Ivan Mendes is the most fraudiest fraudster SewellDirect.com has ever seen. So much so, that Gewis, our expert fraud detector, made a certificate for him. Gewis even emailed it to him. It will probably cause him to use a different name.

The most common type of internet fraud of course is stolen credit card numbers. Fraudsters use unsuspecting internet retailers to launder money by purchasing goods with stolen credit cards and then liquidating them. Recently Preston took a whole trip out to Florida because the FBI tracked down a huge fraud ring with stolen merchandise that reached the ceiling of a house. They had purchased video cards from us fraudulently, over a thousand dollars worth I think.

There are some obvious red flags that Gewis looks for when orders come in and we are getting better and better at it. Usually the merchandise sold has mass appeal, and often times the fraudster wants the goods shipped somewhere internationally. When Gewis senses fraud with his spidey senses, he often calls the customer to make sure they are legit, and also performs queries with this really awesome search tool called "Google" to validate the identities of the purchasers. That’s at Google.com.

So anyway, watch out for Ivan Mendes. He’s so going to rot in hell.