We received an email from Wraskey Hallen aka Jim Bishop, regarding his wife's wrecking his "beloved" cadillac and wanting to have it towed to our shop for repairs. I googled the email address and found this forum before responding. , I am thankful that I did. Now I know it is a scam, so shall delete the email. Thanks all.

Ok and this is what they snet me once I gave a quick quote............


Okay fine i understand that the total price is $5031.46, I want you to understand that the private shipper that will pick up the food from you will be coming with a Temperature Controller truck to have all the food pick up. I want you to help me add extra $1800 plus the grand total of the food. So I want you to understand that the shipper is also the event coordinator. it will be picked up 3pm on the event date and also what i mean is that after charging the total of the food ordered, you will be helping me to charge additional $1,800 and you will have that send to the event coordinator which is also the shipper.  I want you to understand that you will have the $1800 send to them through Western Union Money Transfer. Because the shipper needs to pick up some other items for me such as chairs, tables, stages, tent. So let me know if you understand.  I will like to know if you accept discovery Card and do you have Western Union Around you .

Beware!!!

I am putting the exact email following my text I just received, sounded weird so I googles the name and found this site......Then I responded to him with a copy of someones post from this site..No thank you!

Quoting Wraskey Hallen :

Dear Sir/Ma,
 My Name is Andrew Bishop, I Am in the hospital now recovering from ear surgery and i will like to let you know that the event date is June 18th 2012 3pm .
I will like to make an order for 300 people for my company 25th Anniversary
on the June 18th  2012 3pm . This is pick up order .  And i want it in buffet style and picking up 3pm and also i will need napkins,silverware. etc. And it will be picking up 3pm on the event date. And also the event hall is just 35minute drive to your restaurant.


Chicken Grilled Sandwiches
 With Sides: potato salad and chips and coleslaw.


So let me have the price per person and the estimate total for the 300 people order.


  Email Me to: debbieswill@gmail.com


Regards
Andrew Bishop

Just tried this with my BBQ place in Pittsburgh!!! I copied and pasted the info I found on this page and sent it back to him.  I really pisses me off!

This exact order just came into my catering business!! For 300 people, no phone number, just wanted a quote.  The emails I was given were all different and didn't match the name of the person who signed the email.  he said he was recovering from surgery.....I'm way to busy with catering to deal with scams!

MAJOR SCAM!  Email he gave us was wraskeyltd@gmail.com/ phone number 202 201-0669/Andy Washko.  We are a Boat Dealership in Southern Oregon.  He said he wanted to tow his boat from New York.  Seriously? What a joke!  Look at his writing.  It is very obvious that he doesn't speak English.  Hopefully, all are smart enough to know from the onset that this is bogus!

I received an email from this man, saying he was going in the hospital to have his hearing repaired and he needed his RV towed from New York to Yuma where he now lives, and wanted it towed to our service center. Of course he wanted to pay with a credit card and have us western union it to the tow company in New York.  I also thought it was a scam, so we googled him and found this site.. What a turd, you just have to be careful when your a small business owner...

Same email sent to a Tex/Mex chain. I knew it was spam instantly from the repetitive information and poor grammar: the August 31st, pick up at 3 pm repeated 6 times, wants to know who the owner is multiple times and not a clue on punctuation.

My condolences to anyone who gets caught with this scam.

This is what I just received....I'm a caterer Company in Italy..........


Dear Sir/Ma

               My name is Dan Nakata and i will like to know if you are available to make food for 300 peoples on the  September 8th 2011 and it will be pick up in your store by 3pm and i will like you to give this message to you owner to email me back because i want to deal with the owner because this large order okay and email me back to my personal email so i can respond to you quickly which is Dannakata99@gmail.com please and i will like you to email me with your restaurant menu and restaurant web-site so i can check out your menu and choose the menu i want for the all 300 peoples okay and please remember to email me your restaurant menu and restaurant web-site okay and let me know if you are the owner of the restaurant so i can get back to you with the menu i want for 300 peoples okay and it will be pick up order so let me know if you can handle the order for me on  September 8th  2011  pickup time 3pm okay


My Name..  Dan Nakata
My Email   DANNAKATA99@GMAIL.COM
MY Personal Email   DANNAKATA99@GMAIL.COM
MAKE SURE YOU EMAIL ME BACK HERE DANNAKATA99@GMAIL.COM


Please email me if you know that you can handle it for me on  September 8th 2011  pickup 3pm and also email me with  your restaurant menu  or  restaurant web-site so I can choose the menu I want from there okay and also let me know if you are the owner of the store okay

Thank you

Mr. Nakata is also using a fax form requesting work for his Escalade and Ford P/up. I suspected a fraud and googled his name-Wow! Be carefull!

This "guy", Dan Nakata, is still at it.  I manage a restaurant in Louisville, KY, and just within the last three months I have gotten at least 4 faxes regarding catering, and at least 3 AT&T operator assisted phone calls for the same.  I can't believe ANYONE would be dumb enough to fall for either of these scams, but I often overestimate the general intelligence of the American public (if anyone actually takes the time to read what we're being sent, it is immediately all too obvious that it's a scam, and a poorly written one at that!).  I too am tired of these SOBs that waste our time, energy, and materials with no consequence.  These people take advantage of the hearing impaired service, and tie up the system for those that really need it.  I am posting the email link I was sent today below...in my free computer time, I plan on sending F-U emails to the address they sent with the hope of at least being annoying, since it appears that no punishment will likely ever happen.  Follow suit if these scammers irritate enough to care.

Just got a fax for the food for 300 ppl. Email given was dannakata99@gmail.com. Fax number was 7202237274. I have had the IP Relay scam attempted on me before, so I googled the name and found this site.

This person is at it again, sent 2 faxes to my restaurant with the same wording then responded with the exact wording I have seen oin this posting.  Thank Heavens for Google!!!!!   Stopped this person cold!!!!!

Actually, just looking more closely, the fax came from a local number 720-223-7274 from an Angel Villarreal.  Perhaps these scammers are making an attempt to seem more legitimate.  If they ever get someone who speaks and writes English correctly, the terrible writing is always my first clue!

I have half a mind to email this idiot scammer and say that I would like to charitabily donate the meals and use my own shipper so as not to incurre him any extra cost and see how he starts to back peddal.

My wife got a call from "Dan Nakada" today for an order for 300 people.  She called me and said "I wonder how many people fall for this crap?".  We had someone else call about 1 1/2 years ago asking for gluten free (our business) birthday cake/etc for 300 people.  I played along until they said chage extra and pay the shipper an aextra $450.00.  I told the TTY operator that it was a scam and hung up.  Don't think it was the same people, but similar calls with TTY both times.  You would think these people would be smart enough to at least change the name they are using so we can't find the scams so easily.

used AT&T tela help

I own a BBQ Catering company in South Florida and got an email from this lady claiming to want to put an order in but this scam happened to me a couple of years ago so I knew right away not to respond. Last time it happened like you said by relay service with the deaf and I didn't catch on so quickly. What a fool I was. Anytime now I get one of those calls I tell the operator right away that its a scam and they need to report it right away. These people are tricky. And please report it. It is the only way they can be stopped doing this.

Thank you for posting.  Looks like we got almost the exact same message.

Thank you for posting this info!

My family owns, yes, another barbecue restaurant, and we received calls today via a relay service for the deaf from DAN HALLEN and emails from danhallen03@gmail.com.  Almost word for word as described above.  Finally, after asking in several emails for his company name, address, phone number, etc., he told me more information which led me to this site.  I would never charge extra money and wire it to someone else, but it was nice to see that my gut feeling about these calls was right from the start.  He said his company was WRASKEY LTD. located at 865 Madison Street, Huntsville, AL, which is just one town over.  I knew that the address was fake because I once worked just down that same street.  It's an address for Huntsville Hospital.  He also continued to ask for my personal cell phone number, which, of course, I did not give him.  BE CAREFUL!  I just hope all the phone calls stop.

He did the same thing to me in August of last year. It seems he favors BBQ joints and auto parts? Texas BBQ in My case.At any rate, the most frustrating part is nothing seems to be able to be done about this.I frequently get phone orders but his was fishy to start with and then when we googled the name all these pages came up. Strange, huh.  I dealt with the police,  and the credit card company. I called the fraud department and they said it was a  company card not belonging of course to that person. they said these guys buy sheets and sheets of credit card numbers and just keep plugging them in. They would probably clear our machines because the companies do not realize they are being used.  The worst part to me is that they are using the ATT deaf lines as a cover for their voices AND ATT didnt even care. Huh!  I hope no one got ripped off. These things are so scary.  I think someone could make more of an effort to catch these people but they could be  anywhere...

This J*** Off needs to be caught and shipped straigt to hell...

I will need  pulled pork sandwiches for 300 peoples i want the  sandwiches  individual lunch box and i want 300 chips in small bag okay and  the date i need them is Feb 10th 2010....He gives a credit card # phone # and Email address to communicate with his dumb a$$..

He tried to pull this scam on my grandparents that just opened their Pappy's Smokin BBQ in Ellensburg WA...Thank god for Google..Thanks to everyone that posted their experience with the JACK OFF I was able to stop him from hurting hard working good hearted people....

Spread the word....

what happen to the money from the credit cards

what happens to the money from the credit cards

I got the same phone call last night at my place of business,

I got the exact same email word for word

Got this after replying to a request for catering from my restaurant. What an idiot.


okay fine i will need  pulled pork sandwiches for 300 peoples i want the  sandwiches  individual lunch box and i want 300 chips in small bag okay and  the date i need them is 4th of September  and it will be pick up by 3pm in your store by my private shipper agent so let me know if you can handle that for me on that date and ready for pick up by 3pm because am ready to make you advance payment now so let me know if u can handle it for us please So let me have the price per person now and the total price altogether now and do u sure you can have it ready for pick up by 3pm and i will like to know if you have handle this type of large order before in your company and my name is Dan Nakata and u can communicate with me by email which is dannakata01@yahoo.com and my number 206-202-4378 and please repeat my name and my email to be sure you have it write down correctly and i will like to know if u do accept credit card for your payment and i will need your name and your email address and your cell phone number and your store locate address and your company name and  your company phone number so i can forward them to my shipper now so they can locate your store when they are coming for the pick up okay so i need that before i can make the payment for you now

trying to get me to do a order for 300 people

Dan Nakata called asked for food for 300 people using ATT hearing impaired line....Googled his name and found this post, just as he was asking me to western union him 1500 bucks!!! THIS IS A SCAM!!!!Info he gave me was dannakata@yahoo.com, 206-202-4378...Tanks for posting this.

got the same call Dan Nakata wanted price on brakes for a 08 camry charge my card for $2800 take 800 and keep as a deposit. send the rest with the tow company. i refused 206-202-4378 was the number tundeela1@yahoo.com was the e-mail