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| A seemingly new email scam | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15th, 2009 09:52 am |
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ejsant Approved 
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Greetings all, The message below turned up on another discussion site. Perhaps we all are savvy enough to avoid these types of scams or perhaps not, especially given tough times financially. Fore warned is fore armed! All the best! Peace, Ed ***** Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 From: Craig Heilman Subject: New type of email scam aimed at musicians! Hi all, I haven't seen anything specific about this on snopes.com but I and another musician friend have recently started receiving emails that are obviously a scam. These emails have been coming in from yahoo accounts. Here's an example email I received from someone inquiring about taking pipe lessons: ********** Hello, Thank you for your email. I will be happy to have my 15 and 16 yrs old children, Nelson & Delilah to join you in your private tuition. So my children's first language is English, best hobby is reading & study, they are enthusiastic,very patient and very good children.As a beginners,they are interested to learning the basics and i hope you can accept them as your student?. I will want you to assure me that you are going to take proper care of teaching them as I'm ready to pay all the necessary expenses for the lessons. I will want the tutor to hold for 4 weeks which consist of one hour for each of them everyday day, two days in a week if possible. I have someone that will always drive them to your area for the lesson. I will like to know your total cost for teaching both of them for 4 weeks. Please let me hear from you as soon as you receive this mail, so that we'll make an arrangement on when to start and payment (by cashier's check). Hope to hear from you soon. Thank you, Andrews The clues to me that this is a scam are the poor grammar, yahoo address, he wants to pay all expenses up front via cashier's check (common scam is to send check for more than the request amount, then ask for refund via regular check), and the fact that other's have received similar messages. Here's another example: Dear <name deleted>, Good day to you over there,i am Mr Derek Williamson I want a folks and Music Teacher for my daughter (Lara Williamson), I got your advert while searching for folks and music lessons through the internet and I really want my daughter to be taught by you. Lara is 16 year old and easily catch up. Although,I understand you are in America but I 've arranged with my cousin sister resides there in America that my daughter is coming to stay with her for her period of tutoring and she had agreed with me,I want you to get back to me with following information: 1)what parts of America you are presently 2)total cost of tutoring for 6 weeks(30 min every day for 5 days in a week) 3)your years of teaching experience. Looking forward to hearing from you soonest. Thank you. Mr Derek Williamson ********** Just a heads up folks! I wouldn't be surprised if this is simply a new variant of the Nigerian cashier's check scam (see <http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/cashier.asp for details) targeted at musicians. Craig ----------------------------------------------------------------- Craig A. Heilman Bugaboo Software - Software Engineering & Consulting http://www.bugsoft.com/ *****
____________________ Peace, a brilliant aspiration!!! Traditional and Contemporary Irish Music P.O. Box 5086 Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 (201) 424-6141 http://www.EdSaultz.com http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/Ed_Saultz |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15th, 2009 01:27 pm |
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AmyDK Approved
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Just what we need. And we all know that we musicians make so much money that we're a likely target... Crazy.
____________________ Amy's ezFolk page Amy on MySpace My Website |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15th, 2009 05:55 pm |
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Philj200 Approved 
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If you list yourself here and/or elsewhere as a teacher they are on your like leeches. I've been approached three times. Just trash the e-mail and move on. Now what do I do with the sixteen teenagers camping out in my living room?
____________________ My MP3 Section: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ My Myspace area: http://myspace.com/philj200 |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15th, 2009 06:38 pm |
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AmyDK Approved
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popcorn and a movie?? 
____________________ Amy's ezFolk page Amy on MySpace My Website |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15th, 2009 07:45 pm |
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Philj200 Approved
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How do you say "Clawhammer" in Sawhili? Added later: Before the PCers get on me; many of these scams originate in central Africa where the lingua franca is Sawhili. Do the scammers abroad think Americans at THAT dumb? Last edited on Thu Jan 15th, 2009 08:22 pm by Philj200 ____________________ My MP3 Section: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ My Myspace area: http://myspace.com/philj200 |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15th, 2009 08:02 pm |
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ejsant Approved
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I'd sometimes get as many as five a day when I still had my online antiques shop. Some were very creative. They would invariably pick one of the most expensive items I had in inventory. Plays on greed and we all know how strong that emotion can be in folks. Staying somewhat warm although we didn't drop below zero yet, might tonight the prediction warns. All the best and keep warm. Maybe give a homeless person a blanket today. I'm off to do that now. Peace, Ed
____________________ Peace, a brilliant aspiration!!! Traditional and Contemporary Irish Music P.O. Box 5086 Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 (201) 424-6141 http://www.EdSaultz.com http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/Ed_Saultz |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15th, 2009 10:37 pm |
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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This particular scam has been around since at least 2000. I heard of it on Banjo-L back then, and have since seen it quite often.
____________________ ezFolk Help Brad Prickly Pear Music Banjo Brad's ezFolk page TOTMC |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16th, 2009 06:32 pm |
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mcep11 Approved 
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A PC note to Philj200: lol. The Nigerian email scammers are probably speaking Yoruba or Ebo dialects. :^) He said. hiho
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