So Mrs. CHIEF's company sells storage containers. Mrs. CHIEF would make a grade A private investigator. They have a questionable guy that just became a customer a couple of days ago. Here is the scam that she believes he is pulling:
1. Offers storage containers at half the going rate.
2. Has his customers put down 100% to get the "great rate".
3. Calls and gives her company credit card number of the scammer's client, for the down payment
4. Asks her company to deliver them to his yard in San Juan, Texas.
When the company gave her company three different credit card numbers that were from all over Texas on the first day, she saw a red flag, especially with the containers all going to the same location. The scammer said he had no scanner to print and sign POs, and to just bring the paperwork to his location, but was dodgy on where that was specifically. Mrs. CHIEF checked the reviews on his website, he was said to be a crook and credit card thief. Her company hasn't delivered anything, so they haven't really been harmed, but, consumers that are trusting this guy to deliver them a container, have been, and will be out a substantial financial sum.
This is over multiple counties, and the scammer is getting access to multiple credit card numbers hourly, and daily, so it needs to be snuffed out quickly. Is this a job for the FBI, each county's sheriffs department, a state level agency?
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