Nirvana said:
Boy, that was long, sorry. One more thing: Here is the copy of the airbill that Greg emailed me, with our addresses blurred out for privacy.
I'm going to email Greg to inform him of this thread, but probably won't check back until the morning ... Thanks to all who read this and can offer opinions.
some notes here for future reference and for everyone's knowledge:
you can see the airbill IS fraudulent. A value of $400 is declared and thus fedex must charge the appropriate amount for this coverage which you can see is not shown itemized on the "half" receipt. Secondly, since it is indicated via payment by cash/check, so this "package" must be given to fedex personnel. Fedex would require a shipper phone number and the package would have to be scanned by the front desk person thus eliminating any chance of a theft as the tracking info would indicate "dropped off" thus transferring the liability to fedex.
Now for the kicker!
Look at the Airbill and the receipt. He emails and tells you he blacked out his account number on the receipt and you can see that. (by the way, it shows only the last 4 digits of a shipper's account number right near the bottom final total on the receipt., the first blacked out number is the transaction ID number). Anway, The only way his account number would be on a receipt for this transaction is that is would be on the Airbill! which you can clearly see is blank. And there you have it. The airbill is made up and the receipt is for something else. Sadly, you have been duped.
Just some notes to buyers:
If you are buying reptiles you need to ask how the animal is being shipped and the shipper must be shipper authorized to send the animal(s) with that method. Most people overlook this and shouldn't. also, if you are spending a large sum of money, you should request a photo of the package dropped off and maybe additional photos of the animal.
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B]Think about spending all this time at the conclusion of a failed transaction, writing these threads, investigating, worrying, researching, etc.....
Do yourself a favor and think about spending this time at the front end before you send your hard earned money to someone. ask for the tr[/B]
What to do here:
Lastly, send this info to Fedex. If he has an account number with them (if that is indeed his receipt and not something he pulled out of the trash bin at Fedex), I'm sure they would be interested in investigating someone who is sending out false airbills. Also, they would want the info on the receipt which tells you which location was used, which computer terminal was used, and who the employee was (ID#). If he does have a Fedex account and if he is sending out reptiles w/o authorization, they may suspend his account for that as well. If he is authorized, they would be interested in the fraud aspect.
Unfortunately, this may be the case of a found receipt and a made up airbill.
On the "half" receipt, you can see the location with an "A". The computer terminal is "POS1" and the last 2 digits of the employee ID# is "79".
since you have a partial address and zipcode along with an amount, you can easily track down the shipment for this "half" receipt.
Then you will know what happened to the shipment indicated on that receipt and if it's related to him or someone else.
