Alexander Wheels
Complaint 275156 Details
- Date Occurred: 08/29/2013
- Reported Damages: $50.00
- Username: Alexander Wheels
- Email: [email protected]
- Location: New York
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The company or person contact no longer exists
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An individual going by the name "Alexander Wheels" is trying to conduct an overpayment scam with freelance editors as the target. The scam follows this process:
1. "Alexander Wheels" contacts an editor with a request for assistance with editing a paper for a seminar. Paper (on the subject of gender discrimination) is attached. Offer looks fairly legit, except that "Alexander Wheels" insist on paying by bank check.
2. Check arrives via Priority Mail (with tracking number) but amount is much larger than the agreed on fee. "Alexander Wheels" sends an e-mail saying the "seminar sponsor" made a mistake in issuing the check. He instructs the editor to deposit the check right away and keep the excess amount because there is more work coming.
3. Later, the editor receives an urgent request from Alexander Wheels to wire him the excess money via Western Union.
4. The bank discovers the check is fake. Editor is liable for bank charges and has lost any money wired via Western Union.
I was targeted by this scammer but saw the red flags before any money was lost. Am recording damages of $50 because I wasted time drawing up a Letter of Agreement and exchanging in e-mail correspondence.
Had the scam succeeded, however, I could have been out thousands of dollars.
- Anonymous SBID #8a109f819d
- Posted 09/18/2013
Comments
- Lauren SBID #0efaa43654
- Posted 09/20/2013
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Well, I was almost number two (that I know of) on his list of scamming. I received an email back in August, 28 of this year asking for my editing services. I contacted him on the first of September, stressing that I was a novice (very much a novice) and yet, agreed. Just last night, after I made the deposit of the check for much more of the amount that we agreed upon, I did some searching on this "Alexander Wheels" character, which I probably should have done prior to the agreement, and came upon this complaint.
I called my bank first thing this morning. They took the amount out of my account, reviewing the check to make sure it is legit (by the looks of it from your complaint, it is not. Thank you so much for making this complaint. If I did not stumble upon it, I would have been victim number two and caught in the trap of this scam. I feel foolish and repsosible as well. How naive I could have been. And like you said, the document seemed adequate. The matierial is something I have been educated in and feel strongly about. Also, how do we know the words aren't plagerized?
Good luck and I hope he is stopped before he/ them finds more people to add on to his/their list. -
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- Lauren SBID #0efaa43654
- Posted 09/20/2013
- Oh, one more added thing: I received an email from him this morning, claiming the second document had to be "cancelled" due to a death of one of the major members from their "team." Did you, by any chance, receive that reason for having to wire the money back?
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- Complaint Against Alexander Wheels
- Complaints Filed: 1
- Reported Damages: $50.00
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