KKTV: Police say in July 2007, 25-year-old Matthew Santos Mantanona posted the sale of a large construction earth grader on a fraudulent Internet site. This Web site imitated a then-legitimate Canadian business website titled “Higher Ground Equipment Company”, which is no longer in business.
The victim of this crime, a small business person in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, talked with Mantanona over e-mail and on the phone. The victim decided to purchase the grader for $30,000, and did an electronic wire transfer of the funds. The equipment was never delivered, and the victim could not contact Mantanona. The victim soon realized he had been scammed and reported the theft to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.
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