Kim Ramirez ripoff online checks bounced never paid for items received Oxnard CA California
Contact between you and the Person/company that victimized you.
Type of Contact: Web Page
Date of Contact: 12/19/2003
Total money lost on contact date: $122.57
Contact Information:
12/19/03~12/22/03~12/26/03. Items ordered from my online store starting 12/19/03 paid for with 3 checks via an online check method. Shipped items 12/29/03.
1st check bounced the next day 12/30/03, the other 2 bounced also. Contacted buyer 12/31/03 via email to inform her that the check had bounced, also left a phone message, no reply from buyer. I cancelled 2 more orders that the buyer had placed.
Sent an email 01/03/04 & 01/04/04 informing buyer that all checks have bounced & that I was contacting the authorities.
01/05/04- Buyer replied that she had been out of town & that the acct #'s were wrong also "I have refused delivery of the merchandise until we can get the payment straighten out. Please let me know how you will accept payment now" My reply: PayPal bank transfer, BidPay or Yahoo PayDirect.
01/06/04-buyer said Yahoo PayDirect and would take a couple of days for the bank transfer to Yahoo.
01/08/04 I emailed from my web store to find the progress of payment. No reply. Checked Post Office tracking 0280 5213 9071 4630 2436 the package had not been refused and had been delivered.
01/09/04 sent a request for payment via Yahoo, again informing her that I was contacting the authorities, reply from buyer wanted to send 2 items back, said link to Yahoo for payment would not work, I told her to deduct those items from the bill. She replied payment would get to me by 13th-14th Jan 04.
01/14/04- Sent buyer another request via Yahoo PayDirect, I also phoned & spoke to her, she now said that she wanted to send all the items back. I said fine all I want is my merchandise or payment.
01-16-04- Emailed buyer for tracking # for the return was sent 0103 8555 7492 9561 8664 an online delivery confirmation # to say that the PO was electronically notified of a pending shipment. Items were never shipped back.
I have made many phone calls & at one time did a recall for the package before it had arrived at the destination. It was still delivered. I have kept all correspondence, emails from the buyer were long and full of excuses.
Contact With Law Enforcement Or Another Government Agency:
NFIC~IFCC~Mail Fraud~Contaced local police in both cities.
Additional Information:
I have tried many ways to report this person, It is extremely hard to report or find anyone that is interested. This leaves a person with the concept that it is extremely easy for these people to defraud & steal from you, they know that they can get away with this & that most people will give up. How many times has she done this?
Janet
San Diego, California
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Janet
San Diego,California,
U.S.A.
Reply to Advice from Debra
#3Author of original report
Sat, September 04, 2004
Thank you very much for your advice--I had contacted her local police, I was told that I had to file a report my end 1st---I called our local police, dispatch gave me a phone# to call that dealt with internet fraud. I called that # they said they were the secret service and could not help. At one point I was given another # to call that dealt with her area--"can not remember at the moment what the office was" they could not help, none of the places I called could help or passed me on to someone else.
I did receive a letter from the postal inspection office, this said that my case would be handled through their Consumer Protection Agency, a letter was also sent to the violator, giving them 30 days to respond, I had to wait 45 days to send back a questionnaire, I did in April, have heard nothing since. I also contacted a collection agency, they sent letters made ph calls but were never able to achieve anything.
I had called the bank she used on the checks, they said they could not do anything even though she was using their bank name. I probably could write a lot more about this and what I tried to do~~~~
Debra
Potomac,Maryland,
U.S.A.
hope this helps
#3Consumer Suggestion
Fri, August 20, 2004
As a business owmer you learned your lesson the hard way. Never ship items until payment has cleared. Contact an attorney in the State where she lives. She can be sued for replevin-to get the items back or for their value and for writing a bad check. You could also try to contact the State's Attorney or police where she lives to see if they will file charges for uttering or theft.