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URGENT FRAUD WARNING FOR UK COMP VENDORS
Hi Everyone
I run a small IT Services Company in North Yorkshire as well as a couple of shops. We have just narrowly avoiding losing £5500 due to a scam which seems to be doing the rounds up here. It would appear that a couple of other biz have actaully lost money with this scam. Heres roughly what went on: Got a request for a quote for a decent sized order (for us 40 P4 Processors is a good order!) from someone down south. We instantly had a gut feeling something wasnt quite right so insisted we would only supply on cleared funds. Gave him our bank details so he could pay by BACS. About five days later he rings and says money is on our account can we sort his order ASAP. We check and sure enough there is money. So we start to get his order sorted thru our suppliers. This was late thursday before bank holiday weekend. the 'customer' wanted them ASAP even if it meant a saturday delivery. We tried all we could with our suppliers to get the order ready. They all couldnt muster enough to fulfil order for even Saturday so we had to go back to 'customer' and say we couldnt do it for then. He gets a strop on and says hes going to look somewhere else. Tuesday after Bank hols he calls us to say he can get them same day on tuesday, cancels order with us and wants his money transferring into an account which he specifies in a fax. So we arrange BACs straight away. Wednesday comes and so does a notification from bank that it wasnt a BACs that customer made but a stolen, forged cheque that he has paid directly into our account at a branch of our bank. Needless to say it has bounced!!! PANIC!!!...We call bank and ask for BACS to be stopped and luckily save our cash! We have now had three police forces call following this group around the country and it looks like it was our neck of the woods this Bank Hols. So just a friendly warning to you all out there! If you want any further info then Email me. Regards Simon Cooney Complete Business IT Services Ltd |
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Thanks for the info Simon.
Will certaily watch for this one, sounds like a lucky escape! cheers Kev www.hawkeye-pcs.co.uk Simon Cooney wrote in message ... Hi Everyone I run a small IT Services Company in North Yorkshire as well as a couple of shops. We have just narrowly avoiding losing £5500 due to a scam which seems to be doing the rounds up here. It would appear that a couple of other biz have actaully lost money with this scam. Heres roughly what went on: Got a request for a quote for a decent sized order (for us 40 P4 Processors is a good order!) from someone down south. We instantly had a gut feeling something wasnt quite right so insisted we would only supply on cleared funds. Gave him our bank details so he could pay by BACS. About five days later he rings and says money is on our account can we sort his order ASAP. We check and sure enough there is money. So we start to get his order sorted thru our suppliers. This was late thursday before bank holiday weekend. the 'customer' wanted them ASAP even if it meant a saturday delivery. We tried all we could with our suppliers to get the order ready. They all couldnt muster enough to fulfil order for even Saturday so we had to go back to 'customer' and say we couldnt do it for then. He gets a strop on and says hes going to look somewhere else. Tuesday after Bank hols he calls us to say he can get them same day on tuesday, cancels order with us and wants his money transferring into an account which he specifies in a fax. So we arrange BACs straight away. Wednesday comes and so does a notification from bank that it wasnt a BACs that customer made but a stolen, forged cheque that he has paid directly into our account at a branch of our bank. Needless to say it has bounced!!! PANIC!!!...We call bank and ask for BACS to be stopped and luckily save our cash! We have now had three police forces call following this group around the country and it looks like it was our neck of the woods this Bank Hols. So just a friendly warning to you all out there! If you want any further info then Email me. Regards Simon Cooney Complete Business IT Services Ltd |
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Wednesday comes and so does a notification from bank that it wasnt a BACs that customer made but a stolen, forged cheque that he has paid directly into our account at a branch of our bank. Needless to say it has bounced!!! Can you get on-line access to your business a/c? All the on-line statements I have seen distinguish clearly between cheque deposit or transfer. Still not an absolute guarantee of course but better than just checking a balance. R |
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"Robin" wrote in message
... snip Wednesday comes and so does a notification from bank that it wasnt a BACs that customer made but a stolen, forged cheque that he has paid directly into our account at a branch of our bank. Needless to say it has bounced!!! Can you get on-line access to your business a/c? All the on-line statements I have seen distinguish clearly between cheque deposit or transfer. Still not an absolute guarantee of course but better than just checking a balance. R Mine does (HSBC) - if it's a direct deposit it comes up as 'Paid in at 454545 (sort code)' while transfers are either 'Advice Confirms' or the name of the account the xfer is from. It does not however differentiate between cheque and cash direct deposits. Best Regards Niel Humphreys Snowdon Computers Ltd |
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Yes your right Robin if we had been a bit more thorough with the Online
banking statement then we would have seen It was a deposit paid in and not a BACS transfer. Needless to say a procedure has been put in place!! Simon Cooney C-BITS "Robin" wrote in message ... snip Wednesday comes and so does a notification from bank that it wasnt a BACs that customer made but a stolen, forged cheque that he has paid directly into our account at a branch of our bank. Needless to say it has bounced!!! Can you get on-line access to your business a/c? All the on-line statements I have seen distinguish clearly between cheque deposit or transfer. Still not an absolute guarantee of course but better than just checking a balance. R |
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