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LATEST UPDATE: Oct
14,2009
Scammer who calls himself "Stanley Olivarez" is not the artist of that
name.
See original story
Oct 24, 2008
One of the most disgusting aspects of scamming is the use of aliases that are
the real names of people with real businesses. One such person is artist
Stanley Olivarez. He has written to VillagePRESS for help and we publish
his letter to us, below. While we must warn of scam names being used, it
is essential that people check to see that the received email is not actually
legitimate.
VillagePRESS is also being used by scammers as we
receive information that mail we -- in fact we did not -- sent that was not able
to be delivered as the email address of the intended recipient is incorrect.....
We wonder how many others are similarly effected.
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Dear Sir/Ma'am,
My name is Stanley
Olivarez and I am an artist and self employed small business owner
offering art related and residential improvement services in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, USA.
Since the New Year I have had business contacts drop off to a
devastatingly low level of activity; even taking into account the
disastrous downturn in the economy world wide.
Suspicious, I Googled my name and I found that my name is being listed as
a ‘scammer’ of B&B with what sounds like a Nigerian scam, right in the
midst of my legitimate listings. Some one has taken/stolen my name and
is/has perpetrated a scam. Obviously, as would be expected, scammers use
fictitious names and aliases.
I don’t want to deprive anyone of information regarding scams, but I can
only suspect that this is really hurting me and I don’t know what to do.
I have contacted the US FTC and they instructed me to first contact the
poster of this information and see what can be done. The next step that I
was instructed to take was to call the FBI with my issue. I have no idea
what they can do.
Google instructs me to contact the webmaster to see about removing
listings. At this point I am following Google's direction and contacting
you directly. As I said, I don’t want to deprive anyone of information
regarding scams, but I just don’t know what to do about this negative
impact on my personal/business integrity.
I would appreciate any suggestions from you that could resolve this for
both myself and you/your clients.
Thank you,
Stanley
Olivarez |
Anyone with dealings similar to this is
asked to email
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