so i get this phone call at the shop today. they say they're a relay center. i've dealt with this kind of call before....they relay calls for speech, or hearing impaired people. they let the people type, then read what was typed. so far, pretty normal.
they tell me the guys name(first only, and i can't remember it), and that he was recommended to me by a customer. he wants the brakes fixed on his escalade if i do brake work, and can i handle this. still cool so far. i say that i can do brakes on anything. here's where it goes to poop.
he says that he's just relocated to here, and is going in for surgery in 3 days. he wants to have the escalade towed to my shop from north carolina. suspicious. he now says that he'll give me a credit card number over the phone, and wants me to run it for $3k, $1k of which i will keep to pay for the tow(because the towing company doesn't take credit cards....bs), and deposit the balance in his account, so he has money for the surgery.
since he's popped about a dozen red flags now, i ask who recommended him to me. he says "dave". ok....got a couple customers named dave. so i ask, dave who? silence. then the operator tells me that he disconnected.
i told her, "you know that was a scam, right?" she goes "really?". i said yes, it was a modified version of one of those nigerian lottery scams, and that she may want to pass this on to the other operators in the company, and her supervisor.
it's getting pretty effed up, when i think i'm getting a good job in, and then find out it's a scam....and a poor one at that. wish i had a way to track his bellybutton down.....i'd turn him in..............
