I am the office manager for our company. A man phoned our office on 06/11/08 stating that there was a charge made to our Master Card for 5000USD and that since the purchase was large we needed to send a copy of the invoice to him via fax or it would not go through. He said something about being affiliated with Quickbooks as well. I checked with our technicians and nobody had made a purchase for that amount so I called back and learned that the company was Innovative Merchant Solutions. This was confusing because our Merchant account is with our bank. Also, we don't use Master Card, we use Visa for our company purchases.

On 06/12/08 I received a second phone call, this time a woman. She claimed the same thing, that there was a purchase for 5000USD and that we needed to send an invoice via fax including our Merchant Account number before the purchase could go through. This time I tried to call back to speak with her to let her know that nobody in our company had made a purchase for this amount nor had I run a customer transaction for that amount. I did NOT give her our Merchant account number. I also phoned our bank and learned that our band is NOT affiliated with Innovative Merchant Solutions. She guessed that this was a ploy to get our business for Merchant Services.