Andre Shults, [email protected]
Complaint 110384 Details

On Saturday, May 5, 2012, I opened the following email from Andre Shults of Gredine.com regarding a software purchase I made on May 23, 2011 to repair a virus my computer contracted from FaceBook:

>On Mon,Apr 30, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Andre Shults <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Dear Mr./Mrs. Janet Hines,
>
> On 23 of May 2011 you had become a victim of
> activity, when you were purchased computer program that was
> supposed to cure your computer. This program was
> installed on your computer in order to gather your personal
> information.
>
> At present, the group of alleged perpetrators, which includes the
> management of Oneliya LLC (Moscow Russia), B&N Bank (Moscow, Russia)
> and Raiffeisen bank (Moscow, Russia) is being investigated by the
> appropriate authorities and several criminal actions has begun.
>
> Unfortunately, all your personal information that you had transmitted
> to the perpetrators has been compromised and is available to other
> criminally minded individuals.
>
> Here is your personal information that is available:
>
> [Personal Information Removed]
>
> [Personal Information Removed]

> We urge you to immediately cancel the card above and request a
> replacement, due to the fact that your information has been
> compromised.
>
> Also, please enclose the copy of this letter with your complaint to
> the law enforcement. You can complain to the law enforcement agency
> via email. You have the right to receive a 49.95 dollar compensation and
> the reissue of the card should be free of charge to you.
>
> In the event you wish to receive the compensation please contact our
> legal department by writing to [email protected]
>
> Andre Shults CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, CSSLP
>


I did respond to said email as I did make this purchase. (For privacy, I removed the pertinent numbers from the body of the text when copying the email to you.)
I received the following response: On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Mail Delivery Subsystem <[email protected]> wrote:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

[email protected]

Technical details of permanent failure:
DNS Error: Domain name not found

No other unauthorized purchases have been made by them to date; however, I canceled my credit card as they have all my personal information connected with that credit card and that purchase.

I hate that I was duped. I hope they get caught and restitution is made... which I doubt. :o(