Newegg, UPS..... Please read. Fraud

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This post has been copied and pasted from my facebook. This post is also edited for content.

How does someone go about reporting fraud?

Contacting your local police department will result it in being in your local paper if you did not lose any money. Other than that perhaps the FBI? Using their website, www.IC3.GOV and filling a complaint may or may not result in anything being done.

So if your 99% sure nothing will be done and your not out any money should you even be wasting your time reporting it? Should you even care enough to post it?

My recent Newegg purchase was paid for with a pre-paid mastercard, of course after the charges were applied to the account any remaining money was removed from the card. So if someone were to get that information they couldn't do anything with it.

Well, not long ago a person claiming to be employed by UPS called my home phone, asking I send a moneygram in the amount of $50 to Hanover Jamaica II. Of course I will not be giving this guy any money. Having been employed with UPS before I know this guy does not work for UPS and I even contacted them to confirm this. He does not work for UPS.

Newegg said I should contact my local law enforcement office. They logged it and nothing else will be done. I contacted the FBI office in Indy, They said to file a complaint via the below listed website.

So now when this guy calls back I will attempt to get information out of him. I heard children in the background playing when I spoke with him the first time, of course he was in his office in a Jamaican UPS hub, My ***.

So far, newegg has done nothing. UPS has done nothing, Lawrence County police have done nothing, and the FBI has done nothing. I have reported similar stuff before, and never heard a thing back afterwards. Therefore I believe it's a waste of my time to even bother filling a complaint.

All I want to know is how the **** did some Jamaican get my home phone number?
Next time I will use my ten year old Paypal business account to make my purchases and I'm not even sure if I will want to use Newegg again. It could be UPS's fault but they have a very expensive IT network and I'm sure some extremely smart IT people. Most likely smarter than the Newegg IT people. Of course, UPS is worth billions and Newegg may be worth billions but not as many billions as UPS is worth.

Going to type up an email to my buddy (Name removed) the UPS HR manager who hired me two years in a row. He is an all around good person and if this is UPS's fault, he will get something done about it. If it's newegg's fault, nothing will be done about it.

If you read this much, think about what I posted and think about it before posting a comment. If someone outside the US can find out I ordered something from newegg, and that it would be delivered via UPS today, and get my contact information. What's stopping them from getting your contact information.

Also, the next bill collector to call my house on a Sunday will be sued.


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Wow he just called back, caller ID showed 'Private caller' this time, out of area last time. He was nice enough to give me his contact information and I have his address from before.

Will anything be done about this after I file a complaint?
Going to do that now. I will ignore his call when he calls back, he claimed this has to be done before I can get my package.

$50 is a lot to pay in shipping fee's for a $99.99 computer case which has already been paid for plus $9.99 shipping. Stupid people.
 
It's a scam, its been going around for quite some time now. I doubt anything will ever be done about it. Just ignore it and the phone calls should stop. It has nothing to do with newegg. You must have entered your phone number at some crappy website and they have sold it to a third party or something like that. This is also an email scam going around about this as well.
 
I don't know why you think any of the standard parties you mentioned (Newegg and UPS) are involved. It's obviously a scam and it's nothing new.

You ask how they got your home phone number? Random choice. How do the Nigerian scammers get your email address? Again, random choice.
 
I found it odd they had my phone number and they knew I was receiving a package today from UPS.
I've worked for UPS before and know the guy I talked to is not with UPS and know its a scam.

Also sucks nothing will be done about it. His phone number is from China but he does have the Jamaican accent.
 
I actually received the email scam a few weeks ago along with my girlfriend, told her to never open an email like that. They just must have moved from emailing to actual phone conversations now.
 
Just ask him why you should send him money, and for what package. (If he calls back) If he says for the package you received, its random chance. If he says for the package from newegg, then something is up. He could live around you and noticed that you got a package from UPS and found out your phone number. You could also block the number from calling you with a call to your local phone company.
 
that guy call thousands of people and ask for money and it just happens that few people actually are getting a package and its that few people that sometimes fall for it,lol

i say your package is on its way and forget about the phone call,he calls back hang up.
 
He finally stopped calling. I was ignoring his call trying to get everything switched into the new case. No complaints on the case yet other than I forgot to hook up the four pin power plug and about pulled my hair out troubleshooting the problem lol. He would call from his out of area number, then call right back from his private number.

I know a lot of my neighbors, and I was home when the package was delivered. So the only people that I thought knew about the package being delivered today would have been UPS, Newegg, and myself. I tracked the package via newegg's website and no other sites.


He had told me the first time we spoke that I would receive my package at 2pm today. I was like well thank you and he went on saying I had to get the $50 moneygram and give him the information off of it then he would in turn give me information for the UPS driver. If I did not have this information I would not get my package.

(Think he just called back) Yeah he did. He told my girlfriends mother that my package had to be delivered tomorrow and he needed the information or I couldn't get my package.

A friend of mine is coming over later to hang out after he is off duty, I went to school with the guy and we try to stay in touch. My friend in an Indiana State Trooper. At least he could scare him. But if Mr. John Michael wants to continue calling he can because if he is wasting him time calling me he has less time to scam others.
 
You're making way way way wayyyy too big a deal out of nothing. Ignore it and move on. It's not exactly hard to get some ones phone number. I could probably get yours in a matter of minutes with a little Googling.
 
The problem I found with scams like these are that no one cares enough to report them unless they lose a lot of money. The reason I'm making a big deal out of it is so others will know. If others know about things such as this they will not fall for them as others have.

If less people or no one is falling for these scams then why would these scammer's continue scamming?

Answer me that. I'm a Virgo, I over complicate and over think everything no matter how small or large. Heck, it took me months of searching before I even ordered a computer case.
 
I ordered some parts off of Newegg and now this Nigerian prince needs me to help him move his fortune out of the country.

:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
 
That is the same look I had when the guy told me I had to pay an additional $50 USD for shipping on a 26.5 pound case I had already paid $9.99 to get shipped.

The old saying is, it costs money to make money. But believe me, UPS doesn't touch any packages that have not been paid for already. When I worked for them, several times. They told me I was not allowed to even take my grandmother homemade cookies on the package car.

Also knowing the amount of money UPS has invested into their IT network, I don't think anyone got my shipping information, phone number, from UPS. At home I am protected by the same version of Norton the US Government and many local defense contractor's use.
It could have been Newegg unless someone is picking the information up as it's traveling across the networks between our homes and Newegg....

I don't have 50 years of experience working in IT, I'm just your average 27 year old run of the mill country bumpkin working on his B.S. In Information Systems Security.
 
Oh come on man relax.Just tell those scammers to go to hell and hang up lol.
Believe me you DO HAVE a reason to make jokes since you did not lose 400000 dollars on a scam like one lady did lol.
 
If I had $400,000 and lost it over a scam, I should have another $400,000 to hire a hitman and have the scammer's entire family murdered. That would allow me to relax, hypothetically speaking of course. :)

More so since I may never have $400,000 and if I did have $400,000 I would purchase my dream car, a Lamborghini. By then, I would have spent to much time sitting in front of a computer to earn that $400,000 I would be to fat to drive it. So I would have it parked in my driveway and just wash and wax it all the time.

May not be able to reply to this thread for a few days, waiting on my doctor to return my call. Am on my second type of antibiotic's and my tooth, ear, and sinus infection has been getting worse. So I may end up back in the hospital once again. :(
 
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