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Complaint Review: Carolyn Gray, Paul Hendry - Internet Internet

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  • Carolyn Gray, Paul Hendry Internet United States of America

Carolyn Gray, Paul Hendry Kevin Gray Fraudulent check, using relay phone call, Internet, sending through UPS Internet

*Consumer Comment: here is how it works

*Consumer Comment: same as me

*Consumer Comment: Got similar phonecall

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I was selling my puppies in our local news paper. I was contacted by two different people. They both called using the Relay phone service. They gave me their email address. Asked me to email them information on my puppies.


Then it started, the "lady" sent instrutions on what to do after payment has reached me. The payment got to me on 1-20-2010 via overnighted using UPS. I was suppose to cash the check, send the balance to her shipper, using Western Union. The check was for 2600.00.


After I went to Western Union I sent the money, but I put a hold on it. I felt weird after I sent the money. So I googled the company name on the senders address. I called the company and they told me I was scammed.


I keep getting emails from this lady asking why I have not sent the money western union. I sent a message back telling her that she scammed me and the check was bad. She keeps writing that she is old christian soul who would never scam anyone.


Then there is "Paul Hendry" He calls using the relay phone call. He states that he wants to buy two puppies for his hearing imparied son. He says he mailing checks through USPS. Then I get a email wanting me to send the money via Western Union. Please watch out for these people.

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#3 Consumer Comment

here is how it works

AUTHOR: Tamara - (United States of America)

POSTED: Wednesday, March 31, 2010

When using relay calls you cannot track the phone calls. As well as emails there is no way to tell who is behind all this. I investigated how they would get away with this. If they send money orders..(they look exactly like the real thing)... using a fictious name and address and you go and cash them at your bank they will hold your personal account liable if the checks/money order are fraudulent and will withdraw those funds from your account after the money order/check comes back as fraud. Meanwhile the person will ask that you send money by minutes costing a non-refundable $175 or more to do this through Western Union which means the funds are available immediately for them. If you call and put a hold or cancel on the transfer they will not refund the $175. Leaving you a victim of fraud and at your expense. Some of us are lucky enough to catch onto this before they get away with thousands of dollars. The person wanted me to call her new puppy by the name Riki and told me that as soon as I cashed the money orders to take the cashinf fee out and my amount for the puppy and the rest $2110.00 will be sent money by minutes to the shipper by name and city and state. Which in my case was Arlington, WA. Then she asked me to resend to the United Kingdom (UK). This is when I stopped the money transfer I knew something was definately not right! Asked for a cancellation on money transfer and waiting to hear back on the fraudulent money order. Only sell cash on hand to local people! Protect yourselves against these unbelievable people!!!!

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#2 Consumer Comment

same as me

AUTHOR: Tamara - (United States of America)

POSTED: Wednesday, March 31, 2010

so she wanted me to call the puppy Riki. So what did you do with the check/money order?

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#1 Consumer Comment

Got similar phonecall

AUTHOR: Info - (United States of America)

POSTED: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

I just got a call from the same caller (today is Jan 26, 2010) from carogray56@gmail.com. It was a relay call, which I am not familiar with so it took me awhile to understand what was going on. I put an ad out on local.com classified for my puppies I have for sale. After I understood how relay calls work I found out they want to buy a puppy but want me to send details to their email address. I took down the email address and said goodbye then googled it and I ended up here reading this person's similar experience. So I'm not going to email anything to this person and just ignore it. I'm wondering why are they doing this and how does this scam work? Seems if they send a check then it's easy to catch them.

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