IAAL ... oops, sorry ....
I will copy and paste the problem here. That will then make it a double post, so I hope you will forgive me for that. Regarding my post here: I checked for responses for her quicly, and was about to be late for work, hence, the half baked post. Copied and pasted from 'Government & Administrative Law Matters':
What is the name of your state? PA
Direct me to correct place if I am in wrong site. mac105 is allowing me access to do this b/c I am not a member.
my son is mildly mentally challenged. A part of his disability is to believe and trust everyone, no exception! He is 27 yrs. old, works part time jobs and does well, and is able to stay at home by himself while I am at work. He is a wonderful young man. I say all of this to explain how this problem has occurred.
Tuesday I found a BIG box on my porch addressed to him from a vitamin company. When I got him home from work, I asked if he had ordered something I did not know about. No, he said. But some boxes were supposed to come from different companies, he was to save them and then fedx them to a 'friend'. I said I was going to open it b/c this all sounded fishy and he got very upset b/c it was for his 'friend'.
the box contains vitamins and order request totaling $1353.45, paid by VISA, shipped to my son. Neither one of us has charge cards, only debit, and knowing we did not have that much in either account, I asked him how this all happened. he showed me a 'chat' archived message from some girl in Nigeria who said she needed help, would he receive packages for her, save them all, then put them into a big box or two and have fedx ship them to her, that this was her business, selling, but she needed help getting products. Well, hells bells, if you need help, my son will do anything, like the girl who got him 4 nights ago and wants money. He and I have gone around on that one, b/c he does not understand that these people are takers and users! Sorry, off on a tangent.
I called the vitamin company, and we compared charge card numbers and neither mine nor his were the ones billed. (yes, I suspected my card used) The man I spoke with asked for our email addresses to compare with the one used for conformation re: the order. No match. I told the man that our local news had a piece last week about a Pittsburgh woman who got involved in the same thing, but the power went out before the story finished, severe storms. Never thought about it till this happened!
I told the rep that it would be returned, and asked to what authorities he would report this credit card theft. he said he would just refund the money to the cardholder. Well, the card OWNER apparently does not have the card! So the girl in Nigeria gets that amount back to use someone else! I said he needed to tell police? FBI? No, he would just note that the merchandise was returned and the customer credited. ?????
So my thought is to wait the couple days she says and receive another package, so there is more than one piece of evidence. All of this stuff will be returned, no problem. But this 'person', as long as money is being credited back to the card, can find another easy mark, and some innocent person will be responsible for the bill.
Local police say they don't handle this problem. This is a scam, yes, but it needs to be dealt with.
So, whom do I contact? Sorry so long. Please help.
