Dollar chop by a lad

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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:15 pm

One of the CC lads I'm baiting ordered a second lot of parts. I contacted the sheeper, who told me the same shipping cost as for the first lot. The lad called me and gave me a few black pigs; when I told him he had paid the whole amount, I told him yesterday that I would send the money to the sheeper today. I had received an email from the sheeper telling me what account to send it to, which was different from the first one. This morning, I found this email in my inbox:

Quote:

Dear (snip),

Thank you for your interest in using Antrack Cargos Shippers Inc , for your shipping needs.

We believe you have received the quotes. Should you are making the transfer , pls note the change in our banking
information as of April 16th, 2014 due to the technical bank disruptions in our bank.

Our Accounting dept. confirmed for payment in and out only to the account information of our Affiliation Company
overseas as detailed below :

Bank information 2014
BENEFICIARY FULL NAME : (somewhere in Greece)
DETAILED BENEFICIARY ADDRESS :
(snip) , jakarta, indonesia
NAME OF BANK : BANK PANIN INDONESIA
BANK ADDRESS : jl taman palem blok C1 no 9, jakarta, indonesia
SWIFT CODE : PINBIDJA
BENEFICIARY ACCOUNT # : (snip)

Pls use the ABOVE bank details as our CURRENT bank account until further notice.
Do email us with Transfer Receipts information so we can proceed further.

Looking forward to serve you better.

Antrack Cargos Shippers Inc
Mr.Captain Mc coy (Head Office Freight and Logistics manager)

This was from an email address identical to the one previously used by the sheeper, except that this had "cargoz" where that had "cargos". The subject of both messages had "Qoute" in it. So I sent a transfer certificate with the bank in Indonesia instead of the bank in Ghana (after reporting both accounts together, of course, with the previous account listed below them).

I just sent an email to the real fake sheeper and the impostor fake sheeper together.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:02 am

Different sheepers? Talk about lad on lad action-watching this chop is hilarious! And so many possibilities for misleading the original lad...

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 2:09 am

Both sheepers call themselves Antrack. I told the lad that I told the bank to stop the transfer and the bank said the money's been sent already. The bank is sending another message to chase the transfer message. The "real" Antrack answered "Once the message is sent to them they will reverse the funds back to you." I'm thinking that the "fake" lad would pick it up before the chaser message gets there — but in this case, the fake lad is not Gomer, it's a different real lad. How do I handle this?

Baiting Guru Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 2529 Location: AU

how do you know they are different lads? IP?

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:51 am

They're using Hotmail, so I can't tell by IP address. Here's what I guess happened (I'll call them Tunde and Koffi):
*Tunde is typing a message to Jean. Koffi, who belongs to a different gang, is watching over his shoulder.
*Koffi creates an email account differing by one letter from the one Tunde used.
*Koffi gets an Indonesian bank account from his oga and sends it in an email to Jean a couple of hours before he goes to the bank.
*Jean sends the transfer info to Mark Chris, who is played by Tunde.
*Tunde, who has no idea where this Indonesian account came from, gets all upset and yells at Jean to go to the bank and reverse the transaction.
Even if they were using a mail server that let the IP address through, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart, because they're in the same LAN house.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:57 am

You can try an IBATA-funds returned form for suspicious activity. Or you can tell both lads the funds were deposited and then withdrawn. Both lads will believe they have been chopped but will suspect the mule. At least both should give you another piggy when they realize their accounts are potentially compromised.