karl avdek art scam please help with info

received this in mail and gave pobox and home address with telephone numbers. no more interaction. how vulnerable am i having giving that information with no other interaction. this was from karl avdek in UK. did not receive checks or money order or travelers checks. but have my address and name.

Hi steve n,

Thank you for your email and the information, now that you have
notified me about the price am really satisfied with it.

I want you to know one Important thing, I should have use PayPal as
the method of Payment but I have been scam several time through Skype
and that is why I have cross my mind that I will never use PayPal
again for Payment method or my Credit Card for Payment method on
Internet.

Meanwhile I live in Essex United Kingdom so regarding the mode of
payment i will be able to made available is through Money Order or by
Travelers Check or either Personal Check.

Due to that kindly let me know the Payment method you choose out of
the ones I listed above in other for me to be able to make the payment
available and send it out to you.

I will also need your information below for the Payment so that the
Payment can be able to be send out to you.

Name on Check;
Address;
Phone Number;
Your Skype ID;

When i received this above information then i will be able to Issue
your Payment and send it out to you.

Also i want you to know that i will appoint a good shipping company
that will come for the pickup of the Pieces in your destination and
deliver it to my place, reason is due to the lost of goods, painting
breaking and damages that normally happen because it has happen to my
shipment several times through FedEx, UPS and so on, that is the
reason i cannot use both FedEx and UPS again.

I want you to know that i will include the shipment fees on the
Payment that you will choose.
My Phone Number: +447024093625.
My Skype ID: karlavdek.

I will be expecting your reply.

Karl.


ow it is a scam. am i vulnerable with info i gave.

As you now know, it is a fake check scam (and the phone number is not a real UK phone number. It is a redirect number, probably going to Africa or Malaysia, where this African scammer is most likely located.)

The scammer might send a check or money order even if you said "no." If this happens, do not attempt to cash it as that could get you into trouble. Turn it in to the police, tear it up, or write FAKE in LARGE, PERMANENT ink so that it cannot possibly be cashed if you plan to keep it. Ignore the scammer if he threatens you with the FBI, etc. or if you suddenly receive emails from the "FBI" (some scammers try to scare victims into sending cash.)

Other than that, you might see an increase in scam attempts, but not much else the scammer can do with just name/address/phone info.

To Whomever it may concern;

I am the real Karl Avdek. I am an artist with representation currently in Europe. These people ... they were using the name PAUL COUTU (supposedly from Nottingham, England at the moment ... tried to scam me. I recognized it as a scam fairly quickly and reported it to the police. We played along to the point of receiving money orders in an effort to catch them.

The scam is as follows: They offer to buy paintings and then use a fake shipper. They send more money then the paintings so that the seller will end up paying for the shipping, the money orders will come up bogus and the artist will be out the shipping fee. Unfortunately we were unable to catch them and now they are using my name. DO NOT PLAY INTO THEIR HANDS. It's fake. The police and press are unable to get these scumbags.