'MONEY ORDER' SCAMMERS NOW UTILIZING THE INTERNET.Byline: Daily News VENTURA - The Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. is warning residents about a scam (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) A subset of Plug and Play that allows SCSI IDs to be changed by software rather than by flipping switches or changing jumpers. Both the SCSI host adapter and peripheral must support SCAM. See SCSI. involving con artists using phony U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. money orders. The ploy has been reported by several county residents, particularly in the Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. area, officials said. The scam previously was reported in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , and officials said the con artists appear to move from one area to the next as people catch on. ``It's a new thing that swept into town,'' said Sgt. Jerry Weaver. The con artists contact residents by e-mail posing as buyers for items the residents have advertised for sale. They then send a money order for much more than the cost of the sale item, asking the seller to return the difference. When the seller's bank tried redeem the money order from the post office for payment, they are returned as fraudulent, and the seller loses the money. The return address for the suspects is usually out of the country, in Canada, England, the Ukraine or some other location. Weaver said anyone who encounters this scam should contact their local police agency. |
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