Patricia Grooms

[Marie]

From "Patricia Grooms
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From: "Patricia Grooms"<info@alert.net>
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015

I am interested in purchasing your timeshare. Let me know if it is still available.

 

[Susan D]

Received one of these emails from suremum1422 @gmail.com Can't they track these losers down so they stop bothering people on the internet.

 

[Central Scrutinizer]

@ Susan, if it was easy it would have stopped a long time ago. And who is "they"? It takes a lot of long, hard work to stop these clowns.

 

[Betsy]

suremum1422@gmail.com , or Patricia Grooms, is at it still - thankfully I am enough of a skeptic to have researched the email and name and just wrote "her" back to get a life, hopefully in prison. Although the internet provides fodder for these thieves, it also provides sources to enable people to be warned about them. There is a legitimate Patricia Grooms in Nevada/California (linkedin) - I think I will warn her her name is being used for crime.

 

[Central Scrutinizer]

@Betsy, if she's going to do something about it she needs to contact the FBI. They deal with identity theft.

 

[Bobk]

Can someone tell how this scam works?
This same person has contacted me about buying my timeshares.

Thanks

 

[Spanish Administrator]

He doesn't want to buy anything. If there is a cheque it's a forgery.

 

[Bobk]

So you're telling me this is a total fraud?

 

[Spanish Administrator]

The use of multiple email accounts is not really accounted for by anything other than a fraudulent intent.

 

[real estate scam]

I am a broker in Beaver Creek Colorado. Luckily my client forwarded her emails to me from this Patricia Groom who said she was interested in buying my his $60,000 timeshare. Would assume she would present him with what looked like a certified bank check while at the same time he would sign a Quit Claim deed to transfer the deed into her name. It would take about 10 days for the bank to figure out that the "certified check" is not valid.

 

[Sphinx]

Usually the check doesn't clear escrow. They aren't after real estate although maybe that's in the future. At the moment they just want to put a hot check into someone's hands to steal some cash.

 

[Miyuki]

Real estate theft may be in the future but it will be harder to make it stick in court. It has already been tried. There was a case in Australia.