From "Patricia Grooms Return-Path: <info@alert.net> Received: from (EHLO vsmtp3.tin.it) (212.216.176.223) Reply-To: <suremum142@gmail.com> From: "Patricia Grooms"<info@alert.net> Subject: Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 I am interested in purchasing your timeshare. Let me know if it is still available.
Received one of these emails from suremum1422 @gmail.com Can't they track these losers down so they stop bothering people on the internet.
@ 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.
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.
@Betsy, if she's going to do something about it she needs to contact the FBI. They deal with identity theft.
Can someone tell how this scam works? This same person has contacted me about buying my timeshares. Thanks
The use of multiple email accounts is not really accounted for by anything other than a fraudulent intent.
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.
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.
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.
