Description

Our furniture store was sent an inquiry by a Brandon Wall through our websites "contact us" form. He requested details and availability on in stock goods as they needed a table ASAP. Worked to provide him details and asked if he had a freight forwarder that he liked to use as he was located in Hawaii and we don't typically handle shipments to Hawaii being a store in Seattle, WA. Rare, but this isn't unheard of, so I wasn't initially suspicious. He quickly provided a company (2 Day Express) and requested that we work with them to get a shipment scheduled ASAP. He then called to pay for the furniture and the cards went through without issue (I even processed them through immediately to be sure and didn't wait until the end of the day) but he was insistent that I lock in the freight quote and get that taken care of ASAP. Started to feel a little bit off about this and researched both Brandon Wall and the freight forwarder he suggested 2 Day Express. I found it odd that a freight company was located in a office tower and not a warehouse, the website had been flagged as suspicious and finally I ran across a previous scam by Brandon Wall on the BBB website. Same exact set up, only I didn't get to the point of giving the freight company any money. Issued refunds and sent Brandon receipts saying I could no longer fulfill his order as the item wasn't in fact in stock. And he quickly followed up wanting to check the status of additional items. Did not respond further.