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Author: Anon
Date: 2008-05-03 13:39
I get emails frequently in the following vein:
"My son is coming to the US on holiday for two weeks, yada yada, we'd like to drop him off at your house from 2-3pm everyday from X date to X date.
Please advise of your fee - we've heard you're great, yada yada
Signed some dude from some foreign country"
I'm sure other people get these too - but what's the deal? Are they just checking for valid emails to use for spam or if one responds does it become a money scam of some kind?
I usually just delete but have often wondered what's up...
Thoughts?
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-05-03 13:44
Best to recognise a scam and then ignore it (and just delete all emails from them as you have been doing). They'll soon get the message that you're not so easily taken in.
Don't let it play on your conscience, they have no conscience to be committing this kind of fraud, so don't respond or give out any info at all.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2008-05-03 14:23
Money Scam.
You tell them your price, they send you a check for an amount well over double what you asked (by accident), and you're supposed to send them the difference.
You send the difference, and a week later discover the check was fake so you're out the money.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Anon
Date: 2008-05-03 14:35
Oh, of course I just delete but I wondered how they would hope for it to play out...
Preying on hardworking musicians - how dare they! :-)
(of course these are the same type who drain the elderly of their life savings too...total scum bags)
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2008-05-03 15:13
I'll add to this, was considering posting the other day, but didn't.
They are getting better at this. I got one this past week which the guy wrote that he was coming to Canada on holiday.
What was significant about that?
Only my postings here with my blackberry say that I am in Canada.
So there was a live person looking at the list and culling e-mail addresses. I'm really in the Phila. area, not Canada.
So if you get an e-mail that isn't so generic, still be careful about any person saying that they are coming here on "vacation" for lessons.
If they state that they got your name from a real student of yours, than it may/probably is ok, but I'd still confirm the referral first.
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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Author: butterflymusic
Date: 2008-05-03 19:18
They've gotten me too - I post on craigslist and I also have a website which advertises lessons so it could be from either one. I've just ignored them as they seemed like those other "you have inherited a vast sum of money from some unforeseen source" or the "my niece/sister/mother/uncle is stranded ---somewhere----please send money" schemes.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2008-05-03 19:27
Well, get rid of that cheque thing. This is not the Wild West any more.
Must be 15 years since I last had a cheque in my hands.
--
Ben
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-05-03 19:40
[ We've been down this road many times before. If an email solicitation sounds too good to be true, you can be sure it's not on the level. Search the archives further if you need more examples of bogus offers - GBK ]
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