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package held up at customs
#24515763 - 07/29/17 09:24 AM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Purchaser was US based
long story short; 100+ grams of Dutch mdma en route.
It was shipped by some strange freight courier, and not your typical national airmail companies, or dhl, etc.
Swim received an email from the shipping company a couple of days ago, requesting for bank wire (to a Navy bank account) $490, which was 94% refundable(lest VAT, hazmat fee, etc) upon securement of original shipping documents, bill of lading, etc. In 10 years of importing and exporting perfectly legal items, swim has never been once required to do this or to furnish these, and the seller always did their part, or claimed a low value on customs.
What Im seeing here is two options: A) The moment swim wires bank money to this account from a bank account in their name they are incriminated as having knowledge of the purchase. B) this is some sorta bribe, paid to a corrupt shipping company of uncertain origin(site says Danish, but address is Ukraine) to "fast track" it through customs.
Since receiving the mail swim has taken several precautions: -removing anything from the house that could be perceived as a component in packaging, distribution, etc -ditching old laptops, notebooks, sd cards, etc, anything containing anything even possibly incriminating. -having any objects of stored wealth such as gold shipped to a safe house far away in the event that itll be needed to be cashed out to pay lawyer fees a few months down the road.
Swim would like to receive package but believes the safest route might be to NOT pay for the shipping documents, write RTS if the package comes, and possibly move while its parked there for a month before they attempt any sorta controlled delivery.
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keyohnah
the proverbial mind spread



Registered: 10/18/10
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It just kind of sounds like you're being ripped off. Why, out of nowhere, is there this extra "refundable" fee? Has this person ordered from this source before? Sounds sketchy as fuck to me.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: package held up at customs [Re: keyohnah]
#24516189 - 07/29/17 01:15 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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The fee was not levied by the seller but by the third party shipping company.
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Anonymous #1
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A third theory of mine is that the seller has flipped as part of an interpol operation and they want to certify the owner of the bank account so they can make a bust.
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nooneman


Registered: 04/24/09
Posts: 14,703
Loc: Utah
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Don't wire anyone anything to anyone. No matter how this turns out, you lose. Cut your loses and don't look back. Don't respond to any emails, or letters about this. This is either a scam (which is what it probably is) or you're close to being busted.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: package held up at customs *DELETED* [Re: nooneman]
#24516449 - 07/29/17 03:45 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Anonymous #1
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This is the shipping website: http://maritimedeliveryservice.com
the lack of in depth information makes one think it is a scam; trying to put the tracking information in checks out.
the fact that it is SO similar to this website, which is legitimate: http://maritimedeliveryservices.com/
swim thinks they are trying to clone a legitimate website with a fake one, look carefully at the "s" on the end of the url before the ".com"
Here is what doesnt add up: Seller is in the US with a US address on the east coast Product is Dutch Market is Russian Shipping company is incorporated in Denmark Shipping company address is Ukrainian. Package is supposedly tracked and in st louis, but was airmail. payment to process paperwork is supposed to go to a us navy bank account
Edited by Anonymous (07/29/17 04:37 PM)
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Edited by Anonymous (07/13/20 08:34 PM)
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Kryptos
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The spelling mistakes are the only part of that which I would find excessively suspicious.
I do a lot of shopping on Alibaba, because Chinese goods are usually better quality than US goods and cost a tenth of the price. Many of the sellers I've worked with will have constant wording and grammar lapses, even if they're doing millions in business annually. However, their spelling is always perfect, because google translate's spelling is perfect.
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