Does he think i'm stupid?

[Sexy_angel]

Scammers after escorts now, wonderful. I got this in my E-mail today, he must think I am pretty slow.

Hello Escort,
I am glad i finally found the ads of someone i am
interested in escorting me to the place i am going, How are you doing, I know
you will be wondering how i found your email address, but not to worry i found
it on escort.sexcia.com bacause i was invited by a friend of mine to come and
have some kind of business talk with him and i need an escort that will
accompany me to the hotel that i will be for the next day of my flight to my
friend, Will you be available to go with me to the below hotel on the 15th of
September 2005?, I will be needing your service from 7:00 PM to 12:00 PM and i
am willing to donate $2,000 for the period, I will appreciate it if you can
email me if this rate or amount if okay by you and if or not you will be
available during that time, The exact place where i am going in London that i
and you will be meeting is

London Night Hotels,
16 Marine Road West,
Morecambe, Lancs, LA3 1BS.

I want you to get back to me as soon as possible if this is okay by you and i
will be paying you with a bank certified cashiers check of $5,000, I know you
will be wondering what the remaning $3,000 is for, You will deposit the check
into your bank and after it has fully cleared your financial institution, You
will then deduct you amount of service which is $2,000 to my ticketting agent as
the excess fund on the check is the fee that my ticketting agent will use in
arranging my travelling down to London, Email me as soon as possible with your
name, address as well as phone numer for easy and fast communication and i will
inform my friend to get the check sent to you immediately as i want all
arrangement to be made before the D-day, Then we can proceed on how you will be
coming to that hotel and we can have some fun together, By the way, Are you a
friendly girl, Can you make me laugh on that day,
I await your sooner response,
Regards,

 

[FuZzYknUckLeS]

Scammers after escorts now, wonderful. I got this in my E-mail today, he must think I am pretty slow.

Hello Escort,
I am glad i finally found the ads of someone i am
interested in escorting me to the place i am going, How are you doing, I know
you will be wondering how i found your email address, but not to worry i found
it on escort.sexcia.com bacause i was invited by a friend of mine to come and
have some kind of business talk with him and i need an escort that will
accompany me to the hotel that i will be for the next day of my flight to my
friend, Will you be available to go with me to the below hotel on the 15th of
September 2005?, I will be needing your service from 7:00 PM to 12:00 PM and i
am willing to donate $2,000 for the period, I will appreciate it if you can
email me if this rate or amount if okay by you and if or not you will be
available during that time, The exact place where i am going in London that i
and you will be meeting is

London Night Hotels,
16 Marine Road West,
Morecambe, Lancs, LA3 1BS.

I want you to get back to me as soon as possible if this is okay by you and i
will be paying you with a bank certified cashiers check of $5,000, I know you
will be wondering what the remaning $3,000 is for, You will deposit the check
into your bank and after it has fully cleared your financial institution, You
will then deduct you amount of service which is $2,000 to my ticketting agent as
the excess fund on the check is the fee that my ticketting agent will use in
arranging my travelling down to London, Email me as soon as possible with your
name, address as well as phone numer for easy and fast communication and i will
inform my friend to get the check sent to you immediately as i want all
arrangement to be made before the D-day, Then we can proceed on how you will be
coming to that hotel and we can have some fun together, By the way, Are you a
friendly girl, Can you make me laugh on that day,
I await your sooner response,
Regards,

This is the latest scam. Or at least a rather more complex version of it. The standard form is for the scammer to buy something online, send a certified check in an amount well above the selling price, and have the seller send back the difference after they've cashed the cheque and taken their share. Problem is, the cheque is bogus. It takes 2-3 weeks for a cheque to be verified by the bank. So in other words, in your case, you cash the cheque, take your 2 grand, and the remaining 3 grand goes to his accomplice. The 3 grand is their take. The cheque turns up a couple weeks later as bogus, and you are on the hook for the full 5 grand.

I strongly suggest you call the police, talk to someone in their computer crimes division, and ensure they get access to the email, including the header info. They will tell you what you should do with the email. Burn those fuckers.

 

[WannaPlay]

Same thing happened to me

I had the same kind of email. He emailed me a few times, before i told him to screw off.

 

[scubadude]

Sounds like a twist on the old Nigerian banking scam. Guy sends you a bank draft for more than the agreed amount wanting you to deposit, and withdraw the over charge then send it back to him. A couple of days or weeks later, your bank finds that the cheque or draft he has sent you bounces and you are stuck with reimbursing the bank for the full amount of the original bank draft.

One word - delete.

 

[steverino]

Sounds perfectly legitimate to me.

 

[therealrex]

As the Nigerian Finance Minister I can assure you this man's offer is 100% legit. Please keep an eye out for my email as I have several hundred million dollars of my countries money I need to hide.

 

[hornydude]

Claim your prize!

Hey Sexyangel, you've won a prize for sharing this scam!

However, to know it's really you we send the prize to we need your date of birth, SIN, bank account #, and major credit card #'s and expiry dates to verify your identity!!!.....

 

[lenny]

I told him I dont take cheques and cash is the only universal currency I aknowledge. Haven't got an email in weeks now.

It sounds like this is not a personal cheque, but a bank issued money order
which may be as good as cash:

"a bank certified cashiers check of $5,000"

I'd check with my bank manager whether or not that is the case. And if he
says it is as good as cash, i'd ask for a signed statement from him saying
that that is the case. A draft from a reputable bank would be necessary,
preferably the one you use.

Otherwise the emailer should come up with something better, like a wire
directly into your account or Western Union.

In my experience it is personal checks that take two weeks to clear, and
i've heard of some that take longer.

 

[planetsmurf]

the sad thing is that he will probably con a few sp's

 

[rafterman]

It sounds like this is not a personal cheque, but a bank issued money order
which may be as good as cash:

"a bank certified cashiers check of $5,000"

These can be counterfeited or faked same as cheques and often fool people for just this reason.

Here's the kicker there is no time limit for return a counterfeit or fraudulent item. It can take weeks for the chargeback to the victims account by which point if you have been taken you have sent the "difference" to the scammer and you are s.o.l. for that amount.

 

[Lady Companion]

Never take money orders unless it is from a trusted client

Even if they are not asking for cash back - do you really want to do a 2 day freebie?

If they are serious about wanting your services, they can have the money order made out to themselves (they keep the difference right off the bat) and they can SWIFT you your requested amount. SWIFT is fully secure, and can't be revoked once you have verification that it is in your account.

 

[Sexy_angel]

Just by the way it is written I can tell that it just isn't right, cash and pay pal only, i'm no fool

 

[Savage]

Even if they are not asking for cash back - do you really want to do a 2 day freebie?

If they are serious about wanting your services, they can have the money order made out to themselves (they keep the difference right off the bat) and they can SWIFT you your requested amount. SWIFT is fully secure, and can't be revoked once you have verification that it is in your account.

What is "SWIFT"?

 

[rafterman]

What is "SWIFT"?

Its a security system used by all the Banks to verify the legitimacy of a wire transfer of funds.

 

[lenny]

These can be counterfeited or faked same as cheques and often fool people for just this reason.

Here's the kicker there is no time limit for return a counterfeit or fraudulent item. It can take weeks for the chargeback to the victims account by which point if you have been taken you have sent the "difference" to the scammer and you are s.o.l. for that amount.

I would guess her bank could call the issuing bank or a computer banking
data base or something and check on the legitimacy of the bank draft.
This might be done by the numbers on the draft, the name & address
of the sender thereon, and the date of issuance, etc. If they can't figure
out from this type of info that it's a forgery, or not, how would they ever?

If i could forge drafts so well that i could send one to her & she could
cash it & get me only 3G out of 5G, then why not just get my crime
friends to cash it for me and get the whole 5G. Or do it myself.

But, again, to feel more comfortable about the whole thing, i would
ask my bank manager to sign a statement that the draft is legit. And
perhaps explain the situation to him.

 

[Jodie]

Here is the standard reply that I give to those sorts of scam e-mails:

Dear XXXXX,

Please forward the money order to:

Jodie Smith
c/o Vancouver Police Department Financial Crime Section
312 Main Street, Vancouver BC V6A 2T2

My associates there will be happy to process the money order as per your request, and will telephone you in order to arrange the details of our meeting. I have already forwarded your e-mails to them, so they will be expecting to receive mail from you shortly.

Sincerely,
Jodie

That usually shuts them up right quick and removes me from their "target" list.