The following alert comes from Ian Vosper, one of our faithful readers and President/CEO of Sequel Select Inc.
Ian shared this with us via email:
My friend, Jody Gladstone, an independent distributor was contacted by email from the following names: James Sizemore – Kelvin Beat – James lee – Andriy Olexander – David Thomas
The following emails are used: jamessizemore441@gmail.com conocoshippingco1@hotmail.com fasconltd1@gmail.com kelvinbeat09@gmail.com andriyolexander@hotmail.com
Telephone number of scammers: James Lee – 610-833-8049
They are searching out distributors on the internet and asking them to quote for urns in bulk to ship to Haiti, Germany, Iceland the Ukraine and other countries. They will pay by credit card (stolen card numbers) they will ask you to contact their shipping company; Conoco Shipping, Zodiac Shipping or Global Shipping to make arrangements to ship on their behalf. They will give you CC #’s and then ask you to wire the shipping payment to the named company… which is in Ghana… once they have your wire information they will back charge to your accounts and steal any money you have… or don’t have and leave you in a negative. They stole $13000.00 from Jody. If a CC# does not clear they will keep giving you #’s until one does. They are very convincing and will even give you the card holders name and phone # to verify authenticity of card. They all have very thick African accents and their grammar is not in modern English as we type today.
I was contacted this past Wednesday by another of my independent distributors in TX, Joe Garcia. Who started asking me similar manufacturing question as Jody. When I asked him who he was dealing with he told me James Lee. I was able to save him from the same fate as Jody.
Please can you send out an alert to every member to warn them. Jody has informed the FBI and Secret Service as well as local law enforcement of the scams.
I hope this will help people.
Sincerely,
Ian
got one too. we’re a printing company, after giving a quote heres the body of the email he sent back:
Dear Brian
Thank you once again for your prompt reply with the total costs for
the order and I do really appreciate working with you. I would be very
glad if you could find out the freight charges on my behalf. Below is
the Freight Company Contact Details whom I prefer to use for this
shipment. Please do contact the shipping company with the below
information:
Freight Company : Conoco Shipping Company
Contact Details : conocoshippingco1@hotmail.com
Contact Person : Mr. David Thomas
Also include the following information to the freight company when
contacting them to find out the freight charges for me.
{1} Full Pick-Up Address Details.
{2} Total Weight of (Package).
{3} Type of Package.
Delivery Information
Funkschneise 19
D- 28309 Bremen
Germany
Please go ahead and email the shipping company now and get the
shipping charges and send me an email back with the total cost for the
shipping and order altogether so that I can pay you the total cost
of the order together with the shipping cost with my credit card
Just got an email from Natasha Gully natashagullystorellc.europe@gmail.com from St. Gallen Switzerland. She’s asking me to use her shipping company conocoshippingfreightllc@post.com with her ID #QP24742955HO to ship $2000 worth of merchandise. Apparently I’ve discovered that she’s already tried scamming dozens of people in the past few months. BEWARE PEOPLE. THIS IS A SCAM.
Here’s her email and poor grammar.
Hello
Thanks for your reply back . Its a pleasure receiving your reply back. I want to order for the below items for my customer’s here, I want you to reply back with the total cost plus shipping quote. We’re ready and can’t wait to receive these wonderful products of yours here.,Your utmost reply back with the total quote will be highly appreciated.
ADDRESS FOR THE SHIPPING QUOTE……..
Zürcher Str. 204E, 9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland
Hope to read back from you with the total cost and we can proceed and finalized my order.
God bless you,
Natasha Gully.
Hello ,
I really appreciate you getting back to me regarding my order and i will like to let you know that i want you to proceed and let me have a quote on the available items so please i want you to contact my shipper which i use every time i purchase order worldwide via the below e-mail address about my order conocoshippingfreightllc@post.com with the weight and dimension inclusive the value for insurance quoting my customer ID #QP24742955HO. They will deliver the shipment to me door to door,their cost will include the custom clearance and handling cost with my order. They will come pick my order up at your location when the shipment is ready. I will need you to obtain a quote and tell them that i want to Insure the package and I will like you to get back to me with overall cost of the items with the details from my shipper. Once I have these details, I will get back to you with my credit card details immediately for payment.
God Bless you (Amen),
Kind Regards,
Natasha Gully.
Hi,
I have been having difficulties in the past. I’m in a very remote area of the city which make it hard for me to receive shipment in the past,not until i started using the shipping agent.They’re reliable and their service are favorable. They have been helping me with shipment for my oversea order for the past 5 months or so,i want you to proceed and send an e-mail to my shipper and they’ll get back to you with my shipping quote.
Await your reply back
Very Respectively.
Thanks,
Natasha Gully.
BEWARE PEOPLE. EVIL LURKS. THIS IS A SCAM.
I just received the same email from an Ellen Worrell, asking to buy a $5000 order of my skincare. She wanted to purchase through email and when i told her she would have to purchase through our website because i cannot take credit card information, she INSISTED on doing it through email and asked me to get a shipping quote from her shipper conocoshippingcoservice@post.com Almost identical to the email below. Her email address is ellennbeautyandcarestore@hotmail.com
Thanks for your reply back . Its a pleasure receiving your reply
back. I want to order for the below items for my customer’s here, I want
you to reply back with the total cost plus shipping quote. We’re ready
and can’t wait to receive these wonderful
products of yours here. Your utmost reply back with the total quote
will be highly appreciated.
INTERESTED ITEMS LISTED BELOW AND ADDRESS FOR SHIPPING QUOTE:
Hope to read back from you with the total cost and we can proceed and finalized my order.
God bless you,
Ellen Worrell.
Thanks so much for these posts. I just received an inquiry from Ellen Worrell myself, and I was just about to reply to let her know we would consider doing business with her. Then I thought I would put that email address in search and here we are. Just saved me a headache or worse! THANK YOU
So glad I found this before getting suckered in any further. Now I just have to decide to ignore or reply. Ignoring seems appropriate.
This is the email I got, just earlier today:
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 11:01 AM
Subject: Order Inquiry!!!!
Hello,
I’m interested in place an order from you to our store
let me know if you can ship here in Belgium and do you accept
credit card as a form of payment.
ellennbeautyandcarestore@gmail.com
Order Inquiry!!!!
me too, received this same email from Ellen Worrell few days ago, asking to ship order to Belgium, she want to make payment through Credit card and asked me contact her shipper to ship the item. Separately, i have contacted the owner of Belgium address that she gave me, he informed that he do not know any one called Ellen Worrel and the address is not a skin care store. below her scam email, I going to report to my country’s police.
I really appreciate you getting back to me regarding my order and
i will like to let you know that i want you to proceed and let me have a
quote on the available items so please i want you to contact my shipper
which i use every time i purchase order
worldwide via the below e-mail address about my order conocoshippingcoservice@post.com with the weight and dimension inclusive the value for insurance quoting my customer ID
#QP24742955E. They will deliver the shipment to me door to
door,their cost will include the custom clearance and handling cost with
my order. They will come pick my order up at your location when the
shipment is ready. I will need you to obtain a quote
and tell them that i want to Insure the package and I will like you to
get back to me with overall cost of the items with the details from my
shipper. Once I have these details, I will get back to you with my
credit card details immediately for payment.
Hope to hear back from you ASAP
Kind Regards,
Ellen Worrell.
Thank you for this post, you may have just saved me going bankrupt.
As a sole trader I was quite excited to hear that an order for Spain was coming in. I’d just released Wholesale prices and have been doing a lot of PR so it was great to hear that overseas companies were taking interest.
She said her name was Headna Ferber and used the email address hednaferber_spiritbeautyloungellc@hotmail.com (First red flag – her name didn’t match the email address). Her English was way off, but I gave it a pass seeing as it may have been her second language. We go back and forth and she makes a strange order (6 of everything in our store, including just a bottle size with no product attached – Second red flag)
Finally, when the quote is made, in comes a large email that is written in much more coherent English:
“Hi,
I really appreciate you getting back to me regarding my order and i will like to let you know that i want you to proceed and let me have a quote on the available items so please i want you to contact my shipper which i use every time i purchase order worldwide via the below e-mail address about my order psiglobalshippingfreightllc@post.com with the weight and dimension inclusive the value for insurance quoting my customer ID # DCC708-93123SPN. They will deliver the shipment to me door to door,their cost will include the custom clearance and handling cost with my order. They will come pick my order up at your location when the shipment is ready. I will need you to obtain a quote and tell them that i want to Insure the package and I will like you to get back to me with overall cost of the items with the details from my shipper. Once I have these details, I will get back to you with my credit card details immediately for payment.
God Bless you (Amen),
Kind Regards,
Hedna,”
I googled the shipping email address and found this. Thank you so much!
Same thing is happening to me now. I have a pure olive oil soap company and Ellen Worrell contacted me asking to purchase a lot of my inventory. I spent a lot of time packing for international shipping. Then she? sent me the same email as others have received highlighted below:
Hello Brian.
I really appreciate you getting back to me regarding my order and i will like to let you know that i want you to proceed and let me have a quote on the available items so please i want you to contact my shipper which i use every time i purchase order worldwide via the below e-mail address about my order conocoshippingcoservice@post.com with the weight and dimension inclusive the value for insurance quoting my customer ID #QP24742955E. They will deliver the shipment to me door to door,their cost will include the custom clearance and handling cost with my order. They will come pick my order up at your location when the shipment is ready. I will need you to obtain a quote and tell them that i want to Insure the package and I will like you to get back to me with overall cost of the items with the details from my shipper. Once I have these details, I will get back to you with my credit card details immediately for payment.
Hope to hear back from you ASAP
Kind Regards,
Ellen Worrell.
You know when it sounds to good it usually is. I had tried to find out who she was, I googled earthed the address and it is an intersection in Belgium with no store Ellen Beauty and Skin. I sent her an order estimate at full retail pricing and she didn’t try to negotiate (red flag). Finally I received the email with her shipping information. I googled to shipper to figure out if it was legit. Thank god I found this site otherwise I might be a victim. Her email address is: ellennbeautyandcarestore@gmail.com.
Watch out for these turds.
I am so glad that I came across this! We are a small beauty start up and got an order from Hedna Ferber that is identical to the ones written below. The person wanted to order 5 of multiple items and when I asked them to clarify if they meant 5 individual sheet masks or 5 boxes, the question was ignored and I was asked to proceed with the order. I then received an identical email to the one from Hedna Ferber, only it was from Natasha Gully that wanted an order sent to Switzerland. The ALL CAPS title also seemed a bit scammy. Thankfully you all have reported these scammers, so I could know that it really was a scam!
Thanks for posting this, also just got a ‘request’ from HednaFerber_spiritbeautyloungellc@hotmail.com:
“Hello,
How are you doing? Am Hedna Ferber. I want to place an international order from
your company to our store in Spain..I want to know if you can ship
internationally and accept credit card as a form of payment? and we can proceed
further. Await to read back from you and we can proceed, Warming Regard ! Hedna
Ferber. hednaferber_spiritbeautyloungellc@hotmail.com INTERNATIONAL Order
Inquire!!!”
Thank you for posting – here is another:
—————————————————————
Hello,
I’m interested in place an order from you to our store
let me know if you can ship here in Belgium and do you accept
credit card as a form of payment.
ellennbeautyandcarestore@gmail.com
Order Inquiry!!!!
[Next email]
Hello,
Thanks for your reply back . Its a pleasure receiving your reply back. I want to order for the below items for my customer’s here, I want you to reply back with the total cost plus shipping quote. We’re ready and can’t wait to receive these wonderful products of yours here. Your utmost reply back with the total quote will be highly appreciated.
INTERESTED ITEMS LISTED BELOW AND ADDRESS FOR SHIPPING QUOTE:
[PRODUCTS]
ADDRESS FOR THE SHIPPING QUOTE……..
228 Zeelaan, Koksijde 8670, West-Vlaanderen
Hope to read back from you with the total cost and we can proceed and finalized my order.
God bless you,
Ellen Worrell.