From: Dick (rertman@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2006 - 09:41:09 PDT
A word of caution on this deal, folks.
I'm a bit suspicious of "John Fickdich."
The last name is a german epithet that translates to "F**k you."
I kid you not! I learned German from an Army friend who was from
Dick
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Toll-free numbers are virtual numbers. They are assigned to a customer, and
When you try to do a search for a toll-free number, you will generally hit a
There are many ways to do some detective work, however, to find the info you
You can do old-fashioned legwork, and call every copy shop and just ask.
What is 800 N. Michigan Ave? I am not familiar with that address. Is it a
Arthur P. Bloom
----- Original Message -----
| Interesting - I did several reverse phone number lookups on various
Germany and joined up to earn his citizenship.
From: Arthur Bloom
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Sent: 10 June, 2006 09:28
Subject: Re: [MV] MANN Truck on Ebay
the incoming calls are re-directed (similar to Call Forwarding) to a fixed
land line.
dead end, unless the toll-free number has been published in a website. In
that case, search engines will probably have a hit. Toll-free numbers that
are not generally published, for instance like the one you encountered, will
probably never show up in a search engine.
seek. You can ask him to fax something back to you. The incoming call info
(caller ID, *69, etc) will not show the toll-free number, but will show the
land line that it is associated with, unless it is intentionally blocked.
The fax document itself will generally have a header that spells out the
sender's company name and number, if the fax machine was programmed to do
so.
Often, an official-sounding person, with an official-sounding title and
stated mission, will scare employees into divulging info that the business
would normally not divulge.
mall, or an individual store? Perhaps someone (a telephone technician or a
friend of a telephone technician) reading this list, or just some
enterprising would-be detective can make a visit to some of the copy stores
and do some creative investigating. If I were a bit closer, I'd be happy to
do it.
Former Bell System Special Agent
From: "Lee Houde" <houdel@carrinter.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] MANN Truck on Ebay
| telephone search websites - all came up no number found; if this is a
| real phone number, it is unlisted. Very unlikely that a copy shop would
| have an unlisted number. Chop shop maybe, copy shop unlikely, unless
| they only deal with a very select and limited clientle!
|
| Sarge wrote:
|
| >>List,
| >>Mandatory MV content: this e-mail is about a scam directly targeted at
MV
| >>owners.
| >>Anyhoo,
| >>here is the continuing saga of the MAN truck scam on E-Bay.
| >>After a LOT of research, I have a couple of leads on the scammer.
| >>His real name is, of course, not Matthew Barry. It is most likely
Dimitru
| >>Bogdan, or at least, that's the ID that he carries.
| >>He is a Romanian immigrant living in Chicago.
| >>He did not attend high school in the US.
| >>He will ship the truck to my home address:
| >>John Fickdich
| >>1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
| >>Washington D.C. 20500
| >>The $5,000 will cover the cost of the truck and also the shipping and
| >>insurance.
| >>He hangs out in a copy shop in a large mall in Chicago on the
'Magnificent
| >>Mile'. 800 N Michigan Ave.
| >>He picks up the faxed receipt of the moneygram in the copy shop, goes to
| >>
| >>
| >the
| >
| >
| >>nearest moneygram office and cashes it.
| >>On a tangent, another list member has been in contact with him.
| >>He (fake Matthew Barry) told the other list member that he was on
vacation
| >>in Greece with his family and he even supplied a contact telephone
number
| >>
| >>
| >in
| >
| >
| >>Greece.
| >>I called the number in Greece and spoke to Matthew. For someone with a
| >>
| >>
| >name
| >
| >
| >>of Matthew Barry, he sure sounded Greek to me.
| >>Well, Matthew told me to send the $5,000 to a bank in Florida. He will
| >>e-mail me with the details.
| >>Okay Matthew, please hurry, I want that truck!
| >>So, List, that's as far as I got.
| >>Now I need your help.
| >>There are 27 Bogdan's listed in the white pages for Chicago, none of
them
| >>are called Dimitru.
| >>The FAX number 1-877-471-1355 is his pick up point.
| >>Anybody on the list know how to get the name and address of that copy
shop
| >>where the FAX machine is located?
| >>Anybody know how to locate Dimitru Bogdan living in Chicago?
| >>As always, any and all help is appreciated,
| >>-Sarge
| >>
| >>P.S. To all of you who doubt that this story is true, do us all a favor
| >>
| >>
| >and
| >
| >
| >>don't e-mail me or the list with your doubts.Visit the searchable
archives at http://www.mil-veh.org/archives/
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