Comments on: Dealers Beware: Scammers are Taking on the Film Industry

By: Itint4u

Itint4u — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:24:28 +0000

Have had same call several times a year for the last three years. Always use the TTY caller wanting several SUVs Tinted but needs them shipped wanted us to charge their card for ship charge and deposit for film then wire money for ship to their shipper.we now take the calls and if not busy we play with them now an give them the run around for as long as we can to waste their time as they have waisted ours time and time again!

By: terri

terri — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:54:37 +0000

In response to Mark,

That was just an example of the many different types of stories that are being used, if the tint shop charges a fraudlent credit card then mails or gives the cash to a bogus body shop then later when the card charges are reversed to the merchant (tint shop) is out the money. The idea here is to just stay on your toes and beware of any unusual requests small or large in volume.

By: Charlotte Streidel

Charlotte Streidel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:42:13 +0000

Our automotive tint shop got two phone calls only hours apart this past week. TTY caller said they were a North Carolina dealership with 8 vehicles transferring to Maryland. Requested full tint for large SUVs, pay by credit card an extra amount and difference to be wired back to dealership. I told caller to “take a hike”. When caller asked what that meant, I deduced that no red-blooded American would question what that means…. so then I told him to “buzz off” and hung up. Hee hee.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:00:23 +0000

I don’t understand this part;

“The caller indicates that payment has to be made to the body shop before the tinting can be scheduled then asks the tinter to pre-charge a personal credit card and have the money (check or cash) in the charged amount, ready for pick up to be delivered to the body shop, but the vehicle never shows up for tinting and a month later the charges are declined as they are using stolen credit cards.”

It sounds like the tinter is paying for the the tint job. ” payment has to be made to the body shop”

can you explain?

By: Michele Ervin

Michele Ervin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:21:49 +0000

We had a similar experience.Only they wanted to purchase an extremely large amount of 11,000.00 worth.
Gave us there card information then proceeded to insist on there freight company to ship .The card cleared but we new something was fishy. Reported this to our bank and indeed this was fraud.We would have lost out on material as well as 3,000.00 for the freight company had we given our information.They used a deaf person with a real ATT operator.It is scarey.Only talk with a real person
Michele