Frank And Susan Chesney Credit Card Scam: Interior Design/Home Staging Company to Purchase Art on Behalf of 'Potential Client' Internet

Our company received the following hoax email:

On 14-Jul-09, at 7:32 PM, Frank And Susan Chesney wrote:

Greetings,
My name is Frank Chesney,I want to relocate to your country and having paid for my house already, i am looking for an experienced interior decoration company to help me with the arrangements of decorating and moving into my new house. Its a three bed room flat and i want to confirm if your company will be able to handle this. Kindly get back to me with confirmation that your company can handle this for further clarifications..
Regards,
Frank.

On 31-Jul-09, at 2:15 PM, Frank And Susan Chesney wrote:

Hello,
I appreciate your response and sorry for the delay in getting back to you.The location of my new home is in Toronto, ON .I will be happy to speak with you on phone at your convenience. Actually my wife who is a Canadian and kids are presently in 39, Rougemont Avenue modern Park greater London, UK in a temporal apartment while I'm at offshore drill with my team. My family should be moving into the house by 28th of Nov. 2009 and all interiors are expected to be concluded before my family arrival.

Im working with my childhood friend who actually assisted me getting the house. He presently has the key to the house, and will personaly hand over the key to you,so that you could have a clear picture of the project before commencing, but i will make a deposit to enable you round up arrangement to visit the project site and get back to me with accurate estimate/detail of what to do.

If you are willing to give me in a rough estimate of all it will cost to have a three bed room,three bath room, two living room,one kitchen and two dinning bungalow ready with in the budget of $150,000-$165,000 all home appliances inclusive.
Do your company have credit card charging facilities? Knowing the fact that i am on offshore job right now, any deposit payments or money from me will have to be done via my credit card and i hope this wont pose a problem to your company....

I have given some samples and some artworks that i need to my friend (Kevin scott) and he is out to buy them. He will be in contact with you soon, so you guys can visit the project site as soon as he is back from his trip. Kindly confirm if this works for you.

Kind Regards,
Engr Frank.

On 3-Aug-09, at 4:55 PM, Frank And Susan Chesney wrote:

Hello,

How are you doing today? I believe that seeing the project first will give you a better view and understanding regarding the estimate.You will be going with Kevin Scott to view the house as soon as he is back from the states, and he will contact you asap to book a date with you.

Kevin is presently in the States(usa), as i instrusted him to conclude arrangements with the artwork company and have them shipped to your address. The artworks will be shipped to the address of your company,and will be in your custody till he gets back.

I intend to make a deposit to the artwork company soon. Due to my location now, i would like to make this payment to the artist from you. As he don't have credit card charging facilities.

I will send my credit card information and you will charge the total of $16,000 from my card keep $2,000 for your deposit and arrangements to view the project site, send $8,000 to the artist and keep $6,000 for further expenses. As Kevin will be making the shipments to your company's address so you are to provide the following for the artworks to be shipped as soon as possible..

Full Name:
Residential Address:
Phone number:

Regards,
Frank.
+447024078812

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An obvious scam! Hopefully this posting can assist someone else.

Jason
Toronto, British Columbia
Canada