Well what do you know

The message I posted previously was sent to the person I believe to be the scammer at the legitimate company I believe he works at and the replies I received seemed to indicate to me that he’s confident that he’s got away with it. So I’ve not replied and that may have rattled him a bit.

The email address of the fraudulent company with which I’ve been corresponding has, not surprisingly, now gone completely dead but I came across another account to which I sent a message a day or so ago and left it at that.

I don’t think the scammer realises how clear a trail he has left and in the meantime I’ve put together a detailed document detailing the string of emails and events involved in the fraudulent transaction and the identity of the person responsible for the fraud. That document is now complete and my intention is to send copies to the legitimate company he works for and its legal representative, Alibaba and Aliexpress and the minister responsible for trade in the Chinese embassy in London.

But this morning I received a reply to the email I sent to the ‘other’ email address mentioned above. This may also have come from the scammer, I don’t know, who may be rattled because I left clues in the messages I sent to what I believe to be his legitimate employer indicating that I know his identity.

The emails I have since received imply that they are from a colleague of the person with whom I was originally dealing and that the latter has resigned from the company. They said that nobody has yet looked at his sales records and they would see if they could and come back to me. I said make it quick because wheels are in motion.

So what do you know. Now all I can do is see what pans out over the next few hours. In the meantime, Credit Agricole, my bank, have been absolutely amateurish and pathetic. Despite my instructing them to make a reclamation on the J P Morgan bank account into which I transferred funds over two weeks ago on the instructions of a J P Morgan Vice President in London they have done absolutely nothing, complaining they can’t get in touch with the Luxembourg bank. Credit Agricole is not a competent, professional banking organisation on the evidence of my experience.

My predictions as to what will now transpire are as follows. I believe the stuff about the colleague resigning etc is false as the company’s address is fake and the company doesn’t exist. So what the scammer will do is get access to ‘his colleague’s’ sales information and ‘discover’ the funds I transferred. He will then offer to repay them.

That way if he does he makes his (fake) company look legitimate and gets himself off the hook. And with me then not pursuing him he’s able, if he’s so inclined, to continue his activities later on when the dust has settled, as I mentioned in a previous message that if I got my money back I had neither the time nor the inclination to take things any further.

If that does happen I, of course, will be delighted. If it doesn’t and even if I continue with my present course of action I’m resigned to not seeing my money again, but just doing what I can to mess him up will be enough for me.