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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Scam Email: David Morton

An email I received from a reader:

I wanted to share an art scammers name, email, telephone number and information with you.  I am an artist and I was contacted by a "Mr. David Morton".  The initial email read as follows:

"I am so excited that I came across your work on Internet search, I am interested in purchasing some creative artworks from you let me know their various prices. And how much discounts are you going to give? Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks and best regards!

Mr. David"


I thought it was suspicious, but I had never heard of an art scam so I emailed him back.  We exchanged a few emails and he had me send a list of all the available work that I had.  He picked out one piece that he said would be an anniversary gift for his "wife".  He asked if he could pay me
an extra amount to cover private shipping because he was moving to Canada and he wanted to keep the painting as a surprise for his "wife".  This is when red flags started showing up for me.  I wanted to catch this lowlife so I entertained his emails and he sent me a check via priority mail.  The check was from a company called Ausenco Engineering USA South IN. located at 1320 Willow Pass Road in Concord, CA, 94520.

In a few days, the check came and I immediately got an email instructing me to deposit the check.  I took it to my bank where they immediately flagged it as fraudulent.  "Mr. David" continued to insist that he was interested in purchasing the piece.  He continued to text me until I had enough of this loser conman.

As an artist, I love painting and I love having my pieces in people's homes.  This is why this is such a sick and twisted scam.  These scammers will never understand true beauty and art and I hope everyone becomes aware of these scams.

Thank you for your blog and for fighting these scammers!  I'll include a summary list of this conman's information.


Here is a summary of this scammers info:


Fake name: Mr. David Morton
Fake Profession: Ocean Engineer at Ausenco Engineering
email: samdavid.morton01@gmail.com
phone numbers: (720)-538-4635 (David's phone),
(409)-600-9495 ("Shipper's Number")
Shippers name and address: Carol Brashear, City: Ravensdale Wa., Zip code: 98051

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Scam Email: Fake PayPal Payment

Here is a good one to watch out for!

The fake email wants you to believe someone sent you a large amount of money via PayPal and that PayPal recommends you withdraw it.

No one sent you money and PayPal is definitely not recommending anything.

The scammer wants you to click on the link, where the link (I won't share it so it won't be active, and I delinked it below in the example) looks something like this:

http://[scammer_domain_here].com/click.php?[my_email_was_inserted_here]

That can NOT be good. Do NOT click on that link!!! Delete the email and move on. Don't be a victim.

Subject: Lauri just sent you $3,182.00 USD with Paypal. Paypal recommends to withdraw it now.

From: Lauri [obligationwaqyf@pornoroutine.io]

Lauri just sent you $3,182.00 USD with Paypal

Click here to continue 

Best of luck! 
Lauri