Ray John Hollandsworth, a 57 year old man surrendered to the Chico police for the allergations that he had participated on an internation scheme of defrauding using the aid of Craigslist.com. The modus operandi of the scam was to purchase products from the ads on Craigslist and he will be sending money orders or business checks that he writes more than the actual amount asked for the product or service being offered. These money orders and business checks are fake and he will then call the seller or e-mail the seller that he overpaid them and that he asks for a refund on the difference of the price through Western Union. Of course what happens then is the seller pays the overprice and realize that the money order or business check is actually fake so they end up losing what they sold to him and at the same time, losing some money too.
Ray John Hollandsworth said he is also a victim as being part of the overpayment scheme by a man in Nigeria. But Investigators found out that the address was actually a non-existent address in North Chico.
Police thought Hollandsworth was also just a victim but then they found evidence that he did receive the money through Western Union personally.
He surrendered to the police and said that he will be cooperating..
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