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Scam Alerts
 Received
4-30-2012
Email pretending to be from
Verizon giving an amount due.
Clicking on the given link will
download a malicious javascript
onto your computer. Setting
up an automatic payment will
give crooks the information
to gain access to monies in
your account
Received
4-15-2012
NABA
ADVISES SHOPS TO EXERCISE CAUTION
IN REGARDS TO THE FOLLOWING
EMAIL:
My Name is Andy
W_____i need your help i just brought an 2005 Toyota Camry LE in in Colorado
for my uncle but the problem is that the car is having a Body problem so i want
you to help is want to use it as present for my uncle as a wedding gift and
also with my 2004 Honda Civic and there is no insurance & warranty involved
am paying personally for the repair can you handle that for me i have already
make the arrangement with the towing company who will deliver you the car and i
will need a little favor from you because i haven't pay the shipper who will
deliver the car down to your shop and he doesn't accept credit cards do you
accept credit cards in your company and also my name is Andy W____ and my
email: wrask_____@gmail.com. I will
need a little favor from you and i will be glad if you can handle it for me.
Also i have 2002
Ford Truck that need a Brake repair, So let me know if you handle Auto Brake
repair as well.
ABRN
Article On Various Scams Targeting
Collision Shops
Received
6-22-2011
The Nebraska Auto Body Association warns shops to exercise caution to an email
where the sender wants to buy a frame machine which is to be paid for by credit
card and picked up immediately by the buyer. This may be a scam where a
stolen credit card number is used to make the purchase. Buyer may also switch
form of payment to a forged cashier's (or other) check. Know who you are
dealing with and double-check any credit card and check purchases to be sure
that you are dealing with a legitimate buyer and a valid form of payment.
Received
12-16-2010 Top Ten Auto Body Shop Rip-offs of 2010 From
Canada
1) Money for
a tow truck. Shop receives a call from a new customer wanting to come to the
shop. The tow truck driver is demanding cash up front. Can the tow truck driver
come and pick up cash from shop owner and then go back to pick up car?
2)
Overpayment for repair. Customer brings in cheque for too high an amount to pay
the bill. Apologizes and asks for difference back in cash. Cheque is rejected
by bank.
3) Shop gets
a call from an agency that will obtain their apprenticeship tax credit for them
for a 25% fee. It’s a two page form that is easy to send in. With credits at
$10,000 per year per apprentice, one store paid $15,000 for this 15 minutes of
service.
4) “Change
over all your merchant credit card services to a new company for only a 1.29%
fee on cards.” Won’t happen- and you can’t get out of the agreement. Yes, a
shop can get credit card processing for 1.29%, but you need to generate more
than 850 million dollars in credit card sales in a year.
5) “You must
have a Health and Safety poster and WHMIS course from us for only $350 or the
Ministry of Labour will charge and fine you.” So says the scare call. (Your
association can offer this for free.)
6) “You must
have a Ministry of Environment Certificate of Approval for waterborne paints.
Only $6000. And mandatory or you will be fined” Your association does this for
four hundred dollars. Or the consultant who disappears after you pay them.
7) The
contractor scam. You pay a person for working in the shop as a contractor. He
disappears after a few months and Revenue Canada arrives and says you are still
responsible for his CPP, EI and tax withholding. Or the ex-worker files a later
claim against you alleging an isocyanate-related illness that you never tested
him for. Say goodbye to up to $50,000 in that claim. The other contractor scam
is the windshield firm that comes in to install a windshield using your heat
light and power. He supposedly hurts himself and the Worker’s Compensation
sends the hospitalization, lost wages and costs claim to you for payment
because the windshield installation firm didn’t have a Worker’s Compensation
account.
8) Wrong
Worker’s Compensation account. A number of collision shops who should be paying
3.59 % are being billed as a metal finisher at 9 per cent.
9) Buy a
spraybooth online. You pay the money and find out when you go to pick it up or
the day of the install that the non-existent booth mysteriously was stolen from
the truck the night before. Not their problem you’re told. It’s your
responsibility and you must file a claim with your insurer you are told. No
refund.
10) The double deductible. Some commercial
polices have two deductibles. The customer doesn’t tell you, you assume one
deductible, collect it from the customer and let the car go. Cheque arrives
from the insurer with both deductibles removed from the cheque.
Received
11-18-2010
809 Area Code
Scam This phone scam causes consumers to incur high
charges on their phone bills. Consumers usually receive a message telling them
to call a phone number with an 809, 284, 649, or 876 area code in order to
collect a prize, find out information about a sick relative, etc. The caller
assumes the number is a typical three-digit U.S. area code; however, the caller
is actually connected to a phone number outside the United States, often in
Canada or the Caribbean, and charged international call rates. Unfortunately,
consumers don't find out that they have been charged higher international call
rates until they receive their bill. Countermeasures: Return calls to familiar numbers only. As a general rule, return calls from
numbers that contain familiar or recognizable area codes. You may call your
directory assistance or long distance operator to check the area code
location.
Received
11-05-2010 Body
Shop Scam Alert Exercise
caution before acting on the
following (or
similar) emails. "Hello this is john ben, i need your help my wife got
an accident with is car on is way to visit is family in CO and i want the car
tow back home to your shop so u can repair that for her, my wife left the car
and go with flight since the car is not Working Toyota Camry 2007 with vin
number VIN JTNBB46K173038487 and the vehicle is with the private tower and they
will have it tow to your workshop for an estimation,I will be giving you my
credit card to put thru for an amount of $2500 and you keep $500 as deposit and
have the remaining send to the tower as they receive payment upfront,via money
gram so they can have the vehicle tow down to your place for proper estimation
and repair,get back to me with your address and the type of credit card you
accept for me to email you my card to put thru."
Nebraska Autobody
Association
PO Box 145
Clay Center, NE 68933
nz41254@windstream.net
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