This is CLASSIC!

Ken_Bennett · #8 10-26-2007, 04:24 PM

It'll be a scam. He'll "accidentally" send you a cashier's check for several thousand more than he owes you, and ask that you immediately send the difference to the florist, or the caterer, or whomever, because they have to have the money right away to hold the date. No waiting for the fake cashier's check to clear, which of course it won't, and you're out several thousands of dollars.

Delete delete delete.

Noel_Carboni · #9 11-01-2007, 08:12 PM

What I want to know is why such a scam continues to work...

My God, can't the banking industry modernize enough to be able to check the validity of a check instantly?

Think for a moment about how ridiculous it is in this electronic age to have to wait days (or even weeks) for a check to clear. I can access my own account instantly through the net. Can't banks access other accounts? The people working in them truly must be as the Wamu commercials portray them.

-Noel

DougAxford · #10 11-01-2007, 10:50 PM

Ask him how the weather is in Nigeria today.

Claude_Ferron · #11 11-01-2007, 11:23 PM

Interesting, to very different opinion. Superb experience or a scam? For having stayed in Whistler for 1 year, I must say that it is very possible that this could be an interesting contract in many aspect. I would probably find out with a good interview if it is a scam or not, well I think.

David, reading your post make me see you as a very technical person with a lot of experience. I could work as an assistant for you anytime and learn a lot I'm 100% certain so could you in some aspect I'm certain. I'd like to go back and see friend out there anytime.

Keep us... or me posted

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David_Buzzard · #12 11-16-2007, 01:52 PM

I got another one yesterday. They always seem to come at the end of a hard day

Hello management...............
I am Mr TERRY SCOTT I am planning to have a christain wedding on the 28th of March 2008 and i am looking a well befit wedding photographer that will come and snap shot the great day as i willing to hire your service in (509 Yonge St Suite #1Toronto Ontario M2N 5S3) as i need 450 copies of coloured picture with alburm,I am not presently in Canada now, I am on contract to Spain in a construction company.Let me know your details price of the copies and your transport fee to and fro to the wedding venue.Three month ago i meet my love.named VALENTINA HAGIN and she has a little boy.I want to let you know that i will be paying your bill with paypal so let me have your detail address information and your paypal account address, so i we like it to be in this format:
Full name...........
Full address........
State...............
Zip code............
Cell phone/Home phone...
Paypal account information.....
Update me with necessary information regarding the success of the wedding and let me know your interest on my wedding so that i will forward the payment into your account.
REGARDS
TERRY.

Claude: I promise you this is a scam. I get e-mails from international clients all the time, and they don't look anything like this. It's funny, but I do know a few people who have been burned by this scam. One person was just a few hundred bucks in bank fees and exchange rates (The US dollar dropped about 10% compared to the Canadian dollar while he was sorting it out, and he was on the hook for the difference in exchange), but another person basically had to shut down her business because of it.

If you're in town look me up. I winters are pretty slow for me, and I'm more about cramming as much skiing as I can in than I am in shooting weddings.

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Noel_Carboni · #13 11-17-2007, 12:20 AM

Heh heh, they didn't even fill in the blanks very well with this one. All caps?

"Paypal account information....."

I wonder how many folks return an account name, password, etc.

All it would take would be one.

-Noel

dkphoto1 · #14 12-02-2007, 10:19 AM

I routinely get these. (3-4) month. They are scams, most from outside the US but now from people who say they are in another state. I went thru the whole bit and even got the certified cashiers check. I called the bank and confirmed my suspicion that the check was a forgery. I framed it. Now my reaction is, I only accept payment in cash or by western union money gram. Dead silence from the other end, but then again, one need some amusement on a dull afternoon.

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