Fraud and identity theft are unfortunate byproducts of e-commerce. The very things that make e-commerce convenient for both customers and merchants, also make it easy for criminals to pretend they are someone they are not in order to deceive and steal.
As a merchant, we must be extra diligent to protect both our customers and our hard-earned reputation. We are up to that challenge. Over that last few years we have become pretty good at identifying fraudulent orders that have been placed with us. Whenever an order fails to pass muster, we call to verify that order. This simple and effective means has saved us a lot of headaches and protected quite a few people from fraud. No one has ever felt inconvenienced that we called.
Though we can use our own experience to root out fraud when orders are placed with us, we need to rely on other businesses to recognize and alert us when someone places fraudulent orders using our name. To help other vendors, we thought it would be helpful to both shine a bit of light on fraudsters we have caught trying to impersonate us and to outline how we attempt to minimize fraud.
Brain Leffler (2022)
A fraudster has purchased the domain name instrumarts.com (note the 's' at the end) and has impersonated us for the purpose of fraud by using the (misspelled) name of of our company president to
purchase products from vendors.
John Arnoldy (2022)
Again from sales@instruimart.com (The fraudster used the same employees name as last year. The email address has an "i" inserted into Instrumart). They also have our W9 and vendor information.
The phone and fax numbers they provide are not ours.
John Arnoldy (2021)
sales@instruimart.com (The fraudster used the name of an actual Instrumart employee. The email address has an "i" inserted into Instrumart)
Nicholas Aloi (2019)
instrumart@dr.com (with "@dr" at the end of Instrumart)
Shaun Arkinstall (2017)
accounts@instrumarts.com (with an "s" at the end of Instrumart)
802-321-0334
Chris Wilkison (2017)
chris.wilkinson@instrumarts.com (with an "s" at the end of Instrumart)
Paul Owen (2017)
ap@LNSTRUMART.com (with a lower-case "L" substituted for the "I")
802-357-4190
Jose Cahill (2017)
jcahill@LNSTRUMART.com (with a lower-case "L" substituted for the "I")
802-339-0022
David Johnson (2017)
Ryan Johnson (2013)
instrumart@hotmail.com
Steve Nelson (2014)
steve.nelson@instrumartinc.com
Tom Lundborg (2014)
Peter Sharphouse
c/o Instrumart Inc
117 Palmyra Dr
Vista, CA 92083
503 Commerce Park Drive, Suite E
Marietta, GA 30060
11895 Wayne Rd, Suite 104
Romulus, MI 48174
What can we all do to prevent fraud? We have compiled a number of tips we call Fraud 101 to help identify fraudulent orders. We encourage others to use this as a starting point for their own fraud prevention efforts.
If you have any questions about a suspected fraudulent transaction with Instrumart please call Linda Lane or our credit department at (802) 863-0085 or email credit@instrumart.com.
Feel free to give us a call at 1-800-884-4967