Forum

Replies

• 

  Merry Wise September 17, 2009 at 6:45am

  Weird!" Nigerian e-mail scam" heat pumps, huh? I wonder if there is some way heat pumps can be used as some kind of bomb or something. Should this be reported to Homeland Security? Why would they want heat pumps, except maybe to resell them or do some credit card scam or something? I have trouble thinking nefariously myself!
  
  Oh, speaking of credit card scams, be careful of motel clerks. My husband was on a business trip and my bookkeeper got a call from an internet marketer suspicious of an order they got using our credit card, and the motel clerk was trying to use it to buy stuff online. We caught it right away, but be careful. The clerk was buying shirts and trying to send them to Indonesia instead of our address and the internet order taker got suspicious, thank goodness!
• 

  Cerah Gray August 31, 2009 at 12:06pm

  We have also received this same thing via e-mail and phone. When they use the phone, it comes across on a TDD line that deaf people typically use. The emails are usually from a "doctor" or a "priest". They are definitely a scam! The credit card that is given does not go through but you don't find that out until you have already shipped the product and by then it is too late. We have about thirty people in our company and almost every single one of them has gotten some type of these emails even though their email addresses are for internal business only!
• 

  Lynn Cullaty August 30, 2009 at 6:14pm

  I have received exactly the same kind of emails for heaters. I never respond to the emails, thinking as you did, that they were some kind of scam. Earlier in the season, we also got a phone call from someone who wanted pricing on heaters. They used a translator from the phone company, apparently they did not speak English. They wanted pricing and said they would pay with credit card, and would have the heater picked up. I got suspicious, because this phone call sounded very similiar to the emails requests. This defintely sounds like a scam.
• 

  Tim Coleman August 28, 2009 at 1:57pm

  We have received an e-mail request for heat pumps recently. They did not indicate who there really were or supply phone number just that they would simply pick them (2) up from our design center. We provided a price but insisted on cash, cashiers check before we had them brought in. It's been 36 hours and no response.
  
  The really funny thing is that the request went to our GM and he does not have his address posted anywhere.
  
  Tim
• 

  Jeremy Hine August 26, 2009 at 9:46am

  I too have had similar request for gas heaters. A third party shipper will contact me regarding them picking the units up so long as they were palletized. Scam, scam, scam. Nothing legitimate about that offer, dead give away is when I ask them for name and phone # so I can confirm the order.
  
  -Jeremy
  
  Florida Leisure Pool & Spa
  www.FLLeisure.com

  Florida Leisure Pool, Spa, Hot Tub Repair, Pumps, Filters, Heaters, Salt Chlorinators, Automation

  We repair pools, spas and hot tubs, pumps, motors, heaters, filters, automation equipment in Gainesville and North Central FL