ALERT: Internet Scam Targeting Printers

This is an actual email we received, today.

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RE: Flyers Orders

Dear Customer Service
My Name Donald Baker and i will like you to email me back with a total cost of these Quantity of these Flyers
8.5 x 11 brochures
1/1 on 100# gloss text
Text: God Bless Africa
Quantity:150,000 pcs
Colour-Black Ink /White Paper
front and back
tri foled

And also i will like to know if you accept credit card for payment ?

Thank You
Don Baker
Baker and Company

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Now, since we don’t offer printing, I would have typically replied that they had reached the wrong company. However, since I’d recently seen an article from PII about this, I found some blog posts referencing a similar Printing Scam. Please take a moment and read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

There’s even a follow-up post that shows the same email I received a few weeks ago from the same good “Reverend” requesting flyers for “Feed the Children.”

Here’s how the scam works:

1. Receive incoming email from overseas requesting price quote with request for credit card payment.


2. You provide a quote and they graciously accept it.


3. They request that you use their shipping company.


4. You contact their shipping company and request a shipping quote, which is provided.


5. You send the revised total with shipping to original requester.


6. The original requester emails you their credit card info and you process it for the total amount.


7. You wire the shipping money overseas and never hear from either of the two parties involved, again.


8. The true owner of credit card disputes their charge, they win, and that money is automatically deducted from your account.

Please, take the time to read these resources and don’t get caught in the scam.