SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS WATCH OUT FOR THIS SCAM! I recently received an email requesting private group training (personal training) from a woman who claimed to be buying this a a gift for her daughter and bridal party to be fit and healthy for her daughters wedding. Now at first I was a bit dubious about the whole thing as the grammar and spelling was far worse than mine. Like English was not the first language. But in good faith I proceeded to reply and offer my services. Also she stated that she was hearing impaired and in hospital so could not be contacted by phone. In the process of all this she wanted to pay by credit card, which I do not have the facility to accept. I told her this on numerous occasions and proceeded to send her an invoice for the serviced with my personal bank BSB and Account number on there for her to do a transfer. It got very suspicious when she still insisted that I contact my bank and get a credit card facility so that I could take her card, or have a friend or family member do the transaction on their machine, THEN, she proceeded to demand that I take extra money from her card and make a direct payment to another account being that of a charter bus company that the bridle party would be transported to and from the training session. After talking to some clients, I researched on line to find the same scenario on one of the scam watch web sites. I have since made a report to Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN) to get a response from them confirming my suspicion. How it works from my understanding is that they give you a credit card number or several, you take the funds out for your services plus the additional funds they requested then do the cash (EFT) transfer to the nominated bogus account for the additional services. Once this is all done, the credit card turns out to be stolen, so therefore all the moneys must be refunded to the card holder, but you are now out of pocked the additional funds because you transferred a cash payment. I didnt lose any money but time and feel a little stupid for not picking up on this sooner. Anyway, keep an eye out, especially small business owners alike. Cheers Troy Evans
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:31:57 +0000
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