Need Advice ASAP

I am a graphic designer . i recently aquired a customer that wanted to purchase 90,000 Stickers from my company. we sent the quote but now she wants the order to be shipped to " Toga" Please see following email inserted:

Hi ,

Thank you very much for the quote i will like to proceed with the order. At the moment,I will be shipping this order to a friend in Togo, The address is as below and i will like to use Faith Cargo shippers Ltd for this pick up.Their email address to contact them on my behalf is ([email protected]) I want you to send them an email with the The Sizes and the quantities of this order,shipping and pick up address so they will provide you with a quote.As soon as you get the quote kindly let me know by emailing me with the cost so i will do the total payment for this order.

Please i want you to send an email to the shippers with the details below.

1. Your company location address.
2. My friends delivery address.
3. The Sizes and the quantities of the item.


SHIPPING DESTINATION
2985 Avenue de la Chance,
face rond-point GTA, BP 14327
Country Togo-City Lomé

I will be looking forward to your reply.
Best Regards

Mrs.Mary Jay..




Any help would be appreciated

Hello Wickeddezigns, and welcome to ScamWarners.

Yes, that is a scam. The scammer, or one of his colleagues, will also be playing the part of the fake shipping company. The payment sent to you would be a fake check or money order, or by stolen credit card, or some other fraudulent means. You would then be asked to send the shipping payment on to the fake shipping company, probably by Western Union or MoneyGram.

When the payment that you received is discovered to be fraudulent, that money will be cancelled from your bank account, and you will realise that the shipping payment you made, therefore, has actually been paid from your own money.

You can read more about this type of scam here:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3238

I'm glad that you were suspicious about this order you received.

[email protected]

That's a free email address from mail.com. It supplies loads of addresses that look vaguely official or business-related. I don't know who they are aimed at, but I've yet to see anyone but scammers using them.

Thanks for that information. I was alerted just on the premises that they wanted to ship this overseas. I thank everyone and i like this website. its a great website and VERY informitave.

First off, I sincerely wanted to thank Wickeddezigns for bringing to attention a question about shipping an order to Togo. Yesterday, my company received an inquiry from someone claiming to want to order 40 sheets of 26ga x 48" x 120" in stainless steel. After this person received the prices he wanted us to send the order to the exact same address as Wickeddezign's. However, in our case he wanted us to use Omarskey International Freight GH with the contact email being [email protected]. Of course, the payment would have been made via credit card. Naturally, this aroused my suspicions so I did some investigative work and found this site when I googled GTA,BP 14327. Thankfully, scamwarners already confirmed my suspicions that this indeed is a scam. This odious person did contact me via phone but I put him off by saying that if I am to send material to a different country then I would need a more guaranteed payment such as certified check or a wire transfer. Not surprisingly, this person was not very thrilled but at least he did not have a good day with this conpany. Thank you once again for addressing this concern.

Ewa S.

Welcome to Scamwarners.
You can have some of the credit though. This site can only help people who are suspicious, do their own research, and arrive here.

Before I retired from working in a bank I dealt with a couple of companies that would have gone bankrupt if they'd fallen for scams they referred to me.

Scammers don't care if that means people are out of work and go hungry, and these scammers aren't starving themselves. When I say that it's not guesswork. Some of us have infiltrated gangs (online that is - not in real life) to get information we use to thwart their scams. The successful scammers are rich, even by Western standards.