Victim Location 27597
Type of a scam Credit Cards
I work for a furniture store.
East Wake Furniture
410 Shepard School Rd.
Zebulon, NC 27597
I was contacted via email today by a man referring to himself as Ronald Coleman. He asked about buying several special order items and then paying overseas shipping costs to us, which we would then pay his courier to have the items shipped overseas. It seems like a stolen credit card scam, similar to the one described on https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/173648
"It’s a pre-pay shipping scam," explains Eric Appleby, director of electronic sales and marketing for Ohio Valley Flooring in Cincinnati, who had heard of the scam from several colleagues "They give two credit cards to the retailer–both are valid and go through. Of course, you find out later that they’re stolen credit card numbers. Then they order heavy items to bring up the shipping charges and ask you to pre-pay the shipping to a P.O. box at a distant location," explains Appleby, adding that they often select special order items that the company will have a harder time disposing of, making the victim more likely to front the shipping bill for the big special order.