarez and found aliases of Viviano Alvarez and Vivano Alvarez. Also, there is a business listed under Viviano Alvarez called "A Better Bag by Vano" at 5719 Tully Road in Modesto, CA. There is an old business associated with him called Diet Light at 4847 Stratos Way in Modesto. He has a wife named Anne M. Alvarez and a daughter named Melissa, and he is between 50-54 years old.
We have 3 IP addresses associated with him, retrieved from email headers: 72.14.220.155,65.55.111.101, and 172.132.80.83
I also found 2 other people on the internet who received emails with "Case ID" numbers exactly the same as my mom's. All this info can be viewed at http://www.forum. Aa419.org/viewtopic.php? P=199349#199349. My mom was scammed on craigslist, but these other 2 victims were found on ebay.
San Jose police have said the Bank of America account was opened with a Finland passport, likely fake. They are investigating further. I have also filed a report at the FBI IC3 site.
My mom consulted an attorney who said Bank of America may be in violation of the Patriot Act by 1. Not verifying the foreign passport's authenticity and/or 2. Not reporting large sums deposited into the accounts. We would love to locate several more people this has happened to.
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