COMPLAINT FILED UNDER:: LISTING FRAUD / EARTH TRADE COMPANY
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Earth Trade Company
Complaint 28657 Details

  • Date Occurred: 10/21/2013
  • Reported Damages: $46,000.00
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The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

International boundaries

A woman by the name of Linda Williams whom claims she is from Earth Trade Company pulls your resume off of career builder and offers you a so called job. She gave me a position as a Purchasing agent. They offer an outstanding salary in addition to a commission, and car mileage. It is a very attractive offer and she is a good seller on this job. What they do is have you purchase items for them on your credit card and immediately pay you. Then you are to ship out the merchandise for them using the pre-paid mailing labels that they supply. The kicker is they wait 7 to 10 days and reverse the payment from your credit card. At that point you have already shipped the merchandise. When you question her about this reverse she then gives you another account to use and the game starts again. She also will agree to a wire transfer which as you have guessed not valid. Her main headquarters she claims is in Switzerland however if you contact the Switzerland company they have never heard of this woman and will tell you they have no business in USA. This is a huge SCAM. Stay Away. Don't get sucked in. She got me for over 46,000 before I caught on.

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  • Ob
  • Ob SBID #4ff2543884
  • Posted 10/08/2013
  • The are now operating as
    (Accessory Trading and consulting

    Linda is going by Debbie Hoffman the HR Manager
    email ([email protected])
    phone 718-473-0711
    Fax:888-305-5083
    Address 172 east 46th street NY, NY
    or 172 East 4th Street NY,NY
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  • guppie
  • guppie SBID #383213d5eb
  • Posted 10/15/2013
  • If anybody has contact with this Linda/Debbie person write it all down and post it on here. These are wicked people who steal millions of dollars from people daily and the police can't seem to catch them. Maybe we can all work together and put an end to this horrible scam.
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  • chihooahooa
  • chihooahooa SBID #67f0015dc9
  • Posted 10/18/2013
  • Yep, count me in as a scammee.

    Deb contacted me a couple weeks ago, and followed the usual procedure...job offer, paid my credit card off, yada yada.

    I used two cards and she paid them both off. One had a relatively low balance and the other about $7,000. Luckily the card with the larger balance was expired so we went ahead with the smaller one. Everything seemed to work fine....I purchased a laptop and hard drive, and boxed it up. She sent me the label and I took it to the post office. Red flag number one...the postal worker said it's very unusual that the return address had her name on it and a NY address. I pleaded ignorance and she processed it. I got more money from Debbie and was pretty happy.

    Finally my larger card came through. I happily loaded it up with some pretty expensive cameras, bought some shipping supplies, and took it down with the new labels to the PO. The postal worker nearly had a heart attack when she saw the labels. There were so many errors, and what really caused alarm was that she wrote "treat as abandoned" in the special instructions. She said she made so many notations that there was no way customs would let those packages go through.

    On the label was an 888 number. That number turned out to be a fax. I said, well I'm just doing what they tell me. She took down my contact info and card info but processed the order.

    Since Linda/Debbie or whatever her name is, or her minions, no doubt peruse this board, I won't give too many more details about what transpired, but the credit card is now on a lockdown, the packages are being held, and both my bank and Deb's bank are in the middle of an investigation.

    The problem is, as I discovered when I called the smaller card's bank, she had already reversed charges, so I'm out a couple thousand. But it could have been worse. It was recommended that I call the police and give them all my information. These guys won't get caught until all of us who have been scammed do our part.
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  • chihooahooa
  • chihooahooa SBID #67f0015dc9
  • Posted 10/18/2013
  • I had half-thought to turn the tables on her...I was going to keep playing ball and allow her to give me a new account number, and then go to Western Union and do a transfer to cash. By the time she would find out I'd have the cash and could pay back my credit card. I figured if she wanted to press charges she'd have to expose herself. But then I got cold feet...I might be opening myself up to some fraud myself. I could have just said, well, Debbie told me to do it this way this time, but I don't need the hassle.
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  • chihooahooa
  • chihooahooa SBID #67f0015dc9
  • Posted 10/18/2013
  • Further investigation reveals that Deb's IP address is owned by one Andrew Medvedev, in Prague, Czech Republic. Just go to whois.domaintools.com to find an address and phone number. Which explains her accent. The NY address is probably a Mailboxes Etc. or Regus office, or, (Inappropriate Content Removed), just made up. They probably don't care how many packages get through, because they're not paying for them. They take what they get and what Russian customs doesn't steal.
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  • chihooahooa
  • chihooahooa SBID #67f0015dc9
  • Posted 10/18/2013
  • Sorry, my bad. The IP address location is actually Germany. The company that owns the IP (which is probably Andrew) is in the Czech Republic. At any rate, it ain't no U.S. IP.
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  • guppie
  • guppie SBID #383213d5eb
  • Posted 10/19/2013
  • This happened to me 2 years ago. I contacted Police, Attorney General, US postmaster, and so many others. Nobody would help and they did basically nothing. The credit card company held me responsible for the money she stole and the authorities said it was out of there jurisdiction. Since it was overseas Linda/Deb were in the clear. I supplied them with all kinds of addresses, phone numbers, bank accounts(she used) and I had over 100 correspondences. I had all the shipping labels, sales receipts. I had everything and to this day I still have it. I recently wrote to the police defective that was assigned to me and he has yet to even respond back. In todays world evil people prevail and the innocent person just trying to make a decent living gets the royal screws. I'm in if you find anybody who will help but I doubt you will.
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