Scammer Alerts

Stolen Credit Card Alerts

08/17/11: Received an internet order from IP 114.79.28.181 wanting 3 Large Simpson Helmets. The name on the order was Fitri Andria, email was fitriandria11@yahoo.com and the shipping address was 488 Hennessy Rd, Hennessy Building, Flat K-L 4/F, Causeway Bay HK 8555 HONG KONG. Phone number may be 5836647222. The order total was over $1300. Being the suspicious type I held the order. The "customer" refused to pay via PayPal or cashier's check (duh). This scammer will reply immediately to emails (bear in mind that Hong Kong is 12 hours ahead of Florida). The card he stole is a Visa issued by US National Bank in ND and I reported this activity to their fraud department. They confirmed the card has been compromised.

07/22/11: Per Dave at Schnitz
Junee Chandras from Indonesia…. He will pester and pester you, but the credit card he is trying to use is stolen from the USA

01/20/11: Received an internet order from IP 208.77.17.94 wanting two Accel DFI Thruster EFI Systems (over $3000). The name on the order was Michael Keane, email address was sport.online@comcast.net and the shipping address was 244 5th Ave 1906, NYC,NY 10001. The phone number provided was 239-603-6888 (Florida exchange) Upon investigation I found out the address is a mailbox rental store. The manager reported the person renting box 1906 was a new customer and has received "an unusually large" amount of packages. Unfortunately the packages were no longer there but the manager flagged his account and claims he is calling the Post Master. The name used to rent the box was Michael Keane and the phone number they had is 85755225566 (international phone number). I tried contacting the card holder's bank but it was in Brazil.

01/16/11: Received an internet order from IP 222.141.220.43 wanting two R1 PC3usb and two sets of leathers (1st red flag). The name on the order was Kevin Pratama and his email was pokameameinc@yahoo.com. Shipping address was in Indonesia (2nd red flag). When the "customer" replied to a question the email came from Erwanto Kaku. I contacted the issuing bank in North Dakota and they are to notify the card holder.

07/06/10 & 07/08/10: Kevon Maxwell (Kevon Jamal Maxwell Sr.) placed 2 orders totaling $145.28. The parts were shipped to the billing address of the card - 7331 U.S. Open Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32277. On 10/16/10 his estranged wife Rasheen Bailey Maxwell (the card holder) reversed the charges claiming Kevon stole the card number. I tracked down Kevon on 11/02/10 and he said he would get us our money. As of today, 11/22/10, we still do not have our money or our parts. Kevon and Rasheen both are avoiding my phone calls. Police reports have been filed in both Seminole and Duval counties. 9/14/11: It has been well over a year and I have tried every way possible to get him to pay his debt. What a loser. Additional information:

09/02/10: Received an internet order from IP 99.183.235.153. They were wanting an air shifter red labeled to 1316 Mc Kinley, Chicago Heights, IL 60411 (looks commercial). The phone number provided is disconnected. The email address was tonystarks828@gmail.com. I contacted the issuing bank and the card was in fact stolen.

05/17/10: Received 2 different internet orders for an LED Purge Kit. The orders were placed at 0305 and 1513 and from different IP addresses. One order was using a Discover card and the other an Amex. The ship to addresses were: 15748 Woods St, Delhi, CA 95315 and 15739 4th St, Delhi, CA 95315 (1.3 miles apart). Obviously the AVS' did not match and we did not process the orders. Left messages for the card holders that their cards were compromised.

04/23/10: Received chargeback paperwork for an order placed via the internet on 02/16/10. A person claiming to be Reco Huggins ordered Busa pistons and 2nd day aired them to 807 E. 12th St, Suite 245, Los Angeles, CA 90021. This address matched the billing address of the card so we did not hesitate shipping the order. The email address used was wrx099jp@yahoo.com. This address is actually a denim store called Pablo Venichi inside of Stanford Wholesale Mart and the manager denies any knowledge of this shipment. Per FedEx the package was delivered to Suite 108 and signed for by "Brandon". Suite 108 is another clothing store but they only spoke chinese. Products were also purchased from Summit Racing (5 boxes) and clothing from DrJays.com (2 boxes). These 7 boxes were delivered to Pablo Venichi (suite 245). I spoke to the actual Mr. Huggins (very nice gentleman living in IL) and he has no idea how the scammers got his card numbers much less changed the billing address. Update: I finally got the truth from George the manager of Pablo Venichi, the receiving store. They had agreed through email to accept these packages and then send them via USPS to RUSSIA. Gotta love email scammers and the fools that fall for them!!

11/16/09: Received a call from the New Jersey Secret Service. They needed our contact information for restitution payments from a scammer from 10/24/07. This was another case where the local police (Bound Brook PD Officer Gianotto) actually took an interest in catching the crooks. We'll probably never actually see a dime of restitution but it's still refreshing when the good guys win! 11/23/09: Received our "Crime Victims' Rights" letter from the SA Office. Douglas Gary is named as the defendant charged with Financial Institution Fraud. 10/20/10: Received disposition letter for Douglas Gary. He received 4yrs, 3m jail time followed by 3yrs probation and $100 special assessment. Let's see how long it takes to get our restitution paid.

11/6/09: A person claiming to be Craig Addison in MO attempted to order a Schnitz Ignition Pro 2 using a stolen Wachovia Visa ending in 4012. They wanted the part Next Day Aired to 6365 Cinnamon Oaks, Dallas, TX 75241. None of the phone numbers provided were active. The email address used was ruddcook@yahoo.com . No parts were shipped. The scammers called multiple times from a blocked number trying to locate their package. I finally got a call back number of 469-233-5827. I called Mr. Addison's place of work (he's a VP at Wachovia) and his place of residence to inform him of the compromised card. He returned my calls immediately (super nice guy) and is filing a police report. Dallas PD called later in the afternoon with follow up questions (indicates they just might do something). Hopefully justice will prevail on this one!

10/26/09: A person claiming to be Michelle Glockow attempted to order 4 Dynojet PC5 units (2 Busa & 2 ZX14) using a stolen American Express card ending in 027. The phone number on the order was 347-403-0052 (NYC cell phone), the email address was obrooklyn77@yahoo.com and the ship to address was 2019 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212. We called the number and a male answered. He claimed Michelle was his sister and he stammered that he knew nothing about the order. I contacted American Express but received no help expect for them to verify the cardholder name and billing address. They were not willing to notify the card holder that her card was compromised. I found a number to Michelle's work?/temple and left a message for her to call. Hopefully she can pursue the thieves with the local authorities. 04/30/10: Steve from Hop Up Racing called to say he had a suspicious order come in. He Google searched the customers email address and found our scammers page. The email address is obrooklyn77@yahoo.com. He also commented that Todd's latest SEMDRA win was awesome. These scum are still at it!

8/4-5/09: A person claiming to be John Seabrone attempted to order $3238.42 worth of parts via 2 orders on our internet shopping cart. They were mainly ordering parts for a GSXR 1000. The phone number on the order was 757-852-6131 (if you call it you will get a female's voice mail). The email on the order form was guttergirl2009@yahoo.com (imagine that!). The ship to address was: 9612 9th Bay, Norfolk, VA 23324. Suspecting fraud, I called the issuing bank so they could inform the Mr. Seabrone. They confirmed the card was stolen and stopped further transaction. We left a few messages for the "customer" but they would never call back. On 08/07, I finally received an email from them looking for their parts and to let us know the email should have been guttagirl2009@yahoo.com. I explained via email that we needed to speak to them in order to get the right parts to them. He tried very hard to only communicate via email but I finally got him to call. The call came from 757-644-7660 and caller ID read "Samaniego? Once I had him on the phone I turned him over to Dan. I'm sure you can all imagine the outcome of that phone call!!

Miscellaneous Scammers & Scumbags

7/13/2011: Per Jay at APE
Serge Podrez from Buffalo Grove, Il. Ordered parts and needed them overnight to make a race. We don't usually do this for someone who has not dealt with us before, but we did. Didn't want APE to be the ones who caused him to miss a race. We overnighted the parts to him UPS COD secure. He refused it. We are stuck with $152.00 freight. ( they charge you double when it is returned ). Watch out for this guy.

6/28/2011: Per Stedman Motorsports:
Vincent Ouellet of 2015 de la montagne Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Z4 Canada ordered $1200 worth of parts. The delivery address was an apartment complex and the AVS matched. The package was delivered and signed for by a "Beckwith?". The customer did a chargeback claiming he didn't get the package. Vincent Ouellet's phone number is (418)551-3058.

5/19/2011: Fidel & Juan Azize of 360 Bike Pro in Kissimmee, FL ordered a custom swingarm on 5/4/2011. They were informed it would take 5-6 weeks to build and powder coat the swingarm. We received chargeback notification today. Luckily we have not shipped the swingarm but we did incure $77.71 worth of charges from our credit card processor. This customer will not be able to purchase from MPS until he rectifies this matter.

5/19/2011: Per Paul at Fast By Gast, Carl Lay from MI refused a shipment and owes for shipping charges. Customer is avoiding FBG and has not responded to calls, letters, or emails.

5/16/2011: Per Paul at Fast By Gast: "We had this new customer order some parts 1-Day Air with a different credit card address. We thought everything was fine because everything matched. 1 month later, he does a chargeback. This customer is a SCAMMER. DO NOT SHIP."

Customer Name - Darwin Peterson
Address - 23389 Telegraph Road, Southfield, MI 48033

04/19/2011: Brock' Performance provided the following information while we were verifying a dealer application:
Corey Richardson of Motor Cycle Tire Xpress (MTX Tires) in Kenner, LA purchased products in 12/2009 from them and the check bounced. Corey still owes Brock's $770. He is aware of this fact as we informed him we could not grant him dealer status until he cleared up this bad debt. I waited a week before I posted this hoping he would do the right thing.

02/24/2011: Richard at RCC Turbo (1-519-335-6504 www.rccturbos.com) forwarded the following information about this guy who is selling turbo kits as RCC when they are not:

Jack McCoy of
RCC Sportbike
AKA M 43 Powersports
...327 East Saginaw Highway
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
Phone: (517) 925-8154
Fax: (517) 925-8156
Email: rccsportbike@hotmail.com

Make sure you are getting authentic RCC parts! Call Richard if in doubt.

01/07/2011: Bobby called from DC Powersports to inform us that his 2003 Hayabusa with an MPS ECU shifter was stolen last Memorial Day. Please notify us if an ECU with S/N MPS_072 if found. It will also have one of the original ECU harnesses.

02/08/2007: Mike Kara of Bunnell, FL ordered and Dry Nitrous Kit and a Purge Kit with COD payment. We received the package back as "refused". We noticed the box had been opened and re-taped. It ends up this scumbag removed everything out of the box except the bottle. Don't know how he was able to do this unless he is in cahoots with the UPS driver. Attempted to contact customer multiple times to no avail. Customer's email address is suztl1000rm@aol.com.

04/25/2003: Dan Stoll of Stoll Racing in IL bounced a check for $375.70 for an air shifter, air compressor and Hayabusa wire harness. 12/28/2010: Spoke with Dan and he swore he would make payments until the debt is cleared. He has dodged us ever since

Counterfeit Check Case

1/27/09: Tom A., a customer who had posted pistons for sale in our classified section sent me the following information:

I was contacted by a person whose e-mail is jbarbar197911@yahoo.com This person wanted to buy a set of pistons I have on this site in your classified section. All seemed ok until I received a check for a very large amount of money with instructions to cash it immediately and send the balance to someone else to cover the shipping costs. This person claims to live in the U.K., the check came from Wisconsin via UPS overnight shipment written from a bank in Arizona, and the shipper is supposed to be in Florida!! Upon inspection from my bank I was informed that this check was counterfeit!! Watch out for this person he is a liar cheat and a thief!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the opportunity to expose this person

"Robert Jones" Money Order Scam
Columbus, GA

07/21/2008: What's up with the scammers? We just got hit again. Close one door and another opens! This time it was a COD cash order. We received the USPS money orders from UPS today and found that they have already been endorsed/cashed. The scammer used white out to cover the original payee name and wrote in ours. This guy's address is 6223 Bayberry Dr, Columbus, GA and he probably rides a 2007 GSXR 1000 and will be installing one of our new Spyder Nitrous Kits and an Automatic Air Shifter. He used the name Robert Jones but I doubt that really is his name. The name on the money orders is David Jordan. I guess we'll have to quit accepting CODs now.

9/1/2008: I just got off the phone with Garron from Adam's Performance in Mooresville, NC. Apparently "Robert Jones" hit them last week. They shipped a Bazzaz Box, a chain and 06-07 GSXR 1000 extensions. Same story ... used or cancelled money orders. He has also called using the names Michael and Bobby Davis ordering a pipe, clutch levers and a steering stabilizer. The order going to the "Davis" person went back to Adams Performance b/c "Davis" never picked it up. All orders are shipping to Columbus, GA addresses. This joker will have to get all this stuff installed and tuned. Someone has to know something.

10/20/2008: Update on the "Robert Jones" case. UPS finally reimbursed MPS the full amount for the fraudulent money orders. It took many phone calls and determination but they finally came through.

Scott McKinney Stolen Credit Card Scam
Chesterton, IN

07/17/2008: I started this new Scammer alert page and sent a mass email in honor of a very unscrupulous person in our midst. His name is Scott McKinney of SMM Performance Parts in Indiana (www.SMMPerformance.com). He was a dealer of ours for a very brief time (3 orders) and decided to chargeback a $578.78 order and keep the parts. I found out yesterday the card he used has been reported as stolen by the cardholder who lives in DE. I have provided just a few links to the forum threads devoted to this guy. What a gem. We have filed criminal charges but also wanted to warn others to beware. Please do not confuse this Scott McKinney from INDIANA with the one from OHIO. They are two different people.

http://www.modularfords.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106073 http://www.montecarloss.com/communit...&Number=447492
http://www.tahoeforum.com/showthread.php?t=8953
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/...Off0319987.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/...Off0325819.htm
http://www.modularfords.com/forums/s....php?p=1146911http://www.streetcarchaos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12306
http://www.cadillacforums.com/forums/cadillac-escalade-ext-esv-forum-2007/142887-smm-performance-scott-mckinney.html

Thank you for your time,

MPS Racing

07/21/2008: Mr. McKinney was arrested today on a class C felony. His bike and brand new motor were confiscated! Last I heard he's there with no bond and the authorities are putting together a plethora of other charges!

10/21/2008: Good news: We received a check from McKinney in September for the $578.78 he owed us. I was surprised but figured his lawyer was attempting damage control. Bad news: When we returned from the AMA Dragbike race in Norwalk we had his NSF check and Notice of Bankruptcy paperwork for McKinney in the mailbox. His bankruptcy hearing is 11/5/2008. I doubt he will be successful due to all the fraudulent activity surrounding his debt and he still has multiple criminal charges pending. Time will tell.

01/21/09: Received a check for $600 postdated for January 20th on 1/7/09. Deposited it today. Let's see if this one works!

5/30/09: McKinney was sentenced today. He got a few years probation and a few months of house arrest. I'm not sure if justice was served but at least something was done.

Counterfeit MPS Products on Ebay

May 2006: We know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but it has come to our attention that Angelo Joanos, with the eBay seller name of angelojoanos, in LaPlace, LA is selling counterfeit MPS air shifters on eBay. We have filed a complaint to eBay and have alerted the proper law enforcement agencies. The products come with MPS instructions printed from our web site and do not have MPS decals on them. I have worked for 26 years building MPS’ reputation for quality products and service. I feel this misrepresentation is doing our customers a great disservice, as these products do not have a lifetime warranty through MPS as genuine MPS products do. We would like to let everyone know that these are not MPS products and we are not affiliated in any way with this eBay seller. I urge you not to buy his counterfeit products! Thank you, Dan Rudd.

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Scammers Suck!!!