A Northern Ireland tyre dealer has been in contact with TyreTrade.ie to warn of an alleged tyre sale fraud which cost the company over \u00a36,500.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday October 13, W.H. Nutt & Son \/ WHN Tyres in Limavady, Co Derry received a phone call from a man enquiring about the purchase of truck tyres, which were later paid for using two fraudulent credit cards.<\/p>\n
“I received a phone call from a ‘Mr Keith O’Grady’ enquiring to purchase truck tyres, he specifically asked for six 385\/65 R 22.5 Steers and 12 315\/80 R 22.5 Drives, which were not to be fitted by us,” Mark Hiscox, tyre sales manager at W.H. Nutt & Son \/ WHN Tyres told TyreTrade.ie.<\/p>\n
“I told him I would get back to him with prices as I wasn’t sure what was available as he wanted something branded.<\/p>\n
“After checking what I could get I rang him back with a price on Nokian and Hankook tyres, he decided to go with the latter for \u00a35,300 plus VAT.<\/p>\n
“I told him then I would need payment up front before the delivery of tyres, which he agreed to, so I proceeded to organise for next day delivery.”<\/p>\n
Mr Hiscox continued: “Before closing that evening I hadn’t heard back from this ‘Keith O’Grady’, so I rang to confirm payment, but he said he didn’t have his cards with him but would ring the next day, so I decided to let the tyres come on as planned.<\/p>\n
“The next morning O’Grady rang to pay with a credit card, but on using the card it declined payment, he said he had a problem with it and had to ring his bank and would get back to me.<\/p>\n
“He rang back shortly afterwards and said he would use two cards as he had limits on them. He proceeded to pay the \u00a36,360; one payment of \u00a33,500 and another of \u00a32,860.”<\/p>\n
Mr Hiscox said both payments went through in “the usual manner”, and that the fraudster asked for the invoice to be made out to a well-known construction firm in Newry.<\/p>\n
Mr Hiscox said W.H. Nutt & Son \/ WHN Tyres soon received a letter from the payment processing company, Worldpay, to notify the tyre dealer that both credit cards in question were fraudulent.<\/p>\n
“I rang O’Grady on the morning of October 27 but it went straight to voicemail. I left a message but to date there has been no reply,” Mr Hiscox said.<\/p>\n
“I then rang the courier who then told me he was instructed [by the fraudster] on the day of delivery to drop the tyres off at some waste ground and his money would be in an old cooker.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, at this point I knew it was a scam.”<\/p>\n
Mr Hiscox added that he informed the PSNI of the scam “straight away”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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