Meltdown: Scheme to scam candymaker goes sour
February 13, 2009 by Charlie WalkerPosted in: In this week's e-Newsletter, Latest News & Views
How sweet it wasn’t. An Ohio entrepreneur’s scheme to scam a truckload of chocolate ended up in a meltdown.
Apparently, the teen went online and used his former high school’s purchasing number to go on a shopping spree that would make any dentist smile.
The enterprising youngster put in an order for $37,000 of lollipops and candy bars.
The Goodies Factory in Michigan grew suspicious of the order, and decided to call the high school to verify the order.
Oops.
Police were contacted and detectives told The Goodies Factory to ship an empty box. The teen had listed his home address as the delivery location.
When the box showed up, so did the law.
The 18-year-old was arrested for felony communications fraud.
Still, there’s one unanswered question: What was he going to do with all of that candy?
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February 18th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Put more effort into the big kids(CEO’s)who are caught with their hands in the cookie jar.Like the old man with the smirk on his face who stole billions of dollars off of innocent people and was sending it to all his realitives.All the banks, mortgage companies, and other financial institutions who are ripping off all the people in this country!We worry about the little picture and not the bigger more destructive ones, so typical.Where is the law at with all the bigger theives who stole peoples retirement funds and much much more!They show up for the kid(the law) but I don’t see anything happening to all the so called way bigger crooks who are making this country a mockery and destroying values and ethics!
February 18th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I agree Richard. You know what I think? Maybe we need to groom some of these young entrepreneurs to become CEO’s. It’s obvious what he was going to do with the candy…sell it of course! With the state of public education in America today, his high school probably owed him $37,000 for not teaching him anything for the past 4 years! (not saying what he did was right…)
March 11th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Great. I have a man who stole about $25k from me of which $8k was recovered. He keeps
trying the same scam on me with a different name and e-mail and company, but the same
MO and wanting the same product.
Can I get the police to help me catch him? Not a chance. Multi states are involved because
he claims to be headquarted in one state or the other and drop shipping to NYC, New Jersey, etc.
Then he picks up the package at a UPS store or other convenient drop.
I contact NYC and they claim it is some other states responsibility and of course eveyone else
just ignores me because they don’t want to deal with it. Visa doesn’t think it is their problem,
they just charge us back.