From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2006 - 12:58:54 PDT
Hey Sarge,
I'm fairly certain that the Park Hyatt hotel has a security group.
Looks to me like it would not be hard to get Chicago's finest involved
in a sting of this shyster.
Good Luck,
Dave
Dave Merchant wrote:
> Park Hyatt Hotel
> 800 N. Michigan Ave
> Chicago IL 60611
>
> Dave
>
>
> At 12:28 PM 6/10/2006, Arthur Bloom wrote:
>
>> Toll-free numbers are virtual numbers. They are assigned to a
>> customer, and
>> the incoming calls are re-directed (similar to Call Forwarding) to a
>> fixed
>> land line.
>>
>> When you try to do a search for a toll-free number, you will generally
>> hit a
>> 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.
>>
>> There are many ways to do some detective work, however, to find the
>> info you
>> 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.
>>
>> You can do old-fashioned legwork, and call every copy shop and just ask.
>> 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.
>>
>> What is 800 N. Michigan Ave? I am not familiar with that address. Is it a
>> 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.
>>
>> Arthur P. Bloom
>> Former Bell System Special Agent
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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
>>
>>
>> | Interesting - I did several reverse phone number lookups on various
>> | 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.
>> | >>
>> |
>> |
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