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Victim Location 85635
Total money lost $360
Type of a scam Online Purchase

Online pharmacy service, once an account is created and medication is selected victim is advised to call a regular private phone number (not a toll-free 1-800 number). Call is immediately answered by scammer calling himself Sean, scammer has a heavy Indian accent. Scammer explains process very fast and hard to understand due to heavy Indian accent. Process allegedly includes their own doctors writing legit prescriptions (if needed for medication).

Scammers goes in to explain that the first time payment must be made by prepaid Vanilla Visa Card or American Express Gold prepaid gift card only, and that future purchases can be made by personal Credit Card. Email contact is established providing updates of the process the whole time. Also website has its own messenger service that keeps victim updated. Also, a mobile number sends messages to victim as well. Very pushy tone of messages and emails, asking victim to provide payment.

Once prepaid card is purchased (total of $360.00 that supposedly includes prescribing doctor fee, medication costs, and rush shipping costs), victim calls main phone number. Scammer reviews the medication order and explains that payment must be made by taking photograph of gift card, front and back (huge red flag but victim ignores this for some [censored]ic reason) and texting pictures to Scammer’s cellphone. Scammer tells victim a convoluted and nearly incomprehensible reason why it has to be done this way. After victim voices concerns, Scammer constantly reassures victim that it is not a Scam.

Scammer also demands picture of receipt for purchase of gift card, victim refuses to send picture of receipt, and Scammer stops asking about it. Once photos of gift card are sent, Scammer tells victim that card will be charged soon and that medication will be shipped out and will arrive within 24-48 hours. When victim asks about speaking to doctor for prescription process, Scammer says that it has already been taken care of.

Victim is kept informed of shipment status via email, website message, and text message. Scammer promises that process is 100% legal and medication will be shipped from Houston, TX via FedEx or USPS and tracking number will be provided. After 1-2 days Scammer informs victim that shipment is in route to destination airport. Scammer tells victim that FedEx agent will pick up shipment and tracking label will be generated. Scammer informs victim via text message that shipment is at destination airport, random airport is selected as destination point, Scammer does not even bother to verify if such airport is close to victims address (which is not) or even if such airport handles commercial traffic.

Later on, victim receives a call from an alleged FedEx agent, that introduces himself as Dean. This obviously fake Fedex agent has a very strong Indian accent as well and is hard to understand, he tells victim that he is about to pick up shipment and commence delivery. Fake Fedex agent asks victim unusual questions, such as: “How far are you located from destination airport?”, and other questions that a real FedEx agent would know the answer to.

Fake FedEx agent tells customer that he will call shortly, after signing for shipment which is being held in “transit clearance” at airport. Shortly after that, fake FedEx agent calls victim and says that there is a problem, he tells victim that the shipment was randomly selected to be scanned by “transit” personnel at airport and it has been flagged because it seems to contain prescription medications, Victim informs fake FedEx agent that online pharmacy doctor has written a valid prescription and to ask pharmacy service.

Fake FedEx agent tells victim that he is unable to do since he does not work for the online pharmacy service. Fake FedEx agent then tells victim that in order for him to retrieve shipment from “transit clearance personnel” at airport, Victim must pay fee of $400.00 since no proof of prescription is available. At this point victim realizes what he knew all along but refused to believe, that this whole operation is a huge SCAM.

Victim confronts fake Fedex agent about all the inaccuracies and non-sensical explanations, such as airport being a minor public airport, with no commercial or airline services, used only for private aircraft and flights, also why is shipment held at “transit clearance” (meaning customs, but he never uses that word) if shipment is coming from another US state, not overseas.

Victim proceeds to berate fake FedEx agent, victim screams at, curses, and verbally abuses fake Fedex agent, and continues to confront him with all the inaccuracies and accuses him of taking part of Scam.

Fake FedEx agent stammers and talks utter non-sense, as he tries to explain his lies, victim can barely understand him due to heavy accent and nervousness.

To his credit, the fake FedEx agent never loses his composure or cool and continues to maintain his story, never admitting to taking part in the scam, or any wrongdoing, he maintains his innocence and sticks to his script until the very end, never raising his voice or getting aggressive with victim, his last words are “well then sir, I want to verify that you do not want me to pick up shipment, am that you (victim) are personally responsible for traveling to destination airport and retrieving shipment yourself”. Victim goes into a rage and proceeds, again, to curse at and scream obscenities at fake FedEx agent until he hangs up.

Victim immediately contacts main Scammer (Sean) via text message since he does not answer phone. Victim confronts Scammer with all the facts and lies and inaccuracies of entire process. Scammer continues to maintain innocence (Just like fake Fedex agent) and continues to provide non-sensical excuses. Even after it is obvious that Scammer has been caught, he never admits to any wrong doing, he continues to provide excuses that do not make any sense. Scammer also contradicts himself with his answers when confronted with facts and questions that prove that the whole operation is a major Scam. He admits that fake FedEx agent is “his guy” that delivers shipments, and when asked how is shipment at a public airport that does not handle any commercial flights of any kind he does not answer back. He admits that shipment has a fake a FedEx label on it to make it appear legit, and admits that what he is doing is illegal (shipping medications without a valid prescription). Then he backtracks on his incriminating admissions by saying that it’s a 100% legal business and legit online pharmacy service.

After a while Scammer stops answering victim’s questions and does not answer phone when called. Victim contacts Visa gift card customer service and explains everything about the scam. Visa starts an investigation to attempt to recover lost funds. Visa personnel provide victim with the one and only transaction information made on the Visa gift card.

A one time charge for the entire amount in the gift card, $360.00. The charge is made to a real clothing store called:

Cashmere Collection, located in Los Angeles, CA.

Victims searches web for any info related to this store, since it is very suspicious that a single charge for the same exact amount in the card was made to a retail store.

Victim easily finds the info, which is as follows:

CASHMERE COLLECTION

610 W EL Segundo Blvd Ste E,

Los Angeles, CA 90061

Phone: (213)677-0012

Website: https://cashmerecollection.store/

Victim reaches out to store via their own website’s contact online form. Victims does not provide many details since the store might be involved in the Scam. Victim tells store that a criminal fraudulent charge was made and Victims provides gift card details, date and time, and amount of fraudulent charge. Victim tells store that Visa company will has started investigation and will attempt to recover funds. Victim tells store that he will be contacting law enforcement to report the scam.

Later on in the day victim’s phone receives 6 frantic calls from store, victim missed the calls, and no voice messages were left.

Shortly after victim receives email from store stating the following:

“Our Refund and Chargeback team called you a few times today, but no one answered the phone, is there a time we can call you? Thank you

Best Regards

Cashmere Collection”

Victim emailed the store back in order to arrange for another call but victim has not heard back from them yet.

And that is where victim stands at this point, waiting in the Visa investigation of the fraudulent charge and waiting on the Cashmere Collection store to speak to them.

Victim has also done countless reports of the scam to several websites that handle such incidents in order to prevent other people from falling victim to this filthy human garbage scammers.

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