The Wise Monkeys

On the 10th of August we made an entry on the main page about a scam involving odd dedicated server orders (click here to read), e-bay scams and Intellectual property theft. After this post was made public we received correspondence from a number of people who had been scammed by Grant (thanks to everyone who gave us information, although we haven’t made a lot of it public every little bit helps - we will post more information as soon as we can).

In a post made this morning by Peter Cebulski the following was mentioned:

I have just received a very pleasing phone call from a Victorian Police officer named Mr Graeme Fuller, located at the Port Campbell Police Station.

He has just informed me that the Mr Grant Lambden was taken into police custody in Queensland some time today (Tuesday 29 August 2006).

Great news!

We would still love to hear from anyone affected by this scammer and will release more information as it comes to us.

We have been hearing a lot about some supposed fraudulent transactions for dedicated servers purchases lately by the owner of www dot ecnhost dot com (link removed to avoid referals).

The owner of this business (Grant) allegedly signs up with his own credit card. Once this bounces he allegedly asks for a login to the billing system to process another card and then starts trying various credit cards until one works.

We are slowly fielding more information on this and would love to hear from you if you have been affected.

Also, Grant, We would love to hear from you regarding this.

update: It appears that this character has also tried selling a number of Dell laptops on ebay with the username sydneysamie. If you have been hit by Grant then we can provide you with everything you need to take to your local police station. Please use the contact form.