I recently received an order request from my company's website. I read on another thread in here that a very similar scenario happened to another company. The guy (Dale <removed>) supposedly from Brunei asking to purchase one of our products that is not normally ordered by the general public. We are a specialty manufacturing company that makes printing equipment accessories. I have copied and pasted some of his wording in his emails. It sounds very suspicious. " I contacted my shipping agent so they will be making preparation for the paper works of the shipment i was also told that their credit card payment system is currently inoperative, they are as well handling some other shipment of ours which is presently at their warehouse awaiting shipment. So i suggest that you charge both the cost of the order and the shipping charges from my credit card account and once you have funds credited to your account, you then transfer to them the shipping fees, and i will be willing to pay the surcharge. So the total will be order: $4,000.00 shipping cost; $1,968.42 and transfer fee; $50. I have forwarded your contact to them, so kindly confirm the pick up location, so once everything is ready they will advise there freight forwarder in your zone to schedule collection, let me know when you will be available to process the payment so i can send my payment details for the charges." The address on his submission form to my company has an address in New Jersey that, when I looked it up, it was to a wine/liquor store. The phone numbers are non existent when I tried to call them, his company names he is using have no info on the internet. He did submit a filled out credit card form that I was instructed to run by my boss and the card went through. I am just skeptical on what might happen if we actually ship this. Can he request his money back after it is received in Brunei. I am having a hard time convincing my boss that this is more than likely fraud. Any advice on what to do?
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