December 15, 2007
I have had several clients get caught in a scam this year. An owner of a trucking company; a restaurant; and one who works on boats. Most of the time it involves a foreign company. Sending money to get a government grant for a minority owned business; receiving a phoney cashiers check for too much money and the scammer asking you to send back the excess money; ordering supplies with multiple credit cards and having you pay the shipping to a phoney company. In each case the scam involves you sending or spending thousands of dollars.
Before you agree to send money over the phone, please talk to your accountant first. I would be able to tell you if other clients have been ripped off by the same gimmick. It hurts to see my clients lose typically some $3,000 on these phoney deals.
Be careful please.
The photo above was taken on the "Liberty Clipper" on Thanksgiving day with my family, my wife Pat, myself, our daughter Andrea, and our son Daryl, in Key West, Florida.
Henry (CEO)
