Scammer Email received last few days.

[Ewan Chrystal]

The big giveaway for me is "Hi sales". I bet your email address is sales@. All my scam emails start with "Hi info"
Its a computer generated email that uses the start of your email as your name

[Jon Marshall]

So what happens if you let them pay the money into your account and then ignore them afterwards?

[Phil Davies]

Guess what, search for amarilli bioscience

https://hack2018.com/2016/03/08/spam-em … ly-got-me/

Seems to be a common one

[Mike Rawlings]

They can pay money into the account, but the trick / scam is that they can also get it refunded themselves.
So they pay £2000 into your account for a £1000 order and say "oh no! Ive overpaid.. please refund me £1000.
You do the refund.
They then cancel their payment (cant remember the exact nature of how, but they do), so you are out of pocket by £1000.

[Kevin Busby]

quote Mike Rawlings:

They can pay money into the account, but the trick / scam is that they can also get it refunded themselves.
So they pay £2000 into your account for a £1000 order and say “oh no! Ive overpaid.. please refund me £1000.
You do the refund.
They then cancel their payment (cant remember the exact nature of how, but they do), so you are out of pocket by £1000.

They google your sort code to find your bank name then use a dudd cheque (bouncy) and make a payment to your account in branch (your bank different branch) so it just shows as a credit on your account rather than a cheque being paid in then the cheque will bounce 3-5 days later as it always would of but when you get the letter you know nothing about accepting a chq and think its a credit or bacs transfer gone in. I know with Barclays the only way to see if its cleared is looking at the top balance and cleared funds, if there is a difference between the two then something is not right.

[Denise Goodfellow]

My friend fell for the same scam

They go in the bank and deposit a cheque into your account , this shows up on your account as gone in, you assume it’s done via bacs

They then contact you the same or next day asking for the refund, normally about £1000

You refund and then 2 days later you get notified that you have a bounced cheque

The bank can’t do a lot as you willfully sent the money yourself, it wasn’t pinched from your account

Opps, what he said ^^^. Lol

[Adrian Neill]

Hi guys.

Just to re-open this post, it seems like they’re up to it again.
Received this email earlier ………

Dear Sales,

Will you please quote for the supply of 10 Nos of Standard Mirror

Dimensions – 120" x 72"

Finish – Chrome Plated

Material – Chrome plated brass

Foil backing

screws and holes

Waiting for your prompt reply.

Regards.

Yours faithfully

Harvey.
Amarilli Biosciences Ltd
Unit 2 Broughton Lane,
Salford
M7 1UH.
Manchester

It seemed strange as a company who is supposed to be so big wouldn’t be using a ‘gmail’ account for their emails.
I did a quick Google and saw this post.

:thumbsup:

[Stuart Miller]

I’ve just had one from

Christine Ellinson
Advanced Laser Technology
2nd Floor, Minshull House, Chorlton Street
Manchester
Lancashire
M1 3FY
Tel: 01614372585

Was immediately suspicious when they asked for a quote for window film then immediately wanted 10x the amount quoted and said we order in big quantities.
can’t contact them on phone.
Advanced Laser Technologies have a different email 7 phone number and address !!!

on further searching as I was curious I find this note actually on the ALT website

FRAUD WARNING
We have become aware that fraudsters are using the Advanced Laser Technology name to commit fraud against suppliers.

They can be detected by the fact that they are using an incorrect address and contact is made by Christine Ellison using Ellisonchristine700@gmail.com as the email address.

Be aware that they overpay for goods using a cheque and then ask for refund. The cheque then does not clear leaving the supplier out of pocket.

so take care