The FN Scam merchant.

[Belker]

That FN customer looking fer late night grocerie deliveries and offering to pay €150 in taxi fare has made his way to Cork, I got his FN job offer at 3.30am last night and regocnised the text as posted on here a few months back.

I rang him and he asked fer my whats-app number, I hung up and blocked him. His user handle on FN was Simpso.

[John m]

You will be asked to pick up smokes or milk or something .But what you are collecting is cloned Debit or Credit Cards .So offering you 150 lets them check the card is not cancelled but you wont get the money when its discovered to be a fraudulent transaction .You are the Courier and Guinea Pig for the Card!

[Belker]

I was wondering where the Scam was, but thanks to this forum I was well aware of it in advance.
And Thanks to whomever it was that first posted about this scam in Dooblin a few months back. 

[taxi1990]

why would you do favor like that for a stranger anyway? id do shop runs for customers I know, not people I don't know.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

That FN customer looking fer late night grocerie deliveries and offering to pay €150 in taxi fare has made his way to Cork, I got his FN job offer at 3.30am last night and regocnised the text as posted on here a few months back.

I rang him and he asked fer my whats-app number, I hung up and blocked him. His user handle on FN was Simpso.

do they sound like foreigners. i texted the cunts make and forth and they sounded like absolute cunts they did.

[silverbullet]

That FN customer looking fer late night grocerie deliveries and offering to pay €150 in taxi fare has made his way to Cork, I got his FN job offer at 3.30am last night and regocnised the text as posted on here a few months back.

I rang him and he asked fer my whats-app number, I hung up and blocked him. His user handle on FN was Simpso.

do they sound like foreigners. i texted the cunts make and forth and they sounded like absolute cunts they did.

Deffo foreigners, probably Africans.

[silverbullet]

That FN customer looking fer late night grocerie deliveries and offering to pay €150 in taxi fare has made his way to Cork, I got his FN job offer at 3.30am last night and regocnised the text as posted on here a few months back.

I rang him and he asked fer my whats-app number, I hung up and blocked him. His user handle on FN was Simpso.

[Belker]

I had him Firstly on Friday morning 3.30am and his FN username was SIMPSO, which I blocked.

I got him again on Sat morning at 6am and his new FN username is SIMPSON.

Both jobs were booked fer outside convenience stores that were CLOSED going to different hotels.

Spoke to him on both occasions, sounded like as asian male with very poor english, I blocked him again.

[Rat Catcher]

You shoulda just told him it's cash up front or no deal.

[Belker]

You shoulda just told him it's cash up front or no deal.

As obviousely it is a Scam of some sort, no real point as that would never happen, on both occasions after speaking to him both times, I just waited out the last minute or so of the 5 minutes to get me Fiver Scrub fee, IF FN decide to pay them ?

[Belker]

You will be asked to pick up smokes or milk or something .But what you are collecting is cloned Debit or Credit Cards .So offering you 150 lets them check the card is not cancelled but you wont get the money when its discovered to be a fraudulent transaction .You are the Courier and Guinea Pig for the Card!

That really isn't adding up fer me John m, can you explain it in a bit more detail (without any hypothetical nonsense) in to something that can actually work fer this FN scam, because this fella has been moving around, we have reports of him Twice in Dooblin and now in Cork.

By the way both convenience stores that I was sent to to pick him up from were closed in the early morning.

Everyone he contacted from on here has Not played Ball with him so far, so we still don't know exactly what the Scam is except that it involves getting the drivers Whatsapp number ??

Anyone have any idea of how this Scam works ?
Because obviously it does work, if it didn't then he wouldn't still be travelling around the country to do it.

[Rat Catcher]

The scam isn't targeting you, Ken... you're just a pawn. I know of two blokes who unwittingly participated in similar scams and both got paid in cash, one just the fare (c.€90 IIRC) and the other a 3 figure sum including c.€50 tip. I think they were both Bolt cash jobs, the main scam artist (i.e. the one who interacted by telephone) having a cockney accent.

[Rat Catcher]

The way the one's I heard of worked was pretty simple. They hire the taxi to collect an envelope from a private residence, The main scam artist phones the driver and asks him to knock on the door to lend a bit of professionalism and the initial desto is given as a bank. On route to the bank the desto changes and further along the line the scamster rings again to say his bruver/muver/ol' man is the person you collected the card from and he's now waiting for it at his new desto 'cos he's lost his own card and needs money for something or other. At that point he may offer a significant tip for the inconvenience (as in one case I heard of) or may not as in the other.

[mercenary for hire]

This is a long post sorry..

I got one of these jobs couple of years ago on Bolt I think....
Scammers booked a taxi for pick up on Church street at going to Capel street only 500 meters away (for Ken)about 7pm...my perfect type of job.

I arrived and eventually after talking to a chap on the phone who claimed to be her nephew I met an irrate owlone.He sounded black on the phone and English.The owlone was Irish who was annoyed at me for some reason and she gave me an envelope.

Brought the envelope to Capel street where the chap on the phone told me to meet someone else which started to annoy me and he promised me a big tip too which I kinda thought was bollox as the blacks rarely tip.I was hungry and suspicious at that stage so after waiting on Capel street for maybe another ten mins with yer man on the phone pleading with me to wait for his pal I just drove off and dropped the envelope which had an ATM card in to the Bridewell cop shop and went home.

A few months later I picked up a Black chap with an Irish accent around Shangan in Santry who I think may have come through the walkway from Ballymun but I can't be sure.All the way into town was getting directions to meet someone in town to collect something but the person on the phone kept telling him to hurry up.I believe the chap in Ballymun was the bloke I was supposed to meet on Capel street a few months earlier but that's just my guess.That job was a freenow cash job.

I couldn't figure out the scam for a long time except we're being used as a go between.

[John m]

Merch they pay you with the card on Sum Up or whatever device you have .If its accepted they know the card is working and not reported in any way .If its declined they have options of running or paying cash .Most of the Drop offs are at Hotels lad comes out from reception if the card bounces he says hold on there till I go up to my room probably knows the way out through the kitchen .