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Scammed without knowing??
Take a close look at the names of these companies below. If you think any of them might look familiar, you may have been a victim of an international scam.
API Trade LLC
ARA Auto Parts Trading LLC
Bend Transfer Services LLC
B-Texas European LLC
CBTC LLC
CMG Global LLC
Confident Incorporation
HDPL Trade LLC
Hometown Homebuyers LLC
IAS Group LLC
IHC Trade LLC
MZ Services LLC
New World Enterprizes LLC
Parts Imports LLC
SMI Imports LLC
SVT Services LLC
Here is how this ridiculously simple, yet internationally involved, scheme worked:
Criminals on an entirely different continent are thought to have actually ran credit checks on identity theft victims to determine credit worthiness, then these criminals sent money to US citizens who then set up fake corporations, with false addresses, toll free numbers and even web sites. Then the criminals made charges on these identity thefts victims account in small increments between .20 and $10.00 to these fake companies, so not to cause any red flags to be set off. Which, is smart in a stupid way…
The crazy part is, that MILLIONS of people haven’t noticed these charges or if they did, thought that the amounts were so small they didn’t want to bother seeking a chargeback.
Check your statements!!
