Public Service Page to avoid Scams & Credit Card Fraud

This page is intended to inform you, the public, about scams that we know of, and that everybody should be aware of and protected from. We hope that by listing these scams, we at 3klix.com have in some way or another have helped you avoid becoming a victim of very unscrupulous people and/or organizations, and if you are a merchant, to avoid credit card fraud. We will update this page regularly. So for your protection, we suggest you bookmark this page and visit it as often as possible.

The following addresses have been used in FRAUDULENT ORDERS placed with us.  DO NOT SHIP to any of the addresses below in the future:

SCAM #1

You, or someone in your company, will receive a telephone call informing you that your company is listed in an 800 telephone directory, and will ask you if you want a copy sent to your organization. You will not be told about any charges or fees whatsoever. When you receive the telephone directory, it will be accompanied by an invoice for the amount of something like $166.00. The invoice will also state that if you return the merchandise, you will be charged a 25% re-stocking fee, or sent to a collection agency. The telephone directory you receive is something you could have received for FREE from AT&T or some other telephone company.

SCAM #2

You, or someone in you company, will receive a telephone call inquiry from someone who wants the brand and model of your copy machine (copier) and/or printers. Do NOT give this information to the person on the other end of the phone. If you do, you will be sent a lot of copy and/or printer toner that you did not really want, accompanied by an invoice. If you refuse to pay, you will be sent to a collection agency.

SCAM #3

You receive an order, either online or by telephone, from individuals who claim they are PH.D.'s employed by Ahmadu Bello University in Queensland, Australia, and refer to themselves as Dr. Ladan or something like that, and will ask you to ship merchandise to them at an address in Australia, providing you with a credit card that they claim was issued either in Nigeria or Australia.

SCAM #4

You receive an email from somebody that uses a woman's name (Samantha in our case) asking you if you remember her and to please call her at a number starting with the area code 664 (in our case we were asked to call phone number 664-410-4305). This area code is in a country called Montserrat. If you call this number, you will get a big fat bill from your telephone company, which you will not be able to dispute.

SCAM #5 (reprinted from another article) :

Six people at a certain company received calls that went something like the following:

Caller: "This is AT&T.  Will you accept charges for a collect call from your wife?"

Victim: "Yes".

Caller: "Sorry, but the charge did not go through.  Do you have another way of paying for the call?"

Of the six people called, one person did give up his calling card number. Of course, once the supposed spouse was not put on the line as he had expected, he realized he had been conned.  He cancelled his credit card (or calling card) number, but in the few minutes the number was still active, calls had already been placed to Chile and Germany.

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