I was selling puppies through the newspaper which also lists the ad online. We received two phone calls from "deaf" people interested in purchasing. This process requires assistance from an operator - everything done after that was via email. The scammers act like want to buy from you, send a fake check for way over the purchase price, demanding you act very fast to cash the check so they can pick up stuff.
The scam is they send an excessive amount (in my case they sent $2,900.00 for a $350.00 purchase) they have told us they will send someone (referred to as their shipper) to pick the pup up. We were suppose to cash the fake check, take out our part and send the rest back to their so called shipper so they can deduct their portion and take the merchandise and balance back to the poor deaf scammer person.
In my case, the two email addresses are [email protected] and [email protected].
Jane, as they call themself, has a shipper named Anna Albritton. The payment came from Andrew Johnson at 775 Springfield Avenue in Maplewood, NJ 07040. I found out the address is bogus too after searching a google map. I found a report on this site for Anna Albritton - same type of scam. Her address in that report was in Mississippi.in this case the address used for Anna was 35 North Row, Mayfair, London W1K 6DB Country: United kingdom.
The fake check is drawn on Mercury Insurance Group account from Bank of America in Northbrook, Illinois.
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