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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 20 May 2014 Posts: 1

Hello,

I'm a girl from Portugal (hello everyone!) and I have a company here that sells watches.

We were contacted by a gentleman, saying that he was Olivier Giroud (the Arsenal player!!!) and he wanted 3 watches with a value around 25.000 Euros.

He sent us a fake Barclays Bank money transfer, but he insisted that he wanted the watches in London the following day (they were a gift), before the payment was cleared.

Unfortunately they have tryed to pull the same scam with the distributor of the brand, so we knew about the story of the football player!!!

When we search for his address in Google Maps (street view), guess what we found out????

Here's the address of the scam artist:

58 maybury road
london IG11 0PN
united kingdom

I had a lot of fun leading him on...I emailed him telling him that the watches were sent by UPS and gave him a fake tracking code.

Of course he couldn´t find it, so he called me several times (4times in 1 hour!).

Finally I was fed up with the phone calls, so I sent him the following email:

"Hello again,

Sorry, I was on the phone with UPS, and apparently, for security reasons the package is being held at customs.

When they look at the name in the delivery form, they stated that you have to pick up the package at customs (UPS office)and give proof of identity (and the number I gave you).

I don’t know what’s happening but they’ve issued a fraud warning. I’ve forwarded the document you sent me from Barclay’s Bank.

But if you go there and pick up the package in person, this should not be a problem.

Please keep us informed.

Best regards."

Guess what??? He never called again!

I hope this can help someone, never send anything before the payment clears!

Thank you all!

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 9:55 am

Welcome to Eater,

The best way to get details of this scam widely publicised would be to post in on our sister site scamwarners.com, along with details of his email address and the emails that he sent.

The information will quickly be picked up by the search engines and anyone searching for his email address will see it is a scam.

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 10:23 am

Welcome to Eater and congats on spotting the scam before you lots money. Agree with B8er-if you take a walk over to SW and post the email and headers, other people will find it when they google the email or the contents.

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 10:33 am

Agree with the other posts, but if the scammers have your real life details you shouldn't really mess with them. We ALWAYS advocate baiting safely here.

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 10:56 am

Bem-vinda a Eater! You can make up a fake company that your baiting character works at and that makes nonexistent products and use that for baiting.

I speak Spanish and (out-of-practice) French, so when I traveled to Portugal and Brazil, I picked up the language pretty quickly. That was years ago though. There's also a Catalan baiter.