Mr Williams Lu
Complaint 217081 Details

Someone purporting to be Mr. Lu Williams of Hong Kong emails a member via the FSS website shamanic services listings, using the private email contact form. Williams states that he will be visiting the area and is seeking shamanic workshops for himself and his family of three. Correspondence goes on for some time. When it comes time to send a deposit for the workshops, a Mr. Dennis Kress, supposedly Williams' associate, sends the member postal money orders (often for $870 dollars) -- much more than was requested for the deposit. Williams then emails the member, instructing him/her to deposit the money orders in the member's bank account, take out the excess money, keep the deposit money, and send the remainder of the money to Williams at an address in the Philippines, to a Mr. Charles Richter. Later, the member's bank informs the member that the postal money orders are fake -- if the member had cashed them, the member would have been held responsible and would have lost the money. Fortunately, I realized in time that this was a scam. I looked up each name on the internet. The only one I could get information on was Dennis Kress. There were about three reports of his scamming activities and the amount of $870 for postal money orders was even documented.
I was sent two checks for $870.