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Catering, Food Handling and Awareness *OnTopic* Forum to educate us on safe food handling. Not specifically for Catering or competition but overall health and keeping our families safe too. |
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12-02-2011, 11:22 PM | #1 |
is Blowin Smoke!
Join Date: 10-16-08
Location: Virginia
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Tried scamming me twice this week.
I've got two emails like below twice this week. Watch out for them!
1st one Hello My name is John Simson and I would like to order for individual Chicken Caesar Salad Individual wrap in your restaurant for 150 people on 7th December and pick up time is 3pm and it's for my Mom's Birthday Party and it will be picked up by my courier agent and I am ready to pay the full payment with my credit card so get to me with the following information below...... Pickup Address: Personal cell #: Total cost for the food: Type of credit card: Best Regards, 2nd one Hello My name is John Simson and I would like to order for Grilled Chicken Salad Wrap in your restaurant for 150 people on 14th December and pick up time is 3pm and it's for my Mom's Birthday Party and it will be picked up by my carrier agent and I am ready to pay the full payment with my credit card so get to me with the following information below...... Pickup Address: Personal cell #: Total cost for the food: Type of credit card: Best Regards, |
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12-03-2011, 01:58 AM | #2 |
Quintessential Chatty Farker
Join Date: 06-03-10
Location: Shawnee, KS
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ROFL...Tell John that he needs to provide his CC info.
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12-03-2011, 08:23 AM | #3 |
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 07-01-11
Location: Arizona
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Is John Simson living in Nigeria?
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12-03-2011, 09:48 AM | #4 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 01-10-11
Location: Sugar Hill, GA
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You need to reply with this. "Sir, it would be more convenient for me to combine both orders together for both of your mothers' birthdays. Since this is such a special occasion for both of your mothers I want to ensure you get the freshest food possible. How do we arrange the shipping to Nigeria so this is possible?"
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12-03-2011, 12:42 PM | #5 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 10-16-10
Location: Culver City, CA
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Tell John Simson his mother said she doesn't like chicken ceasar salad and she left her shoes at yer house.
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12-03-2011, 12:48 PM | #6 | |
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Join Date: 06-03-10
Location: Shawnee, KS
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Thank you intergoogle:
http://aixelsyd13.wordpress.com/tag/john-simson/ Quote:
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12-04-2011, 01:21 AM | #7 |
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 02-13-07
Location: Best BBQ in south whittier los angeles
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Hello
I will like to speak to the owner or manager of the restaurant,My Name is Kely Benson and My only Son wedding is coming up on the 9th of December i have some in laws coming so i will like to order BBQ chicken salad or you can also send me your menu to choose the kind of food available for dinner for 150 guests dinner that are coming our inlaws and people we invited and it will be pick up by 4 pm by delivery co and payment will be made by my credit card Now so i will also need your name,address and phone number,cell phone number, due to my disability and i am at the hospital will undergo surgery in 3 days time so can u make it for me? So can i have the total cost of the food now with your name,address and phone number includes your cell phone number.I will await your email asap. Note : I will want you to get back to me with the total cost of the food fees and all the expenses cost so that i can give you my credit card information. Regards Kely Benson Send Email Add to Contacts Edit Contact Send SMS/MMS Add to Contacts Edit Contact The features you want. The control you need. As a fully integrated part of Verizon’s 100% fiber-optic network. FiOS Digital Voice gives you HD-quality communication along with rock-solid reliability. It also gives you more than 20 advanced features that give you unprecedented control of the way you make and receive calls. Order Now! View Your Calls and Voice Mail Here Too! You can see your homephone call log and voice mail in your Calls and Voice Mail inboxes. You can also listen to your homephone voicemail from here as well! Get Call logs and Voice Mail About Us | Store Locator | Support | Site Map | Send Feedback | Careers | Verizon Thinkfinity | Contact Us | About Our Ads | Privacy I got this one |
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12-04-2011, 01:36 AM | #8 | |
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Join Date: 08-11-03
Location: Long Island, NY
Name/Nickname : Phil
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here was mine(and my response). I was getting them a few times a week. Guess my prices were to steep.
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12-04-2011, 11:44 AM | #9 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 04-14-04
Location: Choctaw, OK
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That's funny right there!
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12-07-2011, 07:57 AM | #10 |
Found some matches.
Join Date: 12-06-11
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Thanks!
Heh, thanks for sharing my link, colonel00! I found this forum from my WordPress dashboard. It shows incoming links, and I saw I had a few hits from here.
Is this an odd scam or what? I'm not sure of the point. They're trying to give their contact & credit card information? Is it a language barrier, or a comprehension problem? Ha ha. I don't even have a catering business. I just blog about goofy stuff, and occasionally food. (I do have a BBQ post or 2, but I'm more of an eater than a cooker when it comes to BBQ, ha ha.) I have no idea how they would have obtained my info, other than they have a bot trolling the interwebs for an email address associated with text about food. I tried to ask "which location" to see if they realized that I don't even have a business name or anything. I actually got another similar request that I'll post soon, with a slightly more engaging response. I wonder if it's the same people, that think I'm really that stupid... or if they took a really bad "how to be an internet scam artist" class, or what? At any rate, I'm glad I'm not alone. I also hope small catering business owners out there don't fall for this, even though I'm not sure exactly what the "end game" is here. Thanks for sharing, and glad you found it amusing! Is it OK to reference and link to this Forum/Thread in my next post about the dreaded Grilled Chicken Caesar scam? Is it also OK to then post the link here? (I know you guys have rules about links, don't want to get out of line.) Rock on! |
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12-07-2011, 08:19 AM | #11 |
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 07-27-07
Location: Minneapolis
Name/Nickname : Hey you
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There was a story in our local paper about a couple that wired $800.00 western union for some puppies and got scammed, while it is not the same scam, remember to never buy something and pay with western union, a western union transaction the scammer needs no ID
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12-07-2011, 09:06 AM | #12 | |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 05-05-10
Location: Austin - TX
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My brother got semi burned in a legit business deal some years back. It worked out, but afterwards he made a personal rule. Never do business with someone that he could not reach across the counter and strangle if they were trying to scam him.
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12-07-2011, 12:02 PM | #13 |
Full Fledged Farker
Join Date: 10-30-09
Location: Roxbury,NY
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This is a form of a Courier Grift.
The grifter - in this case the emailer or in some cases a person calling via TTD - wants a large order of food. Rather than having the joint deliver - they will be sending a courier. As the courier requires cash payment, they will ask you to charge the credit card an additional amount - usually a few hundred to $1000 - and wire the money to the courier service. Why do you have to wire it? Well, the grifter is in the hospital & cannot take it or wire it to them & the courier does not accept credit cards (yeah right). Of course - there is no courier service. It's nothing more than a receiving address for any one foolish enough to send the wire. Additionally - the credit card used it certainly stolen & will ultimately get rejected or the charges will be reversed.
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12-08-2011, 09:32 AM | #14 |
Found some matches.
Join Date: 12-06-11
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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That's really interesting & rather intricate... ha ha. Hard to believe that people fall for this kind of craziness.
I guess services like Western Union aren't held accountable for identifying those that use their services? Shady. |
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12-08-2011, 09:51 AM | #15 | ||
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 07-27-07
Location: Minneapolis
Name/Nickname : Hey you
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A little info about western union, if your brother loses all his money and ID while he is in Vegas you can wire him money with a code word, as long as he knows the code word you gave western union he could walk into any western union anywhere and get the money you wired him. I have a buddy in Mesa, he and I were on the phone a couple years ago and he was telling me he had to run to the store to wire money to a guy in Florida to buy a car and the guy was even going to ship it for free, all for only $5500.00, I asked if he new the guy he said the guy gave him a password to put on the wire transfer so he would no it was legit, I saved my buddy a few bucks that day. |
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