This is the summarized list of documented frauds by Trieu Le.
Not one person received any of items ordered.
A full list (including names, phones, addresses) has been provided
to police, postal, and federal authorities.
Date: 1/19/95
Documented Cases: 48
Documented Totals: $13,716.94 (but I am still getting new additions)
- $200, 2 4Mb 72pin Simms, Nothing received
- $900, NEC 4fge Monitor, 540M Hard Drive, 16M Ram. Nothing received
- $200, NEC 3xp CD-ROM drive, with SCSI card and drivers for both PC and Mac,
"I did receive an empty photo envelop with a phony address on it."
- $155, 486 DX-33 Processor & 4Mb DRAM,
"Trieu sent my empty bag by UPS"
- $300, Powerbook 100 8/80,
(another $300 to be paid on receipt of goods)
- $300, NEC 4FGe Monitor,
"he sends me a UPS tracking number... I have been trying to locate the
package since then"
- $200, 2 4meggers,72pin Simms, Nothing Received.
- $110, Simm, "Empty photo mailer, opened by the UPS clerk"
- $400, four 4MB Simms,
"He sent me a tracking number but nothing was delivered."
- $680, 4fge monitor @ $300 and 16 megs of 4x9x60ns simms,
"No package, no response"
- $200, 2 4 Mb SIMMs, "He did send me a UPS tracking number"
- $400, 16 meg of simms,
"He sent me a UPS tracking #, but nothing has arrvied."
- $250, NEC 4FGe monitor,
"I did receive an empty misaddressed photo mailer via UPS."
- $245, 486DX2-66 motherboard w/CPU,
"He claims to have shipped it, and gave me a shipping number (but our
tracking software says the number is invalid)"
- $150, Apple Stylewriter II printer, Nothing received
- $101.04, Nothing Received.
- $205, two 4mb 72pin 70ns simms,
"UPS called me on the phone to get my correct
address. And the envelope looks like it was run over by a conveyer belt
or something -- if it had had any simms in it they probably wouldn't be
usable anyway."
- $125, Diamond Stealth 32 VLBUS w/ 2 megs.
"He gave me a UPS tracking number. (1z-970-x06-08-0294-1285)"
- $200, 2 4 meg. SIMM, Nothing received,
"I demanded my money back after a week. T.Le responded saying if
I was nervous to go ahead and cancel my check - but I had sent
him a money order, not a check! Never heard from him again..."
- $300, NEC 4Fge monitor, Nothing Received.
- $225, 3xp cdrom drive w/ a scsi card, Nothing Arrived.
- $210, Simms, "He shipped an empty package to me"
- $200, 2 4m 72-pin SIMMs,
"he gave me a ups tracking #. 1Z970 x06 08 0351 6500
I called ups and they said the package was dmaaged in new mexico and they
sent him the package back.."
- $102.90, 212meg hard drive, Nothing Received
- $110, 4mB 72 pin SIMM,
"he sent me an invalid UPS tracking number for the package.
The invalid number was 1Z970X060803515406. The package that he did send
me was an empty photo mailer package that had the following tracking number:
1Z970X060803031211."
- $1000, HP4 printer, Nothing Received.
- $205, "Money order.. no receipt yet, no box."
- $400, (4) 4x9x30 60ns Siemens Simms, Nothing Received,
"UPS Tracking number given: 1Z970 X06 08 0351 540 7"
"I haven't received an empty box like others"
- $110, 1 4x9 72 pin SIMM , Nothing Received.
- $1050, PowerBook 180/10/120 w/ int. fax modem,
"Based on your hints I found the package and could pick it up at the
UPS Office here in Panama City. It is just an empty
Photo-Travel-Envelope. I have opended it in front of the clerk in the
office."
- $200, 2 4MB 72 pin SIMMS, Empty box
- $200.00, two 4Meg SIMMs, Nothing Received
- $200, 2 4MB 72 pin SIMMS,
"I was reluctant to post something earlier that suggested he
was a thief until I knew for sure that his sending an empty package wasn't
somehow a mistake. He didn't respond to my email last week, but I figured
he might have been away from a computer..."
"..About a week later I got a small little photo-mailer from UPS. The
envelope was sealed and empty. The package was badly mislabeled, but UPS
worked with the local post office to figure out where I lived.."
- $400, four 4MB OKI 60ns 30 pin SIMMs, Nothing Received
- $200.00, 2 4 megs of ram, Nothing Received.
- $400, 16 MB of RAM, Nothing Received
- $200, 2 4MB SIMMS, Empty mis-addressed package returned by UPS
- $245, motherboard with Intel 486DX2 66Mhz CPU, Nothing Received
- $400, 4 4meg 9chip 30pin 60ns SIMMs, Nothing Received
- $200, 2 4 meg chips, Empty package returned by UPS
- $200, 8 Meg of RAM (2 4M SIMMs), Nothing Received
- $200, SIMMs, Nothing Received
- $403, Nothing Received.
- $210, 486 DX2 Motherboard, Nothing Received
- $200, (2) 4MB 1x36 72-pin SIMMs, Nothing Received
- $125, Diamond Stealth 32 with 2mb Dram, Nothing Received
- $200, 2 4mb 1x36 72-pin simms, Nothing received.