fishy email

can someone give me their opinion on this


Greetings
I came through Craigslist Website seeking for one who is fully ready to event my father 70th Birthday. I will be Responsible

for everything including Flight Ticket to Chenectady NY 12305.
The Event date is : 28th/02/2010

I will need to know if you are available for the date and more also to know the cost of your Service for 6 Hours for the day.

Motel Accommodation is already available and the Car that will come and pick you up at the Air Port as well..


I need to read from you asap..

Thanks and God Bless
Me George

I tell them i'm available

Thanks for the urgent response and i do appreciate the fact that you are willing to event my father birthday . How ever let me know the cost of the hours all together along with the cost of the flight ticket down to Chenectady New York so that i can arrange for the 50% Down Payment

Let me read from you Asap.

i give them various pricing for different situations

Greetings
Thanks for the update regarding the Event and i must say that i am really happy to hear that you will be willing to do your best at the Event and you will be most welcome . I just want the best that's all i ask from you and the charges are okay by me .
How Ever i will need your Name and Address as well along with your Cell Phone so that the check can be address to you , Do not send me Po Box as an address where to send the payment to cos it wont be deliver to you via Ups .
So i urge you to send me full address where to mail the payment to which will be done by my Company secretary .
Remember i am making a 50% down Payment so when you received the payment do get back to me so as to instruct you on what next to do
I need to read from you and to know when and how you will be arriving .

Mr George

I ask them if they have the specifics for the day or what final products they want

I am finally interested in Photography of digital service . let me read from you

Fob or scam?

Capt. Obvious

Definitely a scam... sorry.
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C20NE

Why did you reply to the initial email, its a very obvious scam just from the way its written in the first email and the subsequent emails back that up totally.

On top of that

* George is one of the fave names of Nigerian scammers
* Are you at the level where people regularly fly you across the country to shoot jobs for them in areas where there are tons of other togs
* If it sounds too good to be true it very usually is.
* Its fairly short notice, another common ploy they use, they need the urgency later in the scam.

Get used to receiving and discarding these.

... Chenectady NY 12305....

I guess no NY'ers read this thread.

It's Schenectady, NY 12305 not Chenectady

i assumed it was a typo. blah always so hopefully. what's the worse that can happen? they send me a bogus check?

scam - avoid it like the plague!

Yup - they'll send you a bogus check that looks convincingly real. But since you're on to them you'll just tear it up, send it to the FBI, or frame it.

Other folks fall for it. They deposit the check - and there are usually "further instructions" to pay for some other service/person, usually involving the sender. Of course you pay them from your checking account which IS BACKED by REAL funds - theirs is NOT.

So you end up paying them REAL money from your account, their larger check to you bounces, and to add insult to injury you may or may not get hit with a bad check fee. You'd be amazed how many greedy/foolish people fall for this.

craiglee wrote in post #9543674
i assumed it was a typo. blah always so hopefully. what's the worse that can happen? they send me a bogus check?

well i would NEVER send someone money like that. i would maybe take it to the bank to see if it was real first.

....and that's a wise move. Most of the time a trained teller or manager can spot it. But often people will just quickly deposit it via ATM assuming all is well, and then immediately start "drawing" on it.

Had an interesting discussion about this sort of thing with a local bank manager. This sort of scam also extends to "foreign lottery ticket winnings" as well as a variety of creative forms by the budding entrepeneur.

craiglee wrote in post #9543765
well i would NEVER send someone money like that. i would maybe take it to the bank to see if it was real first.

sapearl wrote in post #9543747
Yup - they'll send you a bogus check that looks convincingly real. But since you're on to them you'll just tear it up, send it to the FBI, or frame it.

I wonder if some enterprising folks try to see how many of those checks they can collect and frame.

Email him and give the address of a UPS store they let you pick up ups items there. Would be fun just to have the check. Plus you can check the IP address in the email and you might find out it's from.....well let me take a shot in the dark ummmm Nigeria.

I caught onto the Schenectady thing too... I got one of those saying they were from England and wanted to fly me out there. They were pretty persistant about needing my address so they could "come meet with me" right away though.

spkerer wrote in post #9546123
I wonder if some enterprising folks try to see how many of those checks they can collect and frame.

I don't know about you guys, but now I sort of want one!

Every "Good" Nigerian scam has a Prince involved.