Equipment scam

The role he will introduce is always the same format of a required need to produce equipment for an operational plant, facility, construction site, mine, aggregate facility, roadways, railway and even water treatment facilities. He does so under the premises that he has received contracts, registered approval, private privileged government source, national contract agreements and even world banking investments. I had worked with this person from July 2016 to current providing him with equipment based on his requests and my associate to arrange transportation of this equipment and took the position if he is real this is a good sale and if not we are out nothing. He appeared sincere and he is very well informed in Equipment, Mining operations and language that applies to the industry.

The most interesting pieces all make perfect logical sense because he provides in conversation the specifics and details that apply to whatever project he wishes for the provider to assist in. The entire conversations are so real its hard to separate the facts.

It all makes perfect sense until the monetary demands begin. In the beginning of this action he would disappear or do what the industry calls going dark. Fair enough because this gets you filed into a looker and not an actual buyer. Business deals with this on a daily basis. But..... Then he evolved and started providing a cover story of how funds will be delayed for an acceptable time frame and this would reassure the provider. He tells a long drawn out story of how homeland security and the FBI had seized all his money because of a questionable deposit from his business located in Brussels as well in South America and Ethiopia where he has mines and vested interest.

That is however when mistakes get made. The elaborate stories of government interference on behalf of the countries he is dealing with in the projects he has described. This raises even more red flags to a business and most if not all eventually give him a solid deadline and after that stop interacting with him. But for those who continue speaking with him such as myself the requests to open accounts for him at Banks who deal internationally begins so that he again can have a person deposit large sums of money with a fee paid for the action. The fee is always in the millions of course. A most recent request was for myself and one of my contacts to open an account in Atlanta and deposit a total of $7000.00 dollars as part of a fee to release the cash being held by the reserve and the FBI in Minneapolis that had been cleared by the courts. Then for myself and my contacts to meet his representative there and transport the 22 boxes of said cash in a Uhaul to Atlanta for deposit and that within 24-48 hours an amount of 4.5 million would be wired to myself and my contact. I walked away for 24 hours so I could call him back and say no we do not feel comfortable with this only to listen to an angry tirade of how he offered us a great deal and he was finished with this deal. When asked why if he has all this money why he doesn't use an attorney and follow the steps afforded him legally to accomplish his banking needs he changed the subject and continued his rant.

The equipment world is often a small place and I have discovered by speaking to other brokers and dealers that the invention of using people in the service trades such as promises to skilled mechanics seeking employment or transportation drivers who have given you exclusive transport and railway rights. he will even go as far as requesting invoices that you can then show to a perspective seller. A most certain flaw he makes is he never signs anything no matter what and when pushed to either take a meeting face to face or prove that he is real buyer with a company certificate he pushes back with excuses like he is out of country or cannot meet due to a health issue. In researching him to find our if he is real or not have spoken to countless people who repeat this story over and over. Several have even been provided Letters of intent by me on his request not signed of course by him even after I sent him the letter for his signature and for him to email to the seller.

The person uses a prepaid internet phone tool that directs the call to a cell phone and he has no problem including as many people as needed to make his stories real. Including having me find a logistics person and a recruiter for all the mining personnel he will be employing in the countless mines in Arizona,Nevada, chili, Peru, and others. Claiming he has geologist and metallurgist on staff filing and verifying his claims. Yet no one anywhere at the States level or mining community have ever heard of him before. He claims to be an expert at writing IPO's yet there is not one IPO on record that can be found with his name on it. He does have an LLC filed in South Dakota but no business license nor will he ever provide an address in Canada where he claims to be from. Online research shows the phone service out of Vancouver BC but it is a internet number most likely forwarded to a smart phone somewhere.

I believe that NO Voice mail only proves that people who actually know this person will not be confused or ask questions about the fake name or a fake company that would be required. The next step is the cover and explain why he does this and he chose an old method of Identity protection because of world wide threats.

Very creative but not very current in comparison to most internet scams today.In this scam it is one of the most elaborate ventures to get people to trust him to open bank accounts for cash deposits as he continue the story lines of having millions all over the united states in safety deposit boxes and dignitaries at his beckon to deliver that cash under his request. Only to be followed with failed deadlines of deposits and a story about government conspiracy and being charged enormous fees to release money internationally.

I did inform him of how many money laundry crimes he breaks by asking people to open accounts for him and making deposits with the incentive of a large fee payment for the effort. I know three individuals he has requested this from.

Scam Tip Report #86073 - Equipment scam

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