Thread: anyone see this scam?

just got this in, yet another attempt at scamming, less blatant, but still really bad (for a UK res, the english is atrocious, not to mention referring to their 'daughter' as 'teaching HIM great things'), just curious how far their net is :p

Greetings,

Please direct all email to jenifer_morgan02@yahoo.co.uk

This is Jenifer morgan.I am from the United Kingdom,my daughter will be coming for an holiday in the United state,and i wont want her to be less busy,so i just want to know maybe you can always come and teach him great things on ( belly dance lesson ) every afternoon.If this is possible,i will want you to get back to me with the cost of your teaching for two weeks in july(15th-30th)..she will be coming to your house for 1 hour each afternoon,2pm-3pm or you can give me the time you will be available for the lesson.I have someone that will always drive her down to your house.My daughter name is linda morgan,she is 18 years old.I will want you to calculate 1 hour per day from Monday-Friday for the whole 2 weeks,and get back to me so that we can arrange on payment.

Looking forward to read from you.

Please direct all email to jenifer_morgan02@yahoo.co.uk

Regards,
Jenifer morgan.

"I am offering proof-reading services. Please send me a money order - and I will be happy to help you with your problems."

There are millions and squillions of these.

Originally Posted by steffib

"I am offering proof-reading services. Please send me a money order - and I will be happy to help you with your problems."

..l;, ..l;, ..l;,

I just got the Jennifer Morgan one the other day!

I had some fun with one of these scammers once. I replied with some ridiculous amount for training the twin sons or whatever for two months. The scammer actually agreed. I was thinking about arranging a meeting and having the cops show up too, but too much trouble. Just delete...

The meeting would have never taken place anyway - they just want your money, that's all.

I got a new one:

Good day, I am Gary From the united state.Texas State government is going to hold a dance festival in Texas next 2 month, I will like to invite you to partispate if you are interested.Contact me for more details.
I will be expecting to read from you.

Sent from an e-mail address in the UK. Yeah. Right.

I actually wrote back and asked "if you work for the Texas government, how come you have a British address and can't write English properly?"
Answer: "I am Mexican and I love to use a UK mail address."

Totally right!

MEISSOUN

What am I missing here? They are offering to PAY, not asking to receive money? I don't get it -- what's in it for the scammer? I've never gotten one of these & appreciate the warning.

I like how they want the girl to be "less busy" thus the belly dance lessons for "him."

These always give me fits of giggles.

I guess I dont understand how these scams work either, how are they getting your money? Never received one of these, but it certainly makes me wonder if that is why certain dancers have not replied to my queries for organizing a workshop in Ohio!

Originally Posted by naiyahayal

What am I missing here? They are offering to PAY, not asking to receive money? I don't get it -- what's in it for the scammer? I've never gotten one of these & appreciate the warning.

the way these scams work is they send you a "check" for more than the amount of your fee, and ask you to deposit it and send a check for the balance to someone else.
I will happy pay you $1000 for to dance at my party. I am send you a check for $1500. Please send $500 check to the photograph who wil picture my party.

this cracked me up:

I am Gary From the united state.

which one?

"I am Mexican."
too bad you can't write Spanglish either. (Gary, now there's a typical Hispanic name)

the saddest thing about these scams is how stupid the victims must be to fall for them.

They always try to pick typical whitey names, but they always have some not-from-around-here twist.

"Hello and Greeting to You my Name Is John Kennedy Gary and I am hoping to you helping my many childnre boys who are liking to have summertime happiness goodness fun dancing. You are sending me check for $500 to pay vor room reservations time in order to secure proper locale for this event and fun time bellydanc lesson for my kids. These girls are happy to learning from you being a belldacer. At the time of lesson giving you will having cashpaymet of sum of $1500 usnited states dollars for paymet of bellydaniedr servoces in exchange for staying in myb contry of dubai for 2 week time. All expanses paid in full after we recieving check of $500 united states doollars.

Please return emails to me john f kennedy Gary, esqure with your us amerian banck account number for us to do autmaitc eithrdreawal from you account of $500 amrican us dollars for room reversation to secure bellyncance lesson from your happy dnacing lessons for my sons. She has been too much tv wtching this summer and we would like to keep thme less busy.

Many thanking from my family and hoping to hear from you with $500 us bank acount information.

Sincerly,

John Kneddy Gary"

Very unlikely Mexican. It's definitely not a spanish to english translation. No native spanish speaker would write "partispate" with an S because even in spanish the word is spelled with a C. Most likely another Nigerian scam, by someone who figured out that Texas is right next to Mexico.

Regards
Priscilla

Originally Posted by meissoun

The meeting would have never taken place anyway - they just want your money, that's all.

I got a new one:

Good day, I am Gary From the united state.Texas State government is going to hold a dance festival in Texas next 2 month, I will like to invite you to partispate if you are interested.Contact me for more details.
I will be expecting to read from you.

Sent from an e-mail address in the UK. Yeah. Right.

I actually wrote back and asked "if you work for the Texas government, how come you have a British address and can't write English properly?"
Answer: "I am Mexican and I love to use a UK mail address."

Totally right!

MEISSOUN

If you like Engrish...this is what my post above looks like if you translate it to Japanese and then back to English:

"Today greeting is my name ジョンケネディギャリー to your,
I desire to you who help the boy of my many childnre which likes the
fact that there is pleasantly straw raincoat dance of the merit of of
happiness of the daylight-saving time. At this event of my child and
pleasantly in order to guarantee the appropriate place for the lesson
of straw raincoat time bellydanc in time of payment vor lodging
reservation inspection for the $500 is sent in me. The girl these is
happy from in your study which is belldacer. Giving at the time of the
lesson cashpaymet of total of the $1500 has the dollar of state for
paymet of servoces of usnited bellydaniedr especially and the exchange
which are restricted to Dubai of time of 2 weeks contry myb. As for
extent everything the recieving inspection payment in full of doollars
of the rear our American $500 you paid.

Dollar for reversation of account room of the accounting number
amrican $500 of amerian banck because of us autmaitc is done in order
to guarantee the lesson of bellyncance from the happy dnacing lesson
for the eithrdreawal my son to from esqure our you E-mail John f
ケネディギャリー of my return. She has, this summer which is
wtching many TV we thme desire the fact that while using it maintains
less.

Acount information of the many bank which desires the fact that you
appreciate from my group, inquire about us from you of the $500.

Sincerly,

"__________________ of John Kneddy ギャリー

a local dancer here posted a really funny reply, naming an astronomical rate to teach his lovely daughter the 'chess fusion dance', as long as with the money, he send a unique carving by his own hand of some weird tree.......we read it and almost spewed over our keyboards, i'll see if i can get her permision and post it here

Speaking of scam, I dont mean to hijack this thread, but since I sold stuff on ebay, I keep getting emails. It looks from ebay, and its usually very rude people threatening me, here is a copy of one:

Why would you do this to me you received the package 6 days ago and still no word on the payment ... you will not get away with this . I have your address and will be paying you a visit these days.

There is an item number and one I checked out didnt exist, the other was a truck from florida that was won at over 2k. This one that existed didnt show the actual bidder, but it did relate ratings that were from something-49 (mine is 42). I was able to report that one, but not the other where the item didnt exist. Ebay states when you report that no one will contact you, they will just note it.

All of these are coming into my spam box, not into my inbox. This last one scared me a little! Anyone else getting these?

Just to be clear I have never bidded on those items! :P

Originally Posted by amity166

Speaking of scam, I dont mean to hijack this thread, but since I sold stuff on ebay, I keep getting emails. It looks from ebay, and its usually very rude people threatening me, here is a copy of one:


All of these are coming into my spam box, not into my inbox. This last one scared me a little! Anyone else getting these?

yeah, i've gotten those too. except it's about real estate i apparently won. darn, i hate it when i forget i've bid on real estate. i wonder if it's a bridge.

these are phishing emails. they will direct you to a website that looks like ebay/paypal and when you log in, they get your ID and password, etc.
you should forward these emails to spoof@ebay.com. with luck they'll be able to track down these idiots.

one way to be safe is to register on ebay with a variation on your name that's not your regular email address name. that's the real name you give ebay, not your handle for bidding etc. i'm registered with ebay using a variation of my name that's not the same as what shows up if you just get an email from me (i use initials). Any legit email from ebay will be addressed to that name. if i get an email that looks like its from ebay, but it's addressed to my regular name, i know it's bogus.
i'm pretty sure (can't remember) emails from ebay will include your registered name and your bidding/selling handle. Jane Doe (ebaycutiepie1) the phonies are often Jane Doe (youremail address)

i go the extra step and use a different email address for ebay and paypal. i have several email addresses that i use for various purposes. for example, if i get an email from my bank addressed to my regular email address- i know it's bogus b/c my bank doesn't have my regular email address.

Originally Posted by mish_mish

pleasantly straw raincoat dance

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i want to learn that dance!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!