[Christien]

I went through the same BS with Frank Dietzel. Promises of wire transfers, nothing ever materialized. I gave him m bank account info to transfer funds to. I wasn't overly concerned because there's no way to take money FROM my account. We give out our company account info all the time to customers so they can make payments by deposit to it. Nevertheless, I did call the bank first to discuss it with them. They said there's no way for him to take money out of my account with my account info, other than (illegally) setting up a pre-auth type of payment. But if such a transaction hit my account I can easily reverse it and he would lose the pre-auth service on his end (not an easy thing to setup, and vital to many businesses - I know, I've done it).

Frank's emails from the snowboard company were legit, and there's references to him in online reviews. IIRC, the IP address also came from Germany. So it's a weird scam, one that really could never be successful.