Fun with Scammers...

We had someone calling themselves Marvis Leroy contact us a week ago, apparently he was opening a new shop in Malaysia and wanted to buy some stock.

"Great!" we thought. Then he told us what he wanted: 100 Locking Stainless Steel Slave Collars and 50 Pairs of Deluxe Ankle Cuffs with Adjustable Extendable Leg Spreader Bars! "Err, what?!" we said.

Of course it was pretty obvious that this was a scam, firstly he claimed he was opening a Hallmark store (Hallmark sell leather bondage gear now?), but he was using a hotmail account hallmarkstores@hotmail.com

Hmm, right, Hallmark Stores use hotmail? We don't think so.

Then he said that he was registered with a shipping agency in the USA called Freight Global Express and we should contact them via freightglobalexpress@gmail.com (wow! A big shipping company uses a gmail account!) with his file number as #400562CB and they would let us know the cost of shipping the goods.

Mr Marvis Leroy would then arrange to pay us the full amount of the bondage gear he'd ordered and shipping by credit card and we were supposed to transfer the shipping cost by money order to the agency. Once we'd done that, he would recompense us, also by money order.

Of course what actually happens in this scam is that he uses stolen credit card details, we charge it, pay for the "shipping" (to an account which, no doubt, he owns) and then we never get our recompense and, once the real card owner notices that their card is being abused, the Card Issuer does a chargeback against us and we lose the money (and maybe the leather gear too).

Naturally we did nothing of the sort, so as soon as we got some card details, we contacted our Card Handlers and reported the card as lost or stolen. We then contacted the "customer" and said the card was Declined.

He made some excuse about not having the money in the right account and to try another card (which we also then reported).

He's just done this a third time and, surprise, that payment was "Declined" too...

We're just wondering how many stolen card details we can report before this scammer figures out we're playing him?

Maybe we should use some of our Riding Crops or Single Tail Whips to beat some sense into him...? ;-)

PS We've put in the names and e-mail addresses etc so if he tries this on anyone else and they do a search for those details, they should see this message and avoid being conned.

Lol! :-)