Fraud Acitvity in Sandy Springs

Sandy Springs Police Capt. Steve Rose provides a few recent crimes.

• A man on Northwood Drive had an account with Amazon.com. He used a credit card for purchases on that account only. Amazon notified him that someone opened a second account in the same cc number and made two purchases for $248 and $30. They closed the account under suspicious circumstances. He believes they shipped the items to his address and picked them up before being noticed. He did intercept one item.

• A woman on Roswell Road told police that she was contacted by a man named Mr. Estrella who told her that she had illegally purchased over the counter diet pills and that she needed to send him $482 via Western Union or the Department of Justice would be dispatched to arrest her. She went to a nearby Publix Store and wired $420 to Mr. Estrella at the following location: Basmi, Dominican Republic. Mr. Estrella then said not to send it in his name but in the name of Herman Estevez. Mr. Estrella contacted her again wanting $212. She then called the police. Sorry, you get one of these:

• A woman reported that she answered an ad for a modeling job. She was sent a check for just over $2900 which she deposited at the bank. She later found that the check was fraudulent.