Scam Alert: He’s Baaaaaack!
Posted by remoteadminservices on January 7, 2008
Thanks to a recent comment from the Scam Library post, our illustrious Todd Mayer is now Ted Grant. Kudos to J. Smith for letting us know (and allowing me to reprint).
Mr. Todd Meyer has resurfaced as Ted Grant in the e-mail I received today. This is what I received:
Hello, my name is Ted Grant. I operate a consultancy
firm here with name and registered address as follows:
Xpress Solutions, 37 old Lilly BLVD, London NE7 9KP.
A client of mine who is due to arrive in the United
States in few weeks time is interested in your virtual
services. Can you tell me a little more about your
mode of operation?
If interested, please reply
Thanks
Ted Grant.
It seems that Mr. Grant is still using the alfredlombado [at] yahoo.com email address from the last time. Will someone at Yahoo Security please get their act together and knock this guy of the ’Net?? Their Security Site not is easily navigable, but if any VAs receive emails from Mr. so-called Todd Mayer or Ted Grant or any email from above, you can report the Yahoo ID here. Yes, our distinguished scam artist will likely return with a different Yahoo ID, but we now know what to look for.
Kerri Loafman said
I too received the same email today. After my initial response he replied with the following.
“Thanks for the email.
While Mary Morgan (my client) is in the United States
she will need your services in Word processing,
transcription, Power Point presentations, scanning,
data entry, proofreading, database management, and
Internet research over the next 2 months. She will be
arriving your city in about 3 weeks from now.
Will like you to know if you can do this and pricing
for that. She is a real estate broker, 56 years of
age.
Please address and give me a quote based on this.
Ted”
I am so glad that I did my research and ran across this post.
camika said
I received the same email. we went back and forth for awhile but he stopped replying after i would not give all of my info and started asking questions.
Jeff said
I got this email and Googled the contact info to see if this guy had a website and found this scam alert. He was using this address: tmustmk2@yahoo.com
“Hello, my name is Ted Grant. I operate a consultancy firm here with name and registered address as follows: Xpress Solutions, 37 old Lilly BLVD, London NE7 9KP.
A client of mine who is due to arrive in the United States in few weeks time is interested in your nutritional services. Can you tell me a little more about your mode of operation?
If interested, please reply
Thanks
Ted Grant.”
Thanks for putting this out there to warn people.
Jeff
Lauren said
Got the same exact e-mail today, but something didn’t feel right about it. I responded and his response made me weary because it went straight to talking about money and how he would keep half. I cannot report him because I do not have a yahoo account, but beware if you get his e-mails.
Thanks for the warning.
remoteadminservices said
Not true. You can report to Yahoo Security , no ID necessary. However, you will need to make sure that you copy/paste the entire headers so they can make an attempt to find the source.
Good luck!
Suzanne said
I am a court reporter in Alabama, and I also offer nationwide transcription and proofreading services. I received the same type e-mail from “Ted Grant” and thought it looked suspicious. Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to report on this guy. I will do my part to report him to Yahoo Security as well. The e-mail I received is “pasted” below.
Thanks again!
*****************************
Subject: proofreading services.
From: alfredlombado@yahoo.com
To: alfredlombado@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 1:49 pm
Hello, my name is Ted Grant. I operate a consultancy
firm here with name and registered address as follows:
Xpress Solutions, 37 old Lilly BLVD,London NE7 9KP.
A client of mine who is due to arrive in the United
States in few weeks time is interested in your
proofreading services.
Can you tell me a little more about your mode of
operation?
If interested, please reply
Thanks
Ted Grant.
**************
Laura said
Thank you for this post. I also received this email today. I do get a lot of business via the Internet as I have a listing at a scopists’ website (I proofread for court reporters) but this was not the typical email inquiry from a reporter so I Googled his name and address and immediately found your site.
The email I received was from tmustmk2@yahoo.
Best wishes,
Laura
Susan said
I received a similar email from this guy. He asked me for a quote for my proofreading services, which I sent him. In his reply back to me, he told me he’d pay me FOUR TIMES what I quoted, as long as he got 50% of my earnings. This sounded too good to be true, plus intuition told me to do a background check on this guy; that’s when I happened upon this site here.
Is there anywhere else we can report this guy other than to Yahoo Security, lest he prey on others?
kris said
alfredombado [@] yahoo.com just sent me the identical email. As soon as I read it, I googled it. Thanks for putting it up. What a loser. This guy should think of something better. If his client’s in another country, why does he need a US employee or proofreader or anything like that which can be done over the net? If it’s a haircut the client wants, I get it. But i do not cut hair, babysit, or tailor suits.
Like i said, the guy is a loser!
Jennifer said
WOW….I recieved the same email
Hello, my name is Ted Grant. I operate a consultancy firm here with name and registered address as follows: Xpress Solutions, 37 old Lilly BLVD, London NE7 9KP.
A client of mine who is due to arrive in the United States in few weeks time is interested in your virtual services. Can you tell me a little more about your mode of operation?
If interested, please reply
Thanks
Ted Grant.
Then his next emial was…
Thanks for the email.
While Mary Morgan (my client) is in the United States she will need your services in Word processing, transcription, Power Point presentations, scanning, data entry, proofreading, database management, and Internet research over the next 2
months. She will be arriving your city in about 3 weeks from now.
Will like you to know if you can do this and pricing for that. She is a real estate broker, 56 years of age.
Please address and give me a quote based on this.
Ted
Then it was…
My client is ready to pay $100 hourly for this job, this is because this was the quote we worked with the last time she required a similar service so I really don’t intend to go beyond that.
However 50% of this money will be payable to you while the other 50% will be remitted to me as my brokerage service charges.
I normally insist that my clients make at least a 60% non-refundable deposit as retainer and to guaranty the job. She normally makes payments in cashiers checks from her US bank account meaning that funds are guaranteed/prepaid ensuring that its has instant value once deposited into your account.
I hope you don’t have any problems with such arrangement?
I wait to hear from you.
Ted
I knew something was fishy becase it was like he wasnt reading my emails I sent to him at all. Thanks for a website like this so that we dont fall for this kind of thing.
Thanks
Amanda said
I also received this scam email today.
Thanks for the heads up about the scam! My email came from “tmustmk2[@]yahoo.com” and I have reported it to Yahoo.
Diane Roney said
I received the same message via my email from my website…we sent several emails back and forth, along with a proposal. I thought this was getting kind of wierd so I said let me do a search and guess what…here we are. What is his game…we’re not giving him any money so why would he give us 60% upfront.
Diane Roney said
I sent Mr. Grant / Lombardo whatever his name is a terse email informing him that I have submitted his emails to the FBI and that I have instructed my tech support staff that if he sends any more of these egregious emails and scams to me further action will be taken against him with his emails going to the authorities. I guess he got the message.
Bonnie said
I responded in one sentence to him, asking him if he had not yet been bo my website, and then Googled his company name and his name — and here I am.
I usually check things before I respond, but I figured that if it was not for real, I certainly haven’t exposed myself to financial loss at this point.
Now that I have found he’s a scam artist, I’m tempted to play with him if he writes back.
I ought to tell my fellow freelancers that he’s on the prowl for victims. Thanks for being here.
Nancy said
Thanks for being here.
Deborah said
I just received the Ted Grant message – he must be running through the EFA listings. Thanks for posting the warnings, I am sure you have saved me major headaches.
Jessica Crooks said
WOW, I received an email from him last night, but my antennae went up so I decided to do a check on him. I found out that there really is an Xpress Solutions in the UK, but he had nothing to do with it.
Thanks for this site.
This is his email:
Hello, my name is Ted Grant. I operate a consultancy
firm here with name and registered address as follows:
Xpress Solutions, 37 old Lilly BLVD, London NE7 9KP.
A client of mine who is due to arrive in the United
States in few weeks time is interested in your
copyediting services. Can you tell me a little more
about your mode of operation?
If interested, please reply
Thanks
Ted Grant
Bill said
Many thanks. I got this gibberish this morning:
Hello, my name is Ted Grant. I operate a consultancy
firm here with name and registered address as follows:
Xpress Solutions, 37 old Lilly BLVD, London NE7 9KP.
A client of mine who is due to arrive in the United
States in few weeks time is interested in your
copyediting services. Can you tell me a little more
about your mode of operation?
He sent it from the alfred lombardo address.
Joanne said
I received the same e-mail this week. After providing him with a quote, he replied that he was willing to pay me three times that. Talk about a red flag! He used tmustmk2@yahoo.com as his e-mail address.
Kristen King said
I got it last week from the tmustmk2 address and thought it a bit odd myself, but didn’t have time to look into it until today. Thanks for the heads up!
kk
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[...] fourth result in my search was "Scam Alert: He’s Baaaaaack!" from the Remote Admin Services blog. Ted Grant, aka Todd Meyer/Mayer, aka Alfred Lombardo, [...]
Trish said
I got it today and so glad to see this thread. No client is out there with this kind of money and I’m thinking “yeah sure, buddy.” I’ve just reported him to the FBI myself.
Jojo said
Thanks for this – I also just got the email from Alfredlombardo@yahoo.com requesting info about my editing services. It sounded odd since I’m a writer not an editor. I always google weird-sounding stuff which lead me directly here. Awesome! I just reported him to Yahoo and also included a link to all these comments as proof of his scammerosity.
Christina said
If my memory doesn’t fail me there are no “BOULEVARDS” in London or anywhere in the UK. That should be your first cue. The streets in the UK could be “Street”, “Lane”, “Crescent”… but NO Boulevard (or Blvd.) I lived there some time ago and things may be changed, but the British stick to their beliefs and I don’t think they have changed that.
Look into http://www.yell.com (yellow pages in the UK) and put the address or even the postal code and see what you get.
This is almost like those people from Africa who are looking for someone here to let them use their bank account to transfer money left by their assassinated father/husband. Or the lottery scam, for that matter.
AJ said
Wow…what a sad world we live in when we have to be on such high alert to scam artists. I got the same e-mail and became suspicious after “Ted” offered to pay me more than what I quoted. Then, when he noted that he needed to sure he could trust me, since I’d be paying him from funds his client would pay me, I knew it was not on the up and up. I sincerely hope no one gets taken in by this guy. I guess I give him points for creativity (much more than the pleas from the widows of generals in Tanzania who need us to deposit funds in our accounts and then “pay back” just fraction to them).
C Fuller said
Thanks for this post, I’m glad I found it. I too Googled, and confirmed my suspicion that this email was a scam – I’ve received it twice… never responded. Thanks again.